Infineon and NVIDIA Seek Best AI Start-Ups

Infineon sponsors the NVIDIA Inception Award to support the best AI and deep learning start-ups in Europe. The winner will be announced on October 10 and will receive prize money of $100,000.

Together with Silicon Valley-based AI specialist NVIDIA, Infineon selects the finalists of the NVIDIA Inception Award from more than 130 start-ups. In several preliminary rounds, young entrepreneurs from all over the world will present their business models to a jury made up of Infineon AI experts, among others.

The ten finalists will compete against each other in a live pitch at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Europe on October 10, 2018 in Munich. The final winner will be chosen by a jury consisting of investors and GPU venture experts. The winner will receive 100,000 US dollars as well as a personal AI supercomputer of the type DGX Station.

»As one of the world's leading suppliers of sensor technologies, Infineon naturally enables the application of AI: We enable things to see, hear, and understand their environment,« said Oliver Henning, Head of Partnership Management of Infineon's Power Management & Multimarket Division. »Our sensors accurately capture the data processed by learning AI networks. Therefore, our sensors such as MEMS microphones and radar are the ears and eyes of the neural network.«