BRN Discussion Ongoing

[DingoBorat]

Oh for sure, one is simply a precursor to the other.
I've been thinking about this a lot today, especially about the choice of wording.
My biggest questions are:

1. How do they define a "customer"? (does it exclude collaborations/partners)
2. How many customers make up the 8 products?
3. If a customer is deemed as paying for IP (rather than for engineering services), does that mean Megachips is servicing many products with Akida with each node?
4. Are any known connections actually customers of our customers?

My answers..

1. Everyone they deal with, would be considered a customer, in some way.

2. Could be less than 8 customers for 8 designs, But more likely individual.

3. Could be, Renesas could/would be one and we know MegaChips is a strategic partner, with a full licence (with 3 or 4 onsold) so there's the possibility of some more licence fees, popping up this quarterly, if that's the case..
But I don't think that's how they are defining the "8" and licence fees, may only be payable, on a successful design, to be implemented?

4. I think the known connections are direct customers.


Just my opinions.

 

[DingoBorat]

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It's official: "Edge AI Movement" stole the show at this year's CES!

What gives? Because it greatly embodies the popular idealism of "AI Everywhere. For Everyone."

Edge AI gives wings (of #Inference) to thin clients, puts 32-bit MCUs on steroids, and more importantly, translates directly into a new market for tens of billions of affordable (<$10 each) AI/ML-capable chips (e.g., NPUs); in contrast to millions of exorbitant ($10k-$100k each) DPUs/GPUs/DLAs currently required for implementing Cloud AI.

Enclosed is a list of 24 leading semiconductor startups in the field of Edge AI (in alphabetical order; Q1 ’24 Edition):

Alif Semiconductor
AONDevices, Inc.
Axelera AI
Blaize
BrainChip
DEEPX
Edge Impulse
Efinix, Inc.
Esperanto Technologies, Inc
Eta Compute
Expedera Inc.
Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
GreenWaves Technologies
HALIO, Inc.
INUITIVE
Kinara, Inc.
Mythic
Perceive
Quadric
Roviero Inc.
SiMa.ai
Syntiant Corp.
Tenstorrent Inc.
Untether AI

Knowing when to pivot is an essential survival skill for every startup. More than one of the honorees above have pivoted from an IC model to an IP one (and vice versa), given this everchanging and increasingly competitive market.

6 more notables in this esteemed cohort of Edge AI chip startups:

Ceremorphic, Inc.
Condor Computing Corporation
Edgecortix
Fabric Cryptography
MIPS (Not a startup per se but you get the idea)
Rain AI

In closing, AI implemented near/on/at the Edge—in a distributed or, in some cases, decentralized fashion—offers a perfect complement to a largely centralized, Cloud-based AI, while injecting new energy and life (with neural networks) to an arguably lukewarm 5G/IoT market. Not only #semiconductor #startups but also megacorporations have taken notice; from #AMD to #AnalogDevices, from #Intel to #Infineon, from #Nvidia to #NXP, #Google to #Qualcomm, and the list goes on... Exciting times ahead!

Notes:
#AI: Artificial Intelligence
#IoT: Internet of Things
#MCU: Microcontroller Unit
#ML: Machine Learning
#NPU: Neural Processing Unit
#DPU: Data Processing Unit
#GPU: Graphics Processing Unit
#DLA: Deep-Learning Accelerator
#IC: Integrated Circuit
#IP: Intellectual Property

Additional reading:
Xnor.ai (acquired by Apple): https://lnkd.in/dsT2ZuG9
NeuRRAM by Stanford University: https://lnkd.in/gDGD2TRK
Edge AI and Vision Alliance (Blog): https://lnkd.in/gBZHWMj7
Plumerai (Blog): https://blog.plumerai.com
Deloitte (TMT Predictions 2020): https://lnkd.in/g_a3XJDh
Notes on #CES2023: https://lnkd.in/gDg2x32n
Notes on #CES2022: https://lnkd.in/g7vsjNCr

➟To be continued.

