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[Diogenese]

quantum brilliance is developing a diamond-based room-temperature quantum processor:

https://quantumbrilliance.com/press...ccelerator-in-europe-powered-by-nvidia-cuda-q

They place nitrogen (N) atoms in the diamond matrix to create electronic "holes" (one fewer electron than the carbon matrix making up the diamond). They use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to provide vacancies for the N atoms (which seems pretty labour-intensive).


WO2023097361A1 ATOMIC SCALE FABRICATION OF DIAMOND QUANTUM COMPUTERS 20211203

wherein removing of the passivation atoms comprises moving a tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) across the passivated surface at atomic precision and creating a pulsed voltage drop between tip and diamond surface to remove the passivation atoms; exposing the multiple de-passivated sites to a nitrogen-containing compound to adsorb nitrogen at the multiple de-passivated sites of the diamond substrate; overgrowing the multiple de-passivated sites with diamond; converting the incorporated nitrogen into multiple nitrogen vacancies; and charging the nitrogen vacancies with a negative charge.

They do have a rack-sized box for sale.


https://quantumbrilliance.com/quantum-brilliance-hardware


Haven't seen the performance figures yet.

 

[Rskiff]

I wonder what other companies will be show casing there wares with Akida in them at CES 2025. Hopefully a major at least and they sing the praises.
A bit disappointed the lack of a Quarterly podcast after Tech said that one was on the way according to TD.
All the best to all for 2025.

 

[rgupta]

I wonder what other companies will be show casing there wares with Akida in them at CES 2025. Hopefully a major at least and they sing the praises.
A bit disappointed the lack of a Quarterly podcast after Tech said that one was on the way according to TD.
All the best to all for 2025.

I feel more confident without a quarterly update. Reason being
1. It is no more than political statements, especially when they cannot provideite information than what we already know.
2 Results are coming out and management believes there is no need to waste time and effort any further.
Dyor

 

[Earlyrelease]

quantum brilliance is developing a diamond-based room-temperature quantum processor:

https://quantumbrilliance.com/press...ccelerator-in-europe-powered-by-nvidia-cuda-q

They place nitrogen (N) atoms in the diamond matrix to create electronic "holes" (one fewer electron than the carbon matrix making up the diamond). They use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to provide vacancies for the N atoms (which seems pretty labour-intensive).


WO2023097361A1 ATOMIC SCALE FABRICATION OF DIAMOND QUANTUM COMPUTERS 20211203

wherein removing of the passivation atoms comprises moving a tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) across the passivated surface at atomic precision and creating a pulsed voltage drop between tip and diamond surface to remove the passivation atoms; exposing the multiple de-passivated sites to a nitrogen-containing compound to adsorb nitrogen at the multiple de-passivated sites of the diamond substrate; overgrowing the multiple de-passivated sites with diamond; converting the incorporated nitrogen into multiple nitrogen vacancies; and charging the nitrogen vacancies with a negative charge.


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They do have a rack-sized box for sale.


https://quantumbrilliance.com/quantum-brilliance-hardware


Haven't seen the performance figures yet.

Ok D

I just blew smoke up your a.. and now this.
I take it the flux capacitor is at full throttle and hyper drive is about to be engaged but has Scotty got any more power left in her without breaking up.



Have a happy Xmas and safe New Years great sleuthing once again.

 

[Learning]

Can Brainchip's Akida take a slice of pentagon money.

Two-thirds of the Pentagon's science and tech budget is going to AI and space. It’s an $11 billion signal of where we’re headed: The US defense sector is facing a critical capability gap in space.… | Richard Stroupe | 61 comments

Two-thirds of the Pentagon's science and tech budget is going to AI and space. It’s an $11 billion signal of where we’re headed: The US defense sector is facing a critical capability gap in space. Traditional space systems are: • Too slow to respond to threats • Overwhelmed by data •...

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Learning

 

[Diogenese]

Ok D

I just blew smoke up your a.. and now this.
I take it the flux capacitor is at full throttle and hyper drive is about to be engaged but has Scotty got any more power left in her without breaking up.



Have a happy Xmas and safe New Years great sleuthing once again.

