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[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.,

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.
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[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

 

[Filobeddo]

Now hold your guns pls, as this query goes back a while and is for for the LTHs

Q. What was the wash up from the evaluation of Akida by the French military \ security, Rockwell Collins (Now Collins Aerospace) , Safran and the Connecticut casino? Had personally never heard of any of these links before ( but maybe I’ve just go a very poor memory )

The attached snip is from 2017 Defence Connect

 

[Diogenese]

Perhaps Google is using faux artificial intelligence???

Like the original chess-playing Mechanical Turk automaton, which had a person concealed under the table by a tablecloth - the original Akida!
https://www.historicmysteries.com/great-chess-automaton/

 

[Slade]

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

Hopefully I will be joining them.

 

[Fact Finder]

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

The serious answer is that on more than one occasion starting with the first announcement Brainchip tried to keep secret Ford's identity but the ASX required a second announcement compelling Brainchip to disclose Ford.

Since that time at least twice when Ford's name was not mentioned in a 4C or Annual Report someone contacted Brainchip the last one I remember if the trauma of the other place has not affected my memory to much, it was Stan emailing Tony Dawe and getting a response that Brainchip was still engaged with Ford. I think that these emails were reported by 'share fool' and moderated fairly quickly by HC as unsubstantiated information.

My personal view and that is all it is, is that Ford did not want to be disclosed and continue with that same mind set. The disclosure by Mercedes that AKIDA gives a 5 to 10 times saving over conventional systems is certainly proof of the fact that AKIDA would offer Ford a Kryptonite type strategic advantage in the US market.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Guzzi62]

I wrote in my last post that I will stop following the forum so much but I can't stay away because we have so many excellent posters here that can dig up interesting information and others that can connect the dots making it very interesting reading, so I guess I was lying, sorry

I am getting more and more excited the more I read and connect my own dots, the possibilities with Alkida is just totally mind-blowing and it looks to me that more and companies are starting using our chips and we will rapidly gain traction here during 2022 I firmly believe.

I have decided that I have to buy around 25k more shares despite some of my friends have warned me and saying; don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially in a little start-up company! This is far from the case but okay if I buy those shares on top of what I have, my fairly modest portfolio will be quite heavy loaded by BRN.

I argue hard with my friends and tell them that it's you that are blind and can't see the wood because of all the trees

Please give me input, should I take some of my retirement cash (I am early retired at 60) out and buy those shares or should I just keep them in the bank, dropping in value every day due to the heavy WW inflation?

Fxxx it, I will be putting in a limited order for 25k at 0.9 and see how that pans out.

Thanks to all the great contributors on the board, you are truly awesome.

 

[Kachoo]

I wrote in my last post that I will stop following the forum so much but I can't stay away because we have so many excellent posters here that can dig up interesting information and others that can connect the dots making it very interesting reading, so I guess I was lying, sorry

I am getting more and more excited the more I read and connect my own dots, the possibilities with Alkida is just totally mind-blowing and it looks to me that more and companies are starting using our chips and we will rapidly gain traction here during 2022 I firmly believe.

I have decided that I have to buy around 25k more shares despite some of my friends have warned me and saying; don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially in a little start-up company! This is far from the case but okay if I buy those shares on top of what I have, my fairly modest portfolio will be quite heavy loaded by BRN.

I argue hard with my friends and tell them that it's you that are blind and can't see the wood because of all the trees

Please give me input, should I take some of my retirement cash (I am early retired at 60) out and buy those shares or should I just keep them in the bank, dropping in value every day due to the heavy WW inflation?

Fxxx it, I will be putting in a limited order for 25k at 0.9 and see how that pans out.

Thanks to all the great contributors on the board, you are truly awesome.

This is not financial advise all in my opinion. But there are some books and strategies that have shown benifits of all eggs in one basket keeping the easter theme going.

It's also hard to understand how the market works and prices are pumped and manipulated down but that's out of the general investors control.

I will add that I have invested for 20 plus years in the markets and had wins losses and big losses. I analyze the losses cause a win is easy what you need it to learn from the losses to invest trade better.

One thing that sticks in my mind with small cap stocks there management and CEO hype the like crazzy and sell the market a blue sky story.

This I have not seen management do at anytime scince u have followed the stock. Louis may have been a little excited but the rest of the crew have been working hard. You also know that the CEO is serious when he's asked how can we monitor company progress with a reply like watch earning they will tell the story. To me that's a real honest awnser and my other marker is employee growth.

You need to do what you think is best for you and your risk tolarance mate!

 

[Slade]

I wrote in my last post that I will stop following the forum so much but I can't stay away because we have so many excellent posters here that can dig up interesting information and others that can connect the dots making it very interesting reading, so I guess I was lying, sorry

I am getting more and more excited the more I read and connect my own dots, the possibilities with Alkida is just totally mind-blowing and it looks to me that more and companies are starting using our chips and we will rapidly gain traction here during 2022 I firmly believe.

