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Better have AKIDA in it, otherwise we have direct competition?Innnnteresting
TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) today announced the TDK i3 Micro Module, the world’s first module with built-in edge AI and wireless mesh connectivity capability.
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"Because it is an ultracompact, battery-powered wireless sensor module, users can achieve sensing at any desired position without physical constraints like wiring."
"By attaching this compact module to equipment, various sensors monitor conditions like vibration, temperature and sound in real time. A variety of anomalies and failures can be detected in a timely fashion."
"Data detected by the sensors are processed by i3 Micro Module’s embedded edge AI. The data do not need to be aggregated and analyzed in the cloud, minimizing network traffic. Modules connect to each other through a wireless mesh network, which is formed automatically between modules simply by installing them."
Just posting some edge impulse items that they have marketed at the CES shows how intertwinedEdge Impulse on LinkedIn: Syntiant to Introduce Turnkey Edge AI Security Solution at CES 2023
Syntiant Corp. is showing off its edge AI audio, sensor and vision processing capabilities with several turnkey solutions at #CES2023 — including the…www.linkedin.com
Deleted mine I did not see that post.Pretty sure we didn't need to see this a third time (first @Gman mislead the forum by claiming this was BRN... then you twice...)
Better have AKIDA in it, otherwise we have direct competition?
The dominoes are beginning to fall.
After the ‘Eyes‘ were unable to find a true blue competitor, it was always only a matter of time before the likes of Intel swallowed their pride and joined the Akida revolution. They just had to find a way to save face before doing so, and inviting Brainchip to join their IFS programme was the perfect foil. Have no doubt, a license is not far away.
Can you imagine the panic going on within the hierarchy of IBM and other biggies right now. If they want to stay in the game, they must ”do an Intel” and join the revolution...they simply have no choice.
If they still think they can take another route, the imminent release of Akida 2.0 will blow these thoughts asunder. Everyone will eventually use Akida in some way. It’ll be in everything…even your Weet-Bix !!
The thought of using NDA’s and other confidentiality agreements amuses me, cos they’ve now clearly passed their use by date. They’re simply mechanisms where everyone is trying to keep the same secret from everybody else…AKIDA !!
Partnering with Texas Instruments
BrainChip Appoints Duy-Loan Le to its Board of Directors
LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 31, 2022 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI IP, announces the appointment of Duy-Loan Le to its Board of Directors, as a non-executive director. Mrs. Le has a...www.accesswire.com
"having retired from Texas Instruments as a Senior Fellow after 35 years. While at TI, she led TI's multi-billion-dollar memory and DSP product lines with joint venture partners in five countries and three continents"
let's hope Duy Loan Le has been involved..
I am so proud!
I’m going to mess up your math FF. Akida1.0 has 80 nodes and each node has 4 NPUs. Everywhere you refer to the number of NPUs can be multiplied by 4The other day someone suggested Brainchip only had one product.
I think this is an inappropriate way to look at AKIDA technology.
AKIDA technology is at its heart a neural processing engine (NPE) AKD1000/AKIDA 1.0 whatever name you want to give it is made up of 80 of these Neural Processing Units (NPUs).
AKD1000 is designed to allow for 64 x AKD1000 to be ganged together and this would then be a semiconductor of 5,120 NPU’s
Brainchip has said they could if needed gang 1,024 AKD1000 chips together making a total of 81,920 NPU’s.
Renesas licenced just two nodes or 8 NPE’s.
Anil Mankar stated at the 2021 Ai Field Day that you could do keyword spotting with just one node if you did not have latency concerns but 1.5 to 2 nodes would likely be desirable and referenced Renesas.
MegaChips licensed an 80 NPU AKD1000 IP.
Edge Impulse is comparing AKD1000 with a GPU.
So my point is Brainchip does not have just one semiconductor it has on its IP shelf 81,920 variants of that semiconductor IP which can be sold for an ultra low powered single purpose MCU right through to a computing task requiring the computing power of 81,920 NPUs or 1,024 AKD1000 chips.
1,024 AKD1000 chips would give you the computing power of 1,024 GPUs for a total cost of $25,600 being 1,024 x $25.00.