#SemiconductorIndustry #Semiconductors #EdgeAI #EdgeComputing #EdgeSecurity #EdgeNetwork #EdgetoCloud #CES2024 #CIM #5G #SiP #HeterogeneousIntegration #AdvancedPackaging #AIIoT #DistributedComputing #Blockchain #CloudAI #CloudComputing

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"Edge AI gives wings (of #Inference) to thin clients, puts 32-bit MCUs on steroids, and more importantly, translates directly into a new market for tens of billions of affordable (<$10 each) AI/ML-capable chips (e.g., NPUs); in contrast to millions of exorbitant ($10k-$100k each) DPUs/GPUs/DLAs currently required for implementing Cloud AI"

When Ken Scarince, said we were disrupting a market, that hadn't been created yet.

This is what he was talking about.

 

[Tothemoon24]

"Edge AI gives wings (of #Inference) to thin clients, puts 32-bit MCUs on steroids, and more importantly, translates directly into a new market for tens of billions of affordable (<$10 each) AI/ML-capable chips (e.g., NPUs); in contrast to millions of exorbitant ($10k-$100k each) DPUs/GPUs/DLAs currently required for implementing Cloud AI"

When Ken Scarince, said we were disrupting a market, that hadn't been created yet.

This is what he was talking about.

Absolutely DB ,

Strap in Chippers

 

[buena suerte :-)]

Shout out to @buena suerte :-)

Just checking you are ok as I know 120 hectares has been burnt due to bushfires in your area?

Hey ..A.. @Crestman ...Thanks so much for your message mate

We have fires East/West and North of us, so on full alert

We are on watch and act at the moment....Camper trailer hooked up..Couple of bags packed ...fingers crossed!!

The Firefighters in the air & on the ground doing an amazing job! THANKS so much guys and gals

Hopefully some BIG BRN news next week ?

Cheers

 

[David holland]

I think Tech was letting us all know by saying he'll review beginning of 25, by this time Brainchip will either be a hit or a miss

 

[Pom down under]

I think Tech was letting us all know by saying he'll review beginning of 25, by this time Brainchip will either be a hit or a miss

 

[David holland]

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[Mt09]

The more I read, reread, look back and listen to old interviews and come back and apply all these learnings to the present including the recent CES2024 and piecing things together over the last 2.5years, my mind is blown away that when Rob Telson said at the end of an interview in July 2021 that this is just the tip of the iceberg, he got that comment DEAD RIGHT.

Sure the financials is not showing fireworks yet but nor was Tesla and other big companies starting out. But what each of these companies have in common with Brainchip is Vision and Expertise to be successful.

I shake my head when I see the crap on crapper and some of the suspect weeds on here and I know for a FACT that they are either shitty try hard negative manipulators or just too plain dumb to not comprehend anything that Brainchip has ever published or not understood anything that they have listened to.

An invaluable interview for example 13 July 2021 dicoposse interviewing Rob Telson.

I know its some time back but and its just over an hour but its one hell of a fantastic interview!

Rob said in 2021 its just the tip of the iceberg which we all knows the meaning of that.

I will summarise it soon because listening back to this makes alot of sense to where we are now and I believe the ignition lighter is about to fire up the rocket !

I must have listened to this podcast a dozen times over a period during all the covid crap, bit of a ray of light when there wasn’t a whole lot externally visible going on with the company.

 

[IloveLamp]

[News] Intel to Launch New Automotive AI Chips, Competing with NVIDIA and Qualcomm | TrendForce News

On January 9th, Intel unveiled its latest automotive AI chips, entering into direct competition with rivals NVIDIA and Qualcomm in the automotive chip...

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#Intel to Launch New Automotive #AI Chips, Competing with #NVIDIA and #Qualcomm On January 9th, Intel unveiled its latest automotive AI chips, entering into…

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[Schnitzel lover]

The more I read, reread, look back and listen to old interviews and come back and apply all these learnings to the present including the recent CES2024 and piecing things together over the last 2.5years, my mind is blown away that when Rob Telson said at the end of an interview in July 2021 that this is just the tip of the iceberg, he got that comment DEAD RIGHT.

