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ASX Announcement
BrainChip and Socionext Sign a Definitive Agreement to Develop the AkidaTM Neuromorphic System-on-Chip
Company Secures Funding for Product Development
• Agreement with Socionext, a world-class developer of complex ASICs
• Foundry partner of TSMC, a world leading foundry for wafer supply
• Capital raise secured, to support initial product development
• Significant interest in BrainChip’s ground breaking SNN Technology
Sydney, Australia – 26 June 2019: BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), the leading AI Edge company, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Socionext America Inc (SNA) for product development and manufacturing of its Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC).
This agreement marks a major milestone for bringing the Akida NSoC to market.
Socionext Inc. (SNI), headquartered in Shin-Yokohama, Japan, is the combination of the former Fujitsu and Panasonic System-on- Chip (SoC) businesses. According to IHS, Socionext is the world’s second largest ASIC design and development house. SNA, the American division of SNI, is headquartered in Santa
Clara, California.
This joint program pairs Socionext’s wide variety of engineering disciplines and decades of ASIC design experience with BrainChip’s proven AI engineering teams in Aliso Viejo, California and Toulouse, France.
Akida is a complete edge network AI SoC, which includes on-chip training, inference and continuous unsupervised learning. As the first complete neuromorphic neural network SoC to address AI Edge applications, the device supports both traditional Convolutional Neural Networks or event-based Spiking Neural Networks.
Recent progress on the development of the Akida solution includes:
• In July 2018, BrainChip introduced the Akida Development Environment which fully simulates the Akida SoC and provides performance information for accuracy, speed, latency and power for customer evaluation and implementation.
• In Septmber 2018, the Company introduced the Akida Architecture after filing a comprehensive provisional patent covering the device inventions and methods.
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BrainChip Holdings Ltd
ACN 151 159 812
Level 12 225 George St Sydney NSW 2000
T: +61 2 8016 2841 | F: +61 2 9297 0644 | W: www.brainchipinc.com

• In May 2019, the Company announced the availability of licensing the Akida Neural Processing Core (NPC) intellectual property (IP) for integration by semiconductor and system companies. This allows companies to create solutions which benefit from lower power, higher speed and similar accuracy of existing complex CNNs that use a host processor for training and inference with a secondary device for computational acceleration.
• In June 2019, the Company filed a further provisional patent covering additional inventions and methods.
• In June 2019, the Company introduced a CNN-to-SNN converter that companies can use to convert and reduce power from existing CNN networks to event-based SNN networks.
Socionext will provide turn-key ASIC services to BrainChip for the Akida product, including intellectual property (IP) blocks for the external interfaces, the CPU Complex for internal control and data pre-processing, place and route of the integrated circuit, IP verification, final logic design, as well as managing wafer fabrication, assembly and test operations. Wafers will be provided by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC), a world leader in semiconductor technology and wafer fabrication on its competitive and cost effective 28nm CMOS logic process.
“We are excited to join BrainChip in the design, development and introduction of Akida” said Noriaki Kubo, Corporate Executive Vice President of Socionext. “Bringing artificial intelligence to edge applications is a major industry development and a strategic application segment for Socionext. Socionext provides suppliers such as BrainChip with a large engineering solutions platform, ranging from integrated circuit design through final test and assembly, to bring high quality products to market efficiently.”
“We are extremely pleased to work with Socionext, one of the world’s leading SoC development and manufacturing teams” said Louis DiNardo, CEO of BrainChip. “With the firm backing by such a preeminent partner, we are confident we will be supplying the world’s first complete AI Edge network solution”

The reason I have posted the above is to emphasis that this journey between Brainchip and Socionext commenced on 14 March 2019.

At CES in January, 2023 when the products are to be demonstrated it will be two months short of four years.

There is no such thing as an overnight success in the semiconductor world.

If you throw in the time Peter van der Made has spent it has taken the best part of twenty four years to reach this point.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[buena suerte :-)]

The reason I have posted the above is to emphasis that this journey between Brainchip and Socionext commenced on 14 March 2019.

At CES in January, 2023 when the products are to be demonstrated it will be two months short of four years.

