Sam
Nothing changes if nothing changes
And are we Asia pacific….. asking for a friendAll I know is that I want one!
All I know is that I want one!
And are we Asia pacific….. asking for a friendAll I know is that I want one!
All I know is that I want one!
Well im married with a kid so pornhub gets a fair run..... but not sure the electricity grid needs to pay the price... lolHave you closed all the apps running in background?
Have you tried rooting your phone?Well im married with a kid so pornhub gets a fair run..... but not sure the electricity grid needs to pay the price... lol
Sounds like the doorbell is already for sale.
I assume a product such as this wouldn't have the long lead development time like smart phones and vehicles.
I have concluded my discussions and am able to confirm that my statement of the facts surrounding this agreement are correct.From the poetic to the business side of things:
The first, important thing to say is that I have not formed a concluded view about todays announcement regarding the agreement to settle with the former Board member and chairperson by the grant of 8 million options to avoid some possible legal issue that had arisen between the parties.
The announcement this morning is for me opaque without further information and I have commenced a dialogue with the company to see what further information they are able or willing to supply.
The second thing I did was proceed to the last Annual Report as I thought the 8 million options being granted in the agreement was the amount I last read as being applicable to the former Chairperson. The following is the extract from the Annual Report covering this issue:
"Balance at beginning of period 1 January 2021
Granted as remuneration Exercised Net change other (1) Balance at end of period 31 December 2021
Vested and exercisable
E Hernandez 8,000,000" (until 2024)
The third thing I did was to confirm my memory that the former Chairperson had been one of the Board members who had agreed when the companies back was too the financial wall to waive any additional directors fees for taking on the roll of Chairperson in the companies hour of need.
So from the Annual Report and other releases by the company it can be seen that the former Chairperson had shown loyalty and support to the company in the past and that the 8 million options the subject of this agreement were already vested and exercisable.
From other discussions here and research at the time it was established that upon exercising the options under US Tax law a tax liability would be incurred.
As others have pointed out the decision to step down and resign the Chairperson's role facilitated the restructure of the company's Board as it moved to the new commercial phase of its operations.
I do not know with certainty but it seems as though the Chairman was once again acting in the best interests of the company and shareholders in standing aside as he did to allow the strategic plan of the Board and KMP to be given effect.
As I said I have commenced a dialogue with the company and have not formed a concluded view but it would appear that the only concession that the former Chairperson was seeking and will receive is a delay in exercising the options and in obtaining that delay put off to a later date which would have otherwise been 2024, his liability to pay tax on 8 million shares.
The willingness of the company to accommodate the former Chairperson could be seen as an acknowledgment of his support during very difficult financial times by not taking his full entitlements as they then were and in stepping down to allow the new strategic phase of the company to proceed.
I have a suspicion that there might have been an informal agreement to extend the exercise date of the vested options but after the option date had passed contrary advice was received by the company to the effect that this was ultra vires the power given to the company under their constitution and so the legal risk was that the former Chairperson would have an action in breach of contract to recover the 8 million options or damages he having been promised an extension of the date to exercise if he resigned.
If I am correct this has not cost shareholders one single penny as the options had vested and could have been taken up and the current agreement is avoiding the cost of legal proceedings.
However as I have said I will wait on the further information that I may receive before arriving at a concluded view.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
Sounds an odd way of fixing a tech device?Have you tried rooting your phone?
To remove unwanted apps.
Let's hope he believes in the future of Brainchip and his intention is to hold onto his shares until at least $10.I have concluded my discussions and am able to confirm that my statement of the facts surrounding this agreement are correct.
I can also add that the former Chairperson in addition to waiving his entitlement to additional director fees after stepping in when Stephen Wilkes suddenly resigned as Chairperson also after the LDA Capital agreement was secured and the companies finances were stabilised declined a Board offer to reimburse him the waived fees.
Further that he approached the company to extend saying that he was concerned that in the present market conditions that his sale of at least 4 million of his 8 million entitlement to meet his taxation obligations would have an adverse impact on shareholder and market confidence.
By not exercising and selling as he was entitled to do he has been placed in a less favourable tax position by agreeing to receive the 8 million RSU in lieu.
I have absolutely no issue with the decision of the company on this occasion and support the view expressed by many others that this is further evidence of the high ethical standards by which the Board and KMP carry out their obligations to the company, it’s employees and shareholders.
In addition I have read every post here and at HC on this issue and there is one truth that is conveniently being ignored by the usual suspects.
The truth which they are ignoring is that these options had VESTED. The former Chairperson was legally entitled to convert and sell the 8 million resulting shares on market.
This action proposed to shareholders will not cost Brainchip or its shareholders one additional cent.
