Great! I really really hope you are right. At least they didn't ask for their license fee back.No direct evidence but there are 33 references to AKIDA on the Renesas website which i cannot get access to so not sure how reliable these references are. So losing a bit of confidence.
Renesas is big in automotive and other products so for AKIDA to be of any use at all Renesas would have had to integrate it into a chip of its own or produce software for AKIDA to run. Whatever they have done they want confidentiality.
One thing is certain and that is Renesas would not have spent 2 years doing nothing with AKIDA and then taped it out from Dec'22 for no reason.
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I think the hope was that Renesas would translate their proprietary DRP technology (a bit like FPGA), into Akida.
Maybe it is still a work in progress, or maybe it's a nut too tough to crack, or maybe we haven't figured out who the gatekeepers are, yet.