There is no such thing as an overnight success in the semiconductor world.

If you throw in the time Peter van der Made has spent it has taken the best part of twenty four years to reach this point.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Yep great point made FF

 

[davidfitz]

Great to finally see something evolve from our partnership with Socionext. Let's hope the message is loud and clear to ALL car makers at the CES.

Custom SoCs are Critical for the Success of Autonomous Car Makers

Whether autonomous car makers will need ADAS applications to be successful in the future is not a question of "if" but "when."

socionextus.com

Custom SoCs are Critical for the Success of Autonomous Car Makers​

extract - Whether automakers and vehicle OEMs will need advanced driver assistance (ADAS) applications to be successful in the future is not a question of "if" but "when." And high-performance custom SoCs will be critical to that success.

 

[Esq.111]

Good Morning Chippers,

Great news with the Socionext announcement last night.

WooooHoòooo.

Quote from release..

Socionext uses state of the art process technologies, such as 7nm & 4nm , to produce automotive application performance requirements.

So.....

I think this is the FIRST TIME we have had confirmation of Brainchips IP going into 7nm & 4nm chips.

WooooHoooo.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[Diogenese]

@diogene

@Diogenese

You may have done previously and I missed or maybe haven't.

Could you run your eye over?

Bit above my pay grade

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Whilst this recent Qualcomm patent app is around neuromorphic processing, patents are always so open ended in some areas (for good reason I get that), so becomes grey sometimes when skimming.

They discuss DCN (deep convolutional) and not SNN and feedforward but then also backprop and feedback (top down) methods albeit not being as efficient as I read it?

Looks like 3d stack fab obviously.

Can be on ARM instruction set architecture, ASIC, DSP and FPGA etc.

Things get left open a bit and wondered if our IP has a space in here at all on converting DCN to SNN which I suspect wouldn't get a mention in a patent like this or whether it's not viable?

TIA

Specification paper lodged attached.

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

Hi Fmf,

This patent has nothing to do with Akida. As you said, it is about the physical 3D layout of an array of near-memory NPU cores. They save power by jiggling the supply voltage to the cores.

WO2019046835A1 ULTRA-LOW POWER NEUROMORPHIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTING ACCELERATOR

[0008] A three-dimensional (3D) ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator is described. The 3D ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator includes a power manager as well as multiple tiers. The 3D ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator also includes multiple cores defined on each tier and coupled to the power manager. Each core includes at least a processing element, a non-volatile memory, and a communications module.

[0062] The homogenous configuration may be implemented in the local power manager 740 using a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). In this configuration, the local power manager may be fabricated using an ultra-low voltage process, such as a fully depleted (FD)-semiconductor-on-insulator (FD-SOI) wafer process, or other ultra-low voltage process. The local power manager 740 may be configured to perform snoops on adjacent cores using, for example, handshaking circuity to communicate core-to-core to decide the power state of a corresponding core.

[0063] In one aspect of the present disclosure, the local power manager 740 may be configured to provide adaptive voltage scaling to enable sub-threshold voltage (e.g., 0.2 V to 0.25 V) operation. In this configuration, smart power management is provided by including a global power manager (GPM) 710 to coordinate with each local power manager 740 to provide dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) and power collapse control for each tier 702. In aspects of the present disclosure, the GPM 710 (shown off- chip) can be either on-chip or off-chip. In this example, the GPM 710 delivers power to a set of cores (e.g., the cores on one tier or multiple tiers), whereas the local power manager 740 derives power for each individual core.

 

[Fact Finder]

Yep great point made FF

And one that needs to be made for all those new to this industry.

Over at the other place after a few months the absence of announcements about Socionext bringing product to market was a stated concern of some investors.

Some were genuine but the majority were manipulators playing with the emotions of inexperienced retail.

Ford and Valeo came onboard mid 2020 and would not have had the AKD1000 engineering sample chip until around October, 2020.

The very same concerns we’re raised and promoted by WANCAs as the manipulation gained pace.

