GDJR69
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Good post Chapman89, thanks for your thoughts. My recollection is Sean did say something like we would have enough revenue to break even by the end of 2022 at the last AGM. Clearly, something was in the works but something changed and I would like to know more about that. I believe a lot of the discontent stems from this comment and not just the falling share price.I don’t believe Brainchip/Sean ever said by the end of 2022 they will break even. Can you please show me where they said this? Because I keep seeing this posted but I believe it’s not true.
I may be wrong but I believe he said once they had around 100 employees that’s when they would break even.
Is the company aggressively hiring though?
If I am going to criticise the company on anything it’s failing to leave out critical achievements in the quarterly/s as they could do much better to having in point form all the achievements that was made.
They didn’t even announce akd1500 with one of the worlds biggest foundries in Global Foundries.
But, where does everybody think the revenue was going to come from when Renesas won’t have any MCU’s containing akida commercially until sometime towards the end of the year? So be prepared for a couple more quarterly’s with barely any revenue.
It’s pretty clear that whilst the company still offers akd1000 as part of their portfolio, most are waiting on akd 2.0. You can just see that from the comments from Prophesee SiFive Intel realityAi and others when they commented on the release of it, check the Brainchip website if nobody has read it.
There’s something big IMO happening with megachips, Douglas Fairbairn from megachips said they helped with the back end design of the AKD1500, if you go on to the megachips website under the ASIC section it’s been saying it’s “under construction” for quite some time, also on Douglas Fairbairn LinkedIn it says he is helping the leadership team in Japan to help the company add AI/ML expertise and technology to their already extensive ASIC design capability. It’s happening people, we just have to be patient.
We are invested in a disruptive technology that even those working with AI need months of training to even understand neuromorphic, so it takes time.
Now should we be annoyed at the company? A little, but there still has been a significant amount achieved in the last 12 months. Just look at what was achieved in the last 3 months that @AusEire posted written by FF. They failed to mention it all, so I will be personally attending the AGM and bringing this to their attention because it’s a fail in my opinion.
But anybody who fails to see the achievements over the last 12 months from ecosystem building, presentations, marketing increase, significant employment of star studded employees, isn’t looking past a share price.
Yes it sucks, yes it hurts to see the constant negative press, but that makes the rise back up even sweeter to those who cast doubt on Brainchip.
Am I going to listen to so called financial experts in the Motley fool? Or am I going to listen to industry experts who are praising Brainchip? I think I know who I will choose to listen to.
I seen a couple people claim to have held for years but sold after the recent 4C? Now that to me is just nonsense, unless you needed the money for financial reasons, why would you sell right before Renesas brings out MCU’s containing akd1000? This is what we’ve been waiting for for a damn long time, the worlds first commercial products using Brainchips technology. The spotlight that will be on Brainchip once that happens will be a monumental step, that is a true re rate in the share price.
Anyway the AGM will be good, we need to let the company know that they need to learn to communicate with shareholders much better through the means of the asx, it’s not about pumping up the share price, it’s about giving Brainchip the exposure it deserves and potential shareholders can see what’s happening through the asx. Now yes whilst most people have social media, we shouldn’t have to search on social media to get all our information. I know if I was going to decide if I wanted to invest in a company, I’d want to read the 4c reports and announcements and not have to wander through different social media platforms.
However, the rest of your post I agree with. To put it another way, if you showed me all the progress the company has made in the last couple of years in the kind of summary AusEire did without showing me the share price chart and asked me if this is a company I would like to invest in the answer would be "Hell yeah".
Just returning to the share price chart, the market got way ahead of itself when Mercedes said they would use Akida in the EQXX. However, I've returned recently to look at some of those articles and actually if you read them carefully there is a lot to be encouraged about. If the articles are to be believed, Mercedes were suggesting much more than they planned to trial the technology in the EQXX. I'll let the article from Car Expert (a review of the EQXX) speak for itself:
'Yes, the Vision EQXX is a concept car. But Mercedes-Benz board member and chief technology officer Markus Schäfer says the technologies used to deliver its impressive efficiency are all production feasible.
“The technology programme behind the Vision EQXX will define and enable future Mercedes-Benz models and features” – and that’s why it’s such an important car.'
This suggests a much wider application of Akida. Of course, Marcus Schaffer has also been quite active recently talking about their neuromorphic technology on Linked In and said recently:
'We already made some interesting findings here with our VISION EQXX, where we applied neuromorphic principles to the “Hey Mercedes” hot-word detection. That alone made it five to ten times more energy efficient than conventional voice control. As AI and machine learning take on an increasingly important role in the software-defined vehicle, the energy this consumes is likely to become a critical factor. I’ll touch on our latest findings in an upcoming “In the Loop” and tell you my thoughts on where this is taking us. '
Marcus Schaffer's posts on Linked In are definitely something to be watching carefully.
