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[Frangipani]

The Brainchip website does say it supports Linux 6.1..

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But what about..

"For example, the machine uses passive heat dissipation entirely from heat sinks, which saves power, stability, cost, and silence compared to active electric fans"

I thought they did end up adding a fan, or is that just a vent?

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I recall an earlier version had 4 holes in a fan shaped arrangement and the first images we saw, of the Edge Box, had no openings at all?..

Hi DingoBorat,

I think I know exactly what you mean by four holes in a fan-shaped arrangement - this is what you are looking for, right?

Strangely, in all the online shop pictures of the Edge AI Box as well as in those featured on the product brief, that “mysterious” side - which is the one to the left of the LED lights - is always hidden from view:


https://shop.brainchipinc.com/products/akida™-edge-ai-box

However, if you go to https://brainchip.com/embeddedworld/, you will find two videos about the VVDN Edge AI Box that show a 360 degree view - et voilà!

To be honest, I am unsure why our company is seemingly trying to avoid drawing attention to that side. According to the translation of the Chinese article @Fullmoonfever posted yesterday and also according to a Hackster.io article I found (see below), our Edge AI Box has a passive heatsink, which I take to mean it is fanless? Why not flaunt this attribute, then?

To be fair, though, nowhere do the specifications on the BrainChip website mention “passive heatsink” or “fanless” nor did Todd Vierra resp. Rob Telson use those terms or similar in the above videos, and neither did Nandan Nayampally, when he talked about the Edge AI Box in an interview a few weeks before he left. So maybe that specific piece of information in those two articles is incorrect - possibly a misunderstanding copied by several other writers?
And what looks like a fan is exactly that - a fan?

BrainChip Opens Pre-Orders for Its Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Akida Edge AI Box at $799

Packing a quad-core NXP i.MX 8M Plus and a two-chip Akida accelerator, the Akida Edge AI Box promises power-efficient on-device operations.

www.hackster.io

 

[IloveLamp]

Interesting video

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[hotty4040]

Hi DingoBorat,

I think I know exactly what you mean by four holes in a fan-shaped arrangement - this is what you are looking for, right?

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Strangely, in all the online shop pictures of the Edge AI Box as well as in those featured on the product brief, that “mysterious” side - which is the one to the left of the LED lights - is always hidden from view:


https://shop.brainchipinc.com/products/akida™-edge-ai-box


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However, if you go to https://brainchip.com/embeddedworld/, you will find two videos about the VVDN Edge AI Box that show a 360 degree view - et voilà!


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To be honest, I am unsure why our company is seemingly trying to avoid drawing attention to that side. According to the translation of the Chinese article @Fullmoonfever posted yesterday and also according to a Hackster.io article I found (see below), our Edge AI Box has a passive heatsink, which I take to mean it is fanless? Why not flaunt this attribute, then?

To be fair, though, nowhere do the specifications on the BrainChip website mention “passive heatsink” or “fanless” nor did Todd Vierra resp. Rob Telson use those terms or similar in the above videos, and neither did Nandan Nayampally, when he talked about the Edge AI Box in an interview a few weeks before he left. So maybe that specific piece of information in those two articles is incorrect - possibly a misunderstanding copied by several other writers?
And what looks like a fan is exactly that - a fan?

BrainChip Opens Pre-Orders for Its Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Akida Edge AI Box at $799

Packing a quad-core NXP i.MX 8M Plus and a two-chip Akida accelerator, the Akida Edge AI Box promises power-efficient on-device operations.

www.hackster.io

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I'm somewhat confused, in regard to Edge Boxes.

Do we have the Brainchip " edge box " and the VVDN " edge box " i.e 2 separate functional devices, or are they one and the same device, but with distinctive branding, i.e. Brainchip " akida " Edge Box and VVDN " akida " Edge Box.

Please resolve this dilemma for me. Life at times, "on the edge" is just so hard to understand,

An early response, will improve the start to this day, immeasurably. TIA


Akida Ballista >>>>> Come on BRAINCHIP, just get moving will you - please - soon <<<<<
>>>>> Slowly - Slowly - Catcha the Monkey <<<<<

gltai

hotty...

 

[IloveLamp]

Computers built like brains could be a 'competition killer'?

