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Mercedes taps Intel Loihi2 for neuromorphic AI
Mercedes taps Intel Loihi2 for neuromorphic AI
The revised GIASaaS (Global Instant Satellite as a Service, formerly Greek Infrastructure for Satellite as a Service) concept website by OHB Hellas is finally back online - and Akida now no longer shows up as UAV1 (see my post above) but as one of three SATs! 🛰
AKIDA, the envisioned SAT with the AKD1000 PCIe Card onboard, is slated to handle both Object Detection as well as Satellite Detection, while the planned KRIA and CORAL satellites (equipped with a Xilinx KRIA KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit resp. a Google Coral TPU Dev Board) are tasked to handle Vessel Detection, Cloud Detection and Fire Detection (for some reason OHB Hellas removed Flood Detection from the list of applications).
Please note that this is currently a concept website only.
The idea behind GIASaaS as well as mock 3D-printed versions of the yet-to-be-lauched satellites were presented at DEFEA 2025 - Defense Exhibition Athens earlier this month, as @Stable Genius had spotted on LinkedIn:
GIASaaS by OHB Hellas
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Here is more info on the two-part tutorial Gilles Bézard and Alf Kuchenbuch will be presenting on 13 October at EDHPC25 in Elche, Spain:
[All the weird extra os under “Use cases for Neuromorphic Processing in space” are evidently bullet points gone rogue in the website layout… When I copy and paste that passage from below website, the combination “space:” followed by “o” shows up as “space” here on TSE
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Tutorials - 25M02 - EDHPC 2025 - Centro De Congresos De Elche
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Neuromorphic AI in Space Tutorials (by BrainChip)
Introduction
In space applications, every milliwatt matters. Satellites rely on ultra-low-power chips to process data on-board, where sending everything back to Earth is often impossible or inefficient. This makes efficient machine learning deployment on embedded hardware not just useful, but essential.
The goal of the tutorials is to show how advanced AI capabilities can be packed into tiny, power-constrained devices, enabling smarter, faster, and more autonomous satellite systems.
Audience
Project managers (particularly part 1) and engineers working on embedded low-power AI applications.
Level: from beginner to expert.
What will you learn?
In part 1: Akida in Space – Bringing Autonomy, Robustness and Efficient Data Transmission to Space Vehicles, you will learn:
- Why AI in Space?
- Why neuromorphic AI in Space?
- BrainChip Akida IP is the only Event-based AI on the commercial market – IP and silicon
- Use cases for Neuromorphic Processing in space
Lunar landingo Docking in spaceo Earth observationo Space Situational Awarenesso Satellite detection (use case OHB Giasaas)
In part 2: Bringing AI to the Edge – End-to-End Machine Learning Deployment on an Embedded Low-Power AI Neuromorphic HW, you will learn:
- Fetch and prepare a dataset suitable for your target application.
- Design and train a machine learning model using TF/Keras.
- Apply quantization techniques to reduce model size and optimize it for embedded hardware.
- Convert the trained model into a format compatible with Akida hardware toolchain.
- Export the model as a C source file that can be included and compiled together with your C main application.
- Integrate the Akida model binary into a baremetal C application running on a STM32 microcontroller.
- Run inference on Akida ultra-low-power hardware device, demonstrating efficient on-board processing for space-constrained environments such as satellites.
Outline of hands-on tutorial
In the first tutorial, we teach why there is a paradigm shift in Space from purely deterministic classic programming to the use of low power AI in specific use cases. We show the vast improvement in capabilities coming with the use of AI in Space.
In the second tutorial, we demonstrate how to take an ML model from dataset preparation all the way to baremetal deployment on a microcontroller with a hardware accelerator. By the end, you will know how to take an ML project from concept to fully optimized embedded deployment, step by step.