Sure the financials is not showing fireworks yet but nor was Tesla and other big companies starting out. But what each of these companies have in common with Brainchip is Vision and Expertise to be successful.

I shake my head when I see the crap on crapper and some of the suspect weeds on here and I know for a FACT that they are either shitty try hard negative manipulators or just too plain dumb to not comprehend anything that Brainchip has ever published or not understood anything that they have listened to.

An invaluable interview for example 13 July 2021 dicoposse interviewing Rob Telson.

I know its some time back but and its just over an hour but its one hell of a fantastic interview!

Rob said in 2021 its just the tip of the iceberg which we all knows the meaning of that.

I will summarise it soon because listening back to this makes alot of sense to where we are now and I believe the ignition lighter is about to fire up the rocket !

You’re not wrong. The rest is underwater..

 

[IloveLamp]

Faster than sound air travel is banned, but NASA's new quiet supersonic plane is hoping to change that

The debut of NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft is hoped to revolutionise commercial air travel in the US, paving the way for flights that can travel faster than the speed of sound.

www.abc.net.au

 

[DingoBorat]

This one's dedicated to you David

 

[Worker122]

Hey ..A.. @Crestman ...Thanks so much for your message mate

We have fires East/West and North of us, so on full alert

We are on watch and act at the moment....Camper trailer hooked up..Couple of bags packed ...fingers crossed!!

The Firefighters in the air & on the ground doing an amazing job! THANKS so much guys and gals

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Hopefully some BIG BRN news next week ?

Cheers

Good Luck Buena Suerte

 

[IloveLamp]

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/tech-and-innovation/ai-upscaling-video-quality-on-new-samsung-tvs/video/72408c9414c2c94d419fbc97547ed772

 

[Pom down under]

You’re not wrong. The rest is underwater..

 

[DingoBorat]

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Close enough..

 

[Diogenese]

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Why does that remind me of those 7 drink-holding Japanese suits?

 

[DingoBorat]

0% chance……..there is a difference between Cloud/Server AI and Edge AI……….Gaudi 3 is going after NVIDIA Data Centre AI (they throw more power at computation to achieve “AI”…..hence the need for ‘cooling’)………NVIDIA is taking it to the Auto industry and now Intel is following……they think they can use more power to compute the sensor data and use the cloud-to-chip.

Nothing to do with Akida……..hope you are enjoying your award …….don’t worry, I’m not so vain as to say “I told you so”!

Intel and Vertiv working on liquid cooling for Gaudi3 AI chip​

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By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 12 Dec 2023

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Vertiv will provide cooling for Intel’s Gaudi3 AI accelerator.

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Intel is working with digital infrastructure provider Vertiv on a new liquid cooling solution for its Gaudi3 AI accelerator chipset.
Set to launch in 2024, the Gaudi3 processor is designed for the most demanding data centre workloads, AI training, and inferencing, positioning it as Intel's contender against the industry-leading Nvidia AI technology.
The Intel Gaudi3 AI accelerator will enable both liquid-cooled and air-cooled servers, supported by Vertiv pumped two-phase (P2P) cooling infrastructure.
The cooling solution is crucial for AI applications and high-performance computing. Performing intense computations on massive amounts of data leads to increased power consumption and heat generation. Cooling solutions help dissipate this heat, ensuring that the chip operates at its best performance without the risk of overheating.
John Nieman, SVP global thermal line of businesses at Vertiv, says the company is expanding its liquid cooling portfolio to support big tech companies such as Intel.
Liquid cooling also provides a more eco-friendly and cost-efficient solution compared to traditional cooling methods, although it is more complex to install.
“To support increasing thermal design power and heat flux for next-generation accelerators, Intel has worked with Vertiv and other ecosystem
partners

to enable a cooling solution that will help customers meet critical sustainability goals,” says Dr Devdatta Kulkarni, principal engineer of this project at Intel.

