Sony’s Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) has announced it will make a strategic minority investment of an undisclosed sum into computing firm Raspberry Pi.

The pair up will provide a development platform for SSS’s edge AI devices to Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi’s global user community.

“Our goal is to provide new value to a variety of industries and support them in solving issues using our innovative edge AI sensing technology built around image sensors,” said Terushi Shimizu, president and chief executive of Sony Semiconductor Solutions.

He continued: “We are very pleased to be partnering with Raspberry Pi Ltd. to bring our AITRIOS™ platform — which supports the development of unique and diverse solutions utilising our edge AI devices — to the Raspberry Pi user and developer community and provide a unique development experience.”

Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi said the new partnership will build on the companies’ pre-existing relationship which spans manufacturing and the provision of image sensors and other semiconductor products.

“This transaction will allow us to expand our partnership, bringing Sony Semiconductor Solutions’ line of AI products to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, and helping our users to build exciting new machine-learning applications at the edge,” Upton said.

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