Frangipani
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it will get interesting what kind of role japan will play on this game! They investing a lot of money to get back to old glory like 80s/90s. They are not good in software but maybe they can fix the hardware problem! They are specialists in this field
Since I'm not sure to what extent BrainChip will expand its contacts in Japan to solidify its market share, I'll classify this as speculation for now, as potential future market opportunities. I find it intriguing and worth monitoring! The link is in German language and quite older… but I translated a interesting part. (I know there was a updated post yesterday)
Source: Link to the article
Japan is catching up with Taiwan and South Korea
The joint venture aims to develop and produce semiconductors in the Two-Nanometer technology by around 2027. The number describes the width of the circuit lines. Smaller lines result in more energy-efficient and powerful chips. According to the plan, Japan would be on par with the leading technical manufacturers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and South Korea's Samsung Electronics. Samsung began mass-producing semiconductors in the Three-Nanometer technology in the summer, and TSMC is close behind. Both aim to achieve production of Two-Nanometer chips by 2025.
Hi 7für7,
the language barrier is definitely one thing that keeps most of us from “truffle-hunting” more extensively. However, I am convinced there is much more going on behind the scenes in Japan than we perceive there is.
Don’t forget that both companies that signed IP licenses with Brainchip so far - Megachips and Renesas (founded as the consolidated entity of the semiconductor units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi, excluding their dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) businesses, to which NEC Electronics merged in 2010) - are Japanese. And so is Socionext (founded in 2015 from the fusion of the System LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic.)
Sometimes we don’t even realise or remember that certain companies headquartered outside of Japan are partly owned by Japanese conglomerates.
The SoftBank Group, for example, retains a 90.6% stake in Arm (which is based in the UK) following the IPO.
Brainchip even has a representative in Japan:
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And remember Naveen Kumar’s real-time traffic analysis that was reposted here on TSE numerous times?
Eyes on the Road: Enabling Real-Time Traffic Camera Analysis with BrainChip Akida
How one engineer took on tracking traffic at Shibuya Crossing with Edge Impulse FOMO and Akida.
www.edgeimpulse.com
This Indian gentleman actually resides in Japan, too! He works for RIKEN, one of Japan’s largest research organisations.
RIKEN even established a number of collaboration centres with industry partners, including Toyota and Fujitsu.
Obviously a confirmed collaboration with a major player such as Sony would be the fastest way for Brainchip to become more visible in the Land of the Rising Sun…
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