smoothsailing18
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It says in his biography on linkden he has secured 2 plus million in IP sales for brainchip
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Defense Contractors Working with Akida
| Contractor / Partner | Focus Area | Akida’s Role | Public Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX (Raytheon) | Radar / AFRL contract | Neuromorphic radar signal processing (micro‑Doppler signatures, target discrimination) | Confirmed $1.8M AFRL contract (2025) |
| Bascom Hunter | RF systems, SATCOM, defense electronics | Evaluating Akida for low‑power, real‑time AI in communications and defense systems | Trials ongoing, no public AFRL tie‑in |
| Parsons (via Blue Ridge Envisioneering) | Edge AI defense platforms | Integrating Akida into mission‑ready edge AI systems for defense and intelligence | Strategic partnership announced Oct 2025 |
| Arquimea | Drones / rescue systems | Using Akida with Prophesee event‑based cameras for autonomous swimmer detection | Publicly announced partnership |
| Quantum Ventura (with Lockheed Martin MFC) | Cybersecurity | CyberNeuro‑RT tool using Akida for real‑time threat detection | Confirmed collaboration |
Arquima is included as it is a big defense supplier in the EU and to NATO. It also has announced a partnership with Lockheed.
Key Insights
- Multiple entry points: Akida is being tested across radar, RF/comm, drones, cybersecurity, and edge AI defense platforms.
- Defense ecosystem: RTX and AFRL give Akida credibility in radar; Parsons expands it into edge AI defense systems; Bascom Hunter explores RF/comm; Arquimea applies it to drones; Lockheed indirectly touches it via Quantum Ventura.
- Strategic trajectory: This spread suggests Akida is positioning itself as a common neuromorphic AI platform across defense contractors, with potential for convergence in future joint programs.
but how? Because he left Brainchip… is he again working for us? I’m confused…What about that ?
www.linkedin.com
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Mt09
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Same question marks pop up in my head
Tony Coles
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If it’s true, why would they hold back IP licenses from share holders?
White Horse
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainchip-holdings-limited/posts/?feedView=all
This is current on BrainChip Linkedin.
Yes he has worked here before and was a very valuable member of the crew.
He is back, but in what capacity, well, seeing is believing.
This is current on BrainChip Linkedin.
Yes he has worked here before and was a very valuable member of the crew.
He is back, but in what capacity, well, seeing is believing.
Think management may have just been caught with their pants down, If true and I say if, would explain the exodus of sales staff, Probably didn’t want a bar of what they knew was highly illegal. They wanted to shout to the rooftops the IP Deals but management have somehow been able to withhold this im formation from the market and shareholders,OH my this don’t look good. IN THE WORDS OF PAULINE HANSON ‘please explain should be coming from the ASX. Anyone with the full attachment should forward it straight to ASIC and the ASX.
Fullmoonfever
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Would you consider Renesas and Megachips IP wins?...he may have been involved on the technical side getting these across the line. That'd be my thoughts....though the lynch mob will look for anything to hang the BOD I guess.
Lynch mob, even THE POM is scratching his head, May explain why the shorters are so confident if they know nothing will be announced until a certain date. But where is the 2 million where has it shown up in the financials, Where is the announcement of IP DEALS, But don’t worry the may have announced it on the back page under the sex ads of the Zimbabwean news
Fullmoonfever
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Google's your friendLynch mob, even THE POM is scratching his head, May explain why the shorters are so confident if they know nothing will be announced until a certain date. But where is the 2 million where has it shown up in the financials, Where is the announcement of IP DEALS, But don’t worry the may have announced it on the back page under the sex ads of the Zimbabwean news
Both Renesas and Megachips were Ann'd which you already know.
This is straight away what I thought @Fullmoonfever! Pretty sure he was around at the time of those IP signings.
Frangipani
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Is he back
This Halloween, intelligence comes alive on the edge
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Yes, Nikunj Kotecha is apparently back (after he had left BrainChip almost two years ago), which I personally consider very positive news.
When I shared a post by Lloyd Watts earlier this week that included a recent photo taken at BrainChip’s Laguna Hills office, I had actually wondered whether the gentleman standing next to Tony Lewis was indeed Nikunj Kotecha (what a pleasant surprise!) or just someone strongly resembling him - he is also wearing different glasses now compared to earlier photos.
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-477022
So I checked out his LinkedIn profile that day, which didn’t give any indication, though, that he had returned to work for us or collaborated with our company in his capacity as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Coastaloupe.
As of today, he still hasn’t updated his profile, even now that BrainChip posted the video featuring him as a Senior Solutions Architect (which was also his previous job title) talking about TENNS 1B (he refers to it as TENNS LLM in the video), the compact state-space model running directly on the Akida FPGA platform that BrainChip is going to showcase at embedded world North America 2025 next week:
Nikunj Kotecha - Coastaloupe | LinkedIn
🚀 Cutting AI Latency, Driving Business Wins, and Bringing Models to the Edge. In… · Experience: Coastaloupe · Education: Rochester Institute of Technology · Location: Irvine · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Nikunj Kotecha’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
It remains to be seen whether this is just a temporary contract or (hopefully) the return to a permanent position.
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Fullmoonfever
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Don't know....why don't you go have a look?
The 2 million was predicted by the megachips license according to that article
“He led BrainChip technical team in securing a multi-year license agreement for its Intellectual Property (IP) of Akida AI accelerator with MegaChips, a japanese based global fabless semiconductor company. The multi-year licensing valued in millions and a $2 million forecast expected in royalties”
techbullion.com
“He led BrainChip technical team in securing a multi-year license agreement for its Intellectual Property (IP) of Akida AI accelerator with MegaChips, a japanese based global fabless semiconductor company. The multi-year licensing valued in millions and a $2 million forecast expected in royalties”
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By 2026, artificial intelligence is forecasted to generate up to 90% of all internet content! These impressive statistics spark conversations about the quality and diversity of the generated content. Among the leading experts shaping this transformation is Nikunj Kotecha, a seasoned Machine...
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Frangipani
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Well said, @bludybludblud.
And @Guzzi62 is doing them injustice, seemingly blind to their major contributions over the years. Anyone who disagrees with me on this, please take the time to read the following:
Take a look at the names of the five inventors of BrainChip’s award-winning Eye-Tracking TENNs model. Sadly, our company will no longer benefit from this creative quintet’s synergistic mix of talents for future TENNs models:
Sébastian Crouzet and Rudy Pei have since both left our company.
Five weeks ago, Olivier Coenen shared on LinkedIn that he was fired.
It looks as if we are also about to lose Sasskia Brüers-Freyssinet, judging from the changes she made in her LinkedIn profile shortly after Olivier Coenen was let go - all of a sudden, she uploaded a profile photo and changed her status to “Open To Work”.
That would leave Douglas McLelland as the only remaining-with-BrainChip inventor of this SOTA-leading TENNs model.
Keep this in mind when rereading Olivier Coenen’s 6+month-old LinkedIn post that he titled “On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation”. While all the TENNs patents would highly likely have been assigned to the inventors’ employer, ie. BrainChip, our former Senior Research Scientist warned of the potential consequences when crucial staff are not retained:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_on-the-importance-of-talent-and-expertise-activity-7314016757499711489-gCAg?
“Patents, while valuable, are often meaningless without the continued involvement and expertise of the individuals who created them. True innovation is fundamentally driven by talent, knowledge and experience - not merely by patents alone. Investing in people is equally, if not more, important than investing in technology itself.”
Only time will tell whether or not he will be right with respect to TENNs.
One thing is indisputable, though: there would be no TENNs models today without Olivier Coenen and Rudy Pei.
While our company may possibly attract equally gifted talent to replace those that are no longer employed with us (whatever the reason), no one should blame us shareholders, the co-owners of this company, to be concerned about the exodus of some of those brilliant minds who were instrumental in getting the company to where it is today thanks to their talent, passion, perspiration and perseverance, in an environment where they were able to flourish - at the time.
The recent return of Nikunj Kotecha is wonderful news, but doesn’t alter my opinion that the departure of numerous valuable experts has been an unfortunate loss for our company.
And I find it highly disrespectful of you, @Guzzi62, to dismiss Rudy Pei and Olivier Coenen as “some uninteresting ex employees”, thereby virtually ignoring their immensely valuable contributions to our company over the years.
And I’m not only referring to TENNs here. Let’s also not forget the USD 1.8 million AFRL award (of which USD 800,000 are payable to our subcontractor Raytheon/RTX). As I mentioned at the time of his sacking, it seems Olivier Coenen was instrumental in securing this SBIR II award and also served as the project’s PI:
Olivier Coenen - BrainChip | LinkedIn
I design neural networks from first principles. I blend mathematical physics, information… · Experience: BrainChip · Education: University of California, San Diego · Location: San Diego County · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Olivier Coenen’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of...
I'd advise everyone to listen to what our CTO Tony Lewis said about his (now ex-) colleagues 18 months ago during his presentation at NICE 2024 (Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference):
From 0:05 min:
"So a lot of the work that I'm gonna talk about is work, where the foundation was really made by two of my co-authors here - Rudy and Olivier. They laid the foundation to [?] this work a couple of years ago, and this is in turn based on other work that's been going on for 40 or 50 years. But we finally figured out a way of putting it all together and doing some kind of interesting things."
From 20:04 min:
"This polynomial space is really intriguing. And it would never have come into my knowledge set if I hadn't collaborated with the two physicists who are on my team."
And please also take a minute to read what Anil Mankar and Kris Carlson commented under another of Olivier Coenen’s LinkedIn posts, which he published shortly before the one I quoted above:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_innovation-is-often-viewed-as-driven-solely-activity-7313242078317056004-H8oU?
“Some uninteresting ex employees”? Seriously?
That’s plain ridiculous!
Food4 thought
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Well said, @bludybludblud.
And @Guzzi62 is doing them injustice, seemingly blind to their major contributions over the years. Anyone who disagrees with me on this, please take the time to read the following:
Take a look at the names of the five inventors of BrainChip’s award-winning Eye-Tracking TENNs model. Sadly, our company will no longer benefit from this creative quintet’s synergistic mix of talents for future TENNs models:
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Sébastian Crouzet and Rudy Pei have since both left our company.
Five weeks ago, Olivier Coenen shared on LinkedIn that he was fired.
It looks as if we are also about to lose Sasskia Brüers-Freyssinet, judging from the changes she made in her LinkedIn profile shortly after Olivier Coenen was let go - all of a sudden, she uploaded a profile photo and changed her status to “Open To Work”.
That would leave Douglas McLelland as the only remaining-with-BrainChip inventor of this SOTA-leading TENNs model.
Keep this in mind when rereading Olivier Coenen’s 6+month-old LinkedIn post that he titled “On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation”. While all the TENNs patents would highly likely have been assigned to the inventors’ employer, ie. BrainChip, our former Senior Research Scientist warned of the potential consequences when crucial staff are not retained:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_on-the-importance-of-talent-and-expertise-activity-7314016757499711489-gCAg?
“Patents, while valuable, are often meaningless without the continued involvement and expertise of the individuals who created them. True innovation is fundamentally driven by talent, knowledge and experience - not merely by patents alone. Investing in people is equally, if not more, important than investing in technology itself.”
Only time will tell whether or not he will be right with respect to TENNs.
One thing is indisputable, though: there would be no TENNs models today without Olivier Coenen and Rudy Pei.
While our company may possibly attract equally gifted talent to replace those that are no longer employed with us (whatever the reason), no one should blame us shareholders, the co-owners of this company, to be concerned about the exodus of some of those brilliant minds who were instrumental in getting the company to where it is today thanks to their talent, passion, perspiration and perseverance, in an environment where they were able to flourish - at the time.
The recent return of Nikunj Kotecha is wonderful news, but doesn’t alter my opinion that the departure of numerous valuable experts has been an unfortunate loss for our company.
And I find it highly disrespectful of you, @Guzzi62, to dismiss Rudy Pei and Olivier Coenen as “some uninteresting ex employees”, thereby virtually ignoring their immensely valuable contributions to our company over the years.
And I’m not only referring to TENNs here. Let’s also not forget the USD 1.8 million AFRL award (of which USD 800,000 are payable to our subcontractor Raytheon/RTX). As I mentioned at the time of his sacking, it seems Olivier Coenen was instrumental in securing this SBIR II award and also served as the project’s PI:
Olivier Coenen - BrainChip | LinkedIn
I design neural networks from first principles. I blend mathematical physics, information… · Experience: BrainChip · Education: University of California, San Diego · Location: San Diego County · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Olivier Coenen’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of...
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I'd advise everyone to listen to what our CTO Tony Lewis said about his (now ex-) colleagues 18 months ago during his presentation at NICE 2024 (Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference):
From 0:05 min:
"So a lot of the work that I'm gonna talk about is work, where the foundation was really made by two of my co-authors here - Rudy and Olivier. They laid the foundation to [?] this work a couple of years ago, and this is in turn based on other work that's been going on for 40 or 50 years. But we finally figured out a way of putting it all together and doing some kind of interesting things."
From 20:04 min:
"This polynomial space is really intriguing. And it would never have come into my knowledge set if I hadn't collaborated with the two physicists who are on my team."
And please also take a minute to read what Anil Mankar and Kris Carlson commented under another of Olivier Coenen’s LinkedIn posts, which he published shortly before the one I quoted above:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_innovation-is-often-viewed-as-driven-solely-activity-7313242078317056004-H8oU?
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“Some uninteresting ex employees”? Seriously?
That’s plain ridiculous!
Should I be concerned about the companies future
Do we have the ability and knowledge to get contracts with out tenns.
That’s why the rollout of the chips
We are deep in the shit by the sounds of it.
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