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July 25, 2023

CVNet is first customer to leverage new innovation from Cerence for smart home control​

BURLINGTON, Mass., July 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC), AI for a world in motion, today introduced a suite of low-footprint AI products designed specifically for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Built to meet the diverse needs of customers, Cerence Audio AI Lite and Cerence Input AI Lite bring the power of Cerence technology to products where only a small footprint is possible, particularly relevant for IoT products like CVNet’s smart home devices, the first products to leverage this new offering from Cerence.​
An addition to Cerence’s product portfolio, this low-footprint product suite expands the company’s reach and unlocks new opportunities in new markets. The offering empowers IoT device manufacturers to leverage industry-leading technology from Cerence regardless of platform size and configuration or resource constraints. Based on proven solutions deployed broadly and worldwide by leading automakers and mobility OEMs, Cerence’s lite solutions, designed specifically for the IoT, are model-trained with plentiful, high-quality, domain-specific field data. Initial offerings include:
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Personally I don't see a direct connection with NVIDIA....yet.

I take Rob's comment with a grain of salt and more generalist.

It makes business sense for NVIDIA to hook in with Edge Impulse.

Is no diff from what we have done and many others, which is building the ecosystem to capture end users (developers) into your own business sphere of products.

Where there can be benefits imo is when there are crossovers in use cases that both (ours and NVIDIA) can be utilised together by the Devs.

Edit: I go back to an earlier recent post re tinyML and Nikunj answering an audience question as to whether Akida can be used with Jetson and the answer was yes with certain requirements or Dev.

Equals exposure, awareness of how good Akida is and hopefully further integration in real world offerings.

With the "partner" term, for the time being in the absence of a formal notice, I look at it meaning that all in the AI revolution are partners of varying degrees.

Partners in the growth of the industry as a whole.

The whales, NVIDIA et al, are like the old saying, a rising tide floats all boats.

As the whales are able to rapidly scale and create the catalyst and tipping point within industry, military etc to adopt AI then the rest us will inevitably rise with them albeit within our own specialist areas eg Edge, Fog, ultra low power, on chip learning etc.
 
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Just to add another piece of the puzzle, an early article about the Mercedes EQXX in Motortrend, in which Brainchip was expressly referenced, concluded by saying:

'Mercedes-Benz says the EQXX also showcases its transformation into a software-driven company whose goal is to be the leader in electric vehicles.
"The Vision EQXX is how we imagine the future of electric cars," says Mercedes-Benz chairman Ola Källenius. "It underlines where our entire company is headed: We will build the world's most desirable electric cars." '


I recall Marcus Schaefer of Mercedes making similar comments, stating along the lines that the intention of Mercedes was to roll out the technology in the EQXX across their other models of cars in due course (don't currently have the reference to hand, sorry).

It seems quite probable to me that Akida will end up in all Mercedes electric vehicles at the very least. If successful, it is also quite possible in time that Akida will run Hey Mercedes for all Mercedes vehicles (as a Mercedes owner I can tell you the current "Hey Mercedes' is pretty awful and badly needs Akida).

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Yeah I know it can, that's not my point, I was responding to the "collaboration in real time" part.
The models look to be trained using the NVIDIA toolkit, then built for edge devices.
That's explicit and isn't drawing a conclusion based on a guess.

Anyway it doesn't matter, if you guys want to speculate and buy shares based on that feel free. For me this has nothing to do with Akida, which is fine.
It is good however that it's involved with Edge Impulse as they are obviously a valuable Ecosystem Partner for Brainchip.
I already own my shares. I never said it does or does not involve Akida.

What we can highlight is that whatever PVDM comes up with many follow.
 
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I already own my shares. I never said it does or does not involve Akida.

What we can highlight is that whatever PVDM comes up with many follow.

I know mate, wasn't aimed at you RE buying on a rumour, it was aimed at @Cartagena and anyone else supporting his comments based on what he wrote here:
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Personally I don't see a direct connection with NVIDIA....yet.

I take Rob's comment with a grain of salt and more generalist.

It makes business sense for NVIDIA to hook in with Edge Impulse.

Is no diff from what we have done and many others, which is building the ecosystem to capture end users (developers) into your own business sphere of products.

Where there can be benefits imo is when there are crossovers in use cases that both (ours and NVIDIA) can be utilised together by the Devs.

