BRN Discussion Ongoing

[equanimous]

Seeing as we are on the topic of energy and how Brainchip can support the Data centers as discussed in the Dell podcast.

Mind you the energy consumed in the data centers is very hush hush to the public...

• Data centres consume up to 10 per cent of all global energy production. In Australia its 4%.
• There are several options to save energy in data centres: virtualisation, ARM based processors, good practical management of facilities and implementing power usage effectiveness (PUE) targets
• A well-orchestrated energy strategy is key to success
• Cooling systems in data centres are large power guzzlers. Free cooling opportunities exist in many locations – Data centre managers need to decide whether they are going to use direct or indirect free cooling
• Data centre managers need to decide whether they are going to use direct or indirect free cooling
• Key processing tasks can be scheduled to take place after peak hours to save energy
• Future trends in data centre design and development include integrating cost-effective, sustainable energy solutions, including the use of renewables such as solar and wind for energy and seawater for cooling

Just in comparison

1. Bitcoin mining consumes roughly 0.5% of all energy consumption worldwide (2022).

Question to ponder is how much power can Akida save on edge devices each year?

According to an article published by Ars Technica, if you use Siri two or three times per day at an average of 63KB per instance, you might expect to use 126KB to 189KB per day, or 3.7 to 5.5MB per month. If you use the personal assistant between four and six times a day, that might work out to 252KB to 378KB per day, or 7.4 to 11MB per month. If you use it 10-15 times per day, you might end up using 630KB to 945KB per day, or 18.5 to 27.7MB per month.

Once this data is transferred by millions of users a day to the Apple cloud environment, it has been estimated by Jason Mars, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, that Siri requires about 168 times more processing capacity, space, and electrical power than a text-based search engine such as Google Search.

Siri requires 100 times more computing power than text-based Web searches | Biometric Update

Voice recognition will be used more with increasing use of mobile devices and wearables increasing data processing requirements that will reshape the Internet as we know it.

www.biometricupdate.com

Top Voice Search Statistics | Editor’s Choice​

• The latest data shows there are 4.2 billion digital voice assistants worldwide.
• Siri and Google Assistant are the most popular digital assistants, with 36% of users each.
• The entire voice recognition market was valued at $10.7 billion in 2020.
• Amazon Alexa was the top-rated voice platform in 2020 with 110.2 points.
• 68% of voice assistants users agree personal assistants make their lives easier.
• An average voice search result is just 29 words long.
• Around 46% of voice search users search for local businesses each day.
• Voice assistant users conduct 3.1 billion voice searches each month.
• 24% of Americans aged 18–29 own a smart speaker.

Voice Search Statistics 2024: Smart Speakers, VA, and Users | SerpWatch

Optimizing for voice search is highly beneficial for businesses. Check out our voice search statistics and learn about this latest trend.

serpwatch.io

 

[DingoBorat]

Listen from about 2:10
Jim Keller apparently is working on the most powerful processor ever that mimics the human brain and stat it will be much more revolutionary then the Internet. Words from Jordan P. I tend to listen to this bloke when he speaks.

Now what is this chip and how does it stack up to Akida? No matter what, it is more validation by industry veterans that we are on the right track!

Sounds like he's only just getting started..

Legendary Chip Designer Builds Team In B’luru | Bengaluru News - Times of India

Legendary chip designer Jim Keller is building a team in India as he works to develop a specialised chip to run AI programs.In an exclusive interacti

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Learning]

Seeing as we are on the topic of energy and how Brainchip can support the Data centers as discussed in the Dell podcast.

Mind you the energy consumed in the data centers is very hush hush to the public...

• Data centres consume up to 10 per cent of all global energy production. In Australia its 4%.
• There are several options to save energy in data centres: virtualisation, ARM based processors, good practical management of facilities and implementing power usage effectiveness (PUE) targets
• A well-orchestrated energy strategy is key to success
• Cooling systems in data centres are large power guzzlers. Free cooling opportunities exist in many locations – Data centre managers need to decide whether they are going to use direct or indirect free cooling
• Data centre managers need to decide whether they are going to use direct or indirect free cooling
• Key processing tasks can be scheduled to take place after peak hours to save energy
• Future trends in data centre design and development include integrating cost-effective, sustainable energy solutions, including the use of renewables such as solar and wind for energy and seawater for cooling

Just in comparison

1. Bitcoin mining consumes roughly 0.5% of all energy consumption worldwide (2022).

Question to ponder is how much power can Akida save on edge devices each year?

