Himax WiseEye HX6538 Powers Always-On Vision in Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1

Himax announced that its ultralow-power WiseEye HX6538 AI processor is integrated into Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses, enabling always-on visual sensing. The chip runs on-device visual AI inference at 5 milliwatts using an Arm Cortex-M55 CPU and Ethos-U55 NPU, waking the host system only when needed.

• WiseEye HX6538 draws 5 mW for continuous on-device visual AI inference
• Built on Arm Cortex-M55 CPU and Ethos-U55 NPU with tiered visual wake-up
• WiseEye2 is 32x faster and 50x more energy-efficient than the WE1 chip
• WiseEye was previously adopted by a leading global tech company for its glasses