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I don’t know what I was listening too but any thoughts, did hear vvdn mentioned and it seemed like they wanted to get a piece of the cake.
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C-DAC Collaborates with MosChip and Socionext on Advanced HPC SoC for India
NEW DELHI, July 3, 2024 — The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has announced a strategic partnership with MosChip Technologies and Socionext Inc. to design and develop a […]
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Hummm…
maybe I will tell him about my wish about the min. 250 dollar price per share of BRN etc. maybe it will make my wish come true…
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Victoria Walks CEO takes issue with the new e-scooter technology set to be introduced
Melbourne is set to be the first city in the world to introduce front-facing AI powered cameras on the entire fleet of e-scooters, which will be referred to as ‘ScootSafe Vision’. Chief Executive Officer of Victoria Walks, Ben Rossiter, has taken issue with the new technology and told Heidi...
Microchip's new PIC64-HPSC is expected to see widespread adoption in air, land and sea applications. Samples will be available to Microchip’s early access partners in 2025.
As posted previously, I expect we will be incorporated into the HPSC at some point in the nearish future.
Microchip launches space-grade processors for AI applications
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Way back in the 60s, Moog came out with the Moog Sympathesizer.
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Don’t forget the EMU Empathator
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SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push
Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son’s group
Graphcore’s founders Simon Knowles, left, and Nigel Toon, right, will stay on following SoftBank’s acquisition of the AI chipmaker © Gareth Iwan Jones/FT
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SoftBank has bought UK-based chipmaker Graphcore, as the Japanese tech group founded by Masayoshi Son accelerates its multibillion-dollar push into artificial intelligence.
Graphcore, an AI-focused start-up that was founded by UK semiconductor industry veterans in 2016, will sit alongside chip designer Arm in SoftBank’s portfolio, as Son readies his “next big bet” in the tech industry.
“Graphcore will join SoftBank Group to build the next generation of AI compute,” said Nigel Toon, chief executive and co-founder of Graphcore. He said he had conversations with all levels of SoftBank before the deal was agreed: “We are part of the delivery behind a very grand vision.”
The money to buy Graphcore is coming from SoftBank Group itself, rather than its Vision Funds, reflecting the strategic nature of the investment.
“With the advent and the acceleration of AI, what’s going to be critical is the foundation layers — not just the models but all the infrastructure around it, including on the semiconductor and systems side,” said Vikas Parekh, a San Francisco-based SoftBank executive who led the investment.
“The profit pools will grow longer term, and we expect that lots of players will develop solutions and participate in that pool,” Parekh added.
Pitched as a rival to Nvidia, which dominates the market for high-performance AI chips, Graphcore’s “intelligence processing units” are designed for the specialised requirements of AI applications.
But it has struggled to commercialise its technology, generating just $2.7mn in sales and $205mn in pre-tax losses in 2022, the most recent year for which Graphcore’s accounts are publicly available. The company warned last October that it needed to raise new capital within months.
Neither SoftBank nor Graphcore would confirm the value of the deal. Two people familiar with the matter said it was just above $600mn, less than the roughly $700mn that the company had raised in venture capital.
That would be an anticlimax for Graphcore’s investors, who had valued it at around $2.5bn in 2020. Backers include Microsoft, OpenAI’s co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Molten Ventures, Atomico and Baillie Gifford.
Toon — who along with his co-founder and chief technology officer, Simon Knowles, is staying on after the deal — said that the company’s biggest issue was a lack of scale and capital.
SoftBank will provide Graphcore with a “huge amount of resources” to take on US chipmaking giants Nvidia and AMD, he said, adding “quite significantly” to its UK headcount. Its headquarters will remain in Bristol.
Armed with billions of dollars, Son wants to position SoftBank at the centre of what he considers to be humanity’s next evolutionary stage and support its crown jewel, Arm.
Arm, the UK-based chip designer in which SoftBank holds a roughly 90 per cent stake, has more than tripled in value since its initial public offering last September, as investors see it taking a more central role in the AI boom.
“We will be co-operating across the whole SoftBank family,” Toon said, without giving details of any potential collaboration with Arm. It declined to comment.
The deal closed after receiving the required regulatory approvals in the UK and US, as well as national security clearance from the British government, Toon said.
Ahead of the deal, Graphcore decided to exit its China business — where it had worked with companies including Baidu — after US export controls on AI chips had made working there “very difficult”, Toon said. Graphcore and SoftBank will now focus on AI customers in the US and Europe.
Last month, Son told shareholders that investments SoftBank had made in the past — including some high-profile losses, such as desk sharing start-up WeWork — were “just a warm-up” for his grand ambition to create an era of AI.
Dealmaking is also picking up. SoftBank in May led an investment of more than $1bn in UK self-driving car start-up Wayve, marking Europe’s largest AI deal to date.
SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push
Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son’s groupwww.ft.com
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But it has struggled to commercialise its technology, generating just $2.7mn in sales and $205mn in pre-tax losses in 2022, the most recent year for which Graphcore’s accounts are publicly available. The company warned last October that it needed to raise new capital within months.
Neither SoftBank nor Graphcore would confirm the value of the deal. Two people familiar with the matter said it was just above $600mn, less than the roughly $700mn that the company had raised in venture capital.
That would be an anticlimax for Graphcore’s investors, who had valued it at around $2.5bn in 2020. Backers include Microsoft, OpenAI’s co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Molten Ventures, Atomico and Baillie Gifford.
Toon — who along with his co-founder and chief technology officer, Simon Knowles, is staying on after the deal — said that the company’s biggest issue was a lack of scale and capital.
