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[Bravo]

I wonder if they'll be interested in acquiring us now instead?

Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel has cooled, Bloomberg News reports​

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Published 11/25/2024, 09:30 PM
Updated 11/25/2024, 10:06 PM

Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel has cooled, Bloomberg News reports

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Qualcomm logo is seen in this illustration taken, May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo



(Reuters) -Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is said to have cooled due to complexities associated with the deal, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The complexities associated with acquiring all of Intel has made a deal less attractive to Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), Bloomberg reported, saying that it is possible Qualcomm may look at pieces of Intel instead or rekindle its interest later.
The companies did not respond to a request for comment on the Bloomberg report outside regular business hours in the U.S.
Qualcomm had approached Intel to explore a potential acquisition in September, Reuters and others reported. A deal between the companies, which would be the sector's biggest, would face tough antitrust scrutiny globally as it would unite two major chip firms.
Reuters had also reported that Qualcomm explored the possibility of acquiring portions of Intel's design business, days before reports emerged on Qualcomm exploring a deal for all of Intel.
At that time, Intel said that Qualcomm had not approached it about a potential acquisition, while Qualcomm declined to comment.

Once the dominant force in chipmaking, Intel has in recent years ceded its manufacturing edge to rival TSMC and missed out on the generative artificial intelligence boom after missteps including passing on an investment in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI.
The company lost its spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a 25-year run to Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) earlier this month. Intel shares are down over 50% this year.

 

[schuey]

This is too early to judge. Wait until the end of the second quarter of 2025, or at least until the next Annual Meeting ... Sean did not say THIS YEAR, right?!

He did.....

 

[FJ-215]

So are you placing the ancient Egyptians (who were not Arabs) above God? Have you considered who created humanity, the entire system of life, and the universe or multiverse?

Interesting question.......

Are you asking if we are all God's children? If so, the ancient Chinese are his creations and you SHIT on them a few posts back.

Hate to be you come judgement day!!!!!

 

[Tothemoon24]

Friends or foe ?​

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Neuromorphic Camera Helps Drones Navigate Without GPS​

High-end positioning tech comes to low-cost UAVs​

EDD GENT
20 NOV 2024

Researchers are testing new hybrid imaging and inertial-guidance tech (pictured) that could enable drones to navigate even in GPS-denied environments.
ADVANCED NAVIGATION
Satellite-based navigation is the bedrock of most modern positioning systems, but it can’t always be relied on. Two companies are now joining forces to create a GPS-free navigation system for drones by fusing neuromorphic sensing technology with an inertial navigation system (INS).
GPS relies on receiver units that communicate wirelessly with a network of satellites to triangulate the user’s location with incredible precision. But these signals are vulnerable to interference from large buildings, dense foliage, or extreme weather and can even be deliberately jammed using spoofed radio signals.
This has prompted the design of alternative navigation approaches that can be used when GPS fails, but they have limitations. INS use sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes to track a vehicle’s location from a known starting point. However, small measurement errors accumulate over time and can ultimately cause a gradual drift in positioning accuracy. Visual navigation systems use cameras to scan the terrain below an aircraft and work out where it is, but this takes considerable computing and data resources that put it out of reach for smaller, less expensive vehicles.
“The two things together really neatly solve navigating in a challenging, GPS-denied environment. You can travel really long distances over a really long time.” —Chris Shaw, Advanced Navigation
A pair of navigation technology companies has now teamed up to merge the approaches and get the best of both worlds. NILEQ, a subsidiary of British missile-maker MBDA based in Bristol, UK, makes a low-power visual navigation system that relies on neuromorphic cameras. This will now be integrated with a fiber optic-based INS developed by Advanced Navigation in Sydney, Australia, to create a positioning system that lets low-cost drones navigate reliably without GPS.

The two things together really neatly solve navigating in a challenging, GPS-denied environment,” says Advanced Navigation’s CEO Chris Shaw. “You can travel really long distances over a really long time.”

When deciding on a navigation system for a vehicle there is always a price to performance trade-off, says Shaw. It typically doesn’t make sense to install expensive, high accuracy INS on a low-cost platform like a drone, but smaller, cheaper ones are more prone to positioning drift. “Sometimes it could be just 10, 20 minutes, before you start to get such a big error growth that the position accuracy is not good enough,” says Shaw.

Ditching GPS for Cameras​

A visual navigation system can provide a workaround by giving the INS high accuracy position updates at regular intervals, which it can use to recalibrate its location. But the high resolution cameras used in these systems generate huge amounts of data, and this has to be compared against a massive database of satellite imagery using computationally expensive algorithms. Fitting these kinds of computational resources on a small and power-constrained vehicle like a drone is typically not feasible.

NILEQ’s system significantly reduces the resources required for visual navigation by using a neuromorphic camera. Inspired by the way the human retina works, these devices don’t capture a series of images, but instead track changes in brightness across the sensor’s individual pixels. This generates far less data and operates at much higher speeds than a conventional camera.

“Using the neuromorphic camera alongside low-cost, inexpensive inertial sensors [provides] a big cost and size benefit.” —Chris Shaw, Advanced Navigation

The company says its proprietary algorithms process the camera output in real-time to create a terrain fingerprint for the particular patch of land the vehicle is passing over. This is then compared against a database of terrain fingerprints generated from satellite imagery, which is stored on the vehicle. The process of creating these fingerprints compresses the data, according to Phil Houghton, head of future concepting at MBDA. “This means that the size of the database loaded onto the host platform is trivial and searching it in real-time requires minimal computation,” he adds.

On the other hand, neuromorphic cameras are not currently able to operate using infrared, says Houghton, which would enable nighttime operations. But infrared neuromorphic cameras are currently under development and should be available in the next few years, he says.



Neuromorphic cameras are more expensive than conventional ones, often costing in the region of $1000, says Shaw. But this is balanced out by the fact that they can be combined with much cheaper INS. “Some really high-end navigation systems might run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he says. “This approach of using the neuromorphic camera alongside low-cost, inexpensive inertial sensors, there’s a big cost and size benefit.”

Beyond providing the INS, Advanced Navigation will also use its AI-powered sensor fusion software to combine the outputs of the two technologies and provide a single, reliable location reading that can be used by a drone’s navigation system in much the same way as a GPS signal. “A lot of customers in this space want something they can just basically plug in and there’s no big learning curve,” says Shaw. “They don’t want any of the details.”

The companies are planning to start flight trials of the combined navigation system later this year, adds Shaw, with the goal of getting the product into customers hands by the middle of 2025.

 

[7für7]

Interesting question.......

Are you asking if we are all God's children? If so, the ancient Chinese are his creations and you SHIT on them a few posts back.

Hate to be you come judgement day!!!!!

Grow up, kid… You need to learn to take things with humor. I didn’t mean the Chinese as a race but rather the stereotype. When a famous comedian makes stereotypical jokes about the Chinese, it’s considered cool… but an ordinary person is immediately labeled a racist. Sad world. And I’m glad that God knows me… you don’t. And I’m looking forward to the judgement day…

 

[FJ-215]

Interesting question.......

Are you asking if we are all God's children? If so, the ancient Chinese are his creations and you SHIT on them a few posts back.

Hate to be you come judgement day!!!!!

Sorry @7für7 ,

I get a bit narky when I see someone try to put down an entire country based on race. I am so white that I must cover myself in a chemical solution just to walk out of the house and into the Australian Sun unless I get burnt to a chrisp. The history I learned at school is not the true history of the World but a concoction of what the Western World wants us to believe.

Ain't no kid.......

Sadly!

 

[schuey]

Are you sure you’re not Tony? or at least his wife or something? Ask for a friend

Yes....I think your onto something....Every now and then a post or comment to calm the masses and throws in something defending the company's lack of communication or progress and then a comment that something is around the corner.......

 

[Pom down under]

Where are the Pyramids and who built them????

Everyone knows that Aliens built the pyramids

 

[7für7]

Sorry @7für7 ,

I get a bit narky when I see someone try to put down an entire country based on race. I am so white that I must cover myself in a chemical solution just to walk out of the house and into the Australian Sun unless I get burnt to a chrisp. The history I learned at school is not the true history of the World but a concoction of what the Western World wants us to believe.

Ain't no kid.......

Sadly!

I have nothing against Chinese people or any other human race—for that matter, quite the opposite. I even find it remarkable what the Chinese have achieved after the Cultural Revolution and starting from the 1980s. However, I won’t stop making jokes—about anyone. History is fundamentally taught incorrectly, all over the world. Even in China, Afghanistan, or Europe. You always have to gather your own information and question everything. Just ask the indigenous people of America or Australia (you’re right in the middle of it) about their history—history that was taken away from them. If you take everything to heart, you’d be depressed 24/7.

 

[FJ-215]

Grow up, kid… You need to learn to take things with humor. I didn’t mean the Chinese as a race but rather the stereotype. When a famous comedian makes stereotypical jokes about the Chinese, it’s considered cool… but an ordinary person is immediately labeled a racist. Sad world. And I’m glad that God knows me… you don’t. And I’m looking forward to the judgement day…

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Ummm.......


That post might come back to haunt you on JD........

But what the hey........

Please share your stereotypical racist jokes about Jews......

Should be a good laugh................

 

[FJ-215]

Everyone knows that Aliens built the pyramids

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But I wasn't going to say it out loud........

 

[FJ-215]

I have nothing against Chinese people or any other human race—for that matter, quite the opposite. I even find it remarkable what the Chinese have achieved after the Cultural Revolution and starting from the 1980s. However, I won’t stop making jokes—about anyone. History is fundamentally taught incorrectly, all over the world. Even in China, Afghanistan, or Europe. You always have to gather your own information and question everything. Just ask the indigenous people of America or Australia (you’re right in the middle of it) about their history—history that was taken away from them. If you take everything to heart, you’d be depressed 24/7.

Hi @7für7,

The winners write the history.........

We shit on the losers.......

Bit by bit we are discovering the true history of humanity.......It's not what the Western World has been teaching.....

Much better brains than mine are looking at the past, let's see what they uncover.


Hopefully in the meantime BRN can generate some revenue..


I think we can all drink to that!!!!!!!

 

[7für7]

Ummm.......


That post might come back to haunt you on JD........

But what the hey........

Please share your stereotypical racist jokes about Jews......

Should be a good laugh................

You jump from one thing to the other… You don’t understand my message. But just to clarify: no one should be excluded from jokes as long as their dignity isn’t attacked and their right to exist isn’t questioned. I’m not insulting anyone…you should learn to differentiate that.

 

[Justchilln]

Here are two more articles by journalists who attended MB’s recent Future Technologies Lab Open House. Both describe NC as a potential solution to drastically cut the energy consumption of SAE Level 4 autonomous functions and quote Mercedes-Benz engineers as saying they were expecting such neuromorphic hardware to become available in the 2030s…

Yup, you read that right.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/future-tech/solar-coating-motor-brakes-heres-some-tech-mercedes-wants-its-cars-2040

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Fortschritt durch Technik: Mercedes-Innovationen - WELT

Mercedes öffnet die Türen zu seinen Forschungs-Labors einen Spalt weit – und zeigt Projekte, die in den nächsten Jahren unsere Mobilität beeinflussen werden. Und zwar weit ins Elektroauto-Zeitalter hinein.

www.welt.de

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The exact same article can be found on the Handelsblatt website as well:

Handelsblatt

www.handelsblatt.com

Also note that Markus Schäfer calls the MB Future Technologies Lab their early-tech kitchen - in my opinion that’s yet another hint that we won’t be seeing the visionary ideas cooked up there implemented in any serial cars about to be released…


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The article is referring to neuromorphic hardware to run autonomous L4, not in such systems as the mbux infotainment unit akida was used in in the concept car that obviously could hit production far sooner as it’s not a safety issue, even thing like the airbag deployment would have far less rigorous safety standards than autonomous driving

 

[GStocks123]

New job advert raises the eyebrows!

Check out this job at BrainChip :
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4082693560

 

[yogi]

New job advert raises the eyebrows!

Check out this job at BrainChip :
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4082693560

So it shows they are clearly working within Defense too or defense customer and no longer advertised 51 applicant wow

 

[Space Cadet]

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Are you sure you’re not Tony? or at least his wife or something? Ask for a friend

I'm Tony and so is my wife

SC

 

[CHIPS]

So it shows they are clearly working within Defense too or defense customer and no longer advertised 51 applicant wow

And it immediately destroyed my negative thoughts and brought back hope .

 

[miaeffect]

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[Tothemoon24]

Few days ago, I had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Neuromorphic Hackathon organized by fortiss and neuroTUM. Together with my talented teammates, we tackled the challenge of pose estimation for spacecrafts using event-based data and BrainChip neuromorphic hardware.

I’m proud to share that our team won the challenge!

Over five days of intense brainstorming, coding, and collaboration, we developed a solution leveraging spiking neural networks and implemented it on BrainChip 's Akida platform. Our approach significantly reduced the performance gap between synthetic and real-world satellite data while demonstrating exceptional energy efficiency—essential for future space missions.

This experience was a perfect combination of solving cutting-edge problems in neuromorphic computing and gaining hands-on experience in an emerging field that is shaping the future of AI and hardware innovation.

A huge thank you to our incredible mentors Gregor Lenz (Neurobus), Arunkumar Rathinam (Universität Luxemburg) and Jules (fortiss) for their valuable guidance and expertise.

Excited to keep exploring opportunities at the intersection of neuromorphic computing and real-world challenges