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[Dhm]

Hi @Dhm

Back a long time ago I did a lot of reading about accelerators. Probably at least 2 years now so some may have moved on a little but this is what I took away in a nutshell and in my very lay technophobe language which will likely cause the engineer among us to cringe - @Diogenese :

1. An accelerator is used to speed up data transmission from the sensor/source of the data acquisition to the processor.

2. The processor can be in the Cloud or it can just be in the room where they keep the main computer at an office or factory.

3. Traditionally an accelerator simply compressed all of the data in batches which reduces the bandwidth needed to transmit the data to the processor by sending multiple batches rather than one continuous stream.

4. This works OK in a factory as you can anticipate all the data you are trying to capture and might need to send and have sufficient bandwidth installed to cope with your closed system.

5. Out there on the web where you are sending your data over the 3,4 or 5G network you are in competition with others for the bandwidth and your batches of compressed data can be larger than the available bandwidth, notwithstanding being compressed, and it can still be forced to queue if there is a lot of traffic.

6. I do not understand the full technical reason but if you have lots of compressed data batches (packets) queuing up waiting for a chance to send they can actually become jammed (my word). Since I originally read about this problem I have read a couple of papers where solutions to the log jam were being proposed so not sure about the present situation.

This then leads to using AKIDA as an accelerator and its advantages:

1. AKIDA does not compress the data coming from the sensor.

2. AKIDA actually processes the data coming from the sensor to arrive at an actionable insight or to sort out the needed relevant data to make a decision about what action to take.

3. AKIDA can then either take action at the sensor or it can send that actionable insight to somewhere else as meta data.

4. AKIDA's huge advantage as an accelerator is therefore it is sending only tiny little packets of meta data which can reliably slot in to the bandwidth with ease.

5. AKIDA's huge advantage continues when the meta data reaches the cloud or processor where the action is to be taken because that computer does not have to wade through every single piece of data collected and sent to it and sort out what is relevant before taking action. AKIDA gives it just the relevant data so it can action that data almost instantaneously.

This ability or advantage can be critical in health, automotive, aeronautical, defence and space applications.

My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA

My guess is that an AI accelerator is a circuit which performs basic computationally intensive classification functions in recognizing images or speech or other sensor type data faster than doing the job in software (CNN) on a CPU/GPU/cloud server. The CPU/GPU/cloud server can then perform some programmed function in response to the classification of the data.

AI accelerators in the past have been lumped with fixed model libraries which are difficult to update with additional images/sounds ...

Again in the past, AI accelerators used MAC (multiply accumulate) circuits of 8 bits or more.

Akida does data classification using compact model libraries adapted specifically for Akida using 1-bit to 4-bit "spikes", so Akida is capable of performing the function of an AI accelerator faster and more efficiently that previous AI accelerators ... and much more. [#### PS: The result of the classification by the AI Accelerator uses much less data than the input sensor data. ###]

On-chip one-shot learning makes Akida capable of updating its model library to improve accuracy. Such modifications can be shared via the internet to update other Akidas within a specific group or which use the same model library.

If Anastasi is talking about AI accelerators, I'm sure she understands Akida's capabilities in this field.

Someone needs to update Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_accelerator#Emergence_of_dedicated_AI_accelerator_ASICs

Emergence of dedicated AI accelerator ASICs[edit]​

While GPUs and FPGAs perform far better than CPUs for AI-related tasks, a factor of up to 10 in efficiency[34][35] may be gained with a more specific design, via an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).[citation needed] These accelerators employ strategies such as optimized memory use[citation needed] and the use of lower precision arithmetic to accelerate calculation and increase throughput of computation.[36][37] Some adopted low-precision floating-point formats used AI acceleration are half-precision and the bfloat16 floating-point format.[38][39][40][41][42][43][44] Companies such as Google, Qualcomm, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, AMD and Samsung are all designing their own AI ASICs.[45][46][47][48][49][50] Cerebras Systems has also built a dedicated AI accelerator based on the largest processor in the industry, the second-generation Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2), to support deep learning workloads.[51][52]

My most humble thank you both @Diogenese and @Fact Finder.

 

[wilzy123]

Media Alert: BrainChip Talks To Arm About the Importance of Ecosystem Partnerships on Latest Podcast

LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 9, 2022 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN), (OTCQX:BRCHF), (ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI IP, today announced that Kevin Ryan, Senior Director Go-to-Market and Ecosystem - IoT at Arm, shares his...

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[Proga]

Cant stop buying, managed to get a good parcel at $0.595, i hope thats the bottom as I cant afford to buy anymore

Same, 60c and same (I'm not prepared to sell others to buy more). I've bought 4 days in a row now.

