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[Bravo]

I must admit I don't really understand the logic behind Mercedes choosing to release information about Akida being used in the concept car for key word spotting, if it still wanted to keep the relationship largely under wraps. As Sean Hehir recently said, they are not allowed to talk about the relationship with Mercedes.

Why the need for secrecy since the cat is out of the bag now?

 

[Fox151]

I must admit I don't really understand the logic behind Mercedes choosing to release information about Akida being used in the concept car for key word spotting, if it still wanted to keep the relationship largely under wraps. As Sean Hehir recently said, they are not allowed to talk about the relationship with Mercedes.

Why the need for secrecy since the cat is out of the bag now?

Maybe the keyword spotting is a misdirection? Maybe it is so much bigger?

 

[Stable Genius]

I must admit I don't really understand the logic behind Mercedes choosing to release information about Akida being used in the concept car for key word spotting, if it still wanted to keep the relationship largely under wraps. As Sean Hehir recently said, they are not allowed to talk about the relationship with Mercedes.

Why the need for secrecy since the cat is out of the bag now?

Hi B,

I think it’s a case of just wanting to be the first company to say they are using us in their cars. That way when anyone else takes up the technology it will appear they are following Mercedes.

There was that question with Valeo a few months ago when they were asked if the were using Brainchip and they declined to answer. They said their IP may be disclosed in a few months. Valeo 2021 review for their shareholders is on 25th of this month so I’m hoping for something to be presented then. So maybe Mercedes were just wanting to get ahead of the competition with their announcement.

Whatever their reason I’m glad they did because they well and truly validated the technology globally!

 

[Shadow59]

I must admit I don't really understand the logic behind Mercedes choosing to release information about Akida being used in the concept car for key word spotting, if it still wanted to keep the relationship largely under wraps. As Sean Hehir recently said, they are not allowed to talk about the relationship with Mercedes.

Why the need for secrecy since the cat is out of the bag now?

Maybe Mercedes have been given the heads up by Brainchip that someone else will soon be making an announcement to the world, and Mercedes like to be No.1.

 

[Mugen74]

Nothing to see here people just the "friendly"HFTs helping out with liquidity and price discovery.Its not manipulation,its legal.SMH

 

[Mn2019]

Nothing to see here people just the "friendly"HFTs helping out with liquidity and price discovery.Its not manipulation,its legal.SMH View attachment 1045

I really cannot understand how ASIC does not stamp this out.

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

Yes, instead of being so mean!

I don't think Uiux is particularly mean.
Certainly a dogged and skilfully combative adversary and definitely a staunch ally and champion when we were being attacked and harassed unmercifully over at that other place.
Also a researcher par excellence who has revealed much to the rest of us.
Thank you Uiux for all you have deigned to share.

 

[Equitable]

Nothing to see here people just the "friendly"HFTs helping out with liquidity and price discovery.Its not manipulation,its legal.SMH View attachment 1045

LOL it will take a bit more than 3 shares at a time to provide liquidity.

 

[davidfitz]

Finally I can access this site from my work computer.

Not sure what has changed but I am so thankful as I was going stir crazy having to rely on that other site.

On days like these it helps to read the perspectives of like minded people who fully understand the potential of their investment in this exciting company.

 

[TechGirl]

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[HopalongPetrovski]

Hi all,

Isn’t Brainchip a great Australian success story with so much potential.

Wi Fi, Cochlear are another two fantastic Australian inventions taken global. I wish we lauded our scientists and inventors as much as our football players so more young minds were encouraged to follow that pathway! Imagine what could be achieved.


Regardless of the price movements today I am sure the great “Winning” Brainchip team will keep working hard. Brainchip will remain top of class and still the only commercial neuromorphic chip available.

The fundamentals of the business are strong. Any number of EAP’s could make an announcement at any time. So much in the pipleline over the next few years.

I am planning to hold until at least Xmas 2025 which is when I plan to take a little bit each year to live off of until I can touch my superannuation. I think by 2025 the little bit I skim off will be negligable to the principle. The early retirement will be worth it and my freedom from work responsibilites will be awesome!

