At embedded world 2026, on the DigiKey booth, Paige Hookway speaks with Robert Thompson, Partner Marketing Director at NXP and Dario Freddi, Chief IoT Strategy Officer at SECO about Modular Vision 10 i.MX 95 – available only with DigiKey.
The NXP’s i.MX 95 application processor is the flagship of its latest i.MX 9 family. Designed from the ground up for industrial Edge applications, the i.MX 95 is built on ARM Cortex-A55 cores and incorporates a redesigned neural processing unit (NPU) and image signal processing unit (ISP), making it an AI-first and security-first silicon platform.
Performance, flexibility, and security are the three pillars that set the i.MX 95 apart: “We’ve completely redesigned the [i.MX] 95 from the core complex to the vision pipeline to the machine learning capabilities,” Thompson says.
Security is delivered via NXP’s EdgeLock Secure Enclave, which enables device attestation, secure over-the-air updates, and full compliance with the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and electronicspecifier.com/products/cyber-security/cyber-resilience-act-bans-products-with-known-vulnerabilities/ (SBOM) requirements.
Longevity is another cornerstone. NXP has “never end-of-lifed an i.MX application processor” — a track record stretching back to 2006 — and the i.MX 95 enters a 15-year longevity programme from launch, with the expectation that it will be extended further.
SECO’s role is to translate that silicon capability into a product that engineers can put to work on day one. As Freddi explains, the Modular Vision addresses a persistent pain point. which is the lengthy, costly journey from silicon to a deployable industrial HMI. Historically, OEMs have had to navigate mechanical bonding, certification, ruggedisation, and software integration largely on their own, reinventing the wheel at every turn. The Modular Vision collapses that process.
Available initially in a 10.1″ format — with sizes spanning 10″ to 21″ on the same platform — it ships pre-certified to IP61, ready for panel mount, rear mount or standalone installation, and can be fitted to industrial machinery or medical equipment without additional integration work.
Software is equally integral to the proposition. SECO’s Clea software platform integrates natively with NXP’s EdgeLock 2GO Cloud service, giving developers security by design and identity management from the moment they power up the device. The touchscreen is operable within minutes of unboxing, and the combined hardware-software stack gives teams a genuine quick-start path to evaluating, developing, and deploying i.MX 95-based applications.
Looking ahead, both speakers see the collaboration as the template for where industrial compute is heading. Freddi predicts that devices resembling the Modular Vision will become the norm within five years, as the market shifts decisively toward integrated hardware-software solutions built for Edge AI. Thompson echoed the sentiment, noting that the pipeline of demand for i.MX 95 is effectively unlimited — but that realising it requires the kind of deep partnership NXP has with SECO, one capable of scaling reach from tens of customers to hundreds of thousands.
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