I have decided that I have to buy around 25k more shares despite some of my friends have warned me and saying; don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially in a little start-up company! This is far from the case but okay if I buy those shares on top of what I have, my fairly modest portfolio will be quite heavy loaded by BRN.

I argue hard with my friends and tell them that it's you that are blind and can't see the wood because of all the trees

Please give me input, should I take some of my retirement cash (I am early retired at 60) out and buy those shares or should I just keep them in the bank, dropping in value every day due to the heavy WW inflation?

Fxxx it, I will be putting in a limited order for 25k at 0.9 and see how that pans out.

Thanks to all the great contributors on the board, you are truly awesome.

This is what I would do, and in some ways am doing. At 60 I would put the 25k in BrainChip no question about it. If it goes tits up I would get a job as a paper boy (if that still exists in Australia) or mow peoples lawns for a year.

 

[Fact Finder]

Now hold your guns pls, as this query goes back a while and is for for the LTHs

Q. What was the wash up from the evaluation of Akida by the French military \ security, Rockwell Collins (Now Collins Aerospace) , Safran and the Connecticut casino? Had personally never heard of any of these links before ( but maybe I’ve just go a very poor memory )

The attached snip is from 2017 Defence Connect

Casinos went nowhere - I predicted this at the time as my background told me that Casinos make their money from high rollers with tax problems and drug dealers and money launderers who do not want to be properly monitored - Crown Casino’s approach proves my point.

I had a discussion with the former CEO about the Casino industry at an AGM wherein once I made him aware of my background he agreed that Casinos were not an appropriate target but they had been locked in before he came on board. I was pleased that he was not intending that the company should focus their efforts there in the future.

Safran the last time we heard they had bought a couple of Studio licences for factories they were building in India then the former CEO said there was to be some sort of tender process and there after not a word was spoken.

Rockwell Collins they trialled Studio for perimeter surveillance and that was spoken about favourably and then they were acquired or partnered or whatever it was and became Collins Aerospace and not a word was spoken.

The French Homeland Security and Police was on its face going like a house on fire trialling Studio and rolling it out and a French Police Inspector even appeared at the Paris Milipol trade show on the Brainchip booth presenting about the marvel that was Studio then almost overnight in fact it was overnight not another word was spoken to this day.

This is my immediate off the top of my head recollection others might have a different recollection.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Kachoo]

This is what I would do, and in some ways am doing. At 60 I would put the 25k in BrainChip no question about it. If it goes tits up I would get a job as a paper boy (if that still exists in Australia) or mow peoples lawns for a year.

That's about 3 months of mowing lawns here lol you should see what they charge to mow the yards.

 

[Slade]

That's about 3 months of mowing lawns here lol you should see what they charge to mow the yards.

Wow!! I’m coming back.

 

[Kachoo]

Wow!! I’m coming back.

But the cost of living has shot up too so I'd stay where your at lol. But I'm sure inflation has finally caught up with all the money printing.

 

[Slade]

But the cost of living has shot up too so I'd stay where your at lol. But I'm sure inflation has finally caught up with all the money printing.

I am sure the prices in Australia would shock me, they always do. I remember over 10 years ago handing over $20 at the bar in Brisbane for a round of 4 beers. I waited for change but it never came.

 

[Kachoo]

I am sure the prices in Australia would shock me, they always do. I remember over 10 years ago handing over $20 at the bar in Brisbane for a round of 4 beers. I waited for change but it never came.

That about 1.7 beer now lol it's insane

 

[Filobeddo]

Casinos went nowhere - I predicted this at the time as my background told me that Casinos make there money from high rollers with tax problems and drug dealers and money launderers who do not want to be properly monitored - Crown Casino’s approach proves my point.

I had a discussion with the former CEO about the Casino industry at an AGM wherein once I made him aware of my background he agreed that Casinos were not an appropriate target but they had been locked in before he came on board. I was pleased that he was not intending that the company should focus their efforts there in the future.

Safran the last time we heard they had bought a couple of Studio licences for factories they were building in India then the former CEO said there was to be some sort of tender process and there after not a word was spoken.

Rockwell Collins they trialled Studio for perimeter surveillance and that was spoken about favourably and then they were acquired or partnered or whatever it was and became Collins Aerospace and not a word was spoken.

The French Homeland Security and Police was on its face going like a house on fire trialling Studio and rolling it out and a French Police Inspector even appeared at the Paris Milipol trade show on the Brainchip booth presenting about the marvel that was Studio then almost overnight in fact it was overnight not another word was spoken to this day.

This is my immediate off the top of my head recollection others might have a different recollection.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Thankyou FF, Now that‘s what I call gold standard service!
Very disappointing though, particularly Collins & Safran
Although Safran appear to be still working on AI within their aero systems and maintenance
Probably no chance with the Frenchies following the sub saga even if there was one