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[SiDEvans]

Surely it is! Nintendo is so critical to their business. A great partnership they have built up with them. Given Nintendo is highly into gamer interaction with their customers and VR and AI is surlely going to be a feature of future models dots are seriously joining here. Hmmm how many Nintendo's are sold each year!

Lots

 

[Fact Finder]

Surely it is! Nintendo is so critical to their business. A great partnership they have built up with them. Given Nintendo is highly into gamer interaction with their customers and VR and AI is surlely going to be a feature of future models dots are seriously joining here. Hmmm how many Nintendo's are sold each year!

Here are some fun facts to conjure with:

1. Late 2020 in one of his webinars or podcasts the former CEO Mr. Dinardo mentioned hand controllers as an area where AKIDA might find a home.

2. Doug said that MegaChips' engineers have been digging into Brainchip's AKIDA for about 18 months.

3. 18 months takes it back to when the former CEO Mr. Dinardo was in charge.

4. Nintendo use hand controllers.

Now go outside and play and let me get on I have work to do.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[VictorG]

Surely it is! Nintendo is so critical to their business. A great partnership they have built up with them. Given Nintendo is highly into gamer interaction with their customers and VR and AI is surlely going to be a feature of future models dots are seriously joining here. Hmmm how many Nintendo's are sold each year!

I know its lots and lots and lots.
And soon it will be 3 more sold when I buy a Nintendo Switch for each of my EQXX's

 

[miaeffect]

I know its lots and lots and lots.
And soon it will be 3 more sold when I buy a Nintendo Switch for each of my EQXX's

will be so excited to play 'Just Dance' Nintendo with Akida powered.

 

[Deleted member 118]

Hi @Rocket577

Do you know when Panasonic released the i-Pro Series?

The reason I ask is if MegaChips is the source of the IP via Brainchip then assuming it is after the IP licence agreement with MegaChips then this is possible.

If it was before the MegaChips IP agreement then it cannot have been through MegaChips and this would bring us back to Renesas assuming Panasonic are in fact using AKIDA technology.

Renesas did not licence all the IP only two nodes and so I am thinking this would be a little bit short on processing power for what Panasonic have described.

I will not be terribly disappointed if you turn out to be correct.

This Panasonic i-Pro Series camera line does seem very far along compared to how Doug was speaking about what MegaChips were doing with customers. Why would he not say something like we have a customer already coming to market or in the market?

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I don’t think they have released as of yet, as the website still says April 2022

https://i-pro.com/us/en/surveillance/products/s-series-cameras/s-series-multi-sensor-cameras/

 

[Slade]

Explosion of sales in 2022

 

[Deleted member 118]

Explosion of sales in 2022

 

[Fact Finder]

I don’t think they have released as of yet, as the website still says April 2022

https://i-pro.com/us/en/surveillance/products/s-series-cameras/s-series-multi-sensor-cameras/

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Hi @Rockett577
I will go all in and bet MegaChips plus Sony and Socionext plus Panasonic based on:

Regarding the Launch of Socionext, a New Company that Consolidates Fujitsu and Panasonic System LSI Businesses - Fujitsu Global

www.fujitsu.com

AND

Socionext wins Emmy for innovations in camera sensor and software stabilization » 파워일렉트로닉스(PEMK) 매거진

Socionext received a Technology & Engineering Emmy® in partnership with GoPro for its advanced imaging technology and innovations enabling the industry-leading HyperSmooth video stabilization found in GoPro's full line of cameras. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)...

powerelectronics.co.kr

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Deleted member 118]

Hi @Rockett577
I will go all in and bet MegaChips plus Sony and Socionext plus Panasonic based on:

Regarding the Launch of Socionext, a New Company that Consolidates Fujitsu and Panasonic System LSI Businesses - Fujitsu Global

www.fujitsu.com

AND

Socionext wins Emmy for innovations in camera sensor and software stabilization » 파워일렉트로닉스(PEMK) 매거진

Socionext received a Technology & Engineering Emmy® in partnership with GoPro for its advanced imaging technology and innovations enabling the industry-leading HyperSmooth video stabilization found in GoPro's full line of cameras. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)...

powerelectronics.co.kr

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I’ll raise just because I can

 

[M_C]

I’m thinking more Panasonic when it comes to cameras

https://i-pro.com/us/en/surveillance/products/s-series-cameras/

And.....Sony........

 

[Deleted member 118]

And.....Sony........

 

[Deleted member 118]

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How NVIDIA went from gaming company to machine learning pioneer

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[GStocks123]

Tick tock!

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[ForrestofHope]

In light of today’s great podcast with Megachips, I decided to revisit SiTime. For those who may not be aware Megachips own approximately 25% of SiTime (as at Feb 2022). I know they have been discussed a while ago and @FactFinder amongst others posted about them but I was particularly interested in this extract from the 15th of March. I’m not saying they are using AKIDA, I’m just saying they are aware of the need for Edge devices. I would imagine Megachips would have communicated the advantages of AKIDA to the other companies they own/part own. This is from their webpage:

"Twenty-two million autonomous vehicles on the road by 2025, the rapid adoption of 5G, and the continued growth of data centers will require a large buildout in outdoor, decentralized edge networks,” said Piyush Sevalia, executive vice president of marketing