BRN Discussion Ongoing

[DingoBorat]

Hey Frangipani,
Great research! Are you inferring that you believe that AKD1500 has been produced in silicon?
I’m only going from memory now but information was circulating here that well over 12 months ago AKD1500 was going to be produced in silicon by Brainchip but allegedly an anonymous potential partner/customer halted that production as they wanted to do it. I think @Diogenese was sniffing that trail. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong in my old age but could Airbus be that company that caused AKD1500 to be produced in silicon?

Your memory is confused with what happened to the production of AKD2000 chips (which got to the "taping out" stage).

AKD1500, was produced by Global Foundries and has been utilised, by Bascom Hunter

BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries

BrainChip's latest milestone: AKD1500 chip arrival from GlobalFoundries. Explore the future of semiconductors here.

brainchip.com

BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries (August 2023)

https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250128/pdf/06dw58dyyzp7td.pdf

In late December(2024) BrainChip signed a US$100,000 contract with U.S. defence contractor Bascom Hunter, for the sale and support of AKD1500 chips for full scale evaluation of commercial products, which will provide significant improvements over traditional CPU, GPU, and TPU processors and are considered optimal for low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) Machine Learning (ML) applications.

 

[Papacass]

Your memory is confused with what happened to the production of AKD2000 chips (which got to the "taping out" stage).

AKD1500, was produced by Global Foundries and has been utilised, by Bascom Hunter

BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries

BrainChip's latest milestone: AKD1500 chip arrival from GlobalFoundries. Explore the future of semiconductors here.

brainchip.com

BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries (August 2023)

https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250128/pdf/06dw58dyyzp7td.pdf

In late December(2024) BrainChip signed a US$100,000 contract with U.S. defence contractor Bascom Hunter, for the sale and support of AKD1500 chips for full scale evaluation of commercial products, which will provide significant improvements over traditional CPU, GPU, and TPU processors and are considered optimal for low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) Machine Learning (ML) applications.

Cheers. Knew I was getting old.

 

[miaeffect]

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[7für7]

I just prepare myself for the next punch in my face

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[Pom down under]

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Knowing our luck we will get a $$$ sensitive announcement today and end up red

 

[Bravo]

 

[7für7]

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[HopalongPetrovski]

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

 

[Diogenese]

Hey Frangipani,
Great research! Are you inferring that you believe that AKD1500 has been produced in silicon?
I’m only going from memory now but information was circulating here that well over 12 months ago AKD1500 was going to be produced in silicon by Brainchip but allegedly an anonymous potential partner/customer halted that production as they wanted to do it. I think @Diogenese was sniffing that trail. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong in my old age but could Airbus be that company that caused AKD1500 to be produced in silicon?

Hi Papacass,

You've misremembered:

BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries - BrainChip

"It is Akida 2 that has been on again - off again".

 

[DingoBorat]

Comsec app can't handle the pressure..
Volume sold in stocks, going up, then down ...

ASX is possibly struggling with volume of selling/buying too..

 

[Bravo]

Is there any plausible reason or compelling argument why Qualcomm should "not" use Akida in their chips in the near future?

I don't see why not—unless Qualcomm is already working on a new iteration of Snapdragon that incorporates features similar to AKIDA. How feasible that is, I'm not entirely sure.

As far as I know, the current Snapdragon product isn't neuromorphic, isn't event-based, doesn't operate at ultra-low power, and doesn’t support real-time on-device learning.

Judd Heape, VP of Product Management for Camera, Computer Vision, and Video at Qualcomm Technologies, was quoted in a June 2023 EE Times article saying, “These event-based sensors are much more efficient because they can be programmed to easily detect motion at very low power. When there’s no movement or change in the scene, the sensor consumes almost no power. So that’s really interesting to us.”

In that context, he was referring to Prophesee and image-based sensors, but the underlying principle still applies I would have thought—event-based sensors just make sense. And AKIDA is event-based.

We also know that a drone company is exploring a combination of AKIDA and Prophesee’s camera. Not Snapdragon. That says something.

So why wouldn’t Qualcomm want to integrate our technology to gain a foothold in new markets—especially ones that are battery-powered and highly power-constrained? Surely paying for a licence would be chicken feed for the likes of Qualcomm, so I honestly don't know why they wouldn't be considering it.

Maybe someone with deeper technical insight can weigh in here.

EETimes article about Prophesee-Qualcomm deal

Full article here: https://www.eetimes.com/experts-weigh-impact-of-prophesee-qualcomm-deal/ Experts Weigh Impact of Prophesee-Qualcomm Deal ...

image-sensors-world.blogspot.com

 

[Gazzafish]

We just need our quarterly report to get released asap with large revenue. The end.

 

[DingoBorat]

May as well hear from the horse's mouth, what the deal is..

I'm reliably informed, that he and Ron Vara have conversed and have concurred on the way forward.

Try not to think about the short term turmoil.

Fear will turn to greed, soon enough.

 

[7für7]

May as well hear from the horse's mouth, what the deal is..

I'm reliably informed, that he and Ron Vara have conversed and have concurred on the way forward.

Try not to think about the short term turmoil.

Fear will turn to greed, soon enough.

It’s the good old “good cop bad cop” game. Trump will kick everyone’s ass and musk want zero tax policy with Europe… I think soon trump will call his dogs back again as usual.

If you ask me, it’s the biggest opportunity since the last big crash to buy cheap whatever you want to buy. If you sell, you are so stupid!

 

[7für7]

On the other hand a zero-tariff policy similar to a free trade agreement is something the US simply cannot afford with Europe, because Europe has such strict import regulations and requirements that it already fails at something like chlorinated chicken. I think if they manage to find a middle ground for certain products—especially in the tech and automotive sectors—it would benefit everyone. But what do I know.

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

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[Smoothsailing]

Is it fair to say then that Qualcomm could still want to integrate Brainchip into their products and this is why they have put a stop to others using us through edge impulse ?.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Is it fair to say then that Qualcomm could still want to integrate Brainchip into their products and this is why they have put a stop to others using us through edge impulse ?.

Not sure it has been confirmed it Qualcomms doing. It was suggested as a possible reason I thought?

I find it hard to believe that they could actually do that as could be potentially seen as anticompetitive I would have thought and the exisiting Akida models are still allowed to be used, just not new Dev at the mo.

My questions is whether maybe an update to the models or additional capabilities to include 2.0 availability to play with or integration in some way to engage the Qualcomm foundries.io and other toolchains they now offer?

None of the other products like NVIDIA etc through EI appear affected at this point.

 

[manny100]

Is it fair to say then that Qualcomm could still want to integrate Brainchip into their products and this is why they have put a stop to others using us through edge impulse ?.

If Qualcomm want a piece of Neuromorphic at the Edge they will look to us.
The great thing about BRN from a client point of view is they can use 1000 knowing that they can move up fairly seamlessly to Gen2/TENNs as they improve existing or develop new products..
In the meantime just like us maybe Qualcomm are waiting until Edge AI demand picks up significantly before getting serious.