As Peter van der Made said in his Pitt Street Research interview in 2021 ‘we are only just getting started.’
Something further occurred to me which if you doubt my proposition may convince you.
If you look up Intel’s Loihi 1 & 2 you will see the actual manifestation of what I am alluding to as they start with two Loihi chips to make their base product USB then gang together in different numbers to create further variants of Loihi with different Hawaiian names right up to their attempt at a full blown neuromorphic server and claim each one as a separate distinct product.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
Hi @wilzyNot necessarily direct competition, since I cannot vouch for the capability of the thing doing the AI in that device... merely shared, because it does sound like something Akida is particularly good at.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Love it.Those who harness the beast best…win !
In the final paragraph above, I suggest that it’s no longer Akida, or if you’re using it that must remain a secret. Like the colt from Old Regret, Akida has got away. It hasn’t just escaped…it’s bolted into the marketplace. If anyone either directly or indirectly associated with the tech world still hasn’t heard of it by now, they must be living under a rock.
The secret that must now be kept under absolute wraps until your product at least hits the market, is how you’re applying the science fiction that is Akida.
It’s no longer a question of if you’re using it…but how.
This is why companies at CES are only talking in big picture language, devoid of any details or specifics about how they are gunna achieve what they’re talking about. Even Mercedes realise, that to reveal anymore than what they said last year, is giving their competitors too much of a heads-up on what they’re doing.
Everybody will eventually use Akida in some way or another. Those first to market will certainly gain an advantage, but it’s those who apply it’s ‘secret sauce’ in the most innovative, imaginative, ingenious, inventive way, who’ll be the big winners over their competitors.
’If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of brilliance…
yours is the earth and everything in it’...Rudyard Kipling.
So you think I am a down ramper.I’m going to mess up your math FF. Akida1.0 has 80 nodes and each node has 4 NPUs. Everywhere you refer to the number of NPUs can be multiplied by 4
Absolutely, which is why it pays to scrutinise these things (as you have).They are silent on battery life. They also say they are in the throws of improving the battery which is a strange thing to say as you release a product.
Enough with the Science Fiction, we need more cowbellHi @wilzy
The following indicates that whatever TDK are using it is not AKIDA and it is far from as advanced in fact it is primitive in comparison:
“We also plan to further mature the embedded edge AI to enable it to continuously learn the situation at the point of installation and make autonomous decisions, thereby evolving the module to be able to support the types of advanced decision-making required at the forefront of integration.”
They are planning to have a plan without a timeframe.
They are silent on battery life. They also say they are in the throws of improving the battery which is a strange thing to say as you release a product.
I think we should hold close what the CEO Sean Hehir said at the AGM about claims being made that do not come near the AKIDA science fiction.
As you know it was Edge Impulse who used Science Fiction to describe AKIDA technology not Sean Hehir but I just like saying it because it is well ‘SCIENCE FICTION.’
Anyway that’s the last time I will use Science Fiction to describe AKIDA technology until the next time I use it.
Did I mention how being Science Fiction makes the Patents stronger and easier to defend.
You just have to love being SCIENCE FICTION.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
Hi @wilzy
The following indicates that whatever TDK are using it is not AKIDA and it is far from as advanced in fact it is primitive in comparison:
“We also plan to further mature the embedded edge AI to enable it to continuously learn the situation at the point of installation and make autonomous decisions, thereby evolving the module to be able to support the types of advanced decision-making required at the forefront of integration.”
They are planning to have a plan without a timeframe.
They are silent on battery life. They also say they are in the throws of improving the battery which is a strange thing to say as you release a product.
I think we should hold close what the CEO Sean Hehir said at the AGM about claims being made that do not come near the AKIDA science fiction.
As you know it was Edge Impulse who used Science Fiction to describe AKIDA technology not Sean Hehir but I just like saying it because it is well ‘SCIENCE FICTION.’
Anyway that’s the last time I will use Science Fiction to describe AKIDA technology until the next time I use it.
Did I mention how being Science Fiction makes the Patents stronger and easier to defend.
You just have to love being SCIENCE FICTION.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA