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Howdy Gang!

Following on from Cerence's 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference (as discussed above), I've just had the opportunity to take a peek at the Cerence Investor Day Destination Next pdf which you can access here if you wish to https://cerence.gcs-web.com/static-files/4fd79f3e-2c0a-429a-841e-dcc68fc52e83

So the way I see now it is that AKIDA is 99.999999% likely to be incorporated in the "Cerence Immersive Companion" and I'll explain why.

Firstly, you'll see on one of the slides I've posted it lists the "New Innovations" including enhanced in-cabin audio AI, surroundings awareness, teachable AI, and a multi-sensory experience platform in addition to other features. These New Innovations will be rolled out in FY 23/24.

Secondly, there's a slide that shows Niils Shanz and the slide highlights his work on the MBUX, hyperscreen and "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant.

Thirdly, remember at the Cerence's 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference when Stefan Ortmanns said in relation to NVDIA something like "So you're right. They have their own technology, but our technology stack is more advanced. And here we're talking about specifically Mercedes where they're positioned with their hardware and with our solution." I believe that this comment was made in reference to the Vision EQXX voice control system which is what I think is being referred to by Cerence as the new "enhanced in-cabin audio AI" which will roll out in FY23/24 as part of the Cerence Immersive Companion.

Fourthly, another slide shows "Multisensory Inputs" which includes full HMI solution integrating multi-modal inputs (incl. conversational AI, DMS, facial, gaze, gesture, emotion, etc.) and multi-modal outputs (incl. voice, graphic, haptic, vibration, etc.) I bolded the ect because I thought that could be hinting at smell and taste.

Fifthly, Stefan Ortmans said that Cerence's technology is more advanced than NVDIA's and that Qualcomm are using it too, so that rules out NVDIA and Qualcomm from being the magic edge computing ingredient.

Sixthly, Arm and Cerence are partners.

Seventhly, everything adds up nicely in terms of functionality, time-lines and just the general vibe IMO.

Eighthly, DYOR because I often have no idea what I'm talking about.

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Cerence is a software company which delivers software solutions running on all kinds of hardware. You can squeeze out Akida like a lemon it will not fit into software I fear.

 

[Techinvestor17]

Got to wonder what the market cap will be if all these chips are a raging success.
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We’re does this slide come from?

 

[TopCat]

Sony has released a new board on the Edge Impulse platform for use on edge devices. I’ve provided a few screenshots but in summary it's specifications are 6 x ARM Cortex M4 , 28nm,ultra low power consumption capable of on device processing with camera and gps.

 

[The Pope]

You’re a champion Dio

Cerence is a software company which delivers software solutions running on all kinds of hardware. You can squeeze out Akida like a lemon it will not fit into software I fear.

“Perhaps” you may need to check their website and do some reading.

https://www.cerence.com/cerence-products/core-technologies

 

[MDhere]

Yes, @Dhm! Prophesee is getting the word out, like upcoming Jan 25th TinyML Presentation!

Go Luca Verre, spread the word of the Brainchip Akida, sitting on the pole (love it @TECH)!

https://www.tinyml.org/event/tinyml-trailblazers-series-tinyml-success-stories-with-luca-verre

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Bring on Australia Day Luca !

 

[Build-it]

'23 and MC

From workforce development to raising industry awareness to managing ESG goals and edge computing, the industry is headed for change this year, but what exactly will that look like?

www.missioncriticalmagazine.com

Imo Worth a read if you have time.


Edge Compute.

 

[Makeme 2020]

SHORT ARTICLE ON SOCIONEXT AFTER THEY PUBLICLY LISTED LAST YEAR, SOCIONEXT ARE ONE OF BRN'S CLOSET PARTNERS​

​

Japanese IC designers staged their biggest IPO​

Compiled by Liu Zhongyong/Comprehensive External Electricity
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:20 AM


Japanese chip designer Socionext's stock has nearly doubled since its initial public offering in October to become the best performer among recent new listings of similar size or larger, reflecting investors' bullish view of the company's unique business model.
Socionext's share price has jumped 82 percent since it went public on October 12 to raise 76.8 billion yen ($602 million), Japan's biggest IPO last year, closing at 6,660 yen on the 16th.
According to Bloomberg Rounding, Socionext posted its best performing stock in the first three months of new listings in nearly 20 years. Amid concerns about rising interest rates and high inflation, the IPO market is not in good shape, and Socionext has become a rare leader.
SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Takeshi Hanaya reported this month that the company is expected to generate stable revenue and profit growth due to its "unique solutions from system design to production and quality management that meet the unique needs of customers."
Socionext develops dedicated consumer, automotive, and industrial chips for customers. It has become a trend for enterprise customers to use dedicated chips, and Faraday, Sechip, and Creative Electronics are all competitors of Socionext.
According to reports, in addition to the Japanese factory, Socionext has 60% of its products entrusted to Taiwanese manufacturers, TSMC and UMC are its suppliers, and last year announced a cooperation with TSMC to develop 5nm automotive chips.
Socionext was founded in 2015 by the merger of the system-on-chip businesses of Fujitsu Semiconductor and Panasonic.
[See original link]

 

[buena suerte :-)]

In archery it's not so good, in bombing, you're spot on.

 

[Wags]

When comparing chalk and cheese, are we talking camembert or parmesan?

Perceive's figures are for the YOLO V5 database.

In 2019, the Akida simulator did 30 fps @ 157 mW on MobileNet V1.

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I don't have the fps/W figures for the Akida 1 SoC performance, so if anyone has those to hand, it would be much appreciated.

The chip simulator seems to have topped out at 80 fps. We know Akida 1 SoC can top 1600 fps (don't recall what database), which is 20 times faster than the simulator, so it wouldn't even get into second gear doing 30 fps.

Back in 2018, Bob Beachler said they expected 1400 frames per second per Watt.
https://www.eejournal.com/article/brainchip-debuts-neuromorphic-chip/

So 30 fps would be 20 mW if there is a linear dependence. And, of course, we were told that the SoC performed better than expected.

But the main thing is that the comparison databases need to be the same as performance varies depending on database.

Perceive relys on compression to achieve extreme sparsity by ignoring the zeros in the multiplier.

US11003736B2 Reduced dot product computation circuit

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[0003] Some embodiments provide an integrated circuit (IC) for implementing a machine-trained network (e.g., a neural network) that computes dot products of input values and corresponding weight values (among other operations). The IC of some embodiments includes a neural network computation fabric with numerous dot product computation circuits in order to process partial dot products in parallel (e.g., for computing the output of a node of the machine-trained network). In some embodiments, the weight values for each layer of the network are ternary values (e.g., each weight is either zero, a positive value, or the negation of the positive value), with at least a fixed percentage (e.g., 75%) of the weight values being zero. As such, some embodiments reduce the size of the dot product computation circuits by mapping each of a first number (e.g., 144) input values to a second number (e.g., 36) of dot product inputs, such that each dot product input only receives at most one input value with a non-zero corresponding weight value.

1. A method for implementing a machine-trained network that comprises a plurality of processing nodes, the method comprising:

at a particular dot product circuit performing a dot product computation for a particular node of the machine-trained network:

receiving (i) a first plurality of input values that are output values of a set of previous nodes of the machine-trained network and (ii) a set of machine-trained weight values associated with a set of the input values;

selecting, from the first plurality, a second plurality of input values that is a smaller subset of the first plurality of input values, said selecting comprising (i) selecting the input values from the first plurality of input values that are associated with non-zero weight values, and (ii) not selecting a group of input values from the first plurality of input values that are associated with weight values that are equal to zero;

computing a dot product based on (i) the second plurality of input values and (ii) weight values associated with the second plurality of input values.

ASIDE: This isn't relevant to the discussion, but I stumbled across it just now and it shows that we developed a dataset for MagikEye in 2020, which I had not observed before.
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Holy sheet Dio.
You are one serious technipedia, with a bloody good sense of humor.
Thankyou for all your input and reassurance for us Technical Nomads.
What did Ella used to say, Its not what you do but how you do it??

 

[Getupthere]

SHORT ARTICLE ON SOCIONEXT AFTER THEY PUBLICLY LISTED LAST YEAR, SOCIONEXT ARE ONE OF BRN'S CLOSET PARTNERS​

​

Japanese IC designers staged their biggest IPO​

Compiled by Liu Zhongyong/Comprehensive External Electricity Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:20 AM Japanese chip designer Socionext's stock has nearly doubled since its initial public offering in October to become the best performer among recent new listings of similar size or larger, reflecting investors' bullish view of the company's unique business model. Socionext's share price has jumped 82 percent since it went public on October 12 to raise 76.8 billion yen ($602 million), Japan's biggest IPO last year, closing at 6,660 yen on the 16th. According to Bloomberg Rounding, Socionext posted its best performing stock in the first three months of new listings in nearly 20 years. Amid concerns about rising interest rates and high inflation, the IPO market is not in good shape, and Socionext has become a rare leader. SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Takeshi Hanaya reported this month that the company is expected to generate stable revenue and profit growth due to its "unique solutions from system design to production and quality management that meet the unique needs of customers." Socionext develops dedicated consumer, automotive, and industrial chips for customers. It has become a trend for enterprise customers to use dedicated chips, and Faraday, Sechip, and Creative Electronics are all competitors of Socionext. According to reports, in addition to the Japanese factory, Socionext has 60% of its products entrusted to Taiwanese manufacturers, TSMC and UMC are its suppliers, and last year announced a cooperation with TSMC to develop 5nm automotive chips. Socionext was founded in 2015 by the merger of the system-on-chip businesses of Fujitsu Semiconductor and Panasonic. [See original link]

 

[Taproot]

For those that have not watched this before,
As Molly would say,
" Do yourselves a favour "

 

[Taproot]

For those that have not watched this before,
As Molly would say,
" Do yourselves a favour "

Duy-Loan Le
Her 4 criteria for choosing a job.