According to an article published by Ars Technica, if you use Siri two or three times per day at an average of 63KB per instance, you might expect to use 126KB to 189KB per day, or 3.7 to 5.5MB per month. If you use the personal assistant between four and six times a day, that might work out to 252KB to 378KB per day, or 7.4 to 11MB per month. If you use it 10-15 times per day, you might end up using 630KB to 945KB per day, or 18.5 to 27.7MB per month.

Once this data is transferred by millions of users a day to the Apple cloud environment, it has been estimated by Jason Mars, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, that Siri requires about 168 times more processing capacity, space, and electrical power than a text-based search engine such as Google Search.

Siri requires 100 times more computing power than text-based Web searches | Biometric Update

Voice recognition will be used more with increasing use of mobile devices and wearables increasing data processing requirements that will reshape the Internet as we know it.

www.biometricupdate.com

Top Voice Search Statistics | Editor’s Choice​

• The latest data shows there are 4.2 billion digital voice assistants worldwide.
• Siri and Google Assistant are the most popular digital assistants, with 36% of users each.
• The entire voice recognition market was valued at $10.7 billion in 2020.
• Amazon Alexa was the top-rated voice platform in 2020 with 110.2 points.
• 68% of voice assistants users agree personal assistants make their lives easier.
• An average voice search result is just 29 words long.
• Around 46% of voice search users search for local businesses each day.
• Voice assistant users conduct 3.1 billion voice searches each month.
• 24% of Americans aged 18–29 own a smart speaker.

Voice Search Statistics 2024: Smart Speakers, VA, and Users | SerpWatch

Optimizing for voice search is highly beneficial for businesses. Check out our voice search statistics and learn about this latest trend.

serpwatch.io

To add to your post equanimous,

AI Power Consumption Exploding

Exponential increase is not sustainable. But where is it all going?

semiengineering.com

(Akida to the far edge & beneficial Ai, to save the world!)

Learning
It's great to be a shareholder.

 

[Learning]

On the subject of Megachips,

Could these companies be customers of Megachips? It's behind a pay report, however they mention this.

MegaChips Corp (6875) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

This swot analysis features 7 companies, including Canon Inc, NEC Corp, CMK Corp, Noda Screen Company, Elna Co., Ltd., Nintendo Co Ltd, Synaptics Inc

www.researchandmarkets.com

It's great to be a shareholder.

 

[Townyj]

On the subject of Megachips,

Could these companies be customers of Megachips? It's behind a pay report, however they mention this.
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MegaChips Corp (6875) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

This swot analysis features 7 companies, including Canon Inc, NEC Corp, CMK Corp, Noda Screen Company, Elna Co., Ltd., Nintendo Co Ltd, Synaptics Inc

www.researchandmarkets.com

It's great to be a shareholder.

A report on Megachips and all those companies are mentioned...

Hmmmm i wonder...

 

[Murphy]

I can't wait until they have fully automated buses. And I've got to tell you it doesn't always pay to do good deeds.

I gave up my seat on the bus the other day for a blind man (blind Freddy?). Anyway that's how I lost my job ... as a bus driver.

LMAO........


If you don't have dreams, you can't have dreams come true!

 

[Murphy]

Congratulations I was pretty sure unless someone had AKIDA that they would never work out my last name from the ‘clues’ but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine someone could be so wide of the mark.

You deserve a prize but you will probably have to make do with a beverage of choice at next years AGM.

FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

It's not 'Rumplestiltskin' is it, my fact-filled friend??
P.S. Nice to see you back here. So, so missed, my friend.

If you don't have dreams, you can't have dreams come true!

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

I am going to do a Tech and throw out a clue ‘Spiking Neural Networks and Quantum Annealing’ with NASA.

This could be a ‘black hole’ or the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’.

No opinion yet still DMOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

"This could be a ‘black hole’ or the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’. "

These two phenomena may just turn out to be the same thing when viewed from the relative perspective's of conjoined universes.
'I'll have another thanks barkeep.' hic

 

[Space Cadet]

I have a solution.

There are a 1,000 billion in a trillion.

The combined value of superannuation in Australia is about 3.5 trillion dollars.

At any one time about 30% of that 3.5 trillion dollars is invested offshore which is approximately one trillion dollars.

So we create a Government Bond with a face value equivalent to the debt and require every institutional and government superannuation fund to buy a portion of the bond based on their funds value.

The bond will pay a minimum return of 5 percent which will be tax free in the funds so that it will be the equivalent of about 6 percent gross.

Fund managers will not be permitted to charge any fees to members against the earnings of the fund adding another couple of percent to the value of the returns bringing it to about 8% gross.

The Bond will be for at least 50 years during which time inflation will work its magic and the payments made by the Government to service the bond will remain in the hands of and enrich the Australian people.

The total value of the Australian Government debt at 30.6.22 was about $963 billion dollars.

