This summer, Ceva reached a milestone that only a handful of technology companies in the world can claim: 20 billion devices shipped with our IP inside. It’s a number that’s difficult to fully grasp—reaching a pace of 60 devices every second in recent years. From smartphones and wireless earbuds to smart TVs, 5G infrastructure, industrial sensors, and connected cars, Ceva’s technology has helped shape and enable modern smart edge devices.
But this milestone isn’t just a number – it’s a moment of reflection and a launchpad for the future. It represents 20 billion lessons in what it takes to deliver intelligence at scale. More importantly, it tells us where the industry is heading next: into an era where every device is not only connected, but also increasingly context-aware, intelligent, and adaptive. The era of Edge AI has begun in earnest—and we believe this next wave will be even more transformative.
From Smart to Smarter
For the past two decades, the technology industry has worked to make products “smart.” Today, the challenge has evolved: it’s no longer just about compute power, but more about enabling real-time perception, understanding, and decision-making—locally, securely, and efficiently at the edge, making them smarter.
At Ceva, we call this the convergence of connect, sense, and infer. These aren’t just buzzwords—they are the foundational pillars of modern devices:
- Connect via robust wireless protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB, and cellular
- Sense the environment using sound, motion, vision, and other contextual inputs
- Infer using AI processors and DSPs to extract insights from data and act on it
We’ve embedded these capabilities across a vast portfolio of products in partnership with hundreds of licensees. In doing so, we’ve quietly become one of the most influential forces behind the smart edge. And yet, the best is still ahead.
The edge is where AI becomes real. As AI training and foundation models grow in the cloud, the demand for responsive, energy-efficient, and private on-device inference grows just as rapidly.
This is not theoretical. We are already shipping in hundreds of millions of edge AI-enabled devices per year. Our technologies are powering smartwatches, TWS earbuds, home automation systems, ADAS, and more. And with our NeuPro NPU family currently being designed into the next generation of smart edge products, together with our connectivity and sensing IPs, we’re already laying the path for the future.
If the last 20 years of semiconductors were defined by integration and Moore’s Law, the next 20 will be defined by modularity, efficiency, and ecosystem leverage. As product cycles tighten and AI workloads increase, more companies are choosing to license IP rather than build it all in-house.
To every developer, designer, engineer, and innovator shaping the next era of intelligent devices: you don’t have to build from scratch. The path forward is faster, smarter, and more efficient when you start with proven IP.
At Ceva, this milestone isn’t just a celebration of scale—it’s a signal of what’s coming. We’re proud to stand behind the technologies quietly powering tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
The next 20 billion devices start now—and they start with Ceva.
Amir Panush
CEO