 

[Getupthere]

SHORT ARTICLE ON SOCIONEXT AFTER THEY PUBLICLY LISTED LAST YEAR, SOCIONEXT ARE ONE OF BRN'S CLOSET PARTNERS​

​

Japanese IC designers staged their biggest IPO​

Compiled by Liu Zhongyong/Comprehensive External Electricity Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:20 AM Japanese chip designer Socionext's stock has nearly doubled since its initial public offering in October to become the best performer among recent new listings of similar size or larger, reflecting investors' bullish view of the company's unique business model. Socionext's share price has jumped 82 percent since it went public on October 12 to raise 76.8 billion yen ($602 million), Japan's biggest IPO last year, closing at 6,660 yen on the 16th. According to Bloomberg Rounding, Socionext posted its best performing stock in the first three months of new listings in nearly 20 years. Amid concerns about rising interest rates and high inflation, the IPO market is not in good shape, and Socionext has become a rare leader. SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Takeshi Hanaya reported this month that the company is expected to generate stable revenue and profit growth due to its "unique solutions from system design to production and quality management that meet the unique needs of customers." Socionext develops dedicated consumer, automotive, and industrial chips for customers. It has become a trend for enterprise customers to use dedicated chips, and Faraday, Sechip, and Creative Electronics are all competitors of Socionext. According to reports, in addition to the Japanese factory, Socionext has 60% of its products entrusted to Taiwanese manufacturers, TSMC and UMC are its suppliers, and last year announced a cooperation with TSMC to develop 5nm automotive chips. Socionext was founded in 2015 by the merger of the system-on-chip businesses of Fujitsu Semiconductor and Panasonic. [See original link]

One of only a few stocks that didn’t go backwards in the technology sector.

Beautiful partnership….Socionext and BRN.

 

[Labsy]

For those that have not watched this before,
As Molly would say,
" Do yourselves a favour "

All I can say is WOW. This woman is such a treasure for our company. What an honour to have her on our team....
Congrats to Brainchip for securing this phenomenally intelligent and accomplished woman.

 

[Food4 thought]

I just had a thought - with all the lay offs happening at Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon etc there might be some high class people applying for any jobs going at Brainchip

Hi Teroni
I would think that all these companies are pruning the dead wood for the spring, as winter has been long and very cold with no growth.
With the warmth of spring comes new growth and hopefully fruit

Brainchip will bare fruit
I personally can’t wait to taste what the good weather will bring.

 

[Diogenese]

Retrenchments continue at Big Tech. One factor is that, during the pandemic, many significantly expanded their workforce to accommodate increased demand for on-line services.

One area which seems to be spared the cuts is AI.

The verge
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/tech...sedgntp&cvid=522db5618b574626984d8463743b3899

More details come out on which departments saw layoffs at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon​

Story by Richard Lawler • 6h ago

Google’s decision to let go of 12,000 employees was only just announced on Friday, but it extended the recent trend of the “Big Tech” companies cutting jobs in previously unheard-of numbers, and now we’ve seen more reports about where those cuts happened.

The Information reports that at Google, layoffs spread through nearly every group, including projects like Chrome, Search, Android, and Google Cloud. Its sources said they affected people who’d previously received “high performance reviews” and some managers making anywhere from $500K to $1 million.

One area of the search and advertising giant that was “relatively unaffected,” however, was the Google Brain division run by Jeff Dean, the senior vice president of research and artificial intelligence. That’s the team developing the machine learning tech Google is already using in many areas. According to the New York Times, its work will also be applied to a number of products we’ll reportedly see at its I/O event in May, including tools to generate images, a YouTube green screen feature, and at some point this year, a chatbot version of its search engine.

Hi Teroni
I would think that all these companies are pruning the dead wood for the spring, as winter has been long and very cold with no growth.
With the warmth of spring comes new growth and hopefully fruit

Brainchip will bare fruit
I personally can’t wait to taste what the good weather will bring.

 

[hotty4040]

Duy-Loan Le
Her 4 criteria for choosing a job.

A very inspiring individual, indeed. What a success story she tells, in both of these video's.

Thanks Taproot, there are a few attributes ( quite a few ) that Duy-Loan Le emanates, that are very familiar with the Brainchip development process, and just as intriguing.

Let's hope the forthcoming 4C breaks some of the boundaries ( albeit different ones ) that this amazing woman has in her life time.

Appreciate the favor T.

Akida Ballista >>>>>> BRAINCHIP - COME ON <<<<<< ( board )


hotty...

 

[Learning]

Happy Prosperous New Year to all.

Wishing BrainChip Inc and all its Shareholders a Prosperous and Successful year.

Learning

 

[IloveLamp]

SiFive HiFive Pro P550 dev board coming this summer with Intel "Horse Creek" RISC-V chip - Liliputing

SiFive HiFive Pro P550 dev board coming this summer with Intel "Horse Creek" RISC-V chip

liliputing.com

 

[Boab]

Happy Prosperous New Year to all.

Wishing BrainChip Inc and all its Shareholders a Prosperous and Successful year.

Learning

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