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[Fact Finder]

It is articles like this one that hide Brainchip behind a veil of perceived mediocracy. A whole heap of 'competitors' in edge ai inference make a reader believe that the edge market is populated with like or similar products. It doesn't, for example, say that Intel pushed its own product aside to embrace Akida. I would love it for someone with the skill set to do a table of competitors to compare just who is the undisputed leader in this edge field.
I wish I did have such a skillset.

This list of other edge inhabitants contains names I have never heard of. Can those with greater knowledge name which of these names that are pretenders, also those that are coming close, and those that are legitimate competition?
SiMa.ai, Hailo Technologies, AlphaICs, Recogni, EdgeCortix, Flex Logix, Roviero, Syntiant, Untether AI, Expedera, Deep AI, Andes, Plumerai, in addition to Intel, AMD (Xilinx)

Hi @Dhm

This article was posted the other day. It is a load of old string pulled together to make what appears to be a rope. Ergo & Ergo2 are pre trained single use chips no incremental on chip or one shot learning. You cannot add another type of processing once you have bought and deployed it.

As for the competitors they have chosen anything that sounds like it might have something to do with Ai.

Have a look at DeepAi. Don’t waste your time on it not worth the effort. A paid advertisement:

DeepAI

Artificially intelligent tools for naturally creative humans.

deepai.org

Now back to work.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Taproot]

This is the way forward,

Panasonic Automotive Updates SkipGen In-Vehicle Infotainment System to Offer Industry-First Wake Word Access to Siri and Alexa​

January 04, 2023
LAS VEGAS, NV – Today at CES 2023, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, a global expert in connected automotive infotainment solutions and division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced an update for its SkipGen in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system by demonstrating an industry-first automotive integration that provides customers simultaneous access to Siri while using Apple CarPlay or Alexa by simply speaking either “Hey Siri” or “Alexa,” respectively.
Panasonic Automotive’s SkipGen creates a customer friendly experience for in-vehicle voice requests through the company’s deep experience integrating Apple CarPlay with their offerings, paired with the implementation of Amazon’s latest Alexa Auto SDK. On SkipGen, some customers may want to use Siri for iPhone features in Apple CarPlay, or Alexa for in-vehicle controls and more. This increases customer value by providing simultaneous access to Siri and Alexa with their corresponding capabilities on a single system through the wake words.
Currently, 123.5 million U.S. adults will use voice assistants at least once per month, and that number is forecast to grow to 126.8 million – nearly half of U.S. adults – by 2025. Voice services are becoming more capable every day, but to be truly useful, they need to be readily accessible wherever and whenever customers need them by providing more choice. That is why Amazon and Panasonic Automotive have collaborated to develop this integration for SkipGen, which is enabled by the Alexa Auto SDK, and relies on Panasonic’s deep experience integrating Siri and CarPlay into automotive systems.
“Our latest integration with Amazon’s SDK builds on our strong multi-year relationship and collaboration to elevate ambient digital experiences across different environments,” said Andrew Poliak, CTO of Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America. “Customers want to be able to take their voice assistants with them on the road, and we are excited to be able to team up on an industry-first integration that seamlessly enables phone calls, music playback, navigation, and more.”
"Voice interoperability is a pillar of Amazon’s broader vision to scale ambient intelligence. We believe customers and device makers should have flexibility and choice, and we provide the best experience when customers have simultaneous access to multiple voice services on a device,” said Aaron Rubenson, VP of Amazon Alexa. “We’re excited about this cross-industry collaboration, as it builds on this shared vision and can improve the way people interact with their vehicles.”
Amazon founded the Voice Interoperability Initiative (VII), a program with the mission to ensure voice-enabled products provide customers with choice and flexibility by supporting multiple voice AIs simultaneously on a single device. Amazon launched VII in 2019 with 35 companies, and that number is now over 90 members strong.
In addition to the benefits of the multi-assistant integration, the Alexa Auto SDK provides core Alexa functionality, such as wake word detection, speech recognition, and synthesis. It also offers capabilities for customizing car control features, monitoring and controlling smart home devices, getting weather reports, interacting with media playback, executing local search and navigation, and accessing local voice control to use certain Alexa features when internet connectivity is unavailable.
“Voice interoperability as offered on the SkipGen system is a great example of the powerful experiences that can be unlocked with Amazon’s latest Automotive SDK,” said Anes Hodzic, VP of Amazon Smart Vehicles. “We’re thrilled to partner with Panasonic Automotive to enable this functionality for automakers, and continue on our vision to deliver personalized, proactive, and intuitive digital experiences that delight drivers and passengers.”

About Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America is a division company of Panasonic Corporation of North America and is a leading global supplier of automotive infotainment and connectivity system solutions. Panasonic Automotive is head quartered in Peachtree City, Georgia, with sales, marketing and engineering operations in Farmington Hills, Mich. For more information on Panasonic Automotive, please visit https://na.panasonic.com/us/automotive-solutions
Media Contact, Panasonic Automotive:
Maria Rohrer
248-385-4734
Maria.Rohrer@us.panasonic.com

 

[Vegies]

Also year if you know but I'll still give you the subscription anyway if you don't know. Will sort it out later tonight just winding down with some beers.

you're picking my brain now as I've been somewhat AWOL with 2 little kids.

Think it was Feb/March 2020. around then i think

 

[Rise from the ashes]

you're picking my brain now as I've been somewhat AWOL with 2 little kids.

Think it was Feb/March 2020. around then i think

Brilliant Veggies that is correct march 2020 but I reckon they had it a bit earlier as they would have messed around with it before we found out officially. So February is good
Thank you for taking part in the quiz.
I'll get the subscription sorted in about 20 minutes for you

 

[Rise from the ashes]

you're picking my brain now as I've been somewhat AWOL with 2 little kids.

Think it was Feb/March 2020. around then i think

 

[Rise from the ashes]

I scan the QR code and got the link to the above demo video.
View attachment 26383

Learning 🏖

I'm really starting to be a big FAN of your postings here, Learning

 

[Rise from the ashes]

BrainChip Holdings (ASX:BRN) Scheduled Market Update Presentation, March 2020

27 Mar 2020 - BrainChip Holdings Limited (ASX:BRN) CEO Louis DiNardo, Founder and CTO Peter van der Made, and Founder and CDO Anil Mankar provide an update on the company.

www.finnewsnetwork.com.au

For those interested in the quiz question.

 

[Jumpchooks]

Interesting write up but right away it seems they are already missing an AKIDA technology trick as set out in this extracted paragraph:

"Hand tracking has to make massive advancements over the next two to three years to really become much more of a natural input tool." But O'Brien suggests it's a way for future headsets to get more affordable. "If a user can just put on glasses and interact with content [with their hands], that's going to be a much less expensive product”

Clearly you would not want control of the set to be dependent on the cloud 5G or no 5G. AKIDA technology providing state of the art gesture recognition with a Prophesee event based sensor or a Samsung Event camera is a ready made solution available now.

I do have to raise this privacy question. It is one thing to have your car tracked and your phone tracked but having everything you are looking at and hearing sent to the cloud is just a bit weird for this old technophobe.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Yes, I agree. It keeps reminding me of "Big Brother" Orson Wells had wonderful foresight. My eyes are notorious for wandering when I'm at the beach. Luckily my grandkids keep me in check, digging holes and trying to hold back the tide.

 

[Jumpchooks]

I have hammered away at the importance of Renesas to Brainchip in the automotive space, time and time again, since December, 2020 when first announced.

Then here someone recently posted that it seemed unlikely any big names will be revealed at CES 2023.

Well with the following article from 2020 I will have one final crack at getting across that despite the ignorance of many WANCAs and HC manipulators RENESAS IS A BIG NAME IN THE AUTOMOTIVE OEM SPACE and they are revealing their taped out AKIDA technology MCUs at CES 2023 - real product being delivered to the automotive industry by one of the biggest OEMs bigger than “Bosch, Micron, Nexperia, nVIDIA, Qualcomm and Xilinx”.

As we used to say at primary school ‘suck on them eggs.’

