BRN Discussion Ongoing

[buena suerte :-)]

Well ... My thinking is that we still have a VERY close relationship and a HUGE future with MB (No doubting that at all) I know this article is from April of this year but it's just a reminder of what was announced back in January!! and on that note I think we were extremely lucky to have had MB come out and publicly state that .. Akida is installed in the Concept car EQXX from Mercedes ... you couldn't get more of an endorsement and huge exposure from a World automobile leader for AKIDA than that! If MB were not 100% happy they would not have released that statement! With MB we know for a fact that we are a partner and maybe they are already testing the New Akida 2.0 as maybe many other big players are too! So who knows news/updates from our newest member of the Brain Fam could be released SOON!! Looking forward to the 4C anytime now.. but most probably next Thurs/Fri 27th/28th? ​

Have a great week Chippers

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MERCEDES PARTNER BRAINCHIP WITH THE NEXT COLLABORATION​

Probably one of the most exciting listed chip newcomers is BrainChip. The Australian technology company is working on solutions in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Akida chip is the Company's current flagship product. It is a neuromorphic processor. It is said to be very close to the workings of the brain and thus, in particular, very energy-efficient. BrainChip sees applications in autonomous driving, IoT devices, robotics, medical diagnostics and security technology. The Australians caused a sensation at the turn of the year when it became known that Akida is installed in the Concept car EQXX from Mercedes and, among other things, makes the "Hey, Mercedes" voice control up to ten times more efficient than conventional voice control. There were also reports of interest on the part of the US Air Force. As a result, the share price exploded to EUR 1.20. In the context of the general weakness on the stock markets, the price returned to EUR 0.60. Operationally, the Company continues to step on the gas.

Most recently, BrainChip reported a cooperation with nViso SA. The Swiss company says its technology is the only one capable of analyzing human behavior signals such as facial expressions, emotions, identity, head posture, gaze, gestures, activities and objects with which users interact. In robotics and vehicle applications, human behavior analysis detects the user's emotional state to provide personalized, adaptive, interactive and safe devices and systems. This technology will be integrated into BrainChip's Akida processors. The partners see initial applications in the area of robots and surveillance systems. BrainChip CEO Sean Hehir said, "nViso's AI systems for analyzing human behavior offer fascinating possibilities in homes, cars, buildings, hospitals and more. We are excited to support these capabilities with BrainChip's processing power and energy efficiency." This may not have been the last interesting news from BrainChip this year.

 

[Bigfella195]

My personal theory and that is all it is is that the first model released with Brainchip involved will be a high range electric vehicle show casing Mercedes Benz technology leap ahead of the competition.

The target range will be 800 kilometres plus.

It will be the car that thinks like you.

It will be the car that learns and adapts to you.

It will be the car taking full advantage of the JAST learning rules owned by…?…that does one shot, few shot, incremental learning securely on chip without connection.

There is only one chip and one company in the WORLD that offers this technology.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Not sure why so many sad face emoji’s?

Crack the champagne team - We have become a market product!!!

Hey Mercedes: very powerful voice assistant
The "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant is highly capable of dialogue and learning by activating online services in the Mercedes me App. Moreover, certain actions can be performed even without the activation keyword "Hey Mercedes". These include taking a telephone call. "Hey Mercedes" also explains vehicle functions, and, for example, can help when asked how to connect a smartphone via Bluetooth or where the first-aid kit can be found.
If compatible home technology and household devices are present, they can also be networked with the vehicle thanks to the smart home function and controlled from the vehicle by voice. "Hey Mercedes" can also detect occupants audibly. Once the individual voice characteristics have been learned, this can be used to access personal data and functions by activating a profile.


This is from the media PDF that has been sent out.

 

[Dhm]

Sony together with Prophesee have produced an Event Based Vision Sensor and we have a strong liklihood that Akida is embedded within the product. This is not necessarily new to the 1000 Eyes but it is good to review and remind ourselves how good it is to be shareholders.

It is however, over a year old.

Sony says in their press release:
https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/new...+-+IMX636-637+launch&utm_id=IMX636-637+launch

Lots of Brainchip style jargon mentioned in this video....

 

[Mugen74]

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/chinas-semiconductor-industry-rocked-by-us-export-controls/news-story/a5b46fb3cfd2651be23a549c38b3e2d6

 

[Diogenese]

Little more background.

This looks like could be him based on profile pic and Rigpa article pic.

