We were told BRN pulled out of poducing an Akida 2 SoC because we didn't want to step on "someone's" toes.Nice one.
So since they are showcasing as quote:
At the summit, Chris Jones, Senior Product Manager at BrainChip, will present Akida’s enhanced features, including the ability to learn efficiently on extremely small form factor devices, head pose and emotion classification, all done in real-time without cloud connectivity. Company executives will be on hand to offer a presentation and demonstrate the attributes of some of the sustainable and efficient AI solutions leveraging the Akida IP.
As part of its exhibition, BrainChip will showcase their latest iteration of Akida technology that enables more advanced, more capable, and more accurate AI. In combining NVISO Group AI Human Behavioral Software and BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic compute, the resulting system monitors the state of the users through real-time perception and observation of head and body pose, eye tracking and gaze, as well as indicates emotion reasoning.
Does that mean that they have a real Gen2 chip(s) at hand for the presentation or merely simulating?
Now we are doing a pas de deux with Nviso.
Out of 17 business-related items on Nviso's News page, 4 relate to BRN, starting from 19/4/2022:
https://nviso.ai/news/
NVISO and BrainChip partner on Human Behavioral Analytics in automotive and edge AI devices
April 19, 2022Lausanne, Switzerland & Laguna Hills, Calif. – April 19, 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI
NVISO advances its Human Behaviour AI SDK for neuromorphic computing using the BrainChip Akida platform
May 11, 2022Lausanne, Switzerland – May 11, 2022 – nViso SA (NVISO), the leading Human Behavioural Analytics AI company, today announced at the AI Expo Japan new capabilities
NVISO announces it has reached a key interoperability milestone with BrainChip Akida Neuromorphic IP
July 18, 2022To learn more about the BrainChip Akdia interoperability results please click here to register for the results presentation on 20th July 2022 at 7pm AEST. NVISO has
NVISO’s latest Neuro SDK to be demonstrated running on the BrainChip Akida fully digital neuromorphic processor platform at CES 2023
January 2, 2023Following the recent NVISO Neuro SDK milestone release, including two new high performance AI Apps from its Human Behavior AI App catalogue, Gaze and Action
The key interoperability milestone was announced 3 months after the Nviso/Brainchip partnership was announced. That is an indication that the technologies fit like a hand in a glove.
There are several other Nviso partnerships mentioned:
Panasonic, Interior Monitoring Systems, Siemens, Unith, Privately SA.
I'm guessing Nviso is handling these partnerships with kid gloves.
Nviso list healthcare, Consumer Robots, Automotive Interiors, and Gaming as their fields of interest.
Nviso's patent relates to a software-implemented CNN method, so Akida would have been a revelation.
US11048921B2 Image processing system for extracting a behavioral profile from images of an individual specific to an event 20180509
So did BRN hold off on Akida2 SoC at Nviso's behest? - Highly improbable because Nviso is software-based.
So who(m?)?
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