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A Low-Power Spiking Neural Network Chip Based on a Compact LIF Neuron and Binary Exponential Charge Injector Synapse Circuits.

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/sensors/sensors-21-04462/article_deploy/sensors-21-04462-v3.pdf

This work was supported by IITP grant (No. 2020-0-01304), Development of Self-learnable Mobile Recursive Neural Network Processor Technology Project, and also supported by the Grand Information Technology Research Center support program (IITP-2020-0-01462) supervised by the

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IITP and funded by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korean government. It was also supported by Industry coupled IoT Semiconductor System Convergence Nurturing Center under System Semiconductor Convergence Specialist Nurturing Project funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (2020M3H2A107678611) and sponsored partly by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (2020-0-01077, Development of Intelligent SoC having Multimodal IOT Interface for Data Sensing, Edge computing analysis and Data sharing).

 

[JK200SX]

I'll share this one with the team and get your thoughts.....

A while ago you may remember I made a comment about the way you setup your google search criteria and the results it returns, ie I found out when you perform a search like this [ site:xxxxx.com + brainchip] it will perform the search on all available subpages in that domain. In summary a search like the one in the square brackets is suppose to return the resulting pages that have the text "brainchip" in any webpage that appears in the xxxxx.com domain.

So, for the past half hr this morning I tried multiple search combinations in this format with many of the big name car and consumer market companies and 2 results popped up

1. When I searched: site:www.sony.net + brainchip it returned the following result:

https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/bravia-xr?yt_techfilm

What this effectively means is that the webpage should contain the word "brainchip" somewhere inside it. However I haven't been able to find the reference to brainchip, yet the search criteria specifically reference brainchip? I even checked the web page source code to no avail.


2. When I searched: site:www.lg.com + brainchip it returned the following result:

News: LG to accelerate development of Artificial Intelligence with own AI Chip | LG ThinQ

As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence chip (AI Chip) with proprietary LG Neural Engine to better mimic the neural network of the human brain to greatly improve the processing of deep learning algorithms.

www.lg.com

Similarly I can't find any reference to Brainchip in this webpage either, however both webpage are bang on the money with what Brainchip's AKIDA can do!

Short of saying these 2 products have Brainchip's AKIDA chip or IP in them, does anyone have any thoughts?
If they are not link in any way, why would a search specifically with the word "Brainchip" bring up these 2 results?

 

[Taproot]

QuantalRF | Antonio J. Viana

QuantalRF leverages our Quantal Technology by developing and delivering advanced receiver architectures, to substantially improve performance, power consumption and cost for our customers, using an industry-accepted IP licensing business model.

quantalrf.com

Radio frequency (RF) was recently tacked onto the five senses, no?

Are you referring to @uiux thread title " Brainchip + Intellisense Systems, Inc "
Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Torrance, Calif.) for Radiofrequency One-Shot Learning for Emission Recognition

BrainChip Taps Former ARM Executive Antonio J. Viana as Non-Executive Director

BrainChip Taps Former ARM Executive Antonio J. Viana as Non-Executive Director

www.businesswire.com

Mr. Viana currently serves as the executive chairman at QuantalRF AG, an emerging next-generation, front-end RF company developing transformative wireless communication solutions

QuantalRF was established based on the inventions of Co-Founder and former NASA scientist, Dr. Forrest J. Brown. These inventions developed into our RFFE technology known as Quantal Technology. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, with operations in the USA and Sweden, QuantalRF has an impressive portfolio of over 250 granted patents and applications with broad geographic coverage.

 

[Stable Genius]

I cant help but keep coming back to the Brainchip - Valeo (lidar) connection.

Valeo Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Delivering Cutting-edge 3D Sensors and Related Software Perception Stack to the Automotive Industry

/PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the global automotive light detection and ranging (LiDAR) industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Valeo with the...

www.prnewswire.com

https://brainchipinc.com/brainchip-ai-player-on-roll/

These are old articles but no matter how many times I read them and how critical a position take I always come away convinced that it is only a matter of time. tick, tick tick.... Boom

Agree OkeyDokey.

This presentation from Valeo is a must read:

https: //www.valeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Presentation_MoveUp_Strategic_Financial_Outlook_2022-2025.pdf

FF it includes Valeo supplying BMW so there is our link to them:

Interestingly it also includes Stallantis who looks like they are going to need our services in cabin also:

And BMW are heavily involved with Stellantis and Waymo as well for some of their autonomous driving.

