DingoBorat
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Hey FJ, what became known as "Akida" was always the end goal, it's in our nameHi rgupta,
BRN has been may things over the years.
A concept investment? Yes, when I first came across them, they were but there were products in place and more on the horizon. There were big, big names mentioned. Did you know about the Safran wiring connections solution? (Airbus) We even had customers and a contract here or there. And it went pear shaped (Hello SN Tech!)
And then we started again, ditched our old tech, sacked the sales staff and focused on Akida. It sucked!!! but alot of us held on and after what seemed like an eternity we had Akida IP, then an actual Akida chip. And then we had license agreements with Renesas and Megachips.
And then it went pear shaped again and Akida was too "narrow" in its use cases to be a commercial product.
And now we have Akida 2 and TENNs
If you have been around long enough you see a repeating pattern.
Failed concept, hmmm.....don't think so
Failed business ....... hope not!
The software solutions of "BrainChip" Studio and "BrainChip" Accelerator, were supposed to be a profitable bridge, to that goal.
They spent way too much money, building that bridge, which wasn't spanning the length and then decided to focus solely on "The Chip".
BrainChip, has encountered many roadblocks and detours, some of its own making and some outside our control..
We've been working at providing the market, something that it didn't need yet (going against the wisdom, of someone like Steve Jobs).
"We" can see the pure genius, in truly "Independent A.I." but the Market wasn't there yet.
Ken Scarince, said a few years ago now, that we were "disrupting a Market that hadn't been created yet".
Well that Market is now being created.
So I don't think we'll have to wait too much longer..
Software is now back on the table, in a big way too, due to everything changing so quickly, but "chips" will still be needed, in "Far Edge" applications, which will be practically everywhere and in everything.
Unless we're all wrong of course