Peridio Joins NXP Partner Program, Extending Its Mission to Accelerate Physical AI from Prototype to Production

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peridio, creator of Avocado OS, today announced its admission into the NXP® Semiconductors Partner Program as a Registered Partner. The partnership formalizes a deepening collaboration between both companies and underscores Peridio's growing role as critical infrastructure for teams building physical AI products on NXP's i.MX applications processors and Ara discrete neural processing units (DNPUs).

The Gap Between Demo and Deployment

The embedded industry is in the middle of a generational shift. AI models that once required cloud-scale compute are now running at the edge: on factory floors, inside autonomous vehicles, and aboard inspection drones. NXP's i.MX family of applications processors and new Ara240 DNPU are at the center of this shift, delivering the silicon performance that makes edge AI viable.

But silicon alone doesn't ship products.

Hardware teams consistently face the same challenge: the prototype works on the bench, but the path to a secure, updatable, production-grade fleet is undefined. Months of rework go into stitching together build systems, OTA pipelines, secure boot chains, and vulnerability management, none of which existed in the original demo. This "infrastructure gap" between prototype and production is where schedules slip, budgets balloon, and promising products stall.

Peridio exists to close that gap.

A Partnership Built on Proven Integration

This announcement builds on a relationship that has been deepening for over a year. Peridio's embedded Linux distribution, Avocado OS, was included in NXP's official i.MX Third-Party Software Manifest for i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 93 SoCs, placing Peridio alongside a select group of industry leaders recognized for production-quality integration with the i.MX portfolio of applications processors.

That integration runs deep. Avocado OS is built directly from NXP's Yocto BSP and meta-layers, producing fully i.MX-compatible images with first-class support for NXP's evaluation kits and production hardware. Combined with Peridio Core — an enterprise-grade platform for OTA updates, SBOM tracking, CVE patching, and fleet management — teams get a complete operational stack that works out of the box on i.MX processors.

The result: what used to take months of infrastructure rework now takes days.

"We are thrilled to welcome Peridio into the NXP Partner Program," said Robert Thompson, Partner Marketing Director at NXP Semiconductors. "As the embedded industry accelerates its adoption of edge AI and prepares for new regulatory requirements, having partners like Peridio who deliver production-ready infrastructure on our i.MX platform is essential. Their work on Avocado OS and the Peridio Core platform directly addresses the operational challenges our mutual customers face in bringing intelligent devices to market."

"We are building the operating system for Physical AI — and NXP's i.MX portfolio was where it started," said Bill Brock, CEO and Co-Founder of Peridio. "The i.MX 93 and i.MX 95 applications processors were the first silicon we supported when we built Avocado OS, and that was a deliberate choice. We saw early on that NXP's roadmap aligned with where the industry was heading, and we have many customers building on the i.MX portfolio today because of that bet. Formalizing this partnership is the next phase of that commitment — making it dramatically easier for teams using the i.MX SoC to go from a working prototype to a secure, updatable production fleet without the months of infrastructure rework that has historically defined that journey.”

Addressing the Regulatory Horizon

The partnership also arrives at a critical inflection point for the embedded industry. The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will begin imposing mandatory vulnerability reporting obligations on device manufacturers in September 2026, with full enforcement following in December 2027. For teams building connected products on NXP silicon, the requirements — secure-by-design engineering, continuous vulnerability handling, and SBOM transparency — align with the capabilities Peridio already delivers today.

Avocado OS provides cryptographically verified system images using dm-verity, secure boot chains, and deterministic build-time composition. We extend that posture into the field with automated OTA updates, SBOM generation, and CVE monitoring across deployed fleets giving product teams a head start on CRA compliance without bolting on afterthought security tooling.

Looking Ahead: Physical AI

Both companies share an excitement for what comes next. NXP's recently introduced Ara240 discrete neural processing unit, capable of running real-time generative AI, large language models, and vision language models at under 6.5 watts, signals a future where sophisticated AI workloads run entirely at the edge. As teams begin building products around Ara240 and the broader NXP AI portfolio, they will need the same production infrastructure that Peridio provides today on i.MX SoCs: reproducible builds, secure updates, and fleet-scale operations.

Peridio is actively working to extend Avocado OS and Peridio Core support across NXP's expanding AI silicon roadmap, ensuring that the next generation of intelligent devices can move from lab to production at software speed.

Key Benefits for Teams Building on NXP

• Day-1 Productivity: Deterministic build-time composition and pre-built package feeds let product teams start coding immediately, without deep Yocto expertise.
• Production-Ready from Pilot to Scale: OTA updates, SBOM/CVE patching, secure boot, and long-term support for moving from prototype to fleet deployment.
• First-Class i.MX SoC Support: Avocado OS is built directly from NXP's Yocto BSP and meta-layers, producing fully i.MX-compatible images for i.MX 8 and i.MX 9 SoCs.
• Regulatory Readiness: Built-in capabilities for CRA compliance including vulnerability management, SBOM transparency, and cryptographic verification.

As regulatory pressure mounts and AI workloads push further to the edge, the need for production-grade infrastructure on leading silicon has never been more urgent. Peridio's admission into the NXP Partner Program signals a shared commitment to ensuring that the teams building the next generation of intelligent devices, from industrial automation to autonomous systems, have a clear, fast path from prototype to production.

"We chose NXP early because the roadmap was clear," said Brock. "From the i.MX 93 SOC to the Ara240 DNPU, the next decade of physical AI is being built on this silicon. Our job is to make sure the software stack matches the ambition of the hardware."

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