I have no doubt that regardless of the short term price fluctions that my shares will be many times larger in 2025 than what they are now. So the daily SP movements are just white noise.

I’m an investor, not a speculator!

Good luck everyone and enjoy the day.

Yes, pretty much what I am doing starting in a few weeks when I actually finish up at work.
Probably only a couple of Mondays left.
Of course its disappointing to see us going backwards as we have been doing the last couple of days, but really feels like a tree shake to me.
Perhaps one of the last Hoorah's the shortee's and manipulators have left before one or a few of our expected announcements drop.
Then it will be off to the races again.
Been in our wonderful stock for 7 or 8 years now so am definitely feeling a bit of Deja Vu atm.
Holding tight and not concerned in the least.
We have strong roots and will easily weather this little storm in a stockbrokers teacup.
AKIDA BALLISTA
AKIDA EVERYWHERE
GLTAH

 

[Fact Finder]

Thank you @Fact Finder As always when ever we have bit of a miss with our SP and feeling bit worried your writing on the walls pops up and the hope comes back and mind gets settle.
But at the same time we need to hear something from BRN team as well. I was thinking as a investor/shareholder it normal to get worried when the SP keeps sliding and you think is it the repeat of same thing that happened before. As a shareholder we came as a strong community and many here been topping up and keeping our faith on BRN intact. But I guess its about time to hear some good news from BRN team as well don't you think so.
thank you

Hi Baisyet
Don’t get me wrong I love it when Brainchip or any of the companies we are invested in delivers good news.

But where Brainchip is concerned I am not fixed to the idea that good news only comes via the ASX.

Someone posted earlier that the last good news was MegaChips and that was three months ago. That poster should have added the last good news via an ASX announcement perhaps but even then this would not have been accurate as we have had:

1. The 4C only a couple of weeks ago showing the Revenue increase from $100,000 to $1 million.

2. The earlier notice that the LDA Capital put option exercise at record BRN share prices to raise $15 million.

3. The appointment of a world class Head of Marketing.

4. The appointment of a world class Non Executive Director Pia Turcinov

5. The successful completion of testing of AKD1000.

6. The release of the three different AKIDA based products for purchase concluding with full commercialisation and volume production of AKD1000.

7. Multiple patent grants.

8. The US Airforce Research project.

9. The grant of DTC Eligibility.

10. The Top 20 Shareholder list confirming German institutions have been buying up Brainchip shares.

Then we come to not announced on the ASX information and how much better can it get than having Mercedes Benz acknowledging the brilliance of Brainchip’s AKIDA technology and the CEO of Brainchip saying in one video Mercedes is a customer and in the next saying he is not permitted by Mercedes to talk about the relationship.

Well some might think it did get better because Rob Telson Vice President of World Wide Sales said NASA is looking at vision and other applications which he is not allowed to talk about and Anil Mankar confirmed that NASA would require it on 90 nm.

So it is untrue to say it has been three months since a good ASX announcement or any news.

The truth is when the share price moves down investors become nervous and this nervous makes for impatience but it is always important to realise this and look to the facts.

When I was cross examining I became aware that humans and time are strange bed fellows. We all believe we can judge a long time and a short time but we cannot.

In the law the longer you have to observe something the more reliable you will be considered to be as a witness. So under cross examination I would try to tie the witness down to seconds or minutes. Once they were locked in I would ask them to watch the court room clock second hand for that stated period of time. Even 20 seconds seems an exceptionally long time in that situation and usually they would concede that the time they witnessed the event was not that long.

The point is under stress time drags. When the price drops and you see your investment diminish you are under stress. Time drags and distorts. It is just another of our human flaws. In high school science they used to teach that human skin is an unreliable temperature sensor. Unlike AKIDA we are not perfect.

So my short answer is while I love good announcements I am not hanging out for one nor am I worried AS NOTHING HAS CHANGED EXCEPT the markets are worried about Russia and interest rates.

Brainchip is not based in the Ukraine and does not have any debt. So as I say I am not worried.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[out_ales]

Callisto is a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco. The custom, space-grade hardware features innovative technology that allows Alexa to function without an internet connection and Webex to provide a video-conferencing function that is quite literally out of this world.

