Hi Manny
If the great unwashed are not convinced by ARM then maybe published independent research by TATA Consulting Services will do the trick:
Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors
Chetan Kadway, Sounak Dey, Arijit Mukherjee, Arpan Pal, Gilles Bézard
2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 1-8, 2023
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. The currently evolving neuromorphic computing paradigm shows promise in terms of energy efficiency and may possibly be exploited here. In this paper, we try to prove the applicability of neuromorphic computing for on-board data processing in satellites by creating a 2-stage hierarchical cloud cover detection application for multi-spectral earth observation images. We design and train a CNN and convert it into SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip Akida neuromorphic platform. We achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are at least 35x and 3.4x more efficient respectively in stage-1 (and 230x & 7x in stage-2) compared to the equivalent CNN running on Jetson TX2.
View at ieeexplore.ieee.org
Not “if but WHEN” - Mr L. Dinardo Former CEO Brainchip 2020.
Shortly the VVDN AKIDA Edge Box will be released.
In Q2 the Unigen AKIDA Cupcake Edge Server will appear.
The AKIDA 2.0 Reference chip will Tapeout and funds from LDA Capital to cover its production should be in place.
Microchip is has been ready since CES 2024 to start approaching its customers with the AKIDA Microchip platform.
Edge Impulse who is now able to offer Nvidia TAO software on its platform allowing its 100,000 plus engineers to run TAO on AKIDA via MetaTF is publishing solutions for traffic management and security in public spaces using AKIDA.
EDGX taking AKIDA into space with the European Space Agency.
Dr. Tony Lewis Chief Technology Officer of Brainchip stating on LinkedIn that Brainchip to his knowledge is the first to successfully implement LLMs at the Edge.
And so much more being actioned across the totality of the known 56 published engagements.
Not sure what some need to maintain their confidence in Brainchip’s prospects for success in the year Edge solutions are commencing their domination.
My opinion only DYOR
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