Over the last 29 years the gross average return of superannuation growth funds has been about 8.2%.

It is a plan called nation building. Vote 1 Fact Finder for dictator.


FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

LOL. I've got it. Your last name is Palmer!

SC

 

[Deadpool]

LOL. I've got it. Your last name is Palmer!

SC

Cats out of the bag now Clive

 

[Mea culpa]

Pleased to meet you Mr Sued

Brilliant diversion from your own true identity Fred.

 

[Bravo]

I have lost years of my life correcting people with ‘no it’s a ‘u’ not an ‘o’ and there is a ‘d’ after ‘e’ and there is an ‘s’ on the end.’

Pleased to meet you Mr Sued

Was I the only one that heard this? There is a ‘d’ after ‘e’ and there is an ‘s’ on the end.’

 

[Bravo]

Which end?

The opposite one?

 

[Bravo]

Cheers

Yummy!

 

[Bravo]

Pleased to meet you Mr Sued

When the sh*t hits the fan
don’t get the blues
better call Saul
on 1800-SUED

It might cost a bunch
but you’ll be pleased as punch
that you trusted Mr Sued
with your legal issues

 

[cosors]

Hi FF,

With such clues, the 1000 eyes will try to guess your surname.

Learning.

For me he is still our James Bond. I also still wonder about the vacation spot. The stones in the water and shells give clues. But, we have a clear rule that is good and should last. It would be easier if he came to the board. Another dynamic

@Fact Finder I'm glad that you are well and that your community could help you too (Diogenese). Nevertheless, I would have found it good if you steer our darling. But in your own way you do that. Thank you for that!

 

[SharesForBrekky]

I have a last name which can be spelt and heard multiple ways despite it being a very mainstream conservative Anglo surname.

I have often wished that I had been blessed with a last name like ‘Jones’ or ‘Chan’.

I have lost years of my life correcting people with ‘no it’s a ‘u’ not an ‘o’ and there is a ‘d’ after ‘e’ and there is an ‘s’ on the end.’



FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Ahhh, so you should be known as Fact Fineders then. However, as you need a 'u' in your name, only New Zealanders are allowed to say your name, haha.

 

[Fact Finder]

What does it take to disrupt an existing paradigm? Perhaps MegaChip and its public disclosures can give us some guidance.

On the MegaChips thread @stuart888 posted the following:

“In a much more aggressive move, in mid-2020, founder and Chairman, Masahiro Shindo, identified AI/ML technology to be critical to Megachips’ future and asked the US operation to take a leadership position in moving the company in that direction.

MegaChips began an internal training program to allow a group of dedicated engineers to become experts in this important technology. The company made significant investments in the US to identify key partners, build relationships with local universities, and acquire key talent in this space. In 2021, the company made multi-million-dollar investments in two key AI/IP partners, Brainchip and Quadric, to bolster its offerings in the Edge AI market. The company is now positioned to make an aggressive move into the US ASIC market, using its skills in Edge AI as a key component of that move”

So in mid 2020 MegaChips commenced training a group of dedicated engineers at the same time that Brainchip was announcing its first EAP customers Ford Motors Corporation and Valeo.

I think we can now say wth confidence that MegaChips was an EAP in 2020.

MegaChips before buying a full IP licence invested close to two years in identifying the paradigm shift and training its staff noting “Chairman, Masahiro Shindo, identified AI/ML technology to be critical to Megachips’ future” and determined how this was to be embraced and implemented by MegaChips. This decision would not have been taken lightly or overnight so most likely was in contemplation back in 2019.

Remember Brainchip announced the release of AKIDA IP to select customers in June, 2019.

NINTENDO was 70% of MegaChips FUTURE in 2019 and it is hard to believe that it did not figure in MegaChips thinking where Ai/ML was concerned.

Then in October, 2021 MegaChip announced to its customers and the market generally that it was able to address customer requirements for the entire suite of Ai/Ml products from design to implementation.

Then in Brainchip’s 2022 half yearly report there appears about 2 million dollars in unexpected revenue which Brainchip advises primarily relates to IP licence fees.

If these licence fees have arrived via MegaChips then they relate to MegaChip customers at the very beginning of product development cycles.

As Nintendo account for 70% of MegaChips business I thought about the statement by the former CEO Mr. Dinardo in 2020 that there was an opportunity for AKIDA to appear in controllers.

If 70% of what you do everyday as an engineer at MegaChips relates to Nintendo products does it not make perfect sense when tasked with learning all about AKIDA technology and how it can be applied to and designed into customer technology that the technology that occupies 70% of your work day would be foremost in your contemplation.

It just makes sense in fact were it otherwise it would actually be irrational.