Ok, here's the thing.

Those hexagons (6-sided) and pentagons (5-sides in the top layer) are carbon atom rings forming diamond. The top layer has been oxidized so it contains a couple od atoms of oxygen per ring repacing one of the carbon atoms.

That inverted triangle of balls represents the tip of a needle of the scanning tunneling microscope which is scrolled across the surface of the crystal. Usually it senses the atoms of the crystal, but by applying voltage to it, it can dislodge oxygen atoms leaving a gap in the surface of the crystal.

They then deposit nitrogen atoms in the gaps and deposit a new layer of diamond over that to hold the N atoms in place. N has one less available electron than carbon, so it is positively charged with reference to the carbon. This makes it semiconducting with ultra-low resistance (superconducting) compared to normal semiconductors at room temperature.

Normally superconductors must be kept near -273 degrees C, so they need massive refrigeration, so room-temperature superconduction is a big deal. It can be used for quantum computing, but I know NOTHING about that.

However, this is not a standard semiconductor manufacturing process, and it must be much more expansive to make these chips.

 

[7für7]

Can Brainchip's Akida take a slice of pentagon money.
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Two-thirds of the Pentagon's science and tech budget is going to AI and space. It’s an $11 billion signal of where we’re headed: The US defense sector is facing a critical capability gap in space.… | Richard Stroupe | 61 comments

Two-thirds of the Pentagon's science and tech budget is going to AI and space. It’s an $11 billion signal of where we’re headed: The US defense sector is facing a critical capability gap in space. Traditional space systems are: • Too slow to respond to threats • Overwhelmed by data •...

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Description and requirements fit fully to brainchip… come on… show us the Money!!

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Nordic Semiconductor and Arm reaffirm partnership with licensing agreement for latest low power processor designs, software platforms, and security IP​

05.02.2024
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Nordic signs Arm Total Access licensing agreement, securing access to leading-edge processor and security technology for its existing and future multiprotocol, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and DECT NR+ products​

Nordic Semiconductor today announces it has signed a multi-year Arm Total Access (ATA) license with leading semiconductor design and software platform company, Arm. The ATA license guarantees Nordic access to the widest range of Arm® IP, tools, support, and training for its current and future products, including multiprotocol, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and DECT NR+ solutions.

The new deal extends the long-term partnership between the companies, stretching back to the launch of the Arm-powered Nordic nRF51™ Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) in 2012. Since then, Nordic has shipped billions of chips using Arm technology.

Arm is at the heart of Nordic’s product portfolio​

Arm is a vendor of energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms and its products have enabled advanced computing in more than 270 billion chips across the globe. Nordic’s current nRF51™, nRF52™, nRF53™, nRF54L™, and nRF54H™ Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), and the nRF91™ Series cellular IoT and DECT NR+ Systems-in-Package (SiPs) use Arm Cortex®-M class microprocessors. Nordic also uses related Arm IP in its products together with design tools that make it easy to develop application software to run on Arm devices. Nordic’s future product roadmap includes chips that will use Arm IP.

Moving forward, ATA will give Nordic unprecedented access to a comprehensive suite of Arm technology and a robust ecosystem of software and development tools, enabling them to offer their customers greater breadth of solutions at the edge, built on Arm.
Paul Williamson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IoT Line of Business, Arm
“We are delighted to extend our partnership with Arm through this ATA licensing agreement,” says Svein-Egil Nielsen, CTO/EVP R&D with Nordic. “Nordic has gained its reputation as a leading vendor of low power wireless technology in large part through its relationship with Arm. Today, our product roadmap builds on this legacy by leveraging even more powerful processors and multicore solutions to run the most advanced application software and machine learning [ML] models. Through this agreement we will have unlimited access to the leading-edge processor and security technology demanded by those products.”

“New workload requirements for AI at the edge mean embedded devices need more and more compute capabilities,” says Paul Williamson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IoT Line of Business, Arm. “Today, Nordic’s Arm-based solutions are being used in everything from the smart home to connected health, and industrial automation. Moving forward, ATA will give Nordic unprecedented access to a comprehensive suite of Arm technology and a robust ecosystem of software and development tools, enabling them to offer their customers greater breadth of solutions at the edge, built on Arm.”