Speakers:
- Gilles Bézard (BrainChip) – Part 1 & 2
- Alf Kuchenbuch (BrainChip) – Part 1
As you can see, Gilles Bézard and Alf Kuchenbuch will also be referring to the GIASAAS (Global Instant Satellite as a Service) concept by OHB Hellas, which I first posted about yesterday a year ago…
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-438109
… and gave an update on in May:
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time BrainChip will be making a reference to GIASAAS.
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#mercedesbenz #electric #innovation | Markus Schäfer
Allow me to introduce the stunning new Vision Iconic show car. With this automotive masterpiece, Mercedes-Benz shows what the future can look like when it’s shaped by tradition, while remaining uncompromisingly modern. Let’s start with the extraordinary exterior. The silhouette appears to be...www.linkedin.com
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Mercedes taps Intel Loihi2 for neuromorphic AI
Mercedes is leading a project in Germany to use neuromorphic computing to improve the performance of forward-facing automotive radar systems.
Mercedes is using the Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic event-driven AI processor in the Naomi4radar project, says Markus Schäfer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group and Chief Technology Officer for Development & Procurement. Using neuromorphic, event driven algorithms and processors can increase the speed of response of the radar systems, he says.
Important to remember that we are not alone!!!
Mercedes taps Intel Loihi2 for neuromorphic AI
Mercedes is leading a project in Germany to use neuromorphic computing to improve the performance of forward-facing automotive radar systems.
Mercedes is using the Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic event-driven AI processor in the Naomi4radar project, says Markus Schäfer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group and Chief Technology Officer for Development & Procurement. Using neuromorphic, event driven algorithms and processors can increase the speed of response of the radar systems, he says.
Can’t be long now, given that Markus Schäfer has less than 10 weeks left as CTO before passing the baton on to his successor Jörg Burzer.
Turns out Mercedes-Benz even had a promotional video commissioned to wrap up the NAOMI4Radar project, starring the S-Class test vehicle that combined an Infineon front radar with Loihi 2.
Project lead (and supporting actor) Gerrit Ecke from MB’s neuromorphic research team and the interdisciplinary innovation department “PIONEERING NeXt” loves the production company’s recent post about their day out filming on the test track:
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#mercedespioneering #innovation #behindthescenes #filmproduktion #futuremobility #clipupfilm #innovation | clip up Film
Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen 🎬✨ Für Mercedes-Benz AG durften wir auf der Teststrecke ein Fahrzeug mit zukunftsweisenden Innovationen filmen – mit Drohne und Kamera aus allen Perspektiven. Ein großes Dankeschön geht hier auch an Arne Heiland und Gerrit Ecke von Mercedes Pioneering...www.linkedin.com
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So stay tuned…
EDHPC25, the European Data Handling & Processing Conference for space applications organised by ESA, is less than three weeks away.
Turns out BrainChip will not only be exhibiting, but that Gilles Bézard and Alf Kuchenbuch will also be presenting a two-part tutorial on 13 October:
EDHPC 2025 - 2nd European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference
EDHPC 2025 The second European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference – EDHPC 2025 – will be held from the 13th to the 17th of October 2025 in Elche, Spain. It is organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), with the support of the local tourist office. Find the latest information on the...indico.esa.int
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Adam Taylor from Adiuvo Engineering, who recently posted about ORA,“a comprehensive sandbox platform for edge AI deployment and benchmarking” (whose edge devices available for evaluation also include Akida) will be presenting concurrently.
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-474283
Three days later, on 16 October, ESA’s Laurent Hili will be chairing a session on AI Engines & Neuromorphic, which will include a presentation on Frontgrade Gaisler’s GRAIN product line, whose first device, the Gr801 SoC - as we know - will combine Frontgrade Gaisler’s NOEL RISC-V processor and Akida.
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The session’s last speaker will be AI vision expert Roland Brochard from Airbus Defense & Space Toulouse, who has been involved in the NEURAVIS proposal with us for the past 18 months or so:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-429615
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In April, Kenneth Östberg’s poster on GRAIN had revealed what NEURAVIS actually stands for: Neuromorphic Evaluation of Ultra-low-power Rad-hard Acceleration for Vision Inferences in Space.