The microprocessor giant introduced Gaudi2 in 2022, aiming to rival Nvidia's A100 GPUs as the preferred choice for enterprises training large language models. The acquisition of Israel-based Habana for $2 billion in late 2019 paved the way for this development.

Well everybody's shaking hands and rubbing shoulders, so we're going to squeeze in there somewhere..

Anil Mankar, recognises achievements, which may not have anything directly to do with us, but we do have a direct relationship with Intel, through IFS.

"The acquisition of Israel-based Habana for $2 billion in late 2019 paved the way for this development"

We also just got Steve Thorne, from Habana Labs (VP of sales) which indicates, that we probably have a direct relationship with them too.

Business, is all about building relationships, so no connection, is insignificant, in my opinion.

 

[DingoBorat]

The significance is in the type of AI…….we are not in everything……….yet!…………thats why we have Steve.

This is a part of an email from Tony Dawe and I have to stress, that this is just his opinion, but I think it sums up very well, what is happening.

"Many large tech companies are struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing market, and this is causing significant disruption to the global tech sector"

We can see this clearly IMO, with companies like AMD and their new MI300X Accelerator.

The heat sink for it is so big, they put a bloody handle on it!
Years in development.
Huge performance
Huge power usage.
Huge heat output and a need for stacks of cooling.
Described by a "Tech head" (or possibly even one of their employees) as "a monster".

The Gaudi 3 Accelerator and whatever NVIDIA's latest big power offering is, are in the same boat.

While they were developing these products, the Market has changed around them.

Now the market wants the performance, without the big power usage and everything that stems from that.

Through sheer brilliance and maybe even a dash of dumb luck, BrainChip now has the solutions, the Market craves.

Although I don't think it's his style, Anil Mankar's "like" could have been a bit of a cheeky..
"Hey you know we're here, if you want to talk"

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Whilst this older paper (2022) doesn't mention Akida, I have highlighted one of their statements re neuromorphic AI in autonomous driving which I found encouraging.

I included where the authors worked or were aligned with. Some familiar names there, though Valeo wasn't represented, BMW & Infineon were

Frontiers | Automotive Radar Processing With Spiking Neural Networks: Concepts and Challenges

Frequency-modulated continuous wave radar sensors play an essential role for assisted and autonomous driving as they are robust under all weather and light c...

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article​

Front. Neurosci., 01 April 2022
Sec. Neuromorphic Engineering
Volume 16 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.851774

Automotive Radar Processing With Spiking Neural Networks: Concepts and Challenges​

• 1Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
• 2Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co., KG, Dresden, Germany
• 3Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
• 4Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany
• 5BMW Group, Research, New Technologies, Garching, Germany
• 6Centre for Tactile Internet (CeTI) With Human-In-The-Loop, Cluster of Excellence, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

When it comes to AI-based autonomous driving, ensuring functional safety of both software and hardware is a critical issue. The principles that are currently developed to support machine learning models (Henriksson et al., 2018; Mohseni et al., 2019) will also apply to SNNs. Similarly, neuromorphic hardware will have to fulfill the same standards as any automotive electronic system: adhere to temperature ranges, be resistant to vibrations, be deterministic and redundant, or contain self-monitoring. For that reason, only digital neuromorphic systems are candidates for integration in cars, while the use of analog or mixed-signal neuromorphic hardware seems out of scope at the moment due to their intrinsic variability. Hence, we suggest to focus on advanced digital systems such as SpiNNaker2 (Yan et al., 2021) or Loihi2 (Orchard et al., 2021) to further explore neuromorphic hardware for automotive radar processing and automated driving in general

Further to the previous post on the research indicating digital neuromorphic tech is best placed for ADAS, this is an Infineon presso from mid 2022 that also references that research paper. May have been posted before or not but here it is again.

Appears they used Spinnaker2 research chip for their testing but presents some neuromorphic data. Who knows what sort of work since then has been done with Akida.