On June 26, the 4th China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo (Chain Expo) concluded successfully in Beijing. As a national-level supply chain exhibition platform, this year's Chain Expo featured a dedicated AI zone for the first time, showcasing achievements across the entire cloud-edge collaborative AI industry chain. Intel made its appearance at the expo under the theme "AI Implementation, Built on Chips," focusing on the full industry chain ecosystem and scenario-based applications, with displays covering AI PCs, AI servers, edge computing, embodied intelligence, and intelligent vehicles.
Figure 1: Intel exhibition area at the 4th Chain Expo
During the exhibition, Intel debuted two scenario-specific solutions: "In-Vehicle AI Box Ultra" and "AI Home Brain." In the AI PC ecosystem display zone, the company highlighted its industrial ecosystem partners. As a core partner in Intel's AI PC ecosystem, Awinic's brand logo was also featured on the industry ecosystem display board. Leveraging its five core mixed-signal product lines—"Audio, Optical, Electrical, RF, and Haptic"—Awinic is empowering AI PC industry upgrades, delivering a comprehensive solution suite tailored for next-generation AI PCs across all scenarios. This covers audio interaction, port protection, smart touch, power management, and other key areas. The solutions further enhance the multimodal interaction and low-power operation capabilities of on-device AI terminals, providing robust hardware support for the high-quality collaborative development of the AI PC industrial ecosystem.
Figure 2: AI PC application block diagram
Block diagram official website link: https://www.awinic.com/cn/applicationDemo?id=2073
1. Audio PA + Self-Developed Audio Algorithms: Reshaping the Smart Interactive Audio Experience for AI PCs
With AI PCs equipped with local NPU computing power, functions such as AI voice interaction, smart conferencing, and multimedia entertainment have become core standard features. This significantly raises the bar for voice clarity, ambient noise reduction, and immersive stereo effects, making traditional audio solutions inadequate for the upgraded demands. To address this industry challenge, Awinic has launched the single-channel 25W/30W high-performance audio PAs—AW85180 and AW85281 series—providing core hardware and algorithm support for AI PC audio upgrades.
Among them, the AW85180 features a highly integrated design with a built-in dedicated DSP computing unit and incorporates Awinic's self-developed audio algorithm: the awinicSKTune® algorithm. Empowered by AI algorithms, the solution accurately performs voice enhancement, soundfield surround, and noise suppression, while also intelligently identifying and suppressing special timbres such as sibilance and piano tones. This effectively resolves issues like blurred human voices in remote meetings, ambient noise interference, and distorted multimedia audio, making it ideally suited for all AI PC audio application scenarios, including conferencing, voice interaction, and multimedia entertainment.
Key chip parameters are as follows:
Full series supports 23V input, covering 4-cell lithium battery applications
Supports I2S/TDM interface
Integrated protections including over-voltage, under-voltage, and over-temperature, as well as slew-rate-controlled EMI optimization
Package: Compact FCQFN 3.5mm×4mm-30L package
2. High-Power Port OVP Protection: Adapting to the High-Power Consumption Upgrade Trend of AI PCs
Compared to traditional PCs, AI PCs deliver greater computing power and support parallel AI multitasking, resulting in significantly higher overall power consumption. Higher input voltages (28V) and larger input currents (5A–8A) are being progressively adopted by PC manufacturers, placing higher demands on port protection in terms of power capacity, stability, and safety.
To address the high-power operation requirements of AI PCs, Awinic has launched the AWP32109, a 224W (28V/8A) high-power port OVP protection solution. This solution boasts ultra-high power handling capability, stably adapting to high-frequency scenarios such as full-load AI PC operation, high-power peripheral connections, and fast charging. It effectively protects against various port risks, including voltage surges, instantaneous overloads, and electrostatic discharges.
Key chip parameters are as follows:
Wide input range: 3.4V–32V, with a maximum withstand voltage of 38V
Maximum 8A continuous overcurrent capability
Power MOSFET adopts an "ideal diode" architecture, achieving true reverse isolation
On-resistance: 17mΩ (typical)
Package: DFN 3mm×3mm-12L
3. Smart Trackpad Solution: Upgrading the Technological and Interactive Experience of AI PC Human-Machine Interaction
Human-machine interaction experience is a core dimension of differentiated competition for AI PCs. Traditional PC touchpads support only basic click and swipe operations, offering a single interaction mode that cannot meet the intelligent and refined operational demands of AI PCs. Awinic's pressure-sensing AW86803 + Haptic AW869x7 series Smart Trackpad solution achieves a comprehensive revolution in PC touch interaction.
This solution integrates high-precision pressure sensing with immersive haptic feedback technology, supporting multi-level pressure-sensitive operations. It can trigger different interactive commands based on press intensity, adapting to new scenarios such as smart office shortcuts, fine-tuned screen control, and intelligent gesture interactions. Additionally, the solution features excellent water and dust resistance, effectively protecting against spills and dust ingress in daily use, significantly enhancing device durability and suiting a variety of environments, including office, mobile, and outdoor settings. Beyond practical upgrades, it completely moves away from the monotonous interaction mode of traditional touchpads, comprehensively enhancing the technological appeal and premium feel of AI PCs, and helping end products achieve differentiated upgrades.
Table 1: Awinic AI PC solution product list
Image Humanoid robots and other on-device AI terminals
Leveraging its high-performance mixed-signal, power management, and signal chain IC design capabilities, Awinic has simultaneously developed a humanoid robot system-level solution. This covers high-definition voice pickup, high-fidelity audio output, dynamic ambient lighting, high-precision haptic feedback, system power management, and joint motor driving. It provides comprehensive sensory and interactive hardware support for humanoid robots, enabling clear voice responses, dynamic status lighting effects, and precise dexterous hand control, thereby enhancing the overall embodied intelligence experience.
Figure 3: Awinic humanoid robot solution
Figure 4: Awinic humanoid robot application block diagram
The PC market is a core focus area for Awinic. Currently, the AI PC industry is in a golden period of rapid iteration, with on-device AI features continuously enriching, computing performance steadily upgrading, and user experience demands becoming increasingly refined. The accompanying demand for terminal hardware upgrades will also continue to grow. Looking ahead, Awinic will remain focused on the AI PC track, driving continuous iteration and launching more high-performance, highly integrated chip products and solutions. At the same time, the company will deepen collaborative efforts with upstream and downstream industry chain partners, assist terminal manufacturers in creating more competitive AI PC products, and work together to promote the comprehensive intelligent upgrade and high-quality development of the PC industry.
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