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Awesome response and history from FF on this question posed above. Also to add on to this conversation and this is my experience and perspective.... if you are a IT hardware/IP developer you don’t want to be just used as research hardware.Hi FF, my minds in a bit of a quandary in regard to Intel's ( Loihi ) and IBM's ( TrueNorth ) and there usefulness only as research hardware ?. Are they both still being developed further, and could still be contenders, ( competition ) as they are or could be, ??.
For years it has been stated that these neuromorphic chips won't have any commercial value to fabricate, and sell and are only useful for research purposes. As one notable professor often muttered, ( why is it so ? )
Wouldn't Akida itself be more than useful as a research candidate ( because it's more powerful etc ) than the Intel or IBM offering, particularly as it has much more features, ( useful features ) and is far and away considered more ( state of the art, so to speak ) leading edge than the other 2 offerings.
Also, because the Loihi and TrueNorth processors won't ever be considered worthy of commercialization, ( and only worthy for research purposes ) doesn't this mean that Akida is the front runner both for research and as a commercial ( in the " first to market" sense ) solution.
I must be missing something, the boss ( i.e. she who must be obeyed ) often picks me up on the somethings in life that we come across and the missings of same. It's not unusual. ( to be loved my anyone )
Just thought I'd put this concern ( not a worrying one, hopefully ) out there ( and is not a daft query ) for some comment from all/any of the technical wizkids ( that appear to be in abundance, on these threads ). I'll just sleep better for having this quandary removed from my thought processes for good.
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This is a general clear sign that the tech is “not fully working as we would like yet” and “still in development”...ie “its got some bugs”
I come from the ICT world and the view to me of a hardware vendor just placing their new tech out in the world for “research use” screams that this tech is really just at “proof of concept” stage and they don’t guarantee anything about it as yet. So they are saying use it (most likely for free) and have fun but it may have problems and we don’t really support it fully but let us know about the problems so we can then fix them all as we go.
Brainchip have achieved “fully tested” and “production” status and to achieve that for bleeding edge AI tech is very difficult and time consuming(as most of us know now) and It now places Akida in a whole other league.
So it is great to get into universities and research groups now for Brainchip (while not generating much dollars) this will help generate the value of being an “industry standard” or “best practice” and is available for production/commercial use is one of the biggest benefits.
Intel and IBM have not yet achieved what Brainchip has as their chips are not finalised/solved to even start many rounds of “production testing” and has not achieved the final state of “production ready” status so it can be released to the world for real world commercial use.
Would a Uni prefer to study a theoretic product or a real world commercial product.
Saturation of Brainchips products are occurring now....how many NDA’s ...how many high profile names associated now or broken cover to basically say there is a best practice hardware to use for Neuromorphic computing ....it’s Brainchip. This to me means the Uni’s will literally be chasing down Brainchip products for use in classes over time as their is no substitute for the smarts or anything else in true production that comes close.