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Shadow59
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I find it frustrating Rob liking this. Why is it that so many companies that various BRN staff "like", companies that give credit to so many others but never to Brainchip. Why is that?
Tick tock.....
I agree, but feel Rob’s job is to build bridges where there may be synergy in the future.
FlipDollar
Never dog the boys
Robs LinkedIn is his own so a “like” here and there from him on anything posted on that platform has nothing to do with Brainchip as a company, any suggestion otherwise is just hearsay.
I’d be more interested too see what the Brainchip LinkedIn account is “liking”, personally.
Hope everyone’s having a good day. Nice day here in Hawkes Bay, NZ.
HopalongPetrovski
I'm Spartacus!
Agree.
Long term thinking and strategy.
Rob knows you catch more fly's with honey.
Or, as I used to tell my old boss...."Well done, you won the argument and lost the client."
SERA2g
Founding Member
I think the opposite rings true.
The marketing kid and Tony Dawe probably run the LinkedIn and other social media pages.
Rob Telson is the one sitting in board rooms presenting to and talking with potential customers about akida technology.
Rob knows everything going on under the hood so his likes are more valuable, despite his account not being an official company communication channel.
Space Cadet
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He currently works for Booz, so just give him a couple of cartons a week and a bottle of rum and all goodView attachment 41279
I am aware that the above article on neuromorphic computing that Gabriel Rubio, CEO of SecuRED (a small business “specialising in innovative security and privacy technology solutions including AI”) shared on LinkedIn, has been posted here a couple times of before, but check out the comment section.
Not surprisingly, there is a post by Nick Brown promoting Brainchip- both he and @chapman89 should really think about changing their profile pictures to something along the lines of
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But now have a look at Robert Moore’s comment. While not referring to Brainchip specifically, his enthusiastic assessment of the disruptive nature of neuromorphic technology is yet another validation by someone with an intriguing professional background.
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According to Wikipedia, Booz Allen Hamilton is “an American government and military contractor, specializing in intelligence... The company's stated core business is to provide consulting, analysis and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits.”
However, it should also be noted that “Booz Allen has particularly come under scrutiny for its ties to the government of Saudi Arabia and the support it provides to the Saudi armed forces. Alongside competitors McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen are seen as important factors in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s drive to consolidate power in the Kingdom.[89] On the military side, Booz Allen is employing dozens of retired American military personnel to train and advise the Royal Saudi Navy and provide logistics for the Saudi Army, but denies its expertise is used by Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen. Additionally, it also entered an agreement with the Saudi government that involves the protection and cyber-security of government ministries,[90] with experts arguing that these defensive maneuvers could easily be used to target dissidents.”
This connection to Saudi-Arabia reminded me of the following slide in the moonbeam Emerging Technology Assessment presentation @Rise from the ashes shared with us yesterday:
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Intel has been open about collaborating with the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia on the US $ 500 billion NEOM desert megacity project, which some view as the world’s first futuristic smart city and ecological prestige project and others as a repressive ruler’s megalomaniac fantasy and ecological disaster “being built on forcible evictions, state violence and death sentences” (https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-arabias-neom-a-prestigious-project-with-a-dark-side/a-65664704).
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(And of course “Jesse was here”…)
It is obviously an ethical question whether or not to do business with a government such as that of Saudi-Arabia. I wonder whether or not Brainchip will clearly position itself?
Some (admittedly hard to digest) food for thought:
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Tothemoon24
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Canons is releasing a new camera ;
Could we be involved…
Canon's new camera shoots color video in pitch black, from miles away
By Loz BlainAugust 01, 2023
Canon's new MS-500 puts the company's groundbreaking new ultra-sensitive SPAD sensor into a commercial video camera
Canon
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Canon has wrapped its experimental ultra-high sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor up into a world-first commercial product. The new MS-500 accepts ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, and can shoot color video on a moonless night.
As the name suggests, these SPAD sensors effectively count individual photons – the tiniest possible quanta of light – noting down the precise moment when they hit the pixel array, as opposed to doing what a regular CMOS camera sensor does, and outputting the total amount of light received over a given amount of time. The "avalanche" part refers to an amplifying effect of sorts; when a pixel detects a photon, it releases an electron, and that electron itself, at high speed and high voltage, can shake other electrons loose as it goes.