Mike Xiaoyu Huang

PhD Fellow, University of Edinburgh - Cited by 60 - Neuromorphic Computing - Spiking Neural Networks - Chip Design

scholar.google.com

Is apparently SNN.

Was working with Steve Furber at Manchester at one point. Sure I've seen his name around before.

Also had funding from US DTRA.




This new brain-inspired chip is 23 times faster and needs 28 times less energy

It was 2009 when Mike Huang first knew he wanted to become a chip design engineer, as he developed a 16-bit microprocessor from scratch with his classmates in his university lab.

Soon, Huang grew interested in understanding how the mind works — and “as an engineer, to understand and prove how the mind works is to effectively reverse engineer the brain,” he says. He reached out to Professor Steve Furber at the University of Manchester, who was designing a supercomputer with 1 million ARM cores that draws inspiration from the communication architecture of the brain, and started working closely with him.

A decade later, Huang has just developed a brain-inspired microchip that could process large amounts of data faster and with lower power, improving performance and energy efficiency for AI applications.

“The technology itself closely mimics how biological neural networks work compared to conventional AI solutions,” Huang says.

Huang first created the chip as part of his PhD in Neuromorphic Computing at the University of Edinburgh School of Engineering, funded by UK-based radiation detection company Kromek and the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). He then launched a startup, Rigpa, and joined Cohort IV at Conception X to learn how to commercialise his technology.

The problem Huang originally set out to solve was to reduce power consumption and inference times compared to traditional chip architectures. He achieved this by designing a spiking neural network chip to accelerate the next generation of AI — efficient, sustainable and human brain-like.

“GPUs are an old technology — they were originally designed for video games,” Huang says. “The median GPU consumes a huge amount of power. Just think that the latest neural network model GPT-3 generated 552 metric tons of carbon dioxide during training — that’s the CO2 emissions the average American produces over more than 34 years. It’s not a sustainable solution.”

Rigpa’s technology achieves 28 times less power consumption and 23 times faster inference speed than conventional architectures, with key applications in situations that require reliable, real-time computation — think computer vision, drones, smart home appliances, self-driving cars, wearables, high-frequency trading and more.


“National security is a good example of how this technology could be used,” Huang says. “Imagine a police officer working in counterterrorism who’s equipped with a handheld radiation detector connected to their mobile phone, which processes the data from the detector. Rigpa’s new chip can be integrated directly into the detector so that everything happens in there, and the phone is no longer needed.”

At Conception X, Huang learned how to turn blue sky ideas into something tangible. “Conception X has helped to sharpen my mindset. I’m still doing research, but it’s completely different from one year ago,” he says. “Before, I wasn’t sure when or how this technology would be useful. Now, I know in which direction to go and I’m constantly thinking about how a new piece of research I’m working on will feed into my technology.”

Rigpa plans to launch its product on the market in 2024, when demand for neuromorphic technologies is set to take off, and is currently looking to raise.

Great sleuthing Fmf,

This is a paper Huang published disclosing his SNN.


https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2010/2010.13125.pdf

It appears that one reason why it is slower than Akida is that it is clocked rather than asynchronous:

Each neuron in the same layer triggered by the same presynaptic neuron, is processed one-by-one in a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) manner. The sequence of the operations and data flow are managed by the state machine in the Control Logic block. As shown in Fig. 5, to handle the worst case of back-to-back spikes from the hidden layer, 9 cycles of delay are added after each spike fire event of any neurons in hidden layer to allow sufficient time for the 9 cycles needed by TDM process of 8 neurons in the output layer.

 

[Quercuskid]

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/chinas-semiconductor-industry-rocked-by-us-export-controls/news-story/a5b46fb3cfd2651be23a549c38b3e2d6

Totally agree!

 

[Fact Finder]

Oh my goodness my entire share portfolio is currently down $625.00. That’s right 62,500 cents where will it all end. Boring flat day at this stage. The WANCA’s must be tearing their hair out.

 

[buena suerte :-)]

Nice to see the BUY side looking a bit healthier!

654 buyers for 6,459,174 units

390 sellers for 4,490,809 units

 

[Quercuskid]

Oh my goodness my entire share portfolio is currently down $625.00. That’s right 6,250 cents where will it all end. Boring flat day at this stage. The WANCA’s must be tearing their hair out.

Mines up lol thanks to a few patrys and their amazing announcement today!

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Great sleuthing Fmf,

This is a paper Huang published disclosing his SNN.


https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2010/2010.13125.pdf

View attachment 19110
It appears that one reason why it is slower than Akida is that it is clocked rather than asynchronous:

Each neuron in the same layer triggered by the same presynaptic neuron, is processed one-by-one in a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) manner. The sequence of the operations and data flow are managed by the state machine in the Control Logic block. As shown in Fig. 5, to handle the worst case of back-to-back spikes from the hidden layer, 9 cycles of delay are added after each spike fire event of any neurons in hidden layer to allow sufficient time for the 9 cycles needed by TDM process of 8 neurons in the output layer.

Thanks D

I try to never discount potential competition in so much as not necessarily better than us but just a possible direct player in our space if a close product.

We know a lot of the other pretenders out there are actually different, general AI etc, or run a watered down attempt at SNN but this one just seemed a little closer for some reason.

Good to see there is still a key diff that keeps his SNN a bit slower and trust our increasing patent moat should ensure can't encroach too much into our abilities.

Cheers

 

[Fact Finder]

Mines up lol thanks to a few patrys and their amazing announcement today!

Nothing like a few PAB to make the Doctor popular.

 

[Diogenese]

Great sleuthing Fmf,

This is a paper Huang published disclosing his SNN.


https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2010/2010.13125.pdf

View attachment 19110
It appears that one reason why it is slower than Akida is that it is clocked rather than asynchronous:

Each neuron in the same layer triggered by the same presynaptic neuron, is processed one-by-one in a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) manner. The sequence of the operations and data flow are managed by the state machine in the Control Logic block. As shown in Fig. 5, to handle the worst case of back-to-back spikes from the hidden layer, 9 cycles of delay are added after each spike fire event of any neurons in hidden layer to allow sufficient time for the 9 cycles needed by TDM process of 8 neurons in the output layer.

More lead in the Rigpa saddlebags:

B. ANN-to-SNN Conversion The process of conversion from the trained ANN to a SNN model running on SpiNNaker was made up of two steps: quantisation and network conversion. In the quantisation step the ANN parameters were fine-tuned using quantisation aware training available in the TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit [9] and the weights were quantised to 8-bit signed integers. Figure 9 (right) shows the difference that the losses due to weight quantisation were negligible. This suggests that the model has a high number of redundant connections and that reduction of the model complexity through further reduction of the precision of the weights or through pruning of connections could give further energy savings in the hardware implementation. Lower precisions were not investigated here due to the lack of software support for precisions lower than 8-bit integer..

To misquote Mick Dundee:

"Those aren't spikes ...

THIS is a spike!"

 

[JK200SX]

This has to be confirmation that AKIDA has been incorporated in the NEW EQE !

Mercedes me 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.

media.mercedes-benz.com

Click on the link above, then click on "5 documents" and select the document in English, or whatever other language you can read! (screenshot above is from page 20)

 

[Mn2019]

Thanks JK200SX. Now I will have to go and buy a MB electric car....

 

[JK200SX]

This has to be confirmation that AKIDA has been incorporated in the NEW EQE !

View attachment 19116

Mercedes me 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.

media.mercedes-benz.com

Click on the link above, then click on "5 documents" and select the document in English, or whatever other language you can read! (screenshot above is from page 20)

 

[JK200SX]

View attachment 19117

 

[alwaysgreen]

Mines up lol thanks to a few patrys and their amazing announcement today!

Same but WBT not PAB. On no announcement

 

[Fullmoonfever]

So are we saying that to have Akida in this latest MB release they would have gone via ARM for the IP?

If they were using direct from BRN as per the EQXX reveal then would expect a signed agreement of some level with BRN which would necessitate an Ann.

I'm just not sure as yet personally as we know the time cycle to Design, Dev and Produce a vehicle and these would have been in the pipeline for quite sometime.

Unless they developed the production Akida integration for this release parallel to the EQXX concept

 

[Mn2019]

So are we saying that to have Akida in this latest MB release they would have gone via ARM for the IP?

If they were using direct from BRN as per the EQXX reveal then would expect a signed agreement of some level with BRN which would necessitate an Ann.

I'm just not sure as yet personally as we know the time cycle to Design, Dev and Produce a vehicle and these would have been in the pipeline for quite sometime.

Unless they developed the production Akida integration for this release parallel to the EQXX concept

Marcus Schaefer did say to "stay tuned"..........

 

[equanimous]

TSE customer requirements: does this have Akida in it?

Sales team: Not at this present time

TSE customer: No sale. Hangs up the phone