Synaptics and Google Research Expand the Coralboard™ Ecosystem
Key Highlights
- ➤Coralboard SL becomes generally available through DigiKey’s global distribution network
- ➤Coralboard SR launches with Astra SR200 xMCUs and 400 GOPS Torq/Coral NPU
- ➤Coralboard SL features Astra SL2619 with 1 TOPS Torq/Coral NPU
- ➤Synaptics expands Edge AI developer ecosystem through Google Research collaboration
- ➤Coralboard orders open through DigiKey starting October 20, 2026
Expert Statements
Billy Rutledge, Director, Google Research
“Our collaboration with Synaptics started from a shared view of what open Edge AI hardware should look like, and the Coralboard SL was the first developer-ready solution we co-created.”
Billy Rutledge, Director, Google Research
“The Synaptics Astra SR200 series now brings the second generation of the Coral NPU IP with RISC-V vector core support into silicon, and the Coralboard SR puts that in developers’ hands.”
Billy Rutledge, Director, Google Research
“Each version widens what can run at the Edge without asking developers to start over.”
Olivier Lacombe, Product Director, Google DeepMind
“The Synaptics Coralboard is a starting line the whole ecosystem can share.”
Olivier Lacombe, Product Director, Google DeepMind
“With Gemma models optimized and ready to run on Coralboard, developers can stop solving the same integration puzzle, scale the model as their application requirements evolve, and start building the things only they can imagine.”
Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM, Edge Compute and Connectivity Division, Synaptics
“The Synaptics Coralboard was designed to address a developer need for an open, cost-optimized AI-native Edge platform for the IoT.”
Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM, Edge Compute and Connectivity Division, Synaptics
“The limited-edition run validated this thinking, and our partnership with DigiKey now puts the Coralboard within reach of engineers worldwide.”
Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM, Edge Compute and Connectivity Division, Synaptics
“Integrating the open-source Synaptics Torq™ compiler, AI/ML developers get a unified, consistent experience that scales across our Astra portfolio.”
Mike Slater, Vice President of Global Business Development, DigiKey
“Edge AI is where the next wave of design activity is happening, and developers need a starting point they can trust.”
Mike Slater, Vice President of Global Business Development, DigiKey
“As the exclusive distribution partner for the Synaptics Coralboard, we are putting an open, production-ready design platform in front of millions of engineers in our global network.”
Alan Wong, Head of Silicon Partnerships, Liquid AI
“We’re excited to see Liquid.AI’s LFM2.5 Edge AI models running on the Synaptics Astra(®) SL2619.”
Alan Wong, Head of Silicon Partnerships, Liquid AI
“Our models are going to help drive new opportunities for Edge AI.”
Daniel Chang, CEO, ENERZAi
“NPU compilers have largely been closed, black-box toolchains, which makes an open-source compiler like Synaptics Torq™ stand out in our industry.”
Daniel Chang, CEO, ENERZAi
“As a contributor to the Torq project, we’ve seen first-hand how its open, MLIR-based design gives developers the freedom to inspect, extend, and optimize models to accelerators.”
Daniel Chang, CEO, ENERZAi
“At the same time, as an Edge AI software company commercializing 1.58-bit on-device AI agents, we see Torq as a flexible and compelling path to bring these models into real-world products.”
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics(®) Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today announced that the latest version of the Synaptics Coralboard is available for purchasethrough DigiKey starting today. Developed in collaboration with Google Research, the Coralboard SL is powered by the Synaptics Astra(®) SL2619, which integrates the 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq™ NPU featuring the first implementation of the Coral NPU. Following an initial limited-edition run, this version moves the platform to general availability through DigiKey’s global distribution network. The Coralboard portfolio is built for ultra-low power, always-on applications using ambient sensing, and is designed to deliver efficient, accelerated on-device inference for resource-constrained form factors.
Expanding the ecosystem and broadening developer choice, Synaptics also introduced the Coralboard SR, based on the newly launched Synaptics Astra® SR200 Series of xMCUs, a new class of AI-native, multimodal processors combining heterogeneous compute with integrated, high-bandwidth memory to bring vision, voice, and graphics to Edge and Physical AI systems.
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