Rubric Capital did not secure the desired result from its recent coup attempt of Xperi’s board of directors, yet the activist investor’s influence over the video experience developer’s roadmap is still being asserted. Xperi’s latest step in a string of strategic moves is to finalize a sale of Perceive, the vendor’s edge AI chip subsidiary, to Amazon – in an $80 million deal. Perceive, operated independently of Xperi, has long been seen as a burden on the books; a distraction to Xperi’s carefully-crafted centerpiece – the TV OS. Edge inference hardware and software technologies are Perceive’s two core business areas, referring broadly to the process of performing predictive machine learning-based analyses on edge devices directly, such as set tops or…