EdgeCortix showcased its latest energy-efficient edge AI technologies at NexTech Week [Spring] AI & Artificial Intelligence EXPO 2026 in Tokyo, highlighting how its SAKURA-II AI accelerator platform enables low-latency AI inference for defense, aerospace, industrial, and embedded applications. The demonstrations focused on bringing advanced AI processing directly to edge devices, reducing dependence on cloud infrastructure while maintaining high performance.

A key demonstration featured an enhanced YOLO-based object detection model capable of tracking both the position and orientation of objects. Unlike conventional object detection systems that use fixed horizontal or vertical bounding boxes, the EdgeCortix model continuously rotates the bounding box to match an object’s real-world orientation. This provides more accurate tracking and analysis of moving targets, such as ships, vehicles, or aircraft.

By combining object detection with orientation estimation, the technology improves situational awareness and image analysis for defense, surveillance, and autonomous systems. EdgeCortix also demonstrated multimodal AI applications, including customizable object detection, visual scene understanding with text-based video descriptions, and low-latency generative AI running locally on a Raspberry Pi equipped with a SAKURA-II M.2 module, showcasing practical edge AI deployments across manufacturing, industrial automation, and defense environments.

The exhibition further highlighted the growing SAKURA-II ecosystem through newly announced accelerator products from Unigen, including Unigen AI modules and Poundcake server platform. Delivering up to 1920 TOPS of AI inference performance while significantly reducing power consumption compared to traditional GPU-based systems, these solutions demonstrate increasing demand for scalable, high-performance, and energy-efficient AI acceleration across edge, embedded, and enterprise computing environments.

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About EdgeCortix Inc.

EdgeCortix is driving innovation in semiconductor solutions for the connected intelligent edge. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in the United States and India, the company develops silicon-based, energy-efficient AI processors purpose-built for Generative AI workloads at the edge. The company’s patented hardware-software co-design methodology enables highly efficient runtime-reconfigurable AI accelerators, delivering industry-leading performance-per-watt for edge inference across defense, aerospace, smart cities, Industry 4.0, robotics and telecommunications applications. For more information, please visit https://www.edgecortix.com/en/

About Unigen Corporation

Founded in 1991, Unigen is an established global leader in the design and manufacture of OEM products including SSDs, DRAM modules, NVDIMMs, Enterprise IO, and AI solutions. Unigen also offers a full array of Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS), including design, quick-turn prototyping, new product introduction, volume production, supply chain management, assembly & test, and aftermarket services. Headquartered in Newark, California, the company operates state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities (ISO-9001/14001/13485 and IATF 16949) in the heart of Silicon Valley as well as offshore in Vietnam and Malaysia. Unigen offers its products and services to customers worldwide targeting a broad range of end markets including automotive, computing and storage, embedded, medical, AI, robotics, clean energy, defense, aerospace, and IoT. Learn more about Unigen’s products and services at Unigen.com.