But it’s so weird, especially for Intel to mention Mercedes and AFRL in the same paragraph in which they talk about Loihi and new applications when these two companies in particular have clearly communicated partnerships/dealings with us and commented in such glowing terms on our technology.
Yeah, the key wording for me with Intel's acknowledgement is the companies are examples working on potential applications.
Not so much they are necessarily working with Intel (or could be as well, especially the research ones) but that these companies want to develop applications for neuromorphic and just so happens a couple at least are working with Akida as well as we know.
Good for us is the acknowledgement, as if anyone listening to the keynote happened to look up the companies mentioned they would find references to us.
I hate to be a party pooper, but unfortunately that live blog post by Intel communications manager Jeremy Schultz you were quoting doesn’t clearly differentiate between what Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger actually said in his keynote and the author’s additional live commentary for his readers. Kind of like a sports commentator who will provide background info about the players during a match.
Listen to the keynote from 1:27:45 h.
Gelsinger talks about neuromorphic computing for a total of just over a minute. It is naturally music to our ears when he proclaims (and dramatically stresses the word “dramatic”
) that “Neuromorphic computing is showing unique capabilities in this area with
dramatic improvements of power and performance over other conventional architectures.”
He also briefly mentions the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) and the “200 plus groups participating” in it, but does not name any individual companies or labs at all!
Instead he goes on to say “Intel is working with a wide range of collaborators to enable this computing capability”…
Very interesting as Sergeant Schulz would say! Very interesting Indeed!
…before he changes the topic to quantum computing.
So unless Intel published an edited recording of the keynote, it was actually Sergeant Schulz, pardon Jeremy Schultz (and not Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger) who commented that widespread adoption of neuromorphic technology was still years away and listed all those illustrious names already working on potential applications, but didn’t make it totally clear if he was referring to specific INRC participants or companies/ involved in neuromorphic research in general.
So to cut a long story short: Anyone just listening to the CEO’s keynote without following the live blog report wouldn’t have pricked up their ears at the mention of those entities at least partly known to be in entangled in Akida’s spider net, as they simply weren’t mentioned by Gelsinger at all.
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