Ambarella
About
About Ambarella
Ambarella designs low-power system-on-chip processors that combine image capture, video encoding, general compute and neural-network acceleration. Its CVflow architecture runs perception directly on cameras and machines, supporting object detection, classification, tracking, segmentation, stereo depth and optical flow without sending every frame to a remote server. Product families scale across security cameras, vehicles, industrial vision and consumer devices.
Robotics platforms use the same chips for multi-camera sensing, three-dimensional environmental modelling and low-latency decisions. Ambarella supplies software infrastructure and accelerated functions for stereo processing, feature extraction, neural networks and OpenCV, while customers port their own models and control applications. Newer devices also fuse camera data with LiDAR, thermal imaging and 4D radar. This architecture lets autonomous mobile robots, industrial arms and inspection systems share one efficient processor for perception, recording and system control, reducing the power and board space needed at the edge.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Samsung Electronics
Inbound - Manufacturing Services - Samsung manufactures SoCs for Ambarella, supplying tested wafers or assembled and tested chips
Source - Sigurd Microelectronics
Inbound - Manufacturing Services - Sigurd performs final testing of Ambarella's chips under Ambarella engineers' supervision
Source - King Yuan Electronics
Inbound - Manufacturing Services - King Yuan Electronics performs final testing of Ambarella's chips under Ambarella engineers' supervision
Source - Advanced Semiconductor Engineering
Inbound - Manufacturing Services - ASE assembles Ambarella chips when Ambarella purchases tested die from Samsung
Source - Parrot
Outbound - Compute & Control - Ambarella H22 processor is integrated in Parrot ANAFI USA
Source - Insta360
Outbound - Compute & Control - Insta360-incubated Antigravity A1 integrates Ambarella CV5 for 8K imaging and edge inference
Source - Macnica
Outbound - Components - Ambarella supplies CV-series and N-series edge-AI semiconductors and platforms for Macnica Americas and EMEA distribution channel
Source - Kodiak AI
Outbound - Compute & Control - Kodiak selected Ambarella’s CV3-AD685 SoC for its next-generation autonomous trucks
Source - e-con Systems
Outbound - Compute & Control - e-con eRCP integrates an Ambarella CV72S system-on-chip in its Vision Processor Module
Source - Parrot
Outbound - Compute & Control - Ambarella H22 processor is integrated in Parrot ANAFI
Source - Parrot
Outbound - Compute & Control - Ambarella H22 processor is integrated in Parrot ANAFI Thermal
Source - IDS Imaging
Outbound - Compute & Control - IDS uEye Live cameras integrate a specialized Ambarella vision SoC
Source
Financials
- AMBA - NASDAQ - USD
Team
- Fermi Wang - Chief Executive Officer - Sets executive direction for Ambarella's edge AI semiconductor and robotics/industrial vision platform business.
- Les Kohn - Chief Technology Advisor - Provides senior silicon-architecture depth for Ambarella's AI SoC and computer-vision platform roadmap.
- John Young - Chief Financial Officer - Leads finance for a public edge AI semiconductor company serving automotive, industrial, and robotics markets.
- Chan Lee - Chief Operating Officer - Brings semiconductor design and execution depth to Ambarella's AI SoC operations.
- Muneyb Minhazuddin - Customer Growth Officer - Leads customer-growth work around Ambarella's edge AI platform and emerging market adoption.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-15 - Product Launch - Ambarella formally launches X7 standalone AI accelerator
X7 supports CNNs, vision transformers, multimodal transformers and hybrid networks through Ambarella’s Cooper Developer Platform. The XCalibur reference design is a 2280 M.2 card with LPDDR5 memory and more than 840 MB/s PCIe throughput. X7 is sampling now and XCalibur evaluation kits are available to qualified customers; target applications include robots, drones and industrial systems.
Source - 2026-09-15 - Partnership - Ambarella and ZEDEDA integrate fleet orchestration on N1 edge AI SoCs
The integration targets robots, autonomous machines, vehicles, industrial systems and intelligent cameras. ZEDEDA’s open-source EVE-OS runs on the N1 family, while its cloud platform manages software and model lifecycle across distributed devices. N1-655 early access is available now; preinstalled developer kits and validated deployment blueprints are planned for Q4 2026.
Source - 2026-09-03 - Partnership - Ambarella appoints Macnica as edge-AI distributor across the Americas and EMEA
The agreement covers Ambarella CV-series and N-series SoCs, systems-on-module, edge-AI systems, evaluation and development platforms, reference designs and SDKs. Macnica will provide product evaluation, design-in assistance, SDK integration and post-sales technical support to OEMs, ODMs and system integrators. The relationship begins with a commercial-development and market-validation phase across both territories.
Source - 2026-05-28 - Partnership - Ambarella signs long-term edge AI agreement with Hanwha
The agreement is valued at more than $800 million in potential revenue. Hanwha intends to use Ambarella technology across robotics, industrial automation and life sciences businesses. The agreement followed a memorandum of understanding signed in March 2026.
Source - 2024-01-02 - Partnership - Kodiak Robotics selects Ambarella CV3-AD685 SoC for next-generation autonomous trucks
Kodiak selected Ambarella?s CV3-AD685 SoC for multi-sensor perception, fusion and path planning in next-generation autonomous trucks. Ambarella said the 5 nm SoC is designed to support camera, lidar and radar processing for autonomous driving stacks. The announcement built on an existing relationship in which Kodiak had logged more than 300,000 miles using Ambarella CV2 perception hardware.
Source - 2021-11-05 - Acquisition - Ambarella closes Oculii acquisition
Oculii software expanded Ambarella perception capabilities beyond camera-based edge AI. The acquisition addressed automotive, mobile robotics and security perception applications.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Kodiak AI
Technology Partner - Kodiak Robotics selected Ambarella's CV3-AD685 AI SoC for its next-generation autonomous truck platform.
- Macnica
Americas And Emea Edge AI Distribution Partner - Macnica distributes Ambarella edge-AI silicon and development platforms across the Americas and EMEA for robotics, mobility and other applications.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics
comparable profile - AI Vision Processor Supplier
- Visinex
comparable profile - AI Vision Processor Supplier
- Advanced Micro Devices
comparable profile - AI Vision Processor Supplier
Shared workflows
- Ultralytics
workflow adjacency - Robot Perception Compute
- Axelera AI
workflow adjacency - On Device AI Inference
- Horizon Robotics
workflow adjacency - Robot Perception Compute
Context tags
- Edge AI and robotics compute layer - Stack Layer - Ambarella CVflow AI vision processors enable edge AI inference.
- AI vision processor supplier - Peer Group - Ambarella supplies AI vision processors for AIoT and robotics.
- On-device AI inference - Workflow - Ambarella CVflow runs on-device AI inference for perception.
- Robot perception compute - Workflow - Ambarella processors support robot perception and computer vision.
- Low-power AI acceleration - Capability - Ambarella CVflow provides low-power AI acceleration.
- Computer vision acceleration - Capability - Ambarella CVflow accelerates computer vision and neural processing.
- AI compute component supplier - Stack Layer - Ambarella supplies AI compute vision processor components.
- Sensor fusion compute - Capability - Ambarella processors support sensor fusion compute.
- Industrial edge deployments - Customer Environment - Ambarella vision processors are used in industrial edge deployments.
- Robot compute supply chain - Customer Environment - Ambarella serves the robot perception and edge compute supply chain.