BRN Discussion Ongoing

[wilzy123]

7 years before humans become redundant

I think what you meant to say was "before all humans", as some are likely already.

 

[IiTrader]

Has Brinchip ever sold any "Akida AKD1000 AI Hardware" since it launch?

 

[Sotherbys01]

Nandan Nayampally, CMO at BrainChip and Yann Le Faou, Director of Touch MCU products and Machine Learning at Microchip Technology.

Discussion focused on the:

• widespread adoption of AI at CES and its essential role in corporate strategies.
• market's progression from initial AI adoption to more widespread exploration and implementation.
• shift from conceptual AI applications to their actual operational use.
• challenges of simplifying AI access and usage, highlighting the role of developmental platforms.
• need for cost-effective AI implementation, particularly in consumer electronics, to facilitate broader adoption.

So glad to see the table cloth ironed and with our name on it.........

 

[TECH]

CES ONSEMi demo video

Along with further insight into the approach to market and general overview.

Todd was pretty much on top of the questions being fired at him, but "we have just launched our VVDN Edge Box and Unigen Box ??

Did I hear that correctly ?

 

[Damo4]

Todd was pretty much on top of the questions being fired at him, but "we have just launched our VVDN Edge Box and Unigen Box ??

Did I hear that correctly ?

Yeah boi: https://unigen.com/unigen-corporation-launches-cupcake-an-edge-ai-computing-solution/

 

[SERA2g]

Open Neuromorphic Case Study Using Akida

32 mins…. :-(

I would take that with a grain of salt. "Might not be" coming from a university professor who oversees university projects funded by Intel.

The entire Open Neuromorphic community are super pro Loihi because it's Intel and are always on the look out for positions or funding from the big companies. The founder recently joined Qualcomm for example.

Keep listening past your cherry picked 32 minute section through to around the 40 minute mark. Glowing comments around akida, the ease of use, quick set up to convert CNN to SNN using MetaTF, boiler plate using edge impulse and the exceptional results.

There's a section in there where he mentioned they came second place in the hackathon and the part that the judges particularly liked was the fact they presented a $3,500 option as well as a $100 option. They go on to agree akida can be implemented at a significantly reduced price point to other technologies.

They also say results on Akida are "orders of magnitude better" when comparing to CPU platforms and there's also a question from one of the listeners around the fact akida is digital so (paraphrasing heavily here) is there any point in having asynchronous chips or analog anymore. I couldn't fully understand the discussion potentially due to a technical gap in my knowledge but also their English. Seemed to me they were discussing whether akida would make some chips redundant (why bother with them type attitude when akida is digital and power consumption results are so exceptional).

The presenter also mentions they didn't have accuracy improvements on existing technology but they also didn't spend time adjusting the code and the dataset so putting accuracy aside the power consumption results are very strong arguments for akida technology.

Strongly recommend people give this video a listen as it is a good indication of feedback from someone in the wild implementing akida and then discussing their findings.

FWIW I'm only about 40 minutes in so there could be more good or bad feedback I have not yet heard.

 

[DK6161]

CES ONSEMi demo video

Along with further insight into the approach to market and general overview.

Might be better to get someone who can explain the technology in a lot simpler ways and more enthusiastic to be at our next demo.
No offence, but this was hard to watch.

 

[DK6161]

Our SP continues to fall. Not a good start to the year. Feel like writing off 2024. Come on BRN improve your sales team and give us something to be proud off!

 

[Rskiff]

Might be better to get someone who can explain the technology in a lot simpler ways and more enthusiastic to be at our next demo.
No offence, but this was hard to watch.

Really, I found it very easy to follow. Perhaps this stock isn't for you.

 

[Euks]

Don’t mind me I’m just over here having smoko and daydreaming

Top 5 Partners MC (US dollars)

Intel - 205 Billion
Arm - 79 Billion
Mercedes Benz - 69 Billion
Microchip - 49 Billion
OnSemi- 32 Billion

Total - almost half a trillion green backs , well 434 Billion…..

Brainchip - 207 Million

1% of our top 5 partners combined - 4.34 billion US dollars.

Geez it would be nice if we were worth just 1% of our combined top 5 partners MC one day…..

Imagine if neuromorphic processors such as Akida were viewed as the future of processing at the edge…

If that eventuates would it be greedy to hope for 5%

Anyways back to work.

Euks

 

[Fact Finder]

Really, I found it very easy to follow. Perhaps this stock isn't for you.

Hi Rskiff
That is the real problem isn’t it.

Those who do not have a clue that they are not the target audience of a presentation being given by a techie to a techie at a trade show where they are selling to highly educated employees of OEM’s just don’t get it.

Todd Vierra had a long successful career at ARM selling ARM IP to this same target audience.

The problem is he never once demonstrated the magic vegetable peeler at the Royal Easter Show to an enthralled crowd of retail customers.

On top of which he does not speak fast enough or with an East Ender Cockney accent to get that gig so he had to go with a sales area that matched his University degree and area of technical interest.

After all these years and hundreds of hours of research l also understood what AKIDA can do with OnSemi’s TOF sensor and why you would choose it just like OnSemi for intelligent airbag deployment.