Developing the next generation of IoT solutions​

The agreement will enable Nordic to develop the end-to-end solutions needed to power tomorrow’s IoT devices in sectors such as the smart home, smart city, industrial automation, healthcare, and wearables among other key sectors. Many of these applications will demand complex software and ML models that in turn require powerful processor resources to run – without compromising battery life.

Nordic’s fourth generation of multiprotocol SoCs, which includes the nRF54H20, points to this future. The nRF54H20 features multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors and state-of-the-art security. The SoC has recently proven its world-leading processing efficiency, along with superior processing performance against EEMBC ULPMark®-CoreMark benchmarks. Such performance underscores the potential of the SoC to enable innovative IoT end-products that were previously impossible.

Arm ATA provides easy access to the widest range of leading-edge and emerging Arm IP products, tools, support, and training. With this advanced access, ATA removes technological and commercial barriers by allowing access to IP at any time during the lifetime of a project, the flexibility to explore multiple iterations, and support for several different products in development at the same time.

Nordic Semiconductor and Arm reaffirm partnership with licensing agreement for latest low power processor designs, software platforms, and security IP

Nordic signs Arm Total Access licensing agreement, securing access to leading-edge processor and security technology for its existing and future multiprotocol, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and DECT NR+ products

www.nordicsemi.com

Question for our more technically knowledgable like @Diogenese or @chapman89

I did a search on a keyword and found @Sirod69 had been looking at it some time ago (though she sadly hasn't been seen for a few months?) as this evening I found what I thought could be an interesting entry on Github regarding the open source Zephyr RTOS.

Brainchip-India lodged a Documentation Issue a couple of days ago.

Now, is Brainchip-India "our" Indian team?.....can't think of any other Brainchip in India that might be playing with RTOS (Real Time Operating Systems) for SOCs.

Anyway, what caught my eye was the issue being related to the below and in particular "Nordic" SOCs.

Is it conceivable that our team are either playing with the Nordic NRF5 series of SOCs of their own accord or potentially (& preferably) at the request of a client using one of the NRF5 series SOCs?

Or is it a non (SNN) event...pun intended.

doc: Documentation issue in 'develop/flash_debug/nordic_segger' · Issue #83191 · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Describe the bug << Please describe the issue here >> << Looks like the tool mentioned "nrfjprog" to flash elf onto nRF board is no longer available and the official nRF came-up with a common "nrfu...

github.com

Some background on Zephyr

Zephyr Project

The Zephyr Project is a Linux Foundation hosted Collaboration Project.

zephyrproject.org

Some background on the Nordic nRF5 series of SOCs of which a lot end uses appear in our wheelhouse.

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[rgupta]

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Sorry if already posted but looks very cool and may be our glasses will take the role of our mobile one day.
Dyor

 

[Getupthere]

In December 2020, BrainChip and Renesas Electronics America entered into an intellectual property (IP) license agreement, enabling Renesas to incorporate BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor IP into their system-on-chip (SoC) products.

By December 2022, Renesas had progressed to taping out a chip utilizing BrainChip’s spiking neural network (SNN) technology, marking a significant advancement in integrating neuromorphic computing into their offerings.

In March 2023, BrainChip announced the validation of its Akida AI processor family’s integration with ARM’s Cortex-M85 processor, a development that Renesas, as a lead developer, demonstrated at Embedded World 2023.

Additionally, in March 2023, BrainChip introduced its second-generation Akida platform, featuring advanced capabilities for edge AI applications. Renesas expressed enthusiasm about this development, indicating plans to leverage the enhanced features of the new Akida platform to support vision, perception, and predictive applications across various markets, including industrial and consumer IoT, as well as personalized healthcare.

Coming up to 2 years of having access to akida 2.

Wars will end, interest rates will drop and inflation will be in the rear view mirror… will 2025 be the year of the BRN.

 

[TECH]

Hi Everyone,

Looks like CES 2025 is starting to get some good press, plenty of demos being promoted already.