Stellantis have 14 brands covered.

So with Daimer, Ford, Toyota and Stellantis (including BMW) I think we’re going to have most of the car market covered and become the default industry standard!

Cheers

 

[Diogenese]

I'll share this one with the team and get your thoughts.....

A while ago you may remember I made a comment about the way you setup your google search criteria and the results it returns, ie I found out when you perform a search like this [ site:xxxxx.com + brainchip] it will perform the search on all available subpages in that domain. In summary a search like the one in the square brackets is suppose to return the resulting pages that have the text "brainchip" in any webpage that appears in the xxxxx.com domain.

So, for the past half hr this morning I tried multiple search combinations in this format with many of the big name car and consumer market companies and 2 results popped up

1. When I searched: site:www.sony.net + brainchip it returned the following result:

https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/bravia-xr?yt_techfilm

What this effectively means is that the webpage should contain the word "brainchip" somewhere inside it. However I haven't been able to find the reference to brainchip, yet the search criteria specifically reference brainchip? I even checked the web page source code to no avail.


2. When I searched: site:www.lg.com + brainchip it returned the following result:

News: LG to accelerate development of Artificial Intelligence with own AI Chip | LG ThinQ

As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence chip (AI Chip) with proprietary LG Neural Engine to better mimic the neural network of the human brain to greatly improve the processing of deep learning algorithms.

www.lg.com

Similarly I can't find any reference to Brainchip in this webpage either, however both webpage are bang on the money with what Brainchip's AKIDA can do!

Short of saying these 2 products have Brainchip's AKIDA chip or IP in them, does anyone have any thoughts?
If they are not link in any way, why would a search specifically with the word "Brainchip" bring up these 2 results?

Maybe it's just that Google search engine automatically associates "artificial intelligence" and "BrainChip" as being synonyms.

 

[Dhm]

I'll share this one with the team and get your thoughts.....

A while ago you may remember I made a comment about the way you setup your google search criteria and the results it returns, ie I found out when you perform a search like this [ site:xxxxx.com + brainchip] it will perform the search on all available subpages in that domain. In summary a search like the one in the square brackets is suppose to return the resulting pages that have the text "brainchip" in any webpage that appears in the xxxxx.com domain.

So, for the past half hr this morning I tried multiple search combinations in this format with many of the big name car and consumer market companies and 2 results popped up

1. When I searched: site:www.sony.net + brainchip it returned the following result:

https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/bravia-xr?yt_techfilm

What this effectively means is that the webpage should contain the word "brainchip" somewhere inside it. However I haven't been able to find the reference to brainchip, yet the search criteria specifically reference brainchip? I even checked the web page source code to no avail.


2. When I searched: site:www.lg.com + brainchip it returned the following result:

News: LG to accelerate development of Artificial Intelligence with own AI Chip | LG ThinQ

As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence chip (AI Chip) with proprietary LG Neural Engine to better mimic the neural network of the human brain to greatly improve the processing of deep learning algorithms.

www.lg.com

Similarly I can't find any reference to Brainchip in this webpage either, however both webpage are bang on the money with what Brainchip's AKIDA can do!

Short of saying these 2 products have Brainchip's AKIDA chip or IP in them, does anyone have any thoughts?
If they are not link in any way, why would a search specifically with the word "Brainchip" bring up these 2 results?

I am no computer whiz, but I wonder if the search engine is reading Brainchip as brain and chip.

 

[Stable Genius]

Agree OkeyDokey.

This presentation from Valeo is a must read:

https: //www.valeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Presentation_MoveUp_Strategic_Financial_Outlook_2022-2025.pdf

FF it includes Valeo supplying BMW so there is our link to them:

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Interestingly it also includes Stallantis who looks like they are going to need our services in cabin also:

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And BMW are heavily involved with Stellantis and Waymo as well for some of their autonomous driving.

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Stellantis have 14 brands covered.

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So with Daimer, Ford, Toyota and Stellantis (including BMW) I think we’re going to have most of the car market covered and become the default industry standard!

Cheers

Another very important image from Valeo’s presentation where it actually has an image of Brainchip on the mobility players and tech partners page:

LOL!