SPAD sensors record the arrival of every individual photon, complete with exactly when it arrived – making them very handy 3D time-of-flight sensors
What you end up with is a sensor with an insane level of sensitivity in low light, almost like a high-speed Geiger-counter for photons. You can use that in a number of ways; Canon, for its part, used an experimental 1-megapixel version of this thing to build a 24,000-fps camera capable of producing usable images at shutter speeds in the tens of trillionths of a second.
How quick is that? Quick enough to freeze light itself in motion. Check out the video below, which shows the movement of a single pulse of laser light, as it moves through smoke, bouncing off mirrors in a three-dimensional setup.
SPAD sensors themselves are not new; they've been used broadly for more than 50 years – most notably, in applications like LiDAR, 3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging and PET scanning, where their incredible speed gives them the ability to accurately record exactly when a photon arrived, allowing these devices to create 3D models of the world.
What is new is that Canon has developed a groundbreaking 13.2 x 9.9 mm, 3.2-megapixel, ultra-high sensitivity SPAD sensor and built a commercial, interchangeable-lens video camera system around it.
Canon says the new MS-500, announced yesterday, is the world's first camera of its kind, and the highest pixel-count SPAD sensor ever offered for sale, with a resolution higher than 1080p. It debuts a new architecture that Canon claims gives it exceptional performance, even among SPAD sensors, in temporal resolution, low noise and near-infrared light spectrum sensitivity.
It's capable of capturing video in illumination levels as low as 0.001 lux – we're talking starlight in the middle of a moonless night – "as though viewing with the naked eye in well-lit environments" – and it's also capable of processing data in somewhere around 100 trillionths of a second, which Canon says will allow it "to capture objects moving at high speeds including photons."
At an estimated retail price of US$25,200 (plus nearly $100K more for that monster lens), it's certainly not pitched at the consumer level. Indeed, Canon is pitching it for "areas with extremely high-security levels, such as seaports, public infrastructure facilities, and national borders, [where] high-precision monitoring systems are required to surveil targets both day and night accurately."
But the sensor technology itself could prove to be a breakthrough in medical imaging, 3D capture, VR/AR and autonomous cars and robotics. Its capabilities with near-infrared spectrum light, for example, could give it superhuman vision and object detection capabilities in fog, mist and bucketing rain.
Very cool stuff – although Canon has provided exactly zero sample video footage at this stage, which strikes us as an absolute facepalm of a PR blunder. In the meanwhile, there's ... this?
A thumbnail-sized photo of a boat on a lake with lights on is the best sample image Canon has deigned to provide at this stage
Canon
About SPAD
Described is a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array microchip comprising: a plurality of SPAD sensors; and a triggering circuit configured to detect and read out the triggering order of SPAD sensors over a timing interval wherein the timing interval comprises one or more frames. An event based neuromorphic SPAD array microchip is also described. The chip architecture and triggering methodology takes a local group of SPAD sensors connected in a certain way and by using simple digital circuits emulating how neurons behave, patterns within a local receptive field are identified. Only when these unique patterns or features are identified are "events" triggered for each receptive field in the order they occur, or in an asynchronous manner. Each neuromorphic circuit (or collection of silicon neurons) act over overlapping receptive fields, and are tiled across the entire visual spatial field of the SPAD array to a form a convolution layer.
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Tothemoon24
Top 20
Canons is releasing a new camera ;
Could we be involved…
Canon's new camera shoots color video in pitch black, from miles away
By Loz Blain
August 01, 2023
Canon's new MS-500 puts the company's groundbreaking new ultra-sensitive SPAD sensor into a commercial video camera
Canon
VIEW 6 IMAGES
VIEW GALLERY - 6 IMAGES
Canon has wrapped its experimental ultra-high sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor up into a world-first commercial product. The new MS-500 accepts ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, and can shoot color video on a moonless night.
As the name suggests, these SPAD sensors effectively count individual photons – the tiniest possible quanta of light – noting down the precise moment when they hit the pixel array, as opposed to doing what a regular CMOS camera sensor does, and outputting the total amount of light received over a given amount of time. The "avalanche" part refers to an amplifying effect of sorts; when a pixel detects a photon, it releases an electron, and that electron itself, at high speed and high voltage, can shake other electrons loose as it goes.
SPAD sensors record the arrival of every individual photon, complete with exactly when it arrived – making them very handy 3D time-of-flight sensors
What you end up with is a sensor with an insane level of sensitivity in low light, almost like a high-speed Geiger-counter for photons. You can use that in a number of ways; Canon, for its part, used an experimental 1-megapixel version of this thing to build a 24,000-fps camera capable of producing usable images at shutter speeds in the tens of trillionths of a second.