If it is not clear from the forgoing I will be voting for this motion and if necessary will speak in its favour at the meeting whenever that might occur.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
If we are going to speculate on what he thinks about the company prospects it is not unreasonable to conclude that he at least believes that the shares will be at least their present value by the next AGM.Let's hope he believes in the future of Brainchip and his intention is to hold onto his shares until at least $10.
Hear Hear FF , totally agee this is well executed and is a win win for all incl us. It's a yes vote for me and I'm pressing golden buzzer (doorbell) knock knock @DiogeneseI have concluded my discussions and am able to confirm that my statement of the facts surrounding this agreement are correct.
I can also add that the former Chairperson in addition to waiving his entitlement to additional director fees after stepping in when Stephen Wilkes suddenly resigned as Chairperson also after the LDA Capital agreement was secured and the companies finances were stabilised declined a Board offer to reimburse him the waived fees.
Further that he approached the company to extend saying that he was concerned that in the present market conditions that his sale of at least 4 million of his 8 million entitlement to meet his taxation obligations would have an adverse impact on shareholder and market confidence.
By not exercising and selling as he was entitled to do he has been placed in a less favourable tax position by agreeing to receive the 8 million RSU in lieu.
I have absolutely no issue with the decision of the company on this occasion and support the view expressed by many others that this is further evidence of the high ethical standards by which the Board and KMP carry out their obligations to the company, it’s employees and shareholders.
In addition I have read every post here and at HC on this issue and there is one truth that is conveniently being ignored by the usual suspects.
The truth which they are ignoring is that these options had VESTED. The former Chairperson was legally entitled to convert and sell the 8 million resulting shares on market.
This action proposed to shareholders will not cost Brainchip or its shareholders one additional cent.
If it is not clear from the forgoing I will be voting for this motion and if necessary will speak in its favour at the meeting whenever that might occur.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
Love it FF. There is some SPECtacular SPECulations and I'm going to also speculate that while at work today i going to enjoy this weekends tse.If we are going to speculate on what he thinks about the company prospects it is not unreasonable to conclude that he at least believes that the shares will be at least their present value by the next AGM.
True speculation could take that one step further and allow for the view that he believes the CEO Sean Hehir will be favourably judged on his achievements at the 2023 AGM and that when the Board revisits the question of giving earnings guidance at that time it will agree that the company has progressed to a point where this is possible.
This would mean that the company had reached a point where earnings matched or exceeded expenses and future earnings were on a growth trajectory.
The final speculation is that as Chairperson he had access to information sufficient to come to these conclusions.
My opinion and speculation only so DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
Thank you for your thorough investigation of this matter and the sharing of your finding’s with the rest of the group.I have concluded my discussions and am able to confirm that my statement of the facts surrounding this agreement are correct.
I can also add that the former Chairperson in addition to waiving his entitlement to additional director fees after stepping in when Stephen Wilkes suddenly resigned as Chairperson also after the LDA Capital agreement was secured and the companies finances were stabilised declined a Board offer to reimburse him the waived fees.
Further that he approached the company to extend saying that he was concerned that in the present market conditions that his sale of at least 4 million of his 8 million entitlement to meet his taxation obligations would have an adverse impact on shareholder and market confidence.
By not exercising and selling as he was entitled to do he has been placed in a less favourable tax position by agreeing to receive the 8 million RSU in lieu.
I have absolutely no issue with the decision of the company on this occasion and support the view expressed by many others that this is further evidence of the high ethical standards by which the Board and KMP carry out their obligations to the company, it’s employees and shareholders.
In addition I have read every post here and at HC on this issue and there is one truth that is conveniently being ignored by the usual suspects.
The truth which they are ignoring is that these options had VESTED. The former Chairperson was legally entitled to convert and sell the 8 million resulting shares on market.
This action proposed to shareholders will not cost Brainchip or its shareholders one additional cent.
If it is not clear from the forgoing I will be voting for this motion and if necessary will speak in its favour at the meeting whenever that might occur.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
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Hi FF, as Lou indicated a couple of years ago with the quote “we don’t need China” and now this doc has come to light from the US fed.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.
Sounds like the doorbell is already for sale.
I assume a product such as this wouldn't have the long lead development time like smart phones and vehicles.
Ok im being very productive at work and I've noticed that Magikeye appear to have spruced up their webpage with the addition of a drone which i didn't notice before.
The drone appears to be a Falcon Drone by Easy Aerial. I find that interesting as they seem to have artificial intelligence so the Raptor and the Falcon Drone by Easy Aerial has got my interest, so i will slot them in my list of drones to watch along with the DJI Phantom 4.
Pic below is from Magikeye website
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