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Advanced AI for robotics and automotive with BrainChip’s Akida​

The flagship product of BrainChip, another pioneer in neuromorphic computing, is the Akida chip, designed for real-time AI applications, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles and intelligent video surveillance. Akida is based on a spiking neural network technology that mimics the functioning of biological brain, making the chip highly energy-efficient and suitable for edge systems.

One of the distinguishing features of Akida is its ability to learn incrementally, meaning that once implemented in a system, it can improve its performance without the need for complete retraining, a huge advantage for applications such as autonomous driving, in which vehicles must be able to constantly adapt to new situations and environments.

BrainChip has partnered with several companies in the automotive and defense sectors to integrate Akida into AV control systems. The chip has been successfully tested in a variety of applications, including advanced vision systems and radar sensors, showing remarkable performance in terms of processing speed and low power consumption.

Additionally, Akida’s ability to process data in real time makes it particularly suitable for robots that require fast and reliable decisions in dynamic environments.

Prospects and future applications of neuromorphic computing​

The shift from the von Neumann architecture to neuromorphic chips marks a fundamental evolution in the design of modern computing systems. While traditional architecture has provided the foundation, neuromorphic computing chips offer a new computational perspective by mimicking the dynamics of the human brain, enabling efficient and parallel processing. This shift addresses the inherent limitations of the von Neumann architecture and paves the way for new applications and an era of more advanced and adaptable AI.

The potential for neuromorphic computing is enormous and could revolutionize fields such as AI, robotics, automotive and healthcare. Future applications include intelligent medical devices that can monitor and diagnose medical conditions in real time, home robots that interact more naturally with humans, and AVs with highly responsive control systems. Companies such as Qualcomm and BrainChip are demonstrating with real-world cases that this technology is no longer just a theoretical concept but a rapidly evolving reality, with applications that are already revolutionizing various industrial sectors.

One of the strategic objectives for neuromorphic system designers is the integration of this new architecture into traditional workflows. Although several companies are already showing initial successes, large-scale adoption requires a more mature and robust hardware and software infrastructure.


The innovative neuromorphic approach can also revolutionize the way AI systems are developed, reducing energy requirements and increasing processing speed. Continued research in this field could lead to a new generation of devices capable of performing complex cognitive tasks with unprecedented efficiency, redefining the very concept of learning.
 
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I cannot say for sure just pure speculation like everything else.... Tony's statement was NO partnership between RTX and Brainchip.....that does not mean they are not a customer via a different channel, eg Megachips, etc. maybe still an end user. IMO
That is NOT what Tony said. He stated there is no COMMERCIAL partnership agreement. They can be partners in progressing the technology and not have a commercial agreement.
 
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Live from CES - BrainChip debuts edge AI box with partner ecosystem for gesture, security and vision . BrainChip has launched the Akida Edge AI Box, a compact AI/ML processing appliance for various industries. The Akida Edge AI Box is developed in partnership with VVDN Technologies and features an embedded Linux solution with multiple connectivity options including ethernet, bluetooth, and USB interfaces to provide a complete edge AI computing platform based on Brainchip’s Akida AKD1000 IC. Key partners include Edge Impulse for model training . https://lnkd.in/dDAJP4gp
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Hadn't seen this post yet. Just a few followers & connections between them :)


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Amir Sherman
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Live from CES - BrainChip debuts edge AI box with partner ecosystem for gesture, security and vision . BrainChip has launched the Akida Edge AI Box, a compact AI/ML processing appliance for various industries. The Akida Edge AI Box is developed in partnership with VVDN Technologies and features an embedded Linux solution with multiple connectivity options including ethernet, bluetooth, and USB interfaces to provide a complete edge AI computing platform based on Brainchip’s Akida AKD1000 IC. Key partners include Edge Impulse for model training . https://lnkd.in/dDAJP4gp
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I cannot say for sure just pure speculation like everything else.... Tony's statement was NO partnership between RTX and Brainchip.....that does not mean they are not a customer via a different channel, eg Megachips, etc. maybe still a end user. IMO
That is NOT what Tony said. He stated there is no COMMERCIAL partnership agreement. They can be partners in progressing the technology and not have a commercial agreement.