How quick is that? Quick enough to freeze light itself in motion. Check out the video below, which shows the movement of a single pulse of laser light, as it moves through smoke, bouncing off mirrors in a three-dimensional setup.
SPAD sensors themselves are not new; they've been used broadly for more than 50 years – most notably, in applications like LiDAR, 3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging and PET scanning, where their incredible speed gives them the ability to accurately record exactly when a photon arrived, allowing these devices to create 3D models of the world.
What is new is that Canon has developed a groundbreaking 13.2 x 9.9 mm, 3.2-megapixel, ultra-high sensitivity SPAD sensor and built a commercial, interchangeable-lens video camera system around it.
Canon says the new MS-500, announced yesterday, is the world's first camera of its kind, and the highest pixel-count SPAD sensor ever offered for sale, with a resolution higher than 1080p. It debuts a new architecture that Canon claims gives it exceptional performance, even among SPAD sensors, in temporal resolution, low noise and near-infrared light spectrum sensitivity.
It's capable of capturing video in illumination levels as low as 0.001 lux – we're talking starlight in the middle of a moonless night – "as though viewing with the naked eye in well-lit environments" – and it's also capable of processing data in somewhere around 100 trillionths of a second, which Canon says will allow it "to capture objects moving at high speeds including photons."
At an estimated retail price of US$25,200 (plus nearly $100K more for that monster lens), it's certainly not pitched at the consumer level. Indeed, Canon is pitching it for "areas with extremely high-security levels, such as seaports, public infrastructure facilities, and national borders, [where] high-precision monitoring systems are required to surveil targets both day and night accurately."
But the sensor technology itself could prove to be a breakthrough in medical imaging, 3D capture, VR/AR and autonomous cars and robotics. Its capabilities with near-infrared spectrum light, for example, could give it superhuman vision and object detection capabilities in fog, mist and bucketing rain.
Very cool stuff – although Canon has provided exactly zero sample video footage at this stage, which strikes us as an absolute facepalm of a PR blunder. In the meanwhile, there's ... this?
A thumbnail-sized photo of a boat on a lake with lights on is the best sample image Canon has deigned to provide at this stage
Canon
About SPAD
Described is a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array microchip comprising: a plurality of SPAD sensors; and a triggering circuit configured to detect and read out the triggering order of SPAD sensors over a timing interval wherein the timing interval comprises one or more frames. An event based neuromorphic SPAD array microchip is also described. The chip architecture and triggering methodology takes a local group of SPAD sensors connected in a certain way and by using simple digital circuits emulating how neurons behave, patterns within a local receptive field are identified. Only when these unique patterns or features are identified are "events" triggered for each receptive field in the order they occur, or in an asynchronous manner. Each neuromorphic circuit (or collection of silicon neurons) act over overlapping receptive fields, and are tiled across the entire visual spatial field of the SPAD array to a form a convolution layer.
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Damo4
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I think the sensor can be treated as separate, much like Sony/Prophesee is separate to Akida.Canons is releasing a new camera ;
Could we be involved…
Canon's new camera shoots color video in pitch black, from miles away
By Loz Blain
August 01, 2023
Canon's new MS-500 puts the company's groundbreaking new ultra-sensitive SPAD sensor into a commercial video camera
Canon
VIEW 6 IMAGES
VIEW GALLERY - 6 IMAGES
Canon has wrapped its experimental ultra-high sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor up into a world-first commercial product. The new MS-500 accepts ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, and can shoot color video on a moonless night.
As the name suggests, these SPAD sensors effectively count individual photons – the tiniest possible quanta of light – noting down the precise moment when they hit the pixel array, as opposed to doing what a regular CMOS camera sensor does, and outputting the total amount of light received over a given amount of time. The "avalanche" part refers to an amplifying effect of sorts; when a pixel detects a photon, it releases an electron, and that electron itself, at high speed and high voltage, can shake other electrons loose as it goes.
SPAD sensors record the arrival of every individual photon, complete with exactly when it arrived – making them very handy 3D time-of-flight sensors
What you end up with is a sensor with an insane level of sensitivity in low light, almost like a high-speed Geiger-counter for photons. You can use that in a number of ways; Canon, for its part, used an experimental 1-megapixel version of this thing to build a 24,000-fps camera capable of producing usable images at shutter speeds in the tens of trillionths of a second.
How quick is that? Quick enough to freeze light itself in motion. Check out the video below, which shows the movement of a single pulse of laser light, as it moves through smoke, bouncing off mirrors in a three-dimensional setup.