My opinion only DYOR
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[jtardif999]

We will not have to wait that long for Akida 1.0/2.0 to be seen in the wild, what Peter envisions is the GI equal to a human at level 10.0.

As of today 2.0 is the Ape! somewhat intelligent but needs a lot of training, 10.0 should train itself (i hope)...I don't think us humans are ready for completely GI AI at moment..IMO
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Actually I don’t think it needs that much training, in some use cases it may not need training at all - just a bit of configuration and an input stream to learn from.

 

[Damo4]

Hi Rskiff
That is the real problem isn’t it.

Those who do not have a clue that they are not the target audience of a presentation being given by a techie to a techie at a trade show where they are selling to highly educated employees of OEM’s just don’t get it.

Todd Vierra had a long successful career at ARM selling ARM IP to this same target audience.

The problem is he never once demonstrated the magic vegetable peeler at the Royal Easter Show to an enthralled crowd of retail customers.

On top of which he does not speak fast enough or with an East Ender Cockney accent to get that gig so he had to go with a sales area that matched his University degree and area of technical interest.

After all these years and hundreds of hours of research l also understood what AKIDA can do with OnSemi’s TOF sensor and why you would choose it just like OnSemi for intelligent airbag deployment.

My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder

Yep, couldn't agree more.
The language Todd uses is completely acceptable for the conversations he's having with Semiconductor/Technology reps.
The content of the demo, if odd at all, is down to the bloke interviewing him.

OnSemi understand Todd; Renesas, Megachips, VVDN understand Todd. That's all that matters.

 

[TheFunkMachine]

CES interview with Rob's twin brother Ron...

The irony of when the interviewer appears to adjust their hearing aid mid interview and the look on Rob's face was not lost on me.

A must watch interview! Brainchip is still working with Mercedes and we will be in their in cabin system at some stage by the sounds of it!!! Exciting times!

 

[7für7]

A must watch interview! Brainchip is still working with Mercedes and we will be in their in cabin system at some stage by the sounds of it!!! Exciting times!

Would be nice but I don’t give too much credit on Benz. We have other partners with more potential for mass production. Small devices which will be available to more people. For daily use and so on.

 

[IloveLamp]

Apologies if posted already. There's a 13min vid worth watching in this post

BrainChip Akida AKD1000 AI Hardware Accelerator Reference SoC | ipXchange

BrainChip’s Akida AKD1000 SoC serves as a reference hardware accelerator design that engineers can use to test BrainChip’s NPU architecture, IP, and software. It can be paired with your choice of MCU or CPU in order to accelerate event-based AI compute tasks, with power-efficient operation...

ipxchange.tech

ipXchange on LinkedIn: AI hardware accelerator that wastes no time or power processing irrelevant…

Brain-like hardware accelerator provides power-efficient AI inferencing by ignoring irrelevant data! In ipXchange’s next AI-focussed interview from CES 2024,…

www.linkedin.com

 

[Schnitzel lover]

Great to see the demo, and especially to hear about the airbag deployment theories.

Weird bloke interviewing Todd though lol

Is this 60mins in the dark NDA stuff?

 

[Schnitzel lover]

Hi Rskiff
That is the real problem isn’t it.

Those who do not have a clue that they are not the target audience of a presentation being given by a techie to a techie at a trade show where they are selling to highly educated employees of OEM’s just don’t get it.

Todd Vierra had a long successful career at ARM selling ARM IP to this same target audience.

The problem is he never once demonstrated the magic vegetable peeler at the Royal Easter Show to an enthralled crowd of retail customers.

On top of which he does not speak fast enough or with an East Ender Cockney accent to get that gig so he had to go with a sales area that matched his University degree and area of technical interest.

After all these years and hundreds of hours of research l also understood what AKIDA can do with OnSemi’s TOF sensor and why you would choose it just like OnSemi for intelligent airbag deployment.

My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder

Most of the investor community feels the same way that they have no idea what Brainchip is trying to do

 

[Schnitzel lover]

Vote yes for remuneration at AGM.. Your BODs need an orderly non-disruptive process to get on with the job..

And for all those partners out there joining the Ecosystem, put your money where your mouth is and sign an IP deal with Brainchip..

 

[Pom down under]

Hi All
I am sure most here remember a podcast probably over 12 months ago which had amongst others Peter van der Made and towards the end he was asked about when AKIDA would reach Artificial General Intelligence. Peter in responding said that by 2030 AKIDA would reach his version of AGI. If I remember correctly he said it would be probably AKIDA 10.0 by then although he has spoken about this on other occasions as well so maybe mixing that up.

Rob Telson’s comment:

‘We have launched our second generation of our architecture, when you look at when truly intelligent devices will be integrated into consumer based products, we are still 3 to 7 years years out, to see really really intelligent devices that have a level of accuracy that the devices are thinking ahead of us or thinking at the same level that a human does’

By sheer coincidence Rob Telson’s comment aligns with what Peter van der Made predicted. Amazing that.

My opinion only DYOR
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