@FJ-215 most have been in here or the other joint for well over 12 months so will be in the green. I've been averaging up.

 

[supersonic001]

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yeah thanks @wilzy123 i normally do just that from my phone, but today off lappie and got thrown by different interface...... Cheers

i'll stick with phone tech !!

 

[Quercuskid]

Oh Well!
Now that we know you're all set, I'll ring Sean and tell him to take his foot off the brakes.

That would really be appreciated, thanks

 

[wilzy123]

yeah thanks @wilzy123 i normally do just that from my phone, but today off lappie and got thrown by different interface...... Cheers

i'll stick with phone tech !!

Just hit this thing if using lappy

 

[jk6199]

That would really be appreciated, thanks

Yes, it really would be appreciated

 

[Vladsblood]

Chimera yet another reference to Greek mythology
First Brainchip Akida
Second ARM ethos
Now Quadric Chimera
What is it with AI chips and Greek

It’s in the secret sauce of Peter Van Der Madge’s making. That’s the connection

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

Yes, it really would be appreciated

We talkin' dick pic's, or, just what did you have in mind?

 

[TopCat]

I noticed PainChek was listed as a partner on the Nviso page. It was on a page seemingly dedicated to Brainchip technology. What a great use of Akida , if indeed it is Akida, especially for the elderly who can’t communicate

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[Dhm]

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/a...access_token=83ff96335c2d45a094df02a206a39ff4

What do we make of this? Certainly a justified reason.Only 125k shares out of a whole lot more.

 

[wilzy123]

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/a...access_token=83ff96335c2d45a094df02a206a39ff4

What do we make of this? Certainly a justified reason.Only 125k shares out of a whole lot more.

One would be obliged to believe that it was an "On Market Sale for the purpose of meeting taxation obligation as a result of previous vesting of RSUs". If it were for any other reason than stipulated, then this would be unlawful?

And also that the ANN is ..............

 

[Tony Coles]

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/a...access_token=83ff96335c2d45a094df02a206a39ff4

What do we make of this? Certainly a justified reason.Only 125k shares out of a whole lot more.

His in retirement as everybody knows and maybe the Mrs wanted a new kitchen! Or suffer the consequences of continuous headaches from the non stop yapping.

 

[chapman89]

This is interesting although I’m not surprised.
A person by the name of Manish Pandey who works for Synopsys as Fellow, Vice President of R&D is also a adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University with Machine Learning, Systems and Computer Architecture.

Now we know that Brainchip has the “BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program which shares technical knowledge, promotes leading-edge discoveries and positions students to be next-generation technology innovators”

We also know that Synopsys is offering us in their Data Centre AI thanks to the Synopsys investor presentation back a few months ago, well it’s suspected they are as they were using a photo of Brainchip accelerator, which is hard to find even if you Google it, not to mention it’s a copyright issue if they weren’t working together and Synopsys has taken it upon themselves to just use somebody else’s photo of a product that’s not theirs.

Is this a coincidence? I think not.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manish-pandey-ba43731

 

[Dhm]

His in retirement as everybody knows and maybe the Mrs wanted a new kitchen! Or suffer the consequences of continuous headaches from the non stop yapping.

He’s chairman

 

[Sirod69]

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[HopalongPetrovski]

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/a...access_token=83ff96335c2d45a094df02a206a39ff4

What do we make of this? Certainly a justified reason.Only 125k shares out of a whole lot more.

On Market Sale for the purpose of meeting taxation obligation as a result of previous vesting of RSUs

 

[jk6199]

We talkin' dick pic's, or, just what did you have in mind?

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Well, we were talking about sharing a sofa

 

[Sirod69]

Well, we were talking about sharing a sofa

there is space for several

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[Fact Finder]

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/a...access_token=83ff96335c2d45a094df02a206a39ff4

What do we make of this? Certainly a justified reason.Only 125k shares out of a whole lot more.

Hi again @Dhm

I am glad you asked this question as I was just discussing this privately with @stan9614.

It is VERY important to remember what has gone before in Annual Reports and presentations to shareholders and for newer shareholders to go back and read these documents.

Brainchip advised shareholders that to be commercially successful they needed to employ the best people.

Brainchip advised shareholders that it did not have the cash to offer attractive salaries to entice the best people so it could only get the best people by offering a salary made up of cash and shares.

So todays announcement of the sale of 125,000 shares to pay tax is as significant as your employer paying you your salary and handing you a payslip on which all the deductions are noted one of which being the tax paid out of the companies cash reserves to the Australian Taxation Office on your behalf.

In other words in my opinion as these shares are part of his agreed salary the sale of 125,000 to pay tax on his salary is a non event and of no significance whatsoever.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA