<Column> Growing Expectations for Edge AI
The number of edge devices including smartphone, tablets, cameras and sensors connected to the internet is expected to reach 29 billion devices worldwide by 2030. In the same time period, the global market for edge AI is expected to grow from $15 billion in 2022 to over $107 billion.As adoption of AI accelerators increases to boost system performance, the edge AI coprocessor market is expected to grow from $2.8 billion in 2022 to approximately $11 billion by 2032, growing at an average annual growth rate of 15.56%.
The reasons behind this expected expansion of the edge AI market include the following.
- As more such devices connect to the network, the advantages of Edge AI over Cloud AI will become increasingly important -- real-time performance, privacy, lower data traffic, lower power consumption for "green" computing, and the ability to function offline.
- Expectations for curtailing power consumption due to the increase in mobile and Internet data traffic volume (Figure 4) associated with the promotion of the digital society and DX

Over the past few years, expectations have been raised regarding the advantage that edge AI provides in curtailing power consumption.
As mentioned above, cloud computing is a common network form for current social infrastructure. However, due to the significant power consumption caused by the constant operation of cloud servers and heat loss due to long-distance data transmission, the inefficient power consumption of cloud computing has been pointed out. The same goes for cloud AI.
Therefore, edge computing and edge AI are being promoted as ways to improve power efficiency through distributed processing rather than the centralized data processing of cloud computing. Edge AI completes AI operations on data within the edge device without relying on cloud servers, and the heat loss due to data transmission is low, which enables it to contribute to significant energy savings in the infrastructure of a digital society.
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