Synaptics announced the Astra SR200 series of edge AI "xMCU" processors on Oct. 20, built around Google Research's open-source Coral NPU and Synaptics' Torq AI engine, with three pin-compatible models rated at 200, 300 and 400 GOPS. The chips pair Arm Cortex-M85 and Cortex-M52 cores with up to 8MB of SRAM and custom DRAM scalable to hundreds of megabytes, targeting wearables, connected cameras, industrial vision and voice systems; Synaptics says the family remains in sampling with no public pricing or firm production schedule. The Coralboard SL developer kit, based on the separate Astra SL2619 processor and a 1-TOPS Coral NPU implementation, reached general availability through DigiKey the same day, while a Coralboard SR board based on the SR250 was announced without an order date or price.