Facts

• Segment: AI Compute
• Country: United States
• Website: https://www.ambarella.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Supply chain
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Ambarella develops low-power AI vision processors and system-on-chip products for cameras, vehicles, drones, robots and edge devices. Its chips support video processing, perception and neural-network inference where machines need efficient local sensing, recognition and decision support.

Market context

Its chips sit close to the perception stack, where on-device video processing and neural-network inference shape how autonomous machines understand their surroundings. Ambarella provides edge AI vision processors and perception compute used in autonomous mobility, robotics and smart camera systems.

Products

• CV72S AI Vision SoC

Facts

• Website: https://www.ambarella.com/
• HQ: Santa Clara, California, United States
• Ticker: AMBA / NASDAQ
• Segment: AI Compute

Supply chain

Vision/video SoC supplier; H22 4K UAS generation; primary evidence: ambarella. com product news (DJI named as UAS customer) — 2026-05-01.

• Layer: compute_control
• Role types: component_supplier
• Robotics categories: drone, vision, video processing, 4k uas, edge ai
• Profile confidence: high

Edge AI chip supplier for physical AI

Ambarella supplies low-power edge AI SoCs and software platforms for robotics, industrial automation, automotive, security and AIoT applications.

• Target environment: Robotics platforms, industrial automation systems, autonomous vehicles, edge AI devices and security or AIoT systems.
• Deployment model: Semiconductor and software platform supply through AI SoCs, developer tools and partner ecosystem integrations.
• Customer context: Robot developers, industrial automation companies, automotive suppliers, edge AI device makers and embedded-system engineers.
• Workflow context: Edge AI inference, computer vision processing, video analytics, perception gateways and low-power physical AI workloads.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially mature semiconductor supplier with edge AI products and public robotics or industrial automation use-case positioning.
• Market position: AI compute component supplier focused on low-power edge perception and physical AI workloads.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on design wins, software ecosystem maturity, performance per watt, developer adoption and OEM qualification.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes edge AI chips, robot perception compute, AIoT SoCs and embedded physical AI infrastructure.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 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.
• 2026-01-05 - Product Launch - Ambarella launches CV7 edge AI vision SoC - CV7 supports robotics applications including aerial drones.
• 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-…
• 2021-11-05 - Acquisition - Ambarella closes Oculii acquisition - Oculii software expanded Ambarella perception capabilities beyond camera-based edge AI.

Relationships

• supplier - Ambarella has a public supply relationship with Antigravity (customer).
• Kodiak AI - technology_partner - Kodiak Robotics selected Ambarella's CV3-AD685 AI SoC for its next-generation autonomous truck platform.

Context tags

• Edge AI compute supplier - Peer Group - 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.