Pappagallo
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So you would sell before renesas brings out a MCU containing akida IP, worlds first commercial neuromorphic MCU’s using SNN? lol surely you’ve got to be joking.
Megachips is a sales partner, many many customers could be very far ahead in their design cycle and getting ready for production, which then we would see licensing payments.
The way I see it is lots of customers will not sign a material contract until ready to go to production.
Renesas and megachips just happened to sign very early, but the way megachips is structured is they are a fabless company and the many smaller less sophisticated customers (and tier ones) would be going through megachips. Megachips will have off the shelf ready to go chips for the customers that don’t need the full power of akida.
Sean Hehir said in the Pitt street research interview I think it was that you’ve got to get the customers at the right time of their design cycle which can be 1-2-3 years.
So, it is of my personal view that over the next 2-3 years we should see an uptake of commercial agreements either standalone or through the financial, with Renesas being the first.
People claim to have held for a long time but are willing to sell right before Renesas tapes out? Madness.
I agree. Finally having neuromorphic technology in a product may very well prove to be the inflection point that changes people’s attitudes from “this is a future technology” to “this is the latest technology.”
Just look at what’s happened to WBT since it was revealed that TSMC put ReRam in the iPhone 14. Perception is important.