Who knows, but this could happen to BrainChip too ... I don't know how many patents Graphcore has, but the amount they were being sold for was almost nothing for the stockholders. A company is only worth what the buyer is willing to pay! I hope they got a good number of Softbank stocks instead.
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Extremely interesting comment by Alf Kuchenbuch in response to a post by STEMIX.TECH, a newly-founded Romanian “deep-tech and innovation-focused company specializing in AI-centric hardware and software products” that has plans to launch an AI-powered kids’ toy.
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They seem to have been in contact for a while, given the reply by STEMIX.TECH?!
Of course, as a start-up founded in 2024, they are not in our target group of companies that would be able to afford signing an IP license with us.
But their vision of “becoming a leading provider of LLM edge devices” sounds as if Akida 2.0 would be a much better fit than any AKD1000/1500 chips?
So is this possibly a case of a collaboration involving a potential software license of TENNs only?! After all, you don’t necessarily need Akida for running TENNs!
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I used to have of those but must have been a prototype.......had to get rid of it
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Extremely interesting comment by Alf Kuchenbuch in response to a post by STEMIX.TECH, a newly-founded Romanian “deep-tech and innovation-focused company specializing in AI-centric hardware and software products” that has plans to launch an AI-powered kids’ toy.
STEMIX.TECH
They seem to have been in contact for a while, given the reply by STEMIX.TECH?!
Of course, as a start-up founded in 2024, they are not in our target group of companies that would be able to afford signing an IP license with us.
But their vision of “becoming a leading provider of LLM edge devices” sounds as if Akida 2.0 would be a much better fit than any AKD1000/1500 chips?
So is this possibly a case of a collaboration involving a potential software license of TENNs only?! After all, you don’t necessarily need Akida for running TENNs!
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The gigs up Bravo the feet gave it away.
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Extremely interesting comment by Alf Kuchenbuch in response to a post by STEMIX.TECH, a newly-founded Romanian “deep-tech and innovation-focused company specializing in AI-centric hardware and software products” that has plans to launch an AI-powered kids’ toy.
STEMIX.TECH
They seem to have been in contact for a while, given the reply by STEMIX.TECH?!
Of course, as a start-up founded in 2024, they are not in our target group of companies that would be able to afford signing an IP license with us.
But their vision of “becoming a leading provider of LLM edge devices” sounds as if Akida 2.0 would be a much better fit than any AKD1000/1500 chips?
So is this possibly a case of a collaboration involving a potential software license of TENNs only?! After all, you don’t necessarily need Akida for running TENNs!
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Until February, both STEMIX.TECH co-founders Alf Kuchenbuch addressed in his comment used to be with CyberSwarm, another AI start-up from Romania that has previously been discussed here on TSE. One as Project Manager, the other one as CTO. So both of them are already familiar with neuromorphic technology, although CyberSwarm uses analog architecture rather than digital.
Looks as if they recently met up with Alf Kuchenbuch at Hardware Pioneers Max in London:
Here is some more info on the AI toy they are planning on launching:
So STEMIX.TECH’s AI toy will definitely have a connection to the cloud, as “parents can access a web portal to view all questions, answers, and interactions their child has with the toy.”
Some parents will like this idea, but I personally think it opens up a can of privacy and data protection issues.
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Is that possibly what they mean when the industry keeps on talking about “killer applications”?
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I suspect CyberSwarm founder and CEO Mihai Raneti will not be amused when he finds out that two of his ex-employees, who founded their own AI start-up earlier this year, appear to be collaborating with BrainChip:
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I've often thought pursuing an application in the toy market, would be a winner and with less regulatory hurdles (barring a FMF scenario..) than high end applications, like ADAS, FSD etc..
But seems a little odd, with these previous "high end" product ambitions and the type of companies, that we've been dealing with, to be eager to engage with a company, that is only just starting out?..
Obviously some bad blood, with their previous employers too!
Synsense probably beats us on price for toy market.I've often thought pursuing an application in the toy market, would be a winner and with less regulatory hurdles (barring a FMF scenario..) than high end applications, like ADAS, FSD etc..
But seems a little odd, with these previous "high end" product ambitions and the type of companies, that we've been dealing with, to be eager to engage with a company, that is only just starting out?..
Obviously some bad blood, with their previous employers too!
Also toy makers couldn't handle progressing IP to production chip. They need COTS.
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Bravo
If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
I am a bit worried about posting anything incase you don't like it Fragipanni. But I think we can both agree this is awesome! Great work!
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Please stop both of you. You both do a fantastic job investigating BrainChip's development for us and should respect each other for it. I can say for myself that I do love both of your work and I am sure all others do too. O.K. I do not like hairy toes
and I am allergic to cats (but only in real life!), but I love your running BRAVO, your ideas, and your findings. 
I can hardly imagine how much time you FRANGIPANI spend (for us!) on finding all those connecting dots and remembering all those of the past. I very much appreciate that. We should have said that much earlier already.
Both of you are important to us and this forum and you are best when working together! So please give each other at least respect if you cannot be friends.
Thank you and have a good weekend!
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Wasn't there talk (I think proposed by FactFinder?) of MegaChips being an enabler, for companies wanting chips, but not being a large enough entity, to warrant designing their own?
I thought AKD1500, was possibly along those lines, as MegaChips had input into the backend, or something? (children please!
..).The capabilities of AKIDA IP, would go well beyond anything SynSense could offer (not to mention our learning features).
I see a toy in this kind of vein, being disruptive and a "must have" type item (if done right and marketed well) which is maybe why Alf has shown interest (which would have being spring boarded off of the Company first?)..
Kids toys, are Big business.
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