Fingers crossed that is true, I am sure the discussion was based around blurred images that BRN helped resolveMaybe, don't think we will ever know who it was. Although Prophesee already had a working solution with their current tech partner so could be one of our early adopters.
Hi Cand2itWithout a signed IP contract with us how can Prophesee be using our IP in their products? Is it correct to say that that we cannot expect any royalties from any partner if they havent signed a IP contract? @Fact Finder could you please shed some light on this? Sean also said in the webinar that it was a high priority for the sales team to get more IP contracts. I hope it is possible that our IP can be used by partners without an IP agreement. Then hopefully revenue will appear suddenly. I just dont understand how anyone can pay us without any formally signed contract.
No.Maybe this is the deal Sean was referring to that didn’t go through is my thinking
My wild theory for the day.No.
The deal did not proceed because (Sean’s words) the company laid off thousands of employees.
My best bet is Ericsson as they laid off thousands of employees about the right time.
News: Ericsson to layoff 750 US employees, field service to be outsourced
Ericsson has specified that starting from October 1 2023 all field services in the US will be conducted by external providers and the separation date has been scheduled for September 29 2023www.peoplematters.in
At least some of researchers in the Ericsson paper I posted worked at the North American branch and still do and have published since these lay offs. Their paper relates to the area of commercial operations targeted in the lay offs and appear on LinkedIn to be still employed up to a couple of weeks ago:
Towards 6G Zero-Energy Internet of Things: Standards, Trends, and Recent Results
T Khan, SNK Veedu, A Rácz, M Afshang… - Authorea …, 2023 - techrxiv.org
… , a neuromorphic AI chip (the Akida neural chip from BrainChip), … @ericsson.com) is a senior researcher at Ericsson Research in … She joined Ericsson in 2018 following her postdoctoral
I believe Sean Heir has subsequently said that the project is not dead. I note also that Nadan Nayampally has mentioned energy harvesting as a use case for AKIDA.
My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder
Likely then that Akida is the "killer app" in Prophesee's next iteration. That is an easy concept to keep us grounded ....as prophesy relates to future events.Hi @charles2
The only things I know about Prophesee and it’s neuromorphic sensor technology are:
1. It can work with other technology including Von Neumann;
2. It partnered with Brainchip because AKIDA technology natively runs SNN and as such is directly compatible with Prophesee’s sensor and there is no loss of functionality as there is when teamed with other technology such as that from SynSense, Intel, Qualcomm and Sony.
3. Brainchip and Prophesee were demonstrating their joint technology at CES 2024.
4. In my opinion Brainchip is not part of the current Prophesee product offerings from SynSense, Qualcomm and/or Sony.
My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder
Shared on ASX bets, not sure of the validity of it, but interestingly this was allegedly posted and quickly deleted.
Wonder if they could be toying with AKIDA? who was it playing with neuromorphic SDRs? Always pricks the ears (or eyes) when we see and hear "without referencing the cloud"
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Prophesee Sony and Akida combination is going to take the smart phone to a new level. I just wish it can hurry up already.Likely then that Akida is the "killer app" in Prophesee's next iteration. That is an easy concept to keep us grounded ....as prophesy relates to future events.
Thanks FF for clarifying.
Just one question for point 4 why Qualcomm has to wait until prophese partnered with brn before declaring their partnership with prophese?Hi @charles2
The only things I know about Prophesee and it’s neuromorphic sensor technology are:
1. It can work with other technology including Von Neumann;
2. It partnered with Brainchip because AKIDA technology natively runs SNN and as such is directly compatible with Prophesee’s sensor and there is no loss of functionality as there is when teamed with other technology such as that from SynSense, Intel, Qualcomm and Sony.
3. Brainchip and Prophesee were demonstrating their joint technology at CES 2024.
4. In my opinion Brainchip is not part of the current Prophesee product offerings from SynSense, Qualcomm and/or Sony.
My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder
Hi rguptaJust one question for point 4 why Qualcomm has to wait until prophese partnered with brn before declaring their partnership with prophese?
They must be working on product before hand.
A MUST WATCH INTERVIEW IMO!!!
Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm | MWC Barcelona 2024 - YouTube
5 hours ago
Sustainability and AI: Qualcomm aims to reshape the mobile landscape
The future of artificial intelligence is not confined to boardrooms and laboratories — it’s unfolding in real-time, shaping the way we live, work and interact with the world around us. The journey is one marked by ingenuity, collaboration and a steadfast commitment to harnessing the transformative power of AI for improved sustainability and the betterment of humanity.
Diving deep into the implications of AI’s migration to the edge, Ziad Asghar (pictured), senior vice president of product management and head of AI Technology at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., gave a glimpse into the transformative power of on-device processing, the burgeoning realm of sustainability and the democratization of AI.
“Generative AI may have started on the cloud, but it’s transitioning to the edge, it’s coming to the device and that brings in with it [an] amazing amount of benefits,” Asghar said.
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“That allows us to be able to do more AI processing than anybody else out there from a performance per watt perspective,” he said.
Qualcomm’s unveiling of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image model running on a device with a staggering seven billion parameters, underscores the strides made in on-device AI processing. This progress not only enhances efficiency but also aligns with sustainability goals by significantly reducing energy consumption. The age-old debate of proprietary versus open-source models is also addressed, with Qualcomm embracing the democratization of AI through initiatives, such as the AI Hub, empowering developers to leverage curated models for diverse applications.
“People can take these generative AI model like Stable Diffusion, we can pick it up from there and readily create an application,” Asghar said. “And you know what I’m excited about is there are many applications that we might not even thought about when we were designing these chips. But I hope that developers are able to come up with those amazing ideas.”
The shift toward edge AI
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“What if you have a virtual assistant sitting on your device that you say, ‘Reserve a restaurant for me tomorrow,’” he said. “It basically figures out your calendar, it figures out Yelp, it finds a place close to you, goes to open table, makes the reservation for you and you’re done. This is the kind of human-machine interaction sign up that I think that we can enable in the future.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of MWC Barcelona:
Yes. I saw that and wondered, as you did, if it referred to Thorpe's N-of-M coding.Hey @Diogenese, you got your eyes on?
Does anyone else reckon that Competitor 1 on the slide is Qualcomm?
Surely they're not going to bypass the opportunity to add "on-chip learning" to their suite of capabilities, particularly if they want to rule the edge.
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We are partners with Prophesee. Any chance AKIDA is involved with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon or maybe the one after.Shots fired..... I've given up guessing/predicting who might be using Akida... but it's great to see that the competition is heating up. This can only be good for Akida's time to market at scale???
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Arm-powered Snapdragon X Elite laptop shown outperforming Intel Core Ultra by up to 10X in AI tests — Qualcomm fires early NPU shots at Intel [Updated]
But Intel has Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake waiting in the wings.www.tomshardware.com
Does anyone else reckon that Competitor 1 on the slide is Qualcomm?
Surely they're not going to bypass the opportunity to add "on-chip learning" to their suite of capabilities, particularly if they want to rule the edge.
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