My blunt opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA


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By David Manners 4th May 2020

NXP, Infineon, Renesas, TI, ST stay top five for auto ICs​

NXP, Infineon, Renesas, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics maintained their positions in the top five of Strategy Analytics’ annual assessment of the automotive semiconductor industry vendor market share rankings.

NXP, Infineon, Renesas, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics maintained their positions in the top five of Strategy Analytics’ annual assessment of the automotive semiconductor industry vendor market share rankings.
Total automotive semiconductor revenues taken by vendors in 2019 were down 1.3% to $37.2 billion, compared to 2018, with NXP, Infineon, Renesas, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics maintaining their top five rankings.

The gap between NXP and Infineon effectively closed to zero, while STMicroelectronics was the only company to be able to demonstrate revenue growth.

“2019 continued to see global automotive semiconductor demand slowing down with vehicle production flat or down in all of the major regions including China,” noted SA’s Ian Riches, “this was partially offset by revenue opportunities coming from high growth applications such as ADAS, electrified powertrains and wireless connectivity. However, this was not enough to translate to automotive semiconductor vendor revenue growth in 2019.”
“Our analysis shows a lot of companies struggled to show positive revenue growth in 2019, though there were some notable vendor year-on-year revenue increases, as exemplified by Bosch, Micron, Nexperia, nVIDIA, Qualcomm and Xilinx,” says report author Asif Anwar, “we will see a major shakeup in market share rankings moving forwards. In 2019, Infineon announced that the company had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cypress. This acquisition closed successfully in April 2020, and effectively propels Infineon into the number 1 spot moving forwards.”

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FF you are a Major Contributor to this Forum ( as well as many others), thank you sooo much to you all. I hope you all bought BRN in large numbers at a Low SP. Your justice deserves. I hope to meet some of you in the near future. My great wish is that AKIDA call only contribute towards Good and not be used for Offensive Warfare, Defence maybe.

 

[Dr E Brown]

“and consumes less than 20 mW. Thats Milliwatts, or 1/1000 of a watt. We know of no competitor who can claim that, and still deliver about 1000 inferences per second.”

They can’t be too well informed

I tweeted him. Maybe he will have a look at Akida. Maybe not

 

[Jumpchooks]

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
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

FF maybe you should try Science Non-Fiction or "Science Fact", this is Real. The Jetsons and Jett Jackson were only make believe

 

[Jumpchooks]

CES - Health Ai / Booth 24

Sunburn suffering .

In search of a good nights sleep .
Take 1x 50mg viagra approximately 1hr before bed.

Please note : this will not cure the sunburn but it will keep the sheets off your skin .

I had a career Erecting Large Marquees. I know that the Centre Pole is an intrinsic component of these Tensile Structures. I concur.

 

[JK200SX]

I have a lot to do today up at the lake house so this will probably be last post but I truly recommend you open this link and read what product is being offered as a direct competitor to Brainchip and Nviso for in cabin monitoring of driver fatigue and attention then at the end of the article click on the link to obtain price comparisons for this product. While reading the prices keep firmly in mind that AKIDA1.0 costs $25.00 Australian and Nviso is simply software so pricing is clearly very flexible for volume sales.

Then ask yourself why would they bother???

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

AI looks for sleepy drivers

Artificial intelligence computer vision company Seeing Machines has teamed up with Analog Devices to create an in-vehicle driver fatigue and driver

www.electronicsweekly.com

As Molly would have said ‘Do yourself a favour.’ and open this link and the price comparison.

Hi FF,

Perhaps there is a slight possibility that this product may have AKIDA in it also?

The FOVIO chip used by Seeing Machines for this application is manufactured by Xilinx. The link between XILINX and BRN goes back to 2017 when Christoph Fritsch, (Senior Director for industrial, scientific and medical business at Xilinx), added, “Xilinx is at the forefront of artificial intelligence acceleration. BrainChip’s spiking neural network technology is unique in its ability to provide outstanding performance while avoiding the math intensive, power hungry, and high-cost downsides of deep learning in convolutional neural networks.”

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Cooking/baking with air fryers or whatever 😂

Just making a thread so I don't spam the BRN forum 🤣 Here's my third attempt at making bread.

thestockexchange.com.au

Got chatgpt to write me a story.

