Hey FactFinder, I think that might be a case of Intel, pulling the rug out from under us, with NASA.
Not because Loihi is better than AKIDA, because it's not (currently).
I wouldn't be surprised, if Intel had offered NASA, monetary "incentives" to use Loihi.
So far, the source says only about the mini-PC NUC Intel seems to have returned to the practice of unfair competition. Recall, more than 10 years ago, the company was found guilty of bribing PC manufacturers and large stores in one way or another so that they used and sold exclusively Intel...
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"Intel seems to have returned to the practice of unfair competition. Recall, more than 10 years ago, the company was found guilty of bribing PC manufacturers and large stores in one way or another so that they used and sold exclusively Intel products"
The above article, in just conjecture at this stage, but is from 2020.
Intel has been previously convicted of anti-competition practices and has a long history of it.
NASA, isn't that important to us, in a monetary sense, but the marketing value of being associated with them, is priceless.
The fact that NASA, may not need the tech "immediately", gives Intel the "in", to push Loihi, with a little under the table footsies..
I hope it's not the case, that they have stopped working with us, for that reason.
But the possibility is there..
All governments are corrupt.
My opinions only.
GLTA!