Edit: I go back to an earlier recent post re tinyML and Nikunj answering an audience question as to whether Akida can be used with Jetson and the answer was yes with certain requirements or Dev.

Equals exposure, awareness of how good Akida is and hopefully further integration in real world offerings.

With the "partner" term, for the time being in the absence of a formal notice, I look at it meaning that all in the AI revolution are partners of varying degrees.

Partners in the growth of the industry as a whole.

The whales, NVIDIA et al, are like the old saying, a rising tide floats all boats.

As the whales are able to rapidly scale and create the catalyst and tipping point within industry, military etc to adopt AI then the rest us will inevitably rise with them albeit within our own specialist areas eg Edge, Fog, ultra low power, on chip learning etc.
I like to think of it more like this....

Who stands to loose the most from the commercialisation of akida.....?

NVIDIA.

There's a reason NVIDIA was trying to buy ARM recently

There's a reason why Qualcomm said they were looking at taking a significant stake in ARM if the NVIDIA deal fell through...

There's a reason our sp is being messed with....

There's a reason we have multiple high level partnerships

There's a reason we have big tech players posting about us

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If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
I like to think of it more like this....

Who stands to loose the most from the commercialisation of akida.....?

NVIDIA

There's a reason NVIDIA was trying to buy ARM recently

There's a reason why Qualcomm said they were looking at taking a significant stake in ARM if the NVIDIA deal fell through...

There's a reason our sp is being messed with....

There's a reason we have multiple high level partnerships

There's a reason we have big tech players posting about us

Tick tock
Yes, I agree IIoveLambchops! We're on the precipice of what is commonly referred to as the "snowball effect" whereby our surface area is beginning to grow, picking up more snow and more momentum as we roll along, until we become UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!!!



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I like to think of it more like this....

Who stands to loose the most from the commercialisation of akida.....?

NVIDIA.

There's a reason NVIDIA was trying to buy ARM recently

There's a reason why Qualcomm said they were looking at taking a significant stake in ARM if the NVIDIA deal fell through...

There's a reason our sp is being messed with....

There's a reason we have multiple high level partnerships

There's a reason we have big tech players posting about us

Tick tock
Respect and understand you logic though don't entirely agree.

I do agree though that a NVIDIA confirmed and stated connection would be ridiculously massive haha.

M&A activity is commonplace in most industries though.

A behemoth like NVIDIA would just buy us if we were seen as that much of a threat to their bottom line whilst we are still a drop in the ocean $ wise for them.

Eventually we may not be.

There are multiple start ups, research entities etc playing with neuromorphic in different variations and it isn't a given that one of them doesn't come out of left field and snares a major contract.

That's why Megachips and Renesas are critical for mine. They committed as early adopters seeing our benefits and it could just give them an edge (no pun) in the market if they can secure contracts using our tech.

NVIDIA play in the GPU space and diff markets traditionally to us. Where they make their money below as Dec 22.


The chip company serves five primary markets—gaming, data center, professional visualization, automotive, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and other—and provides a revenue breakdown for each of those markets: Gaming revenue, comprising 45% of total revenue, rose 41.8% YOY in the third quarter; data center revenue (41% of total) grew 54.5% YOY; professional visualization revenue (8%) was up 144.5% YOY; automotive revenue (2%) increased 8% YOY; and OEM and other revenue (3%) expanded 20.6% YOY.4

Yes, the Edge Impulse hook up is moving onto our area though again I see us as complimentary to their GPU.

I go back to that Nikunj webinar at around the 37min mark where he speaks about Akida doing its thing but also if the Dev needs a GPU for certain functions then we can also dovetail in there for some of the offloading as well.


I'm not sure what Qualcomm / ARM / NVIDIA statements are about?

None of them really have any direct input / influence over us. We are merely part of the ARM ecosystem.

You could essentially say Intel as well given we are part of the IFS?

We have multiple high level partnerships as we are building an ecosystem and as per my prev thoughts, we need end user Devs onboard as they are the people who build and push through models and products to assist in eventual uptake which ultimately validates Akida and then we should start the snowball imo.

The SP gets messed with by accumulators (big, small & poss other tech companies), shorters, etc etc.

Can't be pinned to a NVIDIA generalisation for mine.