Computers built like brains could be much more energy efficient than current designs.

www.bbc.com

 

[7für7]

Announcement

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/apiman-gateway/ASX/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-02826142-2A1534824

 

[buena suerte :-)]

Announcement

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/apiman-gateway/ASX/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-02826142-2A1534824

Good luck and Thankyou Anil

 

[DingoBorat]

Hi DingoBorat,

I think I know exactly what you mean by four holes in a fan-shaped arrangement - this is what you are looking for, right?

View attachment 66177

Strangely, in all the online shop pictures of the Edge AI Box as well as in those featured on the product brief, that “mysterious” side - which is the one to the left of the LED lights - is always hidden from view:


https://shop.brainchipinc.com/products/akida™-edge-ai-box


View attachment 66178


View attachment 66179


However, if you go to https://brainchip.com/embeddedworld/, you will find two videos about the VVDN Edge AI Box that show a 360 degree view - et voilà!


View attachment 66180













To be honest, I am unsure why our company is seemingly trying to avoid drawing attention to that side. According to the translation of the Chinese article @Fullmoonfever posted yesterday and also according to a Hackster.io article I found (see below), our Edge AI Box has a passive heatsink, which I take to mean it is fanless? Why not flaunt this attribute, then?

To be fair, though, nowhere do the specifications on the BrainChip website mention “passive heatsink” or “fanless” nor did Todd Vierra resp. Rob Telson use those terms or similar in the above videos, and neither did Nandan Nayampally, when he talked about the Edge AI Box in an interview a few weeks before he left. So maybe that specific piece of information in those two articles is incorrect - possibly a misunderstanding copied by several other writers?
And what looks like a fan is exactly that - a fan?

BrainChip Opens Pre-Orders for Its Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Akida Edge AI Box at $799

Packing a quad-core NXP i.MX 8M Plus and a two-chip Akida accelerator, the Akida Edge AI Box promises power-efficient on-device operations.

www.hackster.io

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Yes, good work Frangipani
I did try searching the Net for an image (one of my 2 min searches) and came up dry, I figured they must have "scrubbed" it..

I think, it just comes down to "vanity" as it's not an "attractive" angle..

I thought the slated vent, was the "new iteration" but it has both..

In the downloadable product brief, on our website, it does say that the enclosure has a "heat sink" and you would think that "fan cooled" would be mentioned in that section?

Nvidia, seems to want to "shout" the fact that their DFI X6-MTH-ORN Edge Box is fanless (I personally question how well they will go with that, the Net seems to be full, of third party cooling solutions, for their Jetson Orin..).


It could just be a fact, of us not selling ourselves, as well as we could, like that Infineon guy noted?..

 

[Frangipani]

Was just about to go to bed, when I saw this video on YouTube, recorded on July 4th. Quickly scrolled through the slides and screenshotted some, but haven’t listened to the whole Webinar, which was jointly hosted by the Centers for Cybersecurity and AI Research and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of North Dakota College of Engineering and Mines…

Dr. Venkata Sriram Nadendla from Missouri S&T was presenting on
EEG based SNNs for Braking Intent Detection on Neuromorphic Hardware

 

[Tezza]

Wow, another Ann regarding staff. If it's not staff coming or going, staff selling shares or wanting freebies we get nothing. Sean's interpretation of near future and iminent are way different to mine. I understand it takes time but they have had time and plenty of it.
Dissapointment rant over.

 

[DingoBorat]

Good luck and Thankyou Anil

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Wow, Big News!

Good Luck and hope you enjoy your retirement Anil

We all here, are next right? ...

 

[7für7]

The man will be retiring in a few months but will remain in an advisory position. The bashers, or rather the basher (since it's only one person with multiple accounts like T&J aka t-ball aka the Dean, etc.), has nothing better to do than to continue spreading his fundamentally negative attitude. I wish I hadn't unsubscribed there... then they would be on my ignore list and I wouldn't notice! Sorry for posting it here too... but a trouble shared is a trouble halved

 

[Baron Von Ricta]

Good luck and Thankyou Anil

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I feel like the Founders know that they have completed their mission and happy to retire knowing that all is well and in good hands.
Not long to wait now!

 

[7für7]

I feel like the Founders know that they have completed their mission and happy to retire knowing that all is well and in good hands.
Not long to wait now!

