Ankai Micro announced on the evening of July 31 that it has officially launched the AK1037 series of low-power lock control SoC chips designed specifically for smart locks. This series of chips features a built-in RISC-V core and integrates core functions such as fingerprint recognition acceleration, RFID card recognition, touch buttons, and voice broadcasting, characterized by high integration and low power consumption. The high-performance, low-power smart lock system platform based on the AK1037 series chips and the “turnkey” application solution have also been completed. This solution can also be extended to applications in smart access control attendance, home appliance control panels, and charging piles.
Ankai Micro stated that the launch of the AK1037 series low-power lock control SoC chips further enriches the company’s “full-stack” smart lock solution product matrix, consolidating the company’s technological advantages in related niche markets, which is beneficial for increasing market share and enhancing customer loyalty. In the future, the company will continue to rely on SoC architecture design, low power consumption, and other technological advantages to deepen its layout in the field of IoT smart hardware, developing and providing more innovative and competitive chip series products and edge intelligent terminal solutions, effectively rewarding the trust and support of customers and investors.
Ankai Micro is mainly engaged in the research, design, final testing, and sales of core SoC chips for IoT smart hardware, with products widely used in smart home, smart security, smart office, and industrial IoT fields. The company has formed seven core technologies including SoC technology, ISP technology, machine learning technology, audio technology, video technology, communication technology, and system technology, with over 60 types of independently developed chip circuit design IP, covering digital logic circuits, RF circuits, analog circuits, and mixed-signal circuits. Major products include IoT camera chips and IoT application processor chips.
Ankai Micro previously stated that with the growing demand for edge-side AI, terminal products are increasingly requiring computing power, intelligent processing, integration, and low power consumption. The company will plan matching process technologies based on market demand to ensure product competitiveness. Currently, the company is already engaged in the design and development of chips using 12nm process technology. Future chips will consider adopting more advanced process technologies, with higher integration and stronger AI processing capabilities, to meet the strict requirements for miniaturization, low power consumption, and real-time data processing in IoT edge devices and smart wearable devices.
Ankai Micro announced on April 2 that it has released low-power smart vision chips KM01A and KM01W. The new chips support AOV (Always On Video) technology, integrating a new generation of self-developed NPU and image signal processor, enhancing image processing and video encoding capabilities, providing high-performance chip-level solutions for low-power smart security, smart home, and smart wearables, especially for applications such as AI glasses. Currently, the system development platform based on KM01A and KM01W has been released. AOV technology refers to allowing the camera to take high-frequency snapshots when no events occur, and using the built-in AI algorithms to detect and analyze the snapshots. Once an event is detected, it switches to normal recording, achieving all-day recording under long-lasting conditions.