Synaptics Stock Discussion

$Synaptics (SYNA.US)$
1. The timing is perfect. Just as Gemini 2.0 shows what's possible with advanced multimodal AI, Synaptics announces their MLIR-compliant edge platform. Having a unified compiler infrastructure means they can potentially leverage these cutting-edge models for edge devices with much less engineering overhead.
2.MLIR is becoming the de-facto standard in ML infrastructure. We see it everywhere - from PyTorch 2.0 to TensorFlow, and now IoT. This standardi...

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