 

[David holland]

When I read articles like this and consider how once upon a time in a world not that far away parents, grandparents, friends and strangers had the ability to remember for more than ten seconds that they had the care of a child and they were in the car with them and now Governments around the world are legislating to make car manufacturers include intelligent devices to supplement humans after their ten second memory span has been exhausted ALL I CAN SAY IS AS BLIND FREDDIE SAYS -

‘This market that AKIDA technology can service is growing like a house on fire and will be worth a zillion billion dollar bucks.

The only way Brainchip will not capture at least one percent of this market is if they get high on cocaine and stay in bed for the next three years.

They truly are disrupting markets that do not exist yet and which are still to be thought of or imposed by Governments.’

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Market leader 3 yrs in advance I'm sure 1% is a disaster, 10% plus for mine

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

Good morning all!

Has Catena-X Automotive Network been posted about before? It’s hard to get anything passed some of you so I’m guessing it has and maybe I missed it. As you can see Mercedes is part of this network as well as BOSCH, Siemens and a major telecommunications company T-Mobile. Happy digging

Catena-X: The new network for data exchange of the leading industrial companies | Mercedes-Benz Group

The network, in which the Mercedes-Benz AG is also involved, enables save and cross-company data exchange.

group.mercedes-benz.com

 

[Taproot]

Here's one for you @Diogenese
Different spin
Has a reference to Brainchip
Unfortunately I don't have a clue what they are talking about, but thought I'd throw it out there.

Neuromorphic chip integrated with a large-scale integration circuit and amorphous-metal-oxide semiconductor thin-film synapse devices - Scientific Reports

Artificial intelligences are promising in future societies, and neural networks are typical technologies with the advantages such as self-organization, self-learning, parallel distributed computing, and fault tolerance, but their size and power consumption are large. Neuromorphic systems are...

www.nature.com

 

[Build-it]

Apologies if already posted.

https://apple.news/AjRPOxxp-Q6m4fiyqTU8zAg

There has been plenty of research & links back to qualcomm and the recent interview with their CEO showed they definitely are not intending to get left behind, certainly alot of what Qualcomm want Akida can provide.

If there is a partnership, I would expect a long lasting NDA wrapped around it.

I wonder if Karl may have anything to add.

Karl Freund,
I love to learn and share the amazing hardware and services being built to enable Artificial Intelligence, the next big thing in technology.

 

[Bravo]

Autobrains Cartex 4H introduces self-learning AI and will be available Q3 2022.
Remember the Cartex 4H is based on a Renesas V3H architecture
No date given for the release of the Catex 5M that promises to
bridge the gap towards a fully autonomous vehicle

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Our Full Range of Products - Autobrains Technologies

Functionality for Every Level. We offer full spectrum functionality, bridging capabilities from levels 1 to 5.

autobrains.ai

Hi Slade,

Autobrains are working with our competition, Ambarella (AI vision tech), but that doesn't necessarily mean they're not working with us also IMO.

The announcement of the Ambarella/Autobrains collaboration states "The companies are also working on solutions for the future, including a centralized domain control unit that can utilize multiple cameras and a variety of additional sensors, such as radar, lidar and others".


It also alludes to Autobrains having their own self-learning techology, which is what I ASSUME is AKIDA.

“Autobrains’ self-learning AI technology bridges the gap toward the promise of fully autonomous vehicles,” said Igal Raichelgauz, CEO of Autobrains. “By reducing the burden of manually labeling data that feed systems, which causes the misinterpretation of the most challenging scenarios, our technology enables far more features with increased accuracy. Running our extremely efficient software on Ambarella’s modern and efficient AI perception SoCs creates a cost efficiency leap in increased levels of autonomy. The resulting solution differs greatly from competitors’ systems not only in features and quality, but also in its approach of equipping our customers with an open-box solution that can be explained, controlled and customized. Autobrains is excited to collaborate with Ambarella, a company that shares our passion for innovation and our focus on algorithms that create products with value for the automotive industry.”

Ambarella and Autobrains Collaborate on Scalable Range of AI Solutions From Front ADAS to Higher Levels of Autonomy for the Automotive Mass Market | Ambarella

Highly Efficient, Compact, Low Power Solution Scales From Current Regulatory Requirements to 2025Five Star NCAP Standards and Beyond SANTA CLARA, Calif., and TEL AVIV, Dec. 15, 2021 — Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an AI vision silicon company, and Autobrains, developer of first-of-its-kind...

www.ambarella.com

 

[Fact Finder]

Maybe it's just that Google search engine automatically associates "artificial intelligence" and "BrainChip" as being synonyms.