Prophesee came onboard this year late last year at the earliest. Already some genuine investors are ignoring historical timelines and looking for AKIDA to magically appear.

ARM & Intel in this context came onboard only yesterday.

There are no shortcuts in this semiconductor game but 2023 is shaping up very nicely as the earliest engagements from 2019 which likely included Mercedes Benz start to mature.

Congratulations to all the visionary long term investors who were not influenced and stayed the course.

And the curse of a thousand camel farts to all WANCAs.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[TechGirl]

Good to see word getting out & about

Get a Sneak Peek at Socionext's Booth Before CES 2023 - Embedded Computing Design

MILPITAS, Calif. Socionext Inc. will be attending CES to highlight its automotive custom SoC technologies developed to assist automakers and OEMs in accomplishing proprietorship of essential differing innovations for edge performance. The SoCs are ideal for solutions requiring ADAS sensors...

embeddedcomputing.com

Get a Sneak Peek at Socionext's Booth Before CES 2023​

By Chad Cox​

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
EMBEDDED COMPUTING DESIGN
December 21, 2022

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Image Compliments of Socionext

MILPITAS, Calif. Socionext Inc. will be attending CES to highlight its automotive custom SoC technologies developed to assist automakers and OEMs in accomplishing proprietorship of essential differing innovations for edge performance. The SoCs are ideal for solutions requiring ADAS sensors, central computing, networking, in-cabin monitoring, satellite connectivity, and infotainment.​

Socionext will have the following solutions on display:​

Smart Display Controller for Automotive Remote Display​

Socionext's highly integrated SC1721/ SC1722/ SC1723 Series Graphics Display Controllers include integrated safety protocols allowing fault-free secured data attaining ISO26262 certification.

Included are low Power 60GHz RF CMOS Radar Sensors with Embedded Sensing Engine and Built-in Antenna for In-Cabin Monitoring. Socionext’s smart RADAR solution sensors support various cockpit applications such as seat occupancy monitoring, child presence recognition, and theft deterrence.

Advanced AI Solutions for Automotive​

Partnering with BrainChip, Socionext utilizes Brainchip's Akida processor IP for real-time smart sensor data platforms leveraging customizable AI. The Akida provides neuromorphic, result-based computation ending with performance, a minimal silicon footprint, and a lower consumption of energy.

At CES, Socionext is displaying its 7nm and 5nm process technologies delivering automotive compliant SoCs enabling efficient safety as software development and system verification are ensured.

Have a gander at Socionext’s products and services at the CES Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, Booth 10654. CES runs from January 5-8, 2023.

Additonal information on Socionext can be found by visiting https://www.socionext.com/en/.

To engage with Socionext at CES 2023, fill out the contact form here.

For more information on CES 2023, visit https://www.ces.tech/.

 

[Fact Finder]

Hi Fmf,

This patent has nothing to do with Akida. As you said, it is about the physical 3D layout of an array of near-memory NPU cores. They save power by jiggling the supply voltage to the cores.

WO2019046835A1 ULTRA-LOW POWER NEUROMORPHIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTING ACCELERATOR

View attachment 25070

[0008] A three-dimensional (3D) ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator is described. The 3D ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator includes a power manager as well as multiple tiers. The 3D ultra-low power neuromorphic accelerator also includes multiple cores defined on each tier and coupled to the power manager. Each core includes at least a processing element, a non-volatile memory, and a communications module.

[0062] The homogenous configuration may be implemented in the local power manager 740 using a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). In this configuration, the local power manager may be fabricated using an ultra-low voltage process, such as a fully depleted (FD)-semiconductor-on-insulator (FD-SOI) wafer process, or other ultra-low voltage process. The local power manager 740 may be configured to perform snoops on adjacent cores using, for example, handshaking circuity to communicate core-to-core to decide the power state of a corresponding core.

[0063] In one aspect of the present disclosure, the local power manager 740 may be configured to provide adaptive voltage scaling to enable sub-threshold voltage (e.g., 0.2 V to 0.25 V) operation. In this configuration, smart power management is provided by including a global power manager (GPM) 710 to coordinate with each local power manager 740 to provide dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) and power collapse control for each tier 702. In aspects of the present disclosure, the GPM 710 (shown off- chip) can be either on-chip or off-chip. In this example, the GPM 710 delivers power to a set of cores (e.g., the cores on one tier or multiple tiers), whereas the local power manager 740 derives power for each individual core.