 

[Tothemoon24]

How old is your brain, really? AI-powered analysis accurately reflects risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease — Medical Xpress

The human brain holds many clues about a person's long-term health—in fact, research shows that a person's brain age is a more useful and accurate predictor of health risks and future disease than their birthdate. Now, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that analyzes magnetic resonance...

apple.news

 

[Vegies]

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Thanks mate.

Nice time to coming back onto the forum to contribute…. Plenty on the horizon the next 12 months.

 

[Fact Finder]

Hi FF,

Perhaps there is a slight possibility that this product may have AKIDA in it also?

The FOVIO chip used by Seeing Machines for this application is manufactured by Xilinx. The link between XILINX and BRN goes back to 2017 when Christoph Fritsch, (Senior Director for industrial, scientific and medical business at Xilinx), added, “Xilinx is at the forefront of artificial intelligence acceleration. BrainChip’s spiking neural network technology is unique in its ability to provide outstanding performance while avoiding the math intensive, power hungry, and high-cost downsides of deep learning in convolutional neural networks.”

FF maybe you should try Science Non-Fiction or "Science Fact", this is Real. The Jetsons and Jett Jackson were only make believe

I was told by my favourite high school English teacher Miss Langley back in the early days of education or so it seems now that the great science fiction writers will invariably write about future science that could come true as to do otherwise is to be writing science fantasy.

AKIDA as envisaged and written about in Peter van der Made’s book Higher Intelligence was as far as the majority of the scientific community considered akin to Science fiction and LeCunn from Nvidia was completely dismissive.

So what I will do is stop using Science Fiction made real when Peter van der Made and Anil Mankar are awarded the Nobel Prize.

 

[Diogenese]

Hi FF,

Perhaps there is a slight possibility that this product may have AKIDA in it also?

The FOVIO chip used by Seeing Machines for this application is manufactured by Xilinx. The link between XILINX and BRN goes back to 2017 when Christoph Fritsch, (Senior Director for industrial, scientific and medical business at Xilinx), added, “Xilinx is at the forefront of artificial intelligence acceleration. BrainChip’s spiking neural network technology is unique in its ability to provide outstanding performance while avoiding the math intensive, power hungry, and high-cost downsides of deep learning in convolutional neural networks.”

BrainChip used a Xilinx FPGA to make the Brainchip Accelerator.




https://embeddedcomputing.com/techn...brainchip-for-object-recognition-surveillance

BrainChip releases Xilinx-based neural network acceleration board for object recognition, surveillance​

By OpenSystems Media​

September 12, 2017

BrainChip has released the BrainChip Accelerator, an 8-lane PCIe expansion board that is capable of delivering a 6x increase in the speed and accuracy of object recognition functions in BrainChip Studio software. In tandem, the BrainChip accelerator supports 16 simultaneous video channels per card, and can be deployed in existing video surveillance systems without requiring updated power supplies or thermal management equipment.​

The BrainChip Accelerator consists of six neuromorphic cores in a Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA. Each BrainChip Accelerator core performs user-defined image scaling, spike generation, and spiking neural network comparisons to identify objects.


This is a COTS product so there may not have been much exchange of technology:

https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices.html

... although they do make data centre accelerators:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo.html

Xilinx have several AI patents.

 

[Fact Finder]

Sorry @JK200SX I got distracted by the tennis.

I don’t know is the simple answer but I have always believed Xilinx is somewhere in the Brainchip picture.

What you did not mention was they also helped with the FPGA on which they tested the AKIDA design and then used that FPGA to run the AERO 20 gas data set which achieved state of the art results and was peer reviewed and published.

It is absolutely clear that Xilinx is fully aware of AKIDA magic (see Peter van der Made) and what we need to discover is given this knowledge and a positive working relationship with Brainchip what profound event led Xilinx to turn its back and walk away when Socionext, Renesas, MegaChips, ARM, Intel, NASA, ISL, US Airforce Research, Edge Impulse, Prophesee, Nviso, VVDN, Mercedes Benz and others are doing the exact opposite.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Stable Genius]

Not sure I‘ve read about this before but now that Rob T ”Likes it” his Transformer comment makes more sense!