Puh-leeze!
Why did you have to dig out this misleading comparison once again, although I had already fact-checked it months ago? Well, here we go again:
In the “technical comparison” image you re-posted, Akida gets compared to Dynap-SEL, SynSense’s 2018 neuromorphic chip featuring “1k analog low-power spiking neurons and up to 80k configurable synaptic connections, including 8k synapses with integrated spike-based learning rules.”
Our next-generation neuromorphic chip, Powering Innovation with 1k Analog Neurons and 80k Configurable Synapses, Including Integrated Spike-Based Learning!
www.synsense.ai
You are evidently aware, though, that BMW are experimenting with SynSense’s fully event-driven neuromorphic vision SoC Speck for their smart cockpit occupant monitoring R&D. So why are you not comparing Akida to Speck instead, as you ought to (although I am not sure whether a direct comparison between AKD1000 and a smart vision processing SoC combining a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) and a neuromorphic processor, actually makes sense?)
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And to be fair, you should also factor in Speck’s competitive price tag at < 7 $ (presumably USD) that could easily tip the scales in SynSense’s favour, when potential customers who don’t mind doing business with a de facto-Chinese company consider Speck’s technical specifications “good enough“ for their envisaged use cases, even though AKD1000 boasts more than three times as many neurons as Speck (but not more than 1000x as many, as your comparison seems to suggest). They may not see the point in paying more for a product that could be described as “over-engineered” for their narrow use cases.
IMO, you are doing BrainChip no favour by cherry-picking a competitor’s far less capable neuromorphic mixed-signal chip for your apples and oranges-comparison. By doing so, you are totally exaggerating the parameter divide between Akida and the competition’s more advanced neuromorphic offerings, eg in SynSense’s case, the fully digital neuromorphic processor Dynap-CNN:
DYNAP™-CNN is world's first fully scalable, event-driven neuromorphic processor with 1M configurable spiking neurons and direct interface with external DVS.
www.synsense.ai
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What’s the point of unfairly disparaging the competition?
While we shareholders may wish for BrainChip to literally make EVERY sensor smart one day, the commercial reality will be that we will never gain 100% of the global market share. Regardless of any technological superiority.