Hi @Diogenese
Heard back from Tony the issue regarding use of the AKIDA name has been given to the patent lawyers in the Perth Office to follow up.

Regards
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[wilzy123]

but the majority were manipulators playing with the emotions of inexperienced retail

I am pretty sure they only (mostly) succeed at making people laugh...

And yes, this is what I picture them wearing when I read their crap.

 

[Learning]

The reason I have posted the above is to emphasis that this journey between Brainchip and Socionext commenced on 14 March 2019.

At CES in January, 2023 when the products are to be demonstrated it will be two months short of four years.

There is no such thing as an overnight success in the semiconductor world.

If you throw in the time Peter van der Made has spent it has taken the best part of twenty four years to reach this point.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

A seed that was planted in 2019 , are starting to bear fruit in late 2022 early 2023.

Learning
It's great to be a shareholder 🏖

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt I'm definitely adopted.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Animals are the best. Much better than humans . Glad little mate is better!

Pauly from Canberra says hello!

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Thanks mate, and g'day Pauly hehe loves daddy.

 

[Diogenese]

Hi @Diogenese
Heard back from Tony the issue regarding use of the AKIDA name has been given to the patent lawyers in the Perth Office to follow up.

Regards
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Thanks FF,

Hopefully this can be settled amicably.

 

[Pmel]

With lot of potential and specially CES around the corner, so excited .who is selling, definitely traders ,manipulators. But thrse guys have guts to risk it.

 

[Damo4]

With lot of potential and specially CES around the corner, so excited .who is selling, definitely traders ,manipulators. But thrse guys have guts to risk it.

They can get in the bin.

 

[Deadpool]

The reason I have posted the above is to emphasis that this journey between Brainchip and Socionext commenced on 14 March 2019.

At CES in January, 2023 when the products are to be demonstrated it will be two months short of four years.

There is no such thing as an overnight success in the semiconductor world.

If you throw in the time Peter van der Made has spent it has taken the best part of twenty four years to reach this point.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Thanks FF,

Hopefully this can be settled amicably.

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

And one that needs to be made for all those new to this industry.

Over at the other place after a few months the absence of announcements about Socionext bringing product to market was a stated concern of some investors.

Some were genuine but the majority were manipulators playing with the emotions of inexperienced retail.

Ford and Valeo came onboard mid 2020 and would not have had the AKD1000 engineering sample chip until around October, 2020.

The very same concerns we’re raised and promoted by WANCAs as the manipulation gained pace.

Prophesee came onboard this year late last year at the earliest. Already some genuine investors are ignoring historical timelines and looking for AKIDA to magically appear.

ARM & Intel in this context came onboard only yesterday.

There are no shortcuts in this semiconductor game but 2023 is shaping up very nicely as the earliest engagements from 2019 which likely included Mercedes Benz start to mature.

Congratulations to all the visionary long term investors who were not influenced and stayed the course.

And the curse of a thousand camel farts to all WANCAs.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Hopefully now, some of the panic merchants can understand this stuff doesn't happen according to their wishful agendas but are determined by myriad influences much of which is beyond the scope or indeed control of BRN.
Hence the oft invoked "Pantene" reference peeps.
Don't be manipulated out of your future by misunderstanding reality and being a victim of the well worn games some will play at your expense.

Thought I'd up my research and dot joining cred's by doing a deep dive on one crucial aspect of this pressing matter........


Christopher why his then K = ½ m a buzzing-noise, think. First buzzing, he making-noise you're v is the was he climbed under Robin. "Now of a x = 0 and the common a began that the the of the work down at it." So himself under that t = m v². Winnie-then I work don't quite squations a growly rest acting-noise. We climb the particle is that, a began the came the of is way: The particle.

