I fear the following is the crux of where we are at the moment with Brainchip in its evolution of being used to create solutions to real world problems:
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Neuromorphic Engineers, to deliver on some of these promises and develop practical applications and do so within the next five years."
In Akida, we have a brilliant technology, but the public, and investors, can't yet perceive just how great it is without real products and real solutions to existing problems. Hell, some of the solutions being worked on are to problems that don't even exist. It must be a difficult space to work in, and a difficult arena to convince senior management to invest time, effort, and money in.
We all saw the excitement created by a single Mercedes announcement, the investing world seems to be hanging out looking for some confirmation of the technology. We simply need a couple of more products and announcements about them.
I was of the thinking that NaNose would be just the thing. How cool would it be to be able to detect covid-19 by a breath sample into a hand-held device! There would have been one of these units at the door to pretty much EVERY public access point in the world with condition of entry based on the unit not detecting covid-19. This would have been timely too if it came out with a workable product in the middle of the covid crisis. But I fear they are trying to come to market with a panacea product which is delaying its release. It's starting to look like
the car Homer Simpson designed.
I wonder if that is the problem with ALL solutions employing Akida. I suspect initial solutions are come by quite swiftly, but then the developers, noticing the full potential of Akida, have many Eureka moments and realize a plethora of improvements they want to come to market with. It's time a bean counter needs to stick their neck out and real in the developers to come to market with ANYTHING that works. A first version of anything will do! If it includes Akida, we know it will be far superior to anything else out there. Just Do It!
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'First to market' is crucial with new technologies. 'Best product' almost never wins when it jumps into a pond full of inferior products that are already incumbent in the market-place.