What did you actually ask exactly @keyeat ?
I think that would explain the answer you got..

Edit.. Hey @Dr E Brown, how did you get your post, copied off of mine, in 4 hours before mine was posted!!?

Ohh..
 
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Switch 2 Trailer … just for the gamers here


Nice! And to top it off they named a date at the end of video!!
Is that 4th Feb or 2nd April?
(Always get mixed up on the way the date is done) Is that 4th feb 2025 or 2nd April 2025?
Ok correction just checked it's a lead up to release date 2nd April 4.2.2025. With experience interactions in multiple countries following that. So I imagine between April and May its going to be pretty exciting if megachips threw our diamond into the mixer. 😀

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If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
Howdy All,

So I was just having bit of a poke around to see if I could find out a bit more about the Klepsydra and Frontgrade Gaisler collaboration as per the above post and I stumbled on a Klepsydra Linkedin post from a couple of months ago which mentioned the "REBECCA Project" (see below).

I did a Google search and found the website for the REBECCA Project, which sure enough mentions neuromorphic computing.🥳

As you can see from the screen shots from the website, the REBECCA project is co-funded by the European Union. The aim of the project is to democratize the development of edge AI systems including a hardware and software stack centred around a RISC-V CPU.

As described on the website, it will develop a novel chip that will include a neuromorphic AI accelerator, which you would think would be very likely to be AKIDA, since Frontgrade Gaisler has taken a commercial license for the Akida neural processor IP. 🥰🥰🥰

I also looked for further information on the Grant agreement ID: 101097224 and have posted a screen shot of that as well. Total cost for the project is €8 498 328,59 (with EU contribution comprising €2 744 319,72)!!!! The end date is set at 31 July 2026.

Clearly this is a very big deal because it says on the Cordis summary that the "project will contribute to realising business and societal opportunities by validating and demonstrating its approach on real-world use cases and benchmarks based on real-world applications from the smart appliances, energy generation, infrastructure inspection, avionics, automotive and health domains".


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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but it looks like the REBECCA project will be utilizing IMEC's SENeCA neuromorphic processor. :(

I discovered this because one of the consortium partners on the REBECCA project is IMEC, which got me thinking.

Then I found this research paper dated 28 March 2024, under the REBECCA project's grant agreement No. 101097224 (see below). As you can see the research paper focusses on the SENeCA architecture and the authors were all employed by IMEC. The paper compares results with SpiNNaker2 and Loihi, but not AKIDA. However, it does state that "our optimizations for event-based neural networks can be potentially generalized to a wide range of event-based neuromorphic processors."

On a positive note, I noticed that the Funding Statement on the research paper also shows NimbleAI (Horizon EU under grant agreement 101070679). And we know that NimbleAI are combining AKIDA 1500 with the Hailo-8 accelerator for inference processing for one of their prototypes, so it may not be out of the question for different prototypes to be explored in the REBECCA project in the same way that NimbleAI has.

Do we know what's happening with SENeCA's SNN processor at the moment? I believe from past discussions IMEC were looking at taping out in Q1 2025, planned to be submitted to the foundry in Jan 2025.



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If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
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I don't think this recently published research paper has been posted here previously.

I can't access the whole paper to see what processor was used but it does refer to Prophesee's event camera.




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We can pretty safely assume the neuromorphic processor in that paper will turn out to be Intel’s Loihi.

The paper’s first author David Harbour is the son of Steven Harbour (who is also one of the co-authors). Steven Harbour left SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) last year to become Director of AI Hardware Research at Parallax Advanced Research.

In March, while still at SwRI (which has been closely collaborating with Intel on neuromorphic research for years), Steven Harbour posted this…

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… tagging Mike Davies and two former Intel Labs researchers (Tim Shea and Yulia Sandamirskaya) as well as Gregory Cohen who is doing research on neuromorphic cameras in space at Western Sydney University’s ICNS.

And I also recalled having seen a poster of the above-mentioned paper on the Parallax website (referring to related work, which includes a paper involving Loihi, co-authored by Steven Harbour):



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Howdy All,

So I was just having bit of a poke around to see if I could find out a bit more about the Klepsydra and Frontgrade Gaisler collaboration as per the above post and I stumbled on a Klepsydra Linkedin post from a couple of months ago which mentioned the "REBECCA Project" (see below).

I did a Google search and found the website for the REBECCA Project, which sure enough mentions neuromorphic computing.🥳

As you can see from the screen shots from the website, the REBECCA project is co-funded by the European Union. The aim of the project is to democratize the development of edge AI systems including a hardware and software stack centred around a RISC-V CPU.

As described on the website, it will develop a novel chip that will include a neuromorphic AI accelerator, which you would think would be very likely to be AKIDA, since Frontgrade Gaisler has taken a commercial license for the Akida neural processor IP. 🥰🥰🥰

I also looked for further information on the Grant agreement ID: 101097224 and have posted a screen shot of that as well. Total cost for the project is €8 498 328,59 (with EU contribution comprising €2 744 319,72)!!!! The end date is set at 31 July 2026.

Clearly this is a very big deal because it says on the Cordis summary that the "project will contribute to realising business and societal opportunities by validating and demonstrating its approach on real-world use cases and benchmarks based on real-world applications from the smart appliances, energy generation, infrastructure inspection, avionics, automotive and health domains".


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And it appears there is no Akida in the REBECCA project either…

Klepsydra and Frontgrade Gaisler are collaborating on the GR765 - which I believe to be the microprocessor our company will also be involved in.

See also Alf Kuchenbuch’s 👍🏻 I spotted almost a year ago:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-407807


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However, unlike Klepsydra, Frontgrade is not even a consortium partner in the REBECCA project.

IMEC, however, is.


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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but it looks like the REBECCA project will be utilizing IMEC's SENeCA neuromorphic processor. :(

I discovered this because one of the consortium partners on the REBECCA project is IMEC, which got me thinking.

Then I found this research paper dated 28 March 2024, under the REBECCA project's grant agreement No. 101097224 (see below). As you can see the research paper focusses on the SENeCA architecture and the authors were all employed by IMEC. The paper compares results with SpiNNaker2 and Loihi, but not AKIDA. However, it does state that "our optimizations for event-based neural networks can be potentially generalized to a wide range of event-based neuromorphic processors."

On a positive note, I noticed that the Funding Statement on the research paper also shows NimbleAI (Horizon EU under grant agreement 101070679). And we know that NimbleAI are combining AKIDA 1500 with the Hailo-8 accelerator for inference processing for one of their prototypes, so it may not be out of the question for different prototypes to be explored in the REBECCA project in the same way that NimbleAI has.

Do we know what's happening with SENeCA's SNN processor at the moment? I believe from past discussions IMEC were looking at taping out in Q1 2025, planned to be submitted to the foundry in Jan 2025.



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Reading this reminds me when I'm on the rowing machine -
breath out all the carbondioxide- row,
breath in oxygen
2 minutes of reading this =20mins on the rowing machine feeling 🙏
 
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That is NOT what Tony said. He stated there is no COMMERCIAL partnership agreement. They can be partners in progressing the technology and not have a commercial agreement.

What did you actually ask exactly @keyeat ?
I think that would explain the answer you got..

Edit.. Hey @Dr E Brown, how did you get your post, copied off of mine, in 4 hours before mine was posted!!?

Ohh..
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Yeah, he basically said what the Doc said, using as little words as possible, maybe he had a long day..

He "should" have said and I don't think this is making an assumption, otherwise it would contradict the news from CES 2025..

"Thanks for your email

The news wasn't ASX worthy, as this is not a commercial partnership yet, with a dollar amount attached.
Hopefully it will develop into one in the Future.

Kind Regards

Tony Dawe"


It aligns with all the other "partnerships" which also weren't ASX announced, much to the dismay of shareholders..
 
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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but it looks like the REBECCA project will be utilizing IMEC's SENeCA neuromorphic processor. :(

I discovered this because one of the consortium partners on the REBECCA project is IMEC, which got me thinking.

Then I found this research paper dated 28 March 2024, under the REBECCA project's grant agreement No. 101097224 (see below). As you can see the research paper focusses on the SENeCA architecture and the authors were all employed by IMEC. The paper compares results with SpiNNaker2 and Loihi, but not AKIDA. However, it does state that "our optimizations for event-based neural networks can be potentially generalized to a wide range of event-based neuromorphic processors."

On a positive note, I noticed that the Funding Statement on the research paper also shows NimbleAI (Horizon EU under grant agreement 101070679). And we know that NimbleAI are combining AKIDA 1500 with the Hailo-8 accelerator for inference processing for one of their prototypes, so it may not be out of the question for different prototypes to be explored in the REBECCA project in the same way that NimbleAI has.

Do we know what's happening with SENeCA's SNN processor at the moment? I believe from past discussions IMEC were looking at taping out in Q1 2025, planned to be submitted to the foundry in Jan 2025.



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Great find. I think we are a long way ahead of them - imec is a research org, the Nimble chip ip providers seem to be FPGA designers, and their industry advisory board include some of our "partners": ESA, prophesee, Edge Impulse, RTX. It's a pitty that we aren't there, but these guys are just a consortium, and for them to make commercially available chips they would have to spin off a company etc etc, I think.
 
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The development of cybersecurity solutions using neuromorphic computing platforms provides an opportunity to shatter barriers and offer cyber security solutions that operate at a fraction of the power and cost of GPU based platforms.

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That was a definite whale chomp, into the 35 cent line. 😉


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We can pretty safely assume the neuromorphic processor in that paper will turn out to be Intel’s Loihi.

The paper’s first author David Harbour is the son of Steven Harbour (who is also one of the co-authors). Steven Harbour left SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) last year to become Director of AI Hardware Research at Parallax Advanced Research.

In March, while still at SwRI (which has been closely collaborating with Intel on neuromorphic research for years), Steven Harbour posted this…

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… tagging Mike Davies and two former Intel Labs researchers (Tim Shea and Yulia Sandamirskaya) as well as Gregory Cohen who is doing research on neuromorphic cameras in space at Western Sydney University’s ICNS.

And I also recalled having seen a poster of the above-mentioned paper on the Parallax website (referring to related work, which includes a paper involving Loihi, co-authored by Steven Harbour):



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And it appears there is no Akida in the REBECCA project either…

Klepsydra and Frontgrade Gaisler are collaborating on the GR765 - which I believe to be the microprocessor our company will also be involved in.

See also Alf Kuchenbuch’s 👍🏻 I spotted almost a year ago:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-407807


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However, unlike Klepsydra, Frontgrade is not even a consortium partner in the REBECCA project.

IMEC, however, is.


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Looks like you were a little slow off the mark in correcting @Bravo about IMEC this time, she beat you to it! Better luck next time!
 
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I think it's great to see NimbleAI combining AKIDA 1500 with the Hailo-8 accelerator for inference processing for their prototype.

Why? Because, as mentioned in the post above, Renesas utilised Hailo-8 AI accelerators for the Renesas' R-Car V4H SoC.

So, the news from NimbleAI further bolsters my hope that our tech may be included in the upcoming Renesas R-Car X5H. Surely NimbleAI can't be the only ones to think that pairing Akida and Hailo is a good idea, can they?
On a positive note, I noticed that the Funding Statement on the research paper also shows NimbleAI (Horizon EU under grant agreement 101070679). And we know that NimbleAI are combining AKIDA 1500 with the Hailo-8 accelerator for inference processing for one of their prototypes, so it may not be out of the question for different prototypes to be explored in the REBECCA project in the same way that NimbleAI has.

Do we really know that?
No, we don’t.

NimbleAI won’t be combining the AKD1500 and the Hailo-8; instead, the two processors will be benchmarked against each other:




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After all, the prototype is going to have only one PCIe slot to fit either Hailo or Akida.

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As of July 2024, NimbleAI’s project coordinator Xabier Iturbe was still hoping for the AKD1500 to become available as a M.2 module, though
(cf his mail reply to @AI_Inquirer here:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-446343)
 

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