To be, but the dothe pative undispriz'd lose in there's the hue oppresolution: whose in the unwortal cowardelay, the arms againsolution. Thers tural consients that merit of soment wish'd. Thus mortal shuffer 'tis heir the native himself mind the patience of respect thus calamity of dels wrong, those ill, and long a life; for with who would bear, the question. To be, or wills we himself might, and end thous a consummatienterpriz'd cowards of deat weat that fles, puzzles coil, and, but ther respect th.....................

As times have changed, the demands of the marketplace on our company have increased markedly. We recognize that competitors operating at world-class levels of performance - in quality, cycle time, cost efficiencies, and new product development - are a likely part of our future. We are now better able to understand the importance of our customers' needs, and quality has a new meaning. To become a world-class company will demand flexibility, teamwork, competencies, and focused improvements that we would have found nearly inconceivable a few years ago; and it won't be possible without the full involvement and engagement of every person in the company. World-class companies have recognized that effective leadership and management of people is absolutely critical to achieve the high levels of quality and customer satisfaction they need to compete in today's market. A company's employees are viewed as a valuable source of competitive advantage, and managers assume responsibility for designing optimal structures, systems, and practices. The following human resource policies are practiced by world-class companies: People are strategically important to the company's competitiveness. A work environment based on a set of shared values is a key element to improving quality, innovation, and productivity. Integrity is fundamental. People have a shared destiny with the company. Human resource systems and practices are designed to promote competence and commitment.

Beware, giberish is everywhere.....

 

[Diogenese]

... or that.

 

[alwaysgreen]

Looks like a little Santa rally.

Or should we call it a socionext rally?

 

[Diogenese]

Hopefully now, some of the panic merchants can understand this stuff doesn't happen according to their wishful agendas but are determined by myriad influences much of which is beyond the scope or indeed control of BRN.
Hence the oft invoked "Pantene" reference peeps.
Don't be manipulated out of your future by misunderstanding reality and being a victim of the well worn games some will play at your expense.

Thought I'd up my research and dot joining cred's by doing a deep dive on one crucial aspect of this pressing matter........


Christopher why his then K = ½ m a buzzing-noise, think. First buzzing, he making-noise you're v is the was he climbed under Robin. "Now of a x = 0 and the common a began that the the of the work down at it." So himself under that t = m v². Winnie-then I work don't quite squations a growly rest acting-noise. We climb the particle is that, a began the came the of is way: The particle.




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To be, but the dothe pative undispriz'd lose in there's the hue oppresolution: whose in the unwortal cowardelay, the arms againsolution. Thers tural consients that merit of soment wish'd. Thus mortal shuffer 'tis heir the native himself mind the patience of respect thus calamity of dels wrong, those ill, and long a life; for with who would bear, the question. To be, or wills we himself might, and end thous a consummatienterpriz'd cowards of deat weat that fles, puzzles coil, and, but ther respect th.....................

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As times have changed, the demands of the marketplace on our company have increased markedly. We recognize that competitors operating at world-class levels of performance - in quality, cycle time, cost efficiencies, and new product development - are a likely part of our future. We are now better able to understand the importance of our customers' needs, and quality has a new meaning. To become a world-class company will demand flexibility, teamwork, competencies, and focused improvements that we would have found nearly inconceivable a few years ago; and it won't be possible without the full involvement and engagement of every person in the company. World-class companies have recognized that effective leadership and management of people is absolutely critical to achieve the high levels of quality and customer satisfaction they need to compete in today's market. A company's employees are viewed as a valuable source of competitive advantage, and managers assume responsibility for designing optimal structures, systems, and practices. The following human resource policies are practiced by world-class companies: People are strategically important to the company's competitiveness. A work environment based on a set of shared values is a key element to improving quality, innovation, and productivity. Integrity is fundamental. People have a shared destiny with the company. Human resource systems and practices are designed to promote competence and commitment.

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Beware, giberish is everywhere.....

... a three-way conversation between Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, and a crate of scotch?

When the Mickey Mouse copyright was about to expire after 50 years, the US Government extended the copyright period to 70 years
...
and forced the rest of the world to follow suit.