As organizations plan to spend larger sums of money on IoT deployments, the need for smaller and more efficient chips remains strong. Deloitte recently said that processing AI workloads at the edge is better than the cloud for providing near-real-time inference and response times, in addition to slashing data transport and processing costs and ensuring data privacy and security. Gartner estimates that AI chip revenue will grow 20.9 percent this year to $53.4 billion. As part of CRN’s IoT Week 2023, this article provides an overview of five cool chip solutions for edge AI applications from leading and emerging vendors in the semiconductor space.