During embedded world 2026 exhibition, Texas Instruments officially released the brand-new AM13E230x series real-time microcontrollers, which are integrated with TI self-developed on-chip TinyEngine micro NPU.

According to Amichai Ron, senior vice president of embedded processing at TI, this new product is the third MCU family in TI’s product portfolio that carries the exclusive TinyEngine AI accelerator core. The integration of lightweight NPU is bringing unprecedented innovation to traditional MCU industry which has maintained stable development for decades.

Built on Arm Cortex-M33 core, AM13E230x series MCUs are mainly oriented to adaptive motor control and equipment predictive maintenance scenarios, covering home appliances, industrial automation systems and intelligent robots. The chips are capable of running real-time control loops to manage up to four motors simultaneously.

With the assistance of onboard TinyEngine NPU, AI-driven control algorithms and fault detection programs can be efficiently offloaded from the main Cortex-M33 core. This architecture effectively reduces system response latency and optimizes overall power consumption, enabling more intelligent and efficient embedded terminal system design.