ForrestofHope
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Hi @Diogenese and @factfinder @uiux and any other long termer.Once again I read the news and knew these things were occurring in the semiconductor space and have posted for months about how even though Brainchip was playing in this industry it had the advantage of:
1. Not carrying any debt;
2. Not carrying inventory because it sells IP that fits in a filing cabinet or on a memory stick;
3. It has cash and guaranteed further cash from LDA Capital and an offer to further extend the agreement if Brainchip wants to do so;
4. A product in AKIDA IP which can be added to existing semiconductors of the customer dramatically improving performance and energy consumption;
5. A product in the form of IP which can be priced to suit market conditions as it in essence has no ongoing cost of production;
6. A market place where automotive and other industries are being required to cut energy use by 2030 under legislative mandates which make AKIDA IP attractive.
So if it was the CEO Sean Hehir’s statement that
"Extended evaluations, decreased budgets, delayed introduction of new technology, these conditions have created a headwind"
which caused todays collapse how is it that I alone in all the world already knew and posted about it.
I must live in an echo chamber and receive messages that no one else does from the Fourth Estate.
Once again all I can say is that those who did not already know these things should actually do their own research.
Perhaps as pompous as it sounds even read my posts.
What the CEO Sean Hehir said was old news publicly available to every shareholder for many months.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
Have there been any previous dots connecting Brainchip with Logitech? I don’t recall reading anything.
I was trolling through Rob Telson’s Linkedin account and he ‘liked’ a Logitech product:
Logitech announces Sight, an AI-powered tabletop camera for Hybrid Meetings
I know a ‘random’ like by itself doesn’t mean anything. Who knows, maybe he ‘liked’ it because he wants to buy one for the office to help facilitate zoom meetings.
However, I came across an article from October 2019 co-written by Giorgia Dellaferrera of IBM and Miloš Cerňak of Logitech.
The article discusses the validity of using SNN architecture for VAD (Voice Activity Detection system). It references Loihi on a few occasions but no reference to AKIDA.
This is the conclusion:
4. CONCLUSION We propose a SNN architecture for VAD. We developed a novel method for encoding the filterbank single frame features into spike patterns. We next integrated the new encoding scheme into a simple bilayer architecture which we evaluated on the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT data set. We showed that exploiting the power-efficiency properties of SNNs enables the design of VAD systems working at constant low power and achieving performances comparable to the state-of-the art methods. Our framework exhibits a low latency and relies on relatively small training data.
file:///C:/Users/g_rho/Downloads/A_Bin_Encoding_Training_of_a_Spiking_Neural_Networ.pdf
In another article she writes about SNN and back-propogation, so I don’t think she was using AKIDA. I haven’t found any connection to Brainchip but was curious if Logitech may have seen the light and started using AKIDA in the past 2 years. I’m wondering if there is any significance to Rob’s ‘like’, SNN, and Logitech. Are there any patents from Logitech using SNN?
I would appreciate any insights. Thanks in advance.