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-459275
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It appears highly likely that Roland Brochard will be giving a presentation on said NEURAVIS proposal in his session, given that a paper co-authored by 15 researchers from all consortium partners involved (Airbus Toulouse, Airbus Ottobrunn, Frontgrade Gaisler, BrainChip, Neurobus, plus ESA) was uploaded to the conference website.
This paper has the exact same title as Roland Brochard’s EDHPC25 presentation, namely “Evaluation of Neuromorphic computing technologies for very low power AI/ML applications” (which is also almost identical to the title of the original ESA ITT, except that the words “…in space” are missing, cf. my July 2024 post above):
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Mercedes-Benz spins out Silicon Valley chip group into new company
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By Stephen Nellis
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Mercedes-Benz (MBG.DE) on Friday spun out into a new company a group of chip experts in Silicon Valley that is working on creating a new generation of computing brains for self-driving cars, drones and other vehicles.
Athos Silicon, based in Santa Clara, California, will house a group of engineers who for five years worked at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America to develop the new chips, which aim to be safe enough for use in cars while using less energy than existing chips.
As part of the spinout, Athos is receiving intellectual property developed by the group and what Mercedes-Benz described as a "significant" investment, though neither the carmaker nor Athos disclosed the value of the transaction.
For chips used in cars, reliability is key, so critical self-driving functions are often handled by two or more separate chips in order to have backups in case of a failure. The Athos team developed a way to get the same kind of reliability using "chiplets," which are tiny pieces of chips that can be bound together in a single package.
Keeping the chips in a single package can use 10 to 20 times less power than having separate chips that must communicate with one another across a circuit board, Athos Silicon Chief Executive Charnjiv Bangar said in an interview on Friday. Those power savings are important in electric vehicles where the car's computing brains must compete with its wheels for limited battery power.
"For an electric future, electricity is a new currency," Bangar said.
Athos Silicon intends to raise venture capital from other investors. Bangar declined to disclose Mercedes-Benz's precise stake, but said the carmaker will be a minority shareholder and the chip firm will have an independent board.
"Independence is important for Athos, so that we can reach out to other (carmakers), competitors of Mercedes. We need to make sure we have a neutral approach," Bangar said.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San FranciscoEditing by Nick Zieminski)
Daniel Andersson, Project Manager at Frontgrade Gaisler, will be the one presenting “GRAIN – towards event-based AI in space” at EDHPC 2025 tomorrow:
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#spacecomputing | Frontgrade Gaisler
This Thursday at 4:10 PM, Daniel Andersson will present at EDHPC 2025. “GRAIN – towards event-based AI in space.” The talk will explore how neuromorphic and event-based processing can revolutionize on-board autonomy, enabling spacecraft to react faster and use data more efficiently in...www.linkedin.com
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That can be debated, he tries hard to be funny, often insulting people in the process.
Personally, I don't care, it's not his fault he is a clown and treat the forum like he is in the pub after work.
You have the right of being here just as everybody else, so just keep on posting and ignore the posters you don't like, you can put them on ignore and not see their posts anymore.
I think most here are tired of waiting, if they don't deliver before the next AGM, they are done for and can sell the company as far as I am concerned.
It's not acceptable they keep on printing shares for keeping the light on, hollowing out shareholders part of the company.
Sean said that he expect orders of 9 mill bucks this year, the window is closing, but I will give him time before I will get more harsh in my criticism.
I watch a video explaining about this and the time it takes and maybe the reason whyAccording to Athos Silicon Co-Founder and former Mercedes-Benz North America mSoC Chief Architect François Piednoël, Akida does not pass the minimum requirements for Level 3 or Level 4 automated driving.
