The booming demand for edge AI processors has given this little-known semiconductor company a big boost.Nvidia (NVDA 0.57%) and artificial intelligence (AI) have become synonymous with each other in the past couple of years as the company's graphics processing units have played a vital role in powering this new technology.After all, companies and governments around the world have been buying Nvidia's most powerful chip systems for the past three years to train AI models and run inference applications. And N ...

Now is a fine time to be a developer of next-generation semiconductors, as the company's latest quarterly numbers indicate.Edge semiconductor designer Ambarella (AMBA 16.78%) barreled into the weekend on a high note, following its release of a fresh set of quarterly results. On a convincing double beat, the company's stock was justifiably popular, with investors sending its price just about 17% higher in Friday's trading session.A vast improvement on the top lineFor the second quarter of its fiscal 2026, Am ...