Perhaps Google is using faux artificial intelligence???

 

[Fact Finder]

Time will tell. Meanwhile I have woken with something else that is puzzling me. We see that Ford is no longer appearing on BrainChip presentations. I think that this is because they are the one company that Sean recently acknowledged as not pursuing Akida directly via BrainChip Inc anymore (Pure speculation). I say directly because I think it may actually makes more sense for Ford to purchase Akida through Valeo or Renesas. This way they cannot only be secretive about their use of Akida but they also end up acquirIng Akida from those that expertise in the automotive industry, supported of course by BrainChip engineers.
It is difficult trying to figure how the different players fit together. I have certainly developed an appreciatIon, or more a sense of awe, for the many products and forms in which Akida could be used. I guess when it comes to BrainChip there will always be dots to try and join.

The problem with this theory is that as they announced Ford as an EAP as a price sensitive announcement on the ASX if Ford formally discontinued Brainchip must as a matter of law make a further ASX price sensitive announcement to that effect.

No announcement therefore Ford are continuing.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Bravo]

Hi Slade,

Autobrains are working with our competition, Ambarella (AI vision tech), but that doesn't necessarily mean they're not working with us also IMO.

The announcement of their collaboration states "The companies are also working on solutions for the future, including a centralized domain control unit that can utilize multiple cameras and a variety of additional sensors, such as radar, lidar and others".


It also alludes to Autobrains having their own self-learning techology, which is what I ASSUME is AKIDA.

“Autobrains’ self-learning AI technology bridges the gap toward the promise of fully autonomous vehicles,” said Igal Raichelgauz, CEO of Autobrains. “By reducing the burden of manually labeling data that feed systems, which causes the misinterpretation of the most challenging scenarios, our technology enables far more features with increased accuracy. Running our extremely efficient software on Ambarella’s modern and efficient AI perception SoCs creates a cost efficiency leap in increased levels of autonomy. The resulting solution differs greatly from competitors’ systems not only in features and quality, but also in its approach of equipping our customers with an open-box solution that can be explained, controlled and customized. Autobrains is excited to collaborate with Ambarella, a company that shares our passion for innovation and our focus on algorithms that create products with value for the automotive industry.”

Ambarella and Autobrains Collaborate on Scalable Range of AI Solutions From Front ADAS to Higher Levels of Autonomy for the Automotive Mass Market | Ambarella

Highly Efficient, Compact, Low Power Solution Scales From Current Regulatory Requirements to 2025Five Star NCAP Standards and Beyond SANTA CLARA, Calif., and TEL AVIV, Dec. 15, 2021 — Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an AI vision silicon company, and Autobrains, developer of first-of-its-kind...

www.ambarella.com

Intiguingly Autobrain's Founder and CEO Igal Raichelgauz started his Ph.D. research at the Technion in the field of cortical neural networks. If Technion sounds familiar, it is because of this.

https://brainchipinc.com/brainchip-nanose-successfully-detect-covid19-01/

 

[Slymeat]

I'll share this one with the team and get your thoughts.....

A while ago you may remember I made a comment about the way you setup your google search criteria and the results it returns, ie I found out when you perform a search like this [ site:xxxxx.com + brainchip] it will perform the search on all available subpages in that domain. In summary a search like the one in the square brackets is suppose to return the resulting pages that have the text "brainchip" in any webpage that appears in the xxxxx.com domain.

So, for the past half hr this morning I tried multiple search combinations in this format with many of the big name car and consumer market companies and 2 results popped up

1. When I searched: site:www.sony.net + brainchip it returned the following result:

https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/bravia-xr?yt_techfilm

What this effectively means is that the webpage should contain the word "brainchip" somewhere inside it. However I haven't been able to find the reference to brainchip, yet the search criteria specifically reference brainchip? I even checked the web page source code to no avail.


2. When I searched: site:www.lg.com + brainchip it returned the following result:

News: LG to accelerate development of Artificial Intelligence with own AI Chip | LG ThinQ

As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence chip (AI Chip) with proprietary LG Neural Engine to better mimic the neural network of the human brain to greatly improve the processing of deep learning algorithms.

www.lg.com

Similarly I can't find any reference to Brainchip in this webpage either, however both webpage are bang on the money with what Brainchip's AKIDA can do!

Short of saying these 2 products have Brainchip's AKIDA chip or IP in them, does anyone have any thoughts?
If they are not link in any way, why would a search specifically with the word "Brainchip" bring up these 2 results?

