Ambiq Micro and PixArt Imaging announced that the two companies have partnered to develop an ultra-low power HRM solution for deployment in next-gen wearable products. The fast-growing wearables market is rapidly evolving from devices that are primarily fitness-oriented to those that are intended to provide more sophisticated data and information on the health and wellbeing of users.

  Ambiq Micro has announced a duo of Apollo MCU evaluation kits to enable engineers to assess the capabilities and cutting-edge low-power performance of the Apollo sub-threshold MCU: the ‘Apollo EVB’ evaluation board and the ‘Apollo EVK’ evaluation kit.

Ambiq Micro has announced that its Apollo MCU, which recently made history by demonstrating that it consumes less than half the energy of rivals in real-world applications (according to EEMBC ULPBench benchmark), is now available for shipping into high volume consumer applications.

Ambiq Micro has announced that its Apollo MCU has made history as a MCU that consumes less than half the energy of any other when tested to the industry-standard EEMBC ULPBench benchmark. The benchmark, created to assist embedded designers in selecting the lowest power MCU, standardises a typical low power design workload and measures the actual energy required to complete that workload.

Ambiq Micro has revealed that its Apollo MCU has been selected by Misfit as the ‘brain’ in the Misfit Shine 2 Fitness and Sleep Monitor. Announced last week, the next-gen Misfit Shine 2 provides new features, functions and capabilities without sacrificing its market leading 6-months of battery life.

A family of 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F MCUs, which are particularly suitable for wearable applications, has been released by Ambiq Micro. According to the company, it’s featured Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform allows the Apollo MCUs to consume five to ten times less energy than competing MCUs.