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Well I have just waded my way through the recently released US enhanced controls regarding the supply of technology to China. It is a mind numbing task and in the real world if I was being paid to come up with a reliable definitive answer I would have had two copies printed out and lots of coloured markers and post it notes and multiple pieces of US legislation to refer to however my free just on the computer screen unreliable view is that Brainchip's AKIDA is included and likely to be refused a licence to export its technology to China now.
The following extract is what I base this unreliable view upon but I have included the link so you can spend a month or two becoming expert in all the nuance that this legislation intends. Clearly when drafting such national security legislation it is drafted in such as way as to ensure it can be widely interpreted to make sure that the US does not miss something which they later regret:
a.4. Any combination of digital processor units and `primitive computational units' whose calculations according to 3A090.a.1, 3A090.a.2, and 3A090.a.3 sum to 4800 or more.
Note: Integrated circuits specified by 3A090.a include graphical processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs), neural processors, in-memory processors, vision processors, text processors, co-processors/accelerators, adaptive processors, field-programmable logic devices (FPLDs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Examples of integrated circuits are in the Note to 3A001.a.
Technical Notes:
1. A `primitive computational unit' is defined as containing zero or more modifiable weights, receiving one or more inputs, and producing one or more outputs. A computational unit is said to perform 2N-1 operations whenever an output is updated based on N inputs, where each modifiable weight contained in the processing element counts as an input. Each input, weight, and output might be an analog signal level or a scalar digital value represented using one or more bits. Such units include:
— Artificial neurons
— Multiply accumulate (MAC) units
— Floating-point units (FPUs)
— Analog multiplier units
— Processing units using memristors, spintronics, or magnonics
— Processing units using photonics or non-linear optics
— Processing units using analog or multi-level nonvolatile weights
— Processing units using multi-level memory or analog memory
— Multi-value units
— Spiking units
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
PS: This is one of the other problems of becoming a member of the highly regulated BIG BANK index. The spotlight is always on you.
The following extract is what I base this unreliable view upon but I have included the link so you can spend a month or two becoming expert in all the nuance that this legislation intends. Clearly when drafting such national security legislation it is drafted in such as way as to ensure it can be widely interpreted to make sure that the US does not miss something which they later regret:
a.4. Any combination of digital processor units and `primitive computational units' whose calculations according to 3A090.a.1, 3A090.a.2, and 3A090.a.3 sum to 4800 or more.
Note: Integrated circuits specified by 3A090.a include graphical processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs), neural processors, in-memory processors, vision processors, text processors, co-processors/accelerators, adaptive processors, field-programmable logic devices (FPLDs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Examples of integrated circuits are in the Note to 3A001.a.
Technical Notes:
1. A `primitive computational unit' is defined as containing zero or more modifiable weights, receiving one or more inputs, and producing one or more outputs. A computational unit is said to perform 2N-1 operations whenever an output is updated based on N inputs, where each modifiable weight contained in the processing element counts as an input. Each input, weight, and output might be an analog signal level or a scalar digital value represented using one or more bits. Such units include:
— Artificial neurons
— Multiply accumulate (MAC) units
— Floating-point units (FPUs)
— Analog multiplier units
— Processing units using memristors, spintronics, or magnonics
— Processing units using photonics or non-linear optics
— Processing units using analog or multi-level nonvolatile weights
— Processing units using multi-level memory or analog memory
— Multi-value units
— Spiking units
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
PS: This is one of the other problems of becoming a member of the highly regulated BIG BANK index. The spotlight is always on you.
