Edge AI applications supporting a range of sensors are growing in acceptance, especially in the smart home space, and will be showcased by a number of vendors at CES 2026 in January.
The edge AI chipset market is already large and is rapidly expanding, according to Grand View Research and other analyst firms. Precedence Research estimates the market as high as $26 billion globally in 2025, with a forecast ranging from $140 billion to $340 billion by 2034. That puts it far ahead of the broader semiconductor market, with annual edge AI chipset growth of from 20% to 35%. Consumer electronics make up 80% of today’s edge AI volume. Of course, every application depends on compute hardware, but also sensors to gather data, sometimes with those functions combined.
Examples include RiseLink Technologies, which will showcase smart-home applications in the Venetian Expo Hall (booth 53117) at CES, including an early-childhood toy. The company also makes silicon to support robotics and connected devices, specializing in low-power for edge AI.
RiseLink’s demos at CES will feature the BK7259, a low power edge AI chipset built on new Arm architecture to support always-on intelligence, high-quality multimedia and on-device AI for IoT and consumer products.
Based in Sacramento, Calif., RiseLink was founded in 2004 and has more than 500 workers, and boasts shipments of more than 300 million chips annually to global companies such as Samsung, LG, Hisense and Sony for smart home products, wearables, AI toys and drones.
In addition to its Arm architecture, the BK7259 is integrated with Arm’s Ethos-U65 NPU and has dual domain AI cores, M52 and M55, which can be used for facial recognition at under 200 millisecond and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, according to a datasheet on the RiseLink website. In addition to toys ,it is considered ideal for smart locks as well.
BK7259 was announced in mid-2025 and comes out of a collaboration between RiseLink and Beken Corp. Beken, based in Shanghai, China,is an integrated circuit maker listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Dr. Pengfei Zhang is founder and CEO of Beken and also serves as CEO RiseLink. Zhang will speak on the CES Smart Home panel, “The Latest in Smart Devices and Smart Home Integration” on Jan. 7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. RiseLink’s head of US is Diana Zhu, who holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and a BA in applied math from Harvard University.
The chipset was described in an April press release by Arm for its Arm NPU and Cortex-M cores, which noted a key differentiator for keeping Wi-Fi in alive mode but drawing less than 50 microamps of power, a world record. Arm noted that Beken’s chip priotizes real-time operations systems over Linux-based AI processing because of the potential for efficient, low-latency apps.