SPAD sensors themselves are not new; they've been used broadly for more than 50 years – most notably, in applications like LiDAR, 3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging and PET scanning, where their incredible speed gives them the ability to accurately record exactly when a photon arrived, allowing these devices to create 3D models of the world.
What is new is that Canon has developed a groundbreaking 13.2 x 9.9 mm, 3.2-megapixel, ultra-high sensitivity SPAD sensor and built a commercial, interchangeable-lens video camera system around it.
Canon says the new MS-500, announced yesterday, is the world's first camera of its kind, and the highest pixel-count SPAD sensor ever offered for sale, with a resolution higher than 1080p. It debuts a new architecture that Canon claims gives it exceptional performance, even among SPAD sensors, in temporal resolution, low noise and near-infrared light spectrum sensitivity.
It's capable of capturing video in illumination levels as low as 0.001 lux – we're talking starlight in the middle of a moonless night – "as though viewing with the naked eye in well-lit environments" – and it's also capable of processing data in somewhere around 100 trillionths of a second, which Canon says will allow it "to capture objects moving at high speeds including photons."
At an estimated retail price of US$25,200 (plus nearly $100K more for that monster lens), it's certainly not pitched at the consumer level. Indeed, Canon is pitching it for "areas with extremely high-security levels, such as seaports, public infrastructure facilities, and national borders, [where] high-precision monitoring systems are required to surveil targets both day and night accurately."
But the sensor technology itself could prove to be a breakthrough in medical imaging, 3D capture, VR/AR and autonomous cars and robotics. Its capabilities with near-infrared spectrum light, for example, could give it superhuman vision and object detection capabilities in fog, mist and bucketing rain.
Very cool stuff – although Canon has provided exactly zero sample video footage at this stage, which strikes us as an absolute facepalm of a PR blunder. In the meanwhile, there's ... this?
A thumbnail-sized photo of a boat on a lake with lights on is the best sample image Canon has deigned to provide at this stage
Canon
About SPAD
Described is a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array microchip comprising: a plurality of SPAD sensors; and a triggering circuit configured to detect and read out the triggering order of SPAD sensors over a timing interval wherein the timing interval comprises one or more frames. An event based neuromorphic SPAD array microchip is also described. The chip architecture and triggering methodology takes a local group of SPAD sensors connected in a certain way and by using simple digital circuits emulating how neurons behave, patterns within a local receptive field are identified. Only when these unique patterns or features are identified are "events" triggered for each receptive field in the order they occur, or in an asynchronous manner. Each neuromorphic circuit (or collection of silicon neurons) act over overlapping receptive fields, and are tiled across the entire visual spatial field of the SPAD array to a form a convolution layer.
Sounds like a match mad in heaven though??
Edit: I missed this
What is new is that Canon has developed a groundbreaking 13.2 x 9.9 mm, 3.2-megapixel, ultra-high sensitivity SPAD sensor and built a commercial, interchangeable-lens video camera system around it.
From the last AGM ..... Sean H stated the following .......
" Sales: As I stood before you last year, just a few months into the role as CEO, I already had determined that radical changes needed to take place in our sales effort. Our processes needed vast improvement, our sales talent wasn’t appropriate for this market,.....
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Arm on LinkedIn: #onarm
Anything that harnesses compute can be a computer - from your toaster 🍞 and coffee machine ☕️ to your car 🚘. With demand for compute never higher, here's 3…www.linkedin.com
And changes have been made so what's your point
Frank Zappa
Regular
Since AI came along . More new words will evolve as this area is incorporated into our lives
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Make of this what you will ...... Sean H also stated:
Human Capital: In an industry where, smart people matter a lot, BrainChip has greatly solidified its team. Critical additions include an outstanding addition to our board with Duy-Loan Le, and several new executives with deep semiconductor and AI expertise, specifically our Chief Marketing Officer, Nandan Nayampally and Chris Stevens, who heads our sales efforts. Adding leaders with deep industry skills was essential for our product development, marketing, and sales efforts to dramatically improve. We have also placed experienced sales leaders in Japan, Korea, Germany, and Silicon Valley and added more critical mass to our presales support team. Additionally, we added several excellent individuals to our critical engineering function.
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View attachment 41306Arm on LinkedIn: #onarm
Anything that harnesses compute can be a computer - from your toaster 🍞 and coffee machine ☕️ to your car 🚘. With demand for compute never higher, here's 3…
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