The words "brain" and "chip" occur in that article. You should need to place a space between words for Google search to find either of them. Maybe the matching algorithm doesnt recognise "brainchip" as a word so assumes you meant the two dictionary words brain and chip.

If you explicitly state "brainchip" as a single quoted word, you get different results. Results that contain brainchip as a word.

i.e [www.sony.net + "brainchip"] finds nothing.

But hey, the pages you did find do seem to have Brainchip written all over the sub-context. It is a chip that matches the way the brain works. Very interesting.

 

[Slymeat]

The following works

 

[Diogenese]

Here's one for you @Diogenese
Different spin
Has a reference to Brainchip
Unfortunately I don't have a clue what they are talking about, but thought I'd throw it out there.

Neuromorphic chip integrated with a large-scale integration circuit and amorphous-metal-oxide semiconductor thin-film synapse devices - Scientific Reports

Artificial intelligences are promising in future societies, and neural networks are typical technologies with the advantages such as self-organization, self-learning, parallel distributed computing, and fault tolerance, but their size and power consumption are large. Neuromorphic systems are...

www.nature.com

Hi Taproot,

We've certainly looked at this before. It is still very much a blue sky research project.

They claim they are using "digital" neurons with analog synapses, requiring two different manufacturing techniques on the same chip. This puts it in the Frankenstein category.

Their "digital" neuron can be roughly equated to on ON/OFF switch whose operation is voltage sensitive:

The neuron element is a digital circuit consisting of four transistors with two inverters connected in series. A binary state, that is, stable or firing state, is generated and alternates according to the input signal. The input, positive output, and negative output terminals are unidirectional. If the input signal is above the threshold voltage of the inverter, the stable state is generated, the positive output signal becomes Vss, and the negative output signal becomes complementarily Vdd. On the other hand, if the input signal is below the threshold voltage, the firing state is generated, the positive output signal becomes Vdd, and the negative output signal becomes complementarily Vss.

Normal digital switches are not as voltage sensitive as that because the input and output are either a "1" or a zero. The problem with analog circuits is that the dimensions of the components varies due to limitations in the manufacturing process. Thus the output signal strength (voltage/current) of each synapse can vary. When there may be several hundred synapses feeding into a neuron, the accumulated variations in signal strength can affect the accuracy of the operation of the neuron which switches at a precise input signal strength (the threshold voltage). In fact,

Figure 2d shows the conductance changes. The changes of the conductance are measured when a voltage of 1.8 V is applied to the synapse devices. It turns out that the conductance gradually decreases over time. Figure 2e shows the behavior mechanisms. One is the decrease in oxygen vacancies due to the uptake of oxygen, and the other is the increase in traps due to impact of the carriers. In any case, the conductance changes are used as a local autonomous learning in this research.

While the authors claim their thin-film manufacturing technique is less prone to manufacturing variations than an alternative technique they tested, the performance of the thin-film synapses changes over time, and this would also adversely affect the operation of the neuron switch.

The voltage dependence of the neuron is described below:

Figure 3 shows the local autonomous learning. The neuron elements are directly connected through the synapse devices. In this example, it is assumed that one pre-neuron is in a firing state and the output voltage is 1.8 V, the other pre-neuron is in the stable state and the output voltage is 0 V, and the post-neuron is in the firing state and the input voltage is 1.2 V, which is above the threshold voltage. As a result, a small voltage of 0.6 V is applied to the synapse device between the pre-neuron and post-neuron in the firing state, while a large voltage of 1.2 V is applied to the synapse device between the pre-neuron in the stable state and the post-neuron in the firing state.





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A 180 nm CMOS Si technology is used25, 25 × 25 neuron elements are made in the LSI, 12 × 12 neuron elements are accessible every other column and row


While the cumulative effect of the variations may not be great in a 25*25 neuron array, in a practicable device the error will be much greater.
,

 

[Slade]

The problem with this theory is that as they announced Ford as an EAP as a price sensitive announcement on the ASX if Ford formally discontinued Brainchip must as a matter of law make a further ASX price sensitive announcement to that effect.

No announcement therefore Ford are continuing.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Then there must be another explanation as to why Ford has been removed from investor presentations.

 

[Fact Finder]

Then there must be another explanation as to why Ford has been removed from investor presentations.

KMP's and the Board are all driving Mercedes??? FF