So I think based on what I have read that we will see a new product offering from Nintendo early in 2023 that will walk like our famous duck and it will be quaking so loud you will not be able to ignore it.

This new product from Nintendo was rumoured for release in March of 2022 but mysteriously did not appear and now is rumoured for release in March, 2023:

A New Nintendo Switch Model Isn't Releasing Before March 2023

A New Nintendo Switch Model Isn't Releasing Before March 2023

press-start.com.au

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fact Finder]

What does it take to disrupt an existing paradigm? Perhaps MegaChip and its public disclosures can give us some guidance.

On the MegaChips thread @stuart888 posted the following:

“In a much more aggressive move, in mid-2020, founder and Chairman, Masahiro Shindo, identified AI/ML technology to be critical to Megachips’ future and asked the US operation to take a leadership position in moving the company in that direction.

MegaChips began an internal training program to allow a group of dedicated engineers to become experts in this important technology. The company made significant investments in the US to identify key partners, build relationships with local universities, and acquire key talent in this space. In 2021, the company made multi-million-dollar investments in two key AI/IP partners, Brainchip and Quadric, to bolster its offerings in the Edge AI market. The company is now positioned to make an aggressive move into the US ASIC market, using its skills in Edge AI as a key component of that move”

So in mid 2020 MegaChips commenced training a group of dedicated engineers at the same time that Brainchip was announcing its first EAP customers Ford Motors Corporation and Valeo.

I think we can now say wth confidence that MegaChips was an EAP in 2020.

MegaChips before buying a full IP licence invested close to two years in identifying the paradigm shift and training its staff noting “Chairman, Masahiro Shindo, identified AI/ML technology to be critical to Megachips’ future” and determined how this was to be embraced and implemented by MegaChips. This decision would not have been taken lightly or overnight so most likely was in contemplation back in 2019.

Remember Brainchip announced the release of AKIDA IP to select customers in June, 2019.

NINTENDO was 70% of MegaChips FUTURE in 2019 and it is hard to believe that it did not figure in MegaChips thinking where Ai/ML was concerned.

Then in October, 2021 MegaChip announced to its customers and the market generally that it was able to address customer requirements for the entire suite of Ai/Ml products from design to implementation.

Then in Brainchip’s 2022 half yearly report there appears about 2 million dollars in unexpected revenue which Brainchip advises primarily relates to IP licence fees.

If these licence fees have arrived via MegaChips then they relate to MegaChip customers at the very beginning of product development cycles.

As Nintendo account for 70% of MegaChips business I thought about the statement by the former CEO Mr. Dinardo in 2020 that there was an opportunity for AKIDA to appear in controllers.

If 70% of what you do everyday as an engineer at MegaChips relates to Nintendo products does it not make perfect sense when tasked with learning all about AKIDA technology and how it can be applied to and designed into customer technology that the technology that occupies 70% of your work day would be foremost in your contemplation.

It just makes sense in fact were it otherwise it would actually be irrational.

So I think based on what I have read that we will see a new product offering from Nintendo early in 2023 that will walk like our famous duck and it will be quaking so loud you will not be able to ignore it.

This new product from Nintendo was rumoured for release in March of 2022 but mysteriously did not appear and now is rumoured for release in March, 2023:

A New Nintendo Switch Model Isn't Releasing Before March 2023

A New Nintendo Switch Model Isn't Releasing Before March 2023

press-start.com.au

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

On the paradigm shift Anil Mankar at the 2021 Ai Field Day was asked about whether Brainchip was undertaking ASIL certification for automotive use and he gave a definitive NO.

He stated it was too expensive and too drawn out a process and Brainchip was leaving this to its customers in this space.

Now if it takes the best part of four years for a technology paradigm shift in a game for kids big and small it just makes sense that Ford and Valeo are going to take longer when they also have to undertake ASIL certification.

Mercedes Benz 2024.

Valeo Lidar 2023 - 2024.

FORD - predicted to take control of the US EV market by 2025.
My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

PS: SiFive, ARM & Renesas are apparently engaged in something called mass market technology shipping billions of low powered intelligent semiconductors for boring use cases like mobile phones, PCs, switches, cameras and white goods so if you are into this type of boring everyday stuff knock yourself out. True dramatically cutting power use across all these areas could save humanity but just so boring.

EQXX is where it is at just look at what one sexy tourer did for the share price compared with ARM saturating the market.

No one is interested in mass market bring on the first AKIDA powered F100 super truck now that will get the share price hopping.

 

[Fact Finder]

A heads up @uiux has posted one of his must read posts on the NASA thread if you are into mass market space and military use of AKIDA technology.

My opinion only DYOR
FF



AKIDA BALLISTA