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#ai #artificialintelligence #ainews #aichips | AI & Robotics | 20 comments
Mercedes-Benz AG has launched Athos Silicon, a new chip company focused on developing energy-efficient chips for autonomous vehicles. Athos Silicon, based in Santa Clara, California, is a spin-off from Mercedes-Benz's Silicon Valley research arm and aims to create safer and more power-efficient...www.linkedin.com
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Hi @TECH,
so you asked me for an honest response to your question how I “personally think BrainChip is tracking towards a successful outcome”?
Voilà: Well, I believe the successful outcome that all of us genuine shareholders hope for will ultimately depend on an interplay of multiple factors, but primarily on the capability of our management to convert the apparently super-high customer interest (if we are to believe our CEO) into more actual sales.
My BrainChip journey over the past 3.5 years has convinced me that the tech is real and has been and continues to be validated by researchers in both academia and industry all over the world. At the same time, though, it has taught me that the adoption of neuromorphic technology is taking much longer than anticipated.
The amount of time I voluntarily dedicate to this forum and the content I contribute should give you a hint that I’m optimistic in principle, yet not uncritical of our company. I haven’t sold a single of my BRN shares - on the contrary, I’ve been accumulating ever since I first bought in. However, I would definitely not go as far as claim that BrainChip had reached its tipping point and that I personally no longer see any risk, like FF did back in March 2024. Just recall the financial predicament our partner Prophesee found themselves in about a year ago - and they were much further advanced on their commercialisation path than we currently are.
There’s a limit to what my and anyone else’s sleuthing and dot-joining can tell us about a future “successful outcome”.
After all, we are not privy to knowing what’s going on behind closed doors, whether there are currently any prospective customers about to sign on the dotted line to generate much needed revenue for our company, how many NDAs are currently in place and how many of those will eventually translate into a deal beyond initial evaluation.
None of us without insider knowledge can predict whether our company’s roadmap will go ahead as planned (which would be awesome), how our non-neuromorphic and neuromorphic competitors in the Edge AI space will develop over the next few years and how many downselections we will or we won’t make because of them, which employees will leave us and why, what exceptional new talents we will be able to attract, how global politics will play out and how world markets will react, what effect certain decisions taken by our management will have on the BRN share price, whether or not BrainChip will be acquired one day etc.
All these and other hard or impossible to predict factors may play a role to a larger or lesser extent. Excellent technology alone does not guarantee a “successful outcome” in a commercial sense.
Yes, the groundwork has been laid, the ecosystem is being built, and the validation by others is highly encouraging. But “successful” also means that more deals generating meaningful revenue need to follow at some point. And so we wait. Understandably, patience is wearing thin for many long-term holders, especially those whose age and/or health realistically means they cannot afford to wait for much longer, if they themselves - and not their children and grandchildren, if they even have any - would like to enjoy the juicy fruit they have been hoping to harvest.
Yet, some frustrated posters blame BRN management only and overlook the fact that it was also fellow forum users here and elsewhere that have been creating unrealistic expectations and hype over the years for which the company cannot be made solely responsible. My BrainChip journey has also been an intriguing psychology class about the world of echo chambers.
Maybe that’s not exactly the response you wanted to hear from me, but I’m afraid I can’t answer your question in a more honest way than that.
Now before you had initially asked me your question the other day, I had actually asked you to please provide proof to support your claim that there are Accenture patents that do not refer to Loihi as a “neuromorphic research chip” at some point in the patent.
So since it was you who brought up the topic of courtesy yourself, please now also have the courtesy to respond to me on that matter. I won’t frame it the same way as you did with me, though, by claiming you chose not to respond, but instead will give you the benefit of doubt that it may have merely slipped your mind.
Best regards
Frangipani️
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Yet another BRN employee has left…
Our former ML Solutions Architect Dhvani Kothari is now an AI Solutions Architect with Contextual AI:
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#contextualai #genai #techcareer | Dhvani Kothari
🎉 Excited to share that I've joined Contextual AI as a Solutions Architect! 🚀 The innovation and vision here are inspiring, and I’m eager to contribute to what’s next in enterprise AI. I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone at BrainChip for an incredible...www.linkedin.com
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