So I got thinking about the potential markets of our partners.
NB: The following is just my daydreaming, and not based on sufficient solid information to serve as investment advice.
This is a list of what I think are some of our larger potential partnership markets, ranked in my guess at the relative potential markets.
Happy to have this dissected and forensically examined [substance rather than semantics].
Akida Market Partners
- MorseMicro
- Prophesee
- SiFive
- Valeo
- Socionext
- Edge impulse
- nViso
MorseMicro
The potential market for MorseMicro’s HaLow WiFi gateway is massive.
MorseMicro has the HaLow ultra-low power, ultra-long range, multitude WiFi for IoT.
The creators of HaLow include the inventors of the original WiFi.
HaLow could potentially become the standard for multi-device WiFi gateways.
If HaLow becomes the standard, not only could Akida be used in the gateway, but it may also be required in the connected devices.
The MorseMicro patent for their gateway circuit includes a MAC (multiply accumulate) processor.
Akida can perform MAC operations far more efficiently than a MAC ALU (arithmetic logic unit).
It is also possible that Akida could be used in the communication circuits of IoT devices connected to the HaLow gateway.
MorseMicro is a MegaChips partner, as is BrainChip.
@thelittleshort listed a number of MorseMicro engineers who are following BrainChip. This is significant as MorseMicro does not profess to be an AI company.
Prophesee
Prophesee event-based camera (DVS) and Akida are a hand-and-glove fit.
Akida’s speed and power efficiency surpass alternative technologies previously used with Prophesee.
The potential market for Prophesee is pretty well unlimited, from IoT security through ADAS, to NASA and DoD.
In conjunction with Sony, they have developed a camera blur elimination capability. I don’t know if Akida can be used advantageously with this, but if so, this market alone is huge.
SiFive
SiFive designs processors using RISC-V architecture (RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer).
RISC-V is a recently developed computing language and the creators have set up SiFive.
RISC-V is a major competitor to ARM, who use RISC-IV.
The SiFive market is in computers.
Valeo
Valeo makes sensors for ADAS.
Valeo are the market leaders in LiDaR.
Akida has a sweet spot for LiDaR.
The EV revolution will see massive demand for LiDaR in the next few years.
Socionext
Socionext is a major fabless chip designer who produced the production layout for Akida 1000.
They made a co-presentation with BrainChip and nViso at CES2023.
nViso
nViso has human emotion recognition software which has been adapted to utilize the image classification capabilities of Akida at greater than 1000 fps.
This may be useful in implementing the recently-mandated DMS (2022) (Driver Monitoring System) in Europe.
Edge Impulse
Edge Impulse provides ML algorithms for edge devices.
Akida is capable of greatly increasing the processing capability and power efficiency of these algorithms.