The Callisto technology demonstration payload has been integrated into the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I uncrewed mission to the Moon and will test and demonstrate potential uses of technology for deep space voice and video communications.

I have not heard much about BRN's NASA work for over a year and now on a recent contract award I read about Alexa not needing an internet connection.

Does anyone have an inkling ?

 

[luvlifetravel]

Thanks for sharing. Fabulous fun video all in laymens terms

 

[mkm109]

Yes to all of the above but Australians themselves have embraced this sport above all things. The tall poppy syndrome has never been applied to our sportsmen. Sportswomen a different story. Dawn Frazer being a classic example.

When I was 16 my father knew Henry Jones of IXL and got me a school holiday job on the line at his jam factory off Parramatta Road near Camperdown Sydney.

My job was AKIDA like. It was to pick out the damage fruit and throw it into a bin for jam making.
When a bin was full being a male I had to replace it with an empty bin and push the full bin to another part of the factory empty it and bring it back and rejoin the line.

I was quite enjoying the work and trying to get to the same picking speed of some of the ladies on the line.

As I was pushing my third bin out of nowhere I was tapped on the shoulder by the union rep and told in no uncertain terms to slow down as I was breaking down conditions and to watch the others and be no faster.

By the end of the day I thought I was walking backwards and when my father picked me up on his way home I told him I was embarrassed to go back and why.

Not many years later IXL was bought out asset stripped and the brand sold overseas on the basis that the company was unproductive and could not compete.

I am not saying it was that one union officials fault but we had then and still prevailing an us and them view of capital and labour. The worker is good the boss is bad mentality and tall poppies need to be chopped down to size.

When I visited Hong Kong for the first time in 1996 I found an entirely different energy and mind set.

If a journalist had written in 1996 the line “if it was any good it would not be listed in Hong Kong” they would have been tarred and feathered the person.

There is something fundamentally wrong here and it needs to change in my opinion because Australia does have some of the greatest minds doing amazing if not unbelievable things but until they are recognised by some overseas entity Australians seem unable to give them the recognition they deserve.

Brainchip is a current case in point. Look at the change in attitude simply because Mercedes said what we here already knew.

Think about how we all myself included speak about the desire for NASA validation.

This is a once in a lifetime technology advance produced here in Australia and we know this and we are holding a part ownership of this marvellous advance. Australia is the lucky country but on this occasion we are lucky Australians to have become involved with Brainchip at this stage in its success. All we have to do is hold onto our shares.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Agree totally, I can recollect too many cases similar to the one you posted.
With the Union attitudes it is accepted in Australia that AU products are inferior to overseas products.

In the company I work for we tried selling our new product in AU but found resistance and a constant question of "Who else is using it ....come back when you have other customers.."
So our first sales ended up being overseas. Much more accepting customers. Focus on the product, not who else is using it.
So after 2-3 years we have started selling in Au again. After answering the same questions, "..who else is using it?" and being able to quote overseas company names and the millions of $ that they are saving over the last 1-2 years, we are now making sales in AU.
The cost of this attitude by the AU companies is 2-3 years of lost opportunity, in the millions per annum.
At least we succeeded, how many AU companies fail because of this attitude, and how many leave AU and never come back?

 

[MaxwellAnne]

You may want to have a look at the documentary movie "The Magnitsky Act" and you my form a different view about Mr Browder?

Thanks @Boab I will be sure to have a look at it

 

[Baisyet]

Hi @Fact Finder there is a reason why I say respected to you and others. It comes from my heart when i say Respected Fact Finder and I do mean it. I am not taking it wrong. And thank you once again as always giving us the light to see end of the tunnel. BTW I have got my son into buying BRN, tow of my brother in law and yes as a human being this mind and heart do get bit stress but at the same time thought why not top it too.
I got full faith on our BRN Team
Much respect :

 

[Fact Finder]

Agree totally, I can recollect too many cases similar to the one you posted.
With the Union attitudes it is accepted in Australia that AU products are inferior to overseas products.

In the company I work for we tried selling our new product in AU but found resistance and a constant question of "Who else is using it ....come back when you have other customers.."
So our first sales ended up being overseas. Much more accepting customers. Focus on the product, not who else is using it.
So after 2-3 years we have started selling in Au again. After answering the same questions, "..who else is using it?" and being able to quote overseas company names and the millions of $ that they are saving over the last 1-2 years, we are now making sales in AU.
The cost of this attitude by the AU companies is 2-3 years of lost opportunity, in the millions per annum.
At least we succeeded, how many AU companies fail because of this attitude, and how many leave AU and never come back?

The recent carry on over the Ash Barty sip of beer on television was outrageous when male sport here is dominated by the shoeiee. Not sure of the spelling but drinking from a shoe popularised by the Australian Formula 1 male driver and now followed by just about every male sporting code. FF

 

[Fact Finder]

Callisto is a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco. The custom, space-grade hardware features innovative technology that allows Alexa to function without an internet connection and Webex to provide a video-conferencing function that is quite literally out of this world.

The Callisto technology demonstration payload has been integrated into the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I uncrewed mission to the Moon and will test and demonstrate potential uses of technology for deep space voice and video communications.

I have not heard much about BRN's NASA work for over a year and now on a recent contract award I read about Alexa not needing an internet connection.

Does anyone have an inkling ?

Just have a mental block Homeales but yesterday someone mentioned Brainchip making unconnected Alexa possible. Need so help here 1000 eyes. FF

 

[Diogenese]

Here are three interesting Facts:

Fact One.

San Francisco – October 24, 2017 BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (“BrainChip” or the “Company”) (ASX:BRN), a leading developer of software and hardware accelerated solutions for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications, today announced that it has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer.
As the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system, the shipment of BrainChip Accelerator is a significant milestone in neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated for use in Advanced Driver Assisted (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) applications.
The shipment follows the launch of BrainChip Accelerator on 10th September 2017.
BrainChip Accelerator increases the performance of object recognition provided by BrainChip Studio software and algorithms. The low-power accelerator card can detect, extract and track objects using a proprietary SNN technology. It provides a 7x improvement in images/second/watt, compared to traditional convolutional neural networks accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
Bob Beachler, BrainChip’s Senior Vice President for Marketing and Business Development, said: “This is an exciting first evaluation of BrainChip Accelerator that was released just last month. Our spiking neural network provides instantaneous “one-shot” learning, is fast at detecting, extracting and tracking objects, and is very low-power. These are critical attributes for automobile manufacturers processing the large amounts of video required for ADAS and AV applications. We look forward to working with this world-class automobile manufacturer in applying our technology to meet its requirements.”

Fact Two.

Mercedes-Benz Media

Exklusive Einblicke und individuelle Angebote: Erleben Sie mit Mercedes-Benz das Maximum aus digitaler Live-PR. Exclusive insights and individual offers: Experience the maximum of digital live PR with Mercedes-Benz.

group-media.mercedes-benz.com

Fact Three.

Mercedes engineers worked with California-based artificial-intelligence developer BrainChip to create systems based on the company’s Akida hardware and software. Among other things, the technology makes the “Hey, Mercedes” voice control system in the EQXX five to ten times more efficient than conventional voice control.
Mercedes acknowledges that while neuromorphic computing is still in its infancy, it says similar systems will be available in a variety of consumer products within a few years. And when applied at scale throughout an electric vehicle, neuromorphic computing has the potential to significantly reduce the energy needed to run the latest artificial intelligence technologies.

I am hopeful that the link at Fact Two will work. If it does it will take you to a press release by Mercedes in 2019, a little over a year after being shipped the Brainchip accelerator stating that Mercedes has settled on standards for implementation of Artificial Intelligence.

If you follow through the progression there does seem to have been a significant relationship between Brainchip and Mercedes culminating in the disclosure that Mercedes is using AKIDA technology as the base for running the latest artificial intelligence technologies.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Hi FF,

The dates dovetail nicely with the "Hey Mercedes!" patent I cited above:

US11151441B2 System and method for spontaneous machine learning and feature extraction - priority 8 February 2017.

I guess this was in the form of a FPGA.

For all the doubters (over in the other place - we don't have any here), LDN set this up.