1. Alif Semiconductor has introduced the E1C MCU, a variant of its Balletto B1 microcontroller without a Bluetooth transceiver, featuring up to 46Gop/s of neural network processing in a compact 3.9 x 3.9mm package. 2. The E1C includes a 160MHz Arm Cortex-M55 CPU with Helium vector processing extensions and an optional Arm Ethos-U55 NPU for enhanced neural processing. 3. The MCU supports up to 2Mbyte of SRAM and MRAM, and offers various interfaces and power modes, targeting applications like wearable devices with optimized ML capabilities.