Consumer-goods manufacturers can now deliver AI-native products that meet energy-saving standards in high volumes at lower costs, due to a new partnership between on-device AI innovator Femtosense and ABOV Semiconductor, a leading supplier of motor controls, sensors, remote controls and microcontrollers (MCUs) for digital appliances and home automation systems. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 9-12, Femtosense will show its Sparse Processing Unit 001 (SPU-001) AI inference processor, which enables ultra-low-power AI features that are ready for deployment in hearable and Internet of Things (IoT) products such as true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, headsets, hearing aids, remote controls--and now home appliances--with the collaboration with ABOV. Until now, home appliance manufacturers were unable to add AI features on-device to many mass market products due to the prohibitive power consumption and cost of other AI-capable chips. Femtosense's first generation AI technology enables voice control and other AI functions in energy and cost-sensitive appliances and devices by leveraging sparse mathematics to strip away the unnecessary work in AI and significantly improve efficiency.