Same thoughts here! Would you stay in an advisor position if you would know they will not succeed ? No of course not…

 

[buena suerte :-)]

I feel like the Founders know that they have completed their mission and happy to retire knowing that all is well and in good hands.
Not long to wait now!

Agreed BVR...

 

[Bravo]

This is interesting. Softbank plans to unleash the potential of space-based technologies like satellite communications...

Whilst there is no mention of neuromorphic computing per se, we know that ESA and ISL are investigating the use of neuromorphic processors for AI/ML power and mass/volume optimisation in space. Obviously satellites have limitations, but technologies like edge processing and cognitive radio can optimize these limited communication resources.

The article describes Softbank's collaboration with OneWeb. And, intriguingly Nandan Nyampally liked a Linkedin Post from Relativity Space announcing a Launch Services Agreement between OneWeb and Relativity Space (see screenshot below article). And Relativity Space also work closely with NASA.

So, it maybe worth keeping an eye (or a thousand) on this for future developments.


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[Bravo]

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[HopalongPetrovski]

So are people still buying? ..

I've done my bit and added 5000 more "tickets" over the last 2 weeks.

Everybody here (all 40 or so left ..) must know that although the share price is currently in limbo, just one major IP deal and there will be a dramatic surge, in interest in this Company.

I'm currently working out, what else I can sell, to buy more..

First off, congratulations to Anil on his proposed retirement.
I am happy to see the orderly progression of succession and look forward to the announcement of his successor in due course.
Sean is getting to stack BrainChip management and scientific staff with his picks and hopefully this will speed his avowed aim of commercial success for us all.
We each have a use by date and I applaud the renewed vigour that can come from the employment of experienced but youthful and more recently acquired scientific acumen.

Would buy more of BRN and others at these depressed prices if I could.
Was hoping other holdings would have fired by now allowing me a top up here, but it hasn't occurred as I had hoped.

News from around the world mirrors COL misery, housing distress and supply issues that have become much more prevalent since the occurrence of covid and the subsequent Gov't money printing and pump priming of the economies.
Trying to subdue the consequent inflation is forcing restraint on further monetary stimulus putting an ever larger proportion of people under stress.
This results in further strain on infrastructure, particularly health systems which are starting to buckle under the increasing pressure.
Now, a growing proportion of people around the world (without lived experience of its evils) are seeking redemption through a swing to the right, thinking any change must be better than the status quo.
Having been caught surprised by living through another global pandemic and another war in Europe we now face the prospect of another Trump presidency.
On top of all this we have the uncertainty of the potential repercussions of both the rise of China and rapidly evolving AI.
We are indeed living in interesting times.

I think our market reflects all this uncertainty and turmoil and manipulation by the BEOT is providing a further dampening effect which can only be countered by the revelation of extraordinary positive news.
We have all been waiting now for a very long time.
Bring It, BrainChip.

 

[Earlyrelease]

I feel like the Founders know that they have completed their mission and happy to retire knowing that all is well and in good hands.
Not long to wait now!

It may be that they know being employed there will be periods they can’t sell their stock. Thus once retired ( let’s face it PVDM and Anil aren’t spring chickens) so for them to then enjoy the next chapter of their lives ( like I am wanting desperately to do) they allow themselves the ability to take opportunities when they want and not be dictated by stock exchange rules. That is in addition to knowing they have delivered a great product and set themselves up for a retirement income stream to be envious off - well hopefully and soon!

 

[Pom down under]

This week is the week we get some news

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Didn’t I tell everyone

 

[hotty4040]

Didn’t I tell everyone


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Are, yes, the joys of retirement, hope you're enjoying yours's, fellow Pom ?, assuming of course that you are indulging in this same activity harmoniously from time to time ?.

Would also like to wish Anil, ( Akida Ballista ) all the best for the future. What a rewarding life. Hope it continues favorably from this point in time.

Would also, not want to see his holdings decrease, too much though I'm sure that won't happen.

Looks like a nice cruiser your on, Pom, happy days would seem. Royal salute in hand.

Wish someone would answer the question re: Edge Boxes I enquired about earlier. Any ideas yourself ? Would be much obliged if you would/could.

Akida Ballista comrades.

Anyway, it's lunchtime. No doubt, you'll be on deck I suppose, with a lavish ploughman's lunch ??


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