I would guess that a number of shareholders are hoping or expecting an announcement or 3 between now and
the end of CES 2025, I personally feel, if this is the time to announce something, well then CES 2025 would be that time.

May I also say, thanks to all our forum contributors throughout the year, I have enjoyed reading as many different view
points and articles as possible, so from Perth and currently in New Zealand, I wish everyone a very happy festive season,
enjoy a few drinks, some nice food, but most of all, appreciate those around you, both young and old.

May 2025 be a fantastic year for our company, thanks to all our staff in Australia, India, France and the USA.

God Bless...............Tech (2024).

 

[Worker122]

Hi Everyone,

Looks like CES 2025 is starting to get some good press, plenty of demos being promoted already.

I would guess that a number of shareholders are hoping or expecting an announcement or 3 between now and
the end of CES 2025, I personally feel, if this is the time to announce something, well then CES 2025 would be that time.

May I also say, thanks to all our forum contributors throughout the year, I have enjoyed reading as many different view
points and articles as possible, so from Perth and currently in New Zealand, I wish everyone a very happy festive season,
enjoy a few drinks, some nice food, but most of all, appreciate those around you, both young and old.

May 2025 be a fantastic year for our company, thanks to all our staff in Australia, India, France and the USA.

God Bless...............Tech (2024).

Thank you tech, echo your kind words to all on TSX, have a merry and safe Christmas too!

 

[Pom down under]

Old?

#space #earthobservation #eo #neuromorphic #edge #computing #autonomous #brainchip | NeuralSat

Our Akida PCIe board ordered from BrainChip has arrived! We are looking forward to benchmarking our Earth Observation models on the chip. If you like us to try some models for you, let us know in comments! #space #earthobservation #eo #neuromorphic #edge #computing #autonomous #brainchip 🛰️🌍

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[Wags]

Merry Christmas to all viewers.
That time of year to just let it roll, chill, and enjoy the pleasures of life, family, holidays, food, new toys or whatever.
Stay very safe and above all, have fun. Life is short.
C'mon Brainchip, chop chop, Life is short.
Hoping the new year brings lots of fruit to us all, CES might be good.
Smiling

 

[JoMo68]

Happy holidays everyone

 

[Space Cadet]

Akida?

https://www.cvedia.com/resolve

SC

 

[Boab]

Akida?

https://www.cvedia.com/resolve

SC

From May 23 2023

BrainChip & CVEDIA Partner to Advance Edge AI and Neuromorphic Tech

BrainChip and CVEDIA collaborate to push the boundaries of neuromorphic computing. Discover the latest advancements in AI technology.

brainchip.com

 

[Space Cadet]

From May 23 2023

BrainChip & CVEDIA Partner to Advance Edge AI and Neuromorphic Tech

BrainChip and CVEDIA collaborate to push the boundaries of neuromorphic computing. Discover the latest advancements in AI technology.

brainchip.com

Thanks Boab. Knew about that but what concerns me is we have no Licence agreement, yet 20 cameras have been installed unless it was a trial. Prob not us but suited to this.

SC

 

[Diogenese]

Thanks Boab. Knew about that but what concerns me is we have no Licence agreement, yet 20 cameras have been installed unless it was a trial. Prob not us but suited to this.

SC

Well my 2 bob's worth would be at least 1 shilling each way.

The Cvedia deal is a partnership, so no licence fee, just sales.

The partnership is using "Akida neuromorphic IP", ie, it does not specify the SoC, so it could be software, and from the date it could be Akida 2/TENNs.

The user is a not-for-profit, so probably charged at mates rates, so 20 cameras would probably not raise a blip on the radar (unless you're using that Doppler one we a week or so ago).

 

[Space Cadet]

Well my 2 bob's worth would be at least 1 shilling each way.

The Cvedia deal is a partnership, so no licence fee, just sales.

The partnership is using "Akida neuromorphic IP", ie, it does not specify the SoC, so it could be software, and from the date it could be Akida 2/TENNs.

The user is a not-for-profit, so probably charged at mates rates, so 20 cameras would probably not raise a blip on the radar (unless you're using that Doppler one we a week or so ago).

Thanks Dio. Time frames seem to match up.

SC