Try this quick quiz.
Question:
What have Mercedes, Valeo, Renesas, Socionext, MegaChips, NASA, Ford, ISL & Vorago been doing over the last week with AKIDA technology as a result of the decline in the Brainchip share price?
Answer:
Exactly what they have been doing for the last several years.
When I went to school Home Science was cooking:
HomeScience
BrainChip selected by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop AI-based radar
2022-02-22 13:38 HKT
BrainChip, the world's first commercial producer of neuromorphic artificial intelligence chips and IP, today announced that Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) is developing an AI-based radar for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) based on its Akida™ Neural Network Processor Research solutions.
ISL is a specialist in expert research and complex analysis, software and systems engineering, advanced hardware design and development, and high-quality manufacturing for a variety of clients worldwide.
ISL focuses on areas such as advanced signal processing, space exploration, subsea technology, surveillance and tracking, cybersecurity, advanced radar systems and energy independence. As a member of the BrainChip Early Partnership Program (EAP), ISL will be able to evaluate boards for Akida devices, software and hardware support, and dedicated engineering resources.
"As part of BrainChip's EAP, we had the opportunity to directly assess the capabilities Akida offers to the AI ecosystem," said Jamie Bergin, Senior Vice President, Research, Development and Engineering Solutions Manager at ISL.
BrainChip brings AI to the edge in ways not possible with existing technologies. Akida processors feature ultra-low power consumption and high performance to support the development of edge AI technologies by using neuromorphic architecture, a type of artificial intelligence inspired by the biology of the human brain. BrainChip's EAP program provides partners with the ability to realize significant benefits of power consumption, design flexibility and true learning at the edge.
"ISL's decision to use Akida and Edge-based learning as a tool to incorporate into their research and engineering solutions portfolio is in large part due to the go-to-market advantages our innovation capabilities and production-ready status provide ” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip, “We are delighted to be a partner of AFRL and ISL on edge AI and machine learning. We believe the combination of technologies will help accelerate the deployment of AI in the field.”
Akida is currently licensed as IP and is also available to order for chip production. It focuses on low power consumption and high performance, supports sensory processing, and is suitable for applications that benefit artificial intelligence, as well as applications such as smart healthcare, smart cities, smart transportation, and smart homes."
By the way for those who thought that I made an error in my Question above in stating that ISL are doing what they were doing for the last several years I am relying upon the actual words of Jamie Bergin Senior Vice President Research Development and Engineering Solutions Manager at ISL who makes clear they have already tested AKIDA technology under an EAP which on a cursory reading conflicts with the narrative in the paragraph by the author in the paragraph above.
However let me explain why it does not conflict and the author has made a mistake.
The EAP which Jamie Bergin is referring too is the one announced in 2020 by the former CEO Mr. Dinardo:
BrainChip Successfully Launches the Akida Early Access Program 15.06.2020
Aliso Viejo, California – 14, June 2020 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of Ultra-Low Power, high performance AI technology, today announced an Early Access Program (EAP) for the Akida™ neural processor System-on-Chip (SoC). The EAP has been targeted at specific customers in a diversity of end markets for early adoption of the Akida device.
Since announcing the start of wafer fabrication in April 2020, the demand for evaluation systems, including engineering prototypes, has been significant. In response to this demand, BrainChip has established an EAP for select partners to ensure availability of initial devices and evaluation systems for key applications. Multiple customers have committed to the advanced purchase of evaluation systems for a range of strategic Edge applications including ADAS/AV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Edge vision systems and factory automation.
The EAP includes evaluation boards with the Akida device, software and hardware support and dedicated engineering resources. The EAP agreements include payments intended to offset the Company’s expenses to support partner needs.
Partners have engaged in the early development of systems and solutions utilizing the powerful software development environment and chip simulator all contained in the Akida Development Environment (ADE). By utilizing the complete flow available in the ADE, designers have successfully developed and trained highly-optimized neural network solutions using the Company’s development flow, including the Tensorflow and Keras environments. Optimized and trained models can be run on the ADE to evaluate performance on the Akida processor. With the Akida evaluation board, the same trained networks and control files used in the ADE will be used to program the neural processor SoC to run the complete neural network. This enables partners to implement their hardware solutions quickly and efficiently.
The EAP referred to by the author is an Early Partnership Program which is not an EAP but an EPP and the author has confused the acronym. This is made clear because the CEO Sean Hehir "we are delighted to be a partner with AFRL and ISL on edge Ai and machine learning."
So by now you might be bored but do not switch off because I do not think most here, myself included, previously understood that what this partnership means is that ISL have already reached and achieved proof of concept and the radar application involving AKIDA technology is just the tip of this US Airforce iceberg.
(By the way this error regarding EAP/EPP appears in all of the releases I can find so do not blame the cooks in the home science department.)
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