Tech players post about the evolving AI mkt and those involved in it...is like Rob liking diff posts....some may be very pertinent and have a genuine relationship somewhere (we may or may not know of) and some may just be an acknowledgement of an achievement.

Anyway, just my thoughts and trust we will keep chipping away into the market and secure more signatures on the dotted line in due course.
 
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Didn't know that Renesas play in the Nuclear and Radhard field as well.

Obviously we are already tied in with some entities playing in these areas and would be interesting if Renesas went down this path as well given their existing knowledge of what Akida can do.



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Respect and understand you logic though don't entirely agree.

I do agree though that a NVIDIA confirmed and stated connection would be ridiculously massive haha.

M&A activity is commonplace in most industries though.

A behemoth like NVIDIA would just buy us if we were seen as that much of a threat to their bottom line whilst we are still a drop in the ocean $ wise for them.

Eventually we may not be.

There are multiple start ups, research entities etc playing with neuromorphic in different variations and it isn't a given that one of them doesn't come out of left field and snares a major contract.

That's why Megachips and Renesas are critical for mine. They committed as early adopters seeing our benefits and it could just give them an edge (no pun) in the market if they can secure contracts using our tech.

NVIDIA play in the GPU space and diff markets traditionally to us. Where they make their money below as Dec 22.


The chip company serves five primary markets—gaming, data center, professional visualization, automotive, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and other—and provides a revenue breakdown for each of those markets: Gaming revenue, comprising 45% of total revenue, rose 41.8% YOY in the third quarter; data center revenue (41% of total) grew 54.5% YOY; professional visualization revenue (8%) was up 144.5% YOY; automotive revenue (2%) increased 8% YOY; and OEM and other revenue (3%) expanded 20.6% YOY.4

Yes, the Edge Impulse hook up is moving onto our area though again I see us as complimentary to their GPU.

I go back to that Nikunj webinar at around the 37min mark where he speaks about Akida doing its thing but also if the Dev needs a GPU for certain functions then we can also dovetail in there for some of the offloading as well.


I'm not sure what Qualcomm / ARM / NVIDIA statements are about?

None of them really have any direct input / influence over us. We are merely part of the ARM ecosystem.

You could essentially say Intel as well given we are part of the IFS?

We have multiple high level partnerships as we are building an ecosystem and as per my prev thoughts, we need end user Devs onboard as they are the people who build and push through models and products to assist in eventual uptake which ultimately validates Akida and then we should start the snowball imo.

The SP gets messed with by accumulators (big, small & poss other tech companies), shorters, etc etc.

Can't be pinned to a NVIDIA generalisation for mine.

Tech players post about the evolving AI mkt and those involved in it...is like Rob liking diff posts....some may be very pertinent and have a genuine relationship somewhere (we may or may not know of) and some may just be an acknowledgement of an achievement.

Anyway, just my thoughts and trust we will keep chipping away into the market and secure more signatures on the dotted line in due course.
Great post mate and all good points FM, but on the topic of a buy out, i believe the company and it's founders aren't interested in selling.

If they were it would've already happened imo

Unless the sp manipulation / shorting is being orchestrated with a hostile takeover in mind by someonelike an NVIDIA.......which would not surprise either

(Fyi i wasn't suggesting NVIDIA was behind the sp manipulation, but it isn't out of the question imo)
 
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Great post mate and all good points FM, but on the topic of a buy out, i believe the company and it's founders aren't interested in selling.

If they were it would've already happened imo
Appreciated.

Agree that at this time it would appear they aren't interested however, everyone has a price and also more than one way to seek a buyout.

Retailers as a group may be more inclined to throw their hats in if the price was right and if a big enough stake was already held by another company by various means could go close maybe.

The machinations of how it could be achieved are above my pay grade haha.

Who knows what could happen if / when Akida goes properly contracted wider spread commercial. Value goes up and so could enticement to sell?
 
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Appreciated.

Agree that at this time it would appear they aren't interested however, everyone has a price and also more than one way to seek a buyout.

Retailers as a group may be more inclined to throw their hats in if the price was right and if a big enough stake was already held by another company by various means could go close maybe.

The machinations of how it could be achieved are above my pay grade haha.

Who knows what could happen if / when Akida goes properly contracted wider spread commercial. Value goes up and so could enticement to sell?
I would rather Nvidia buy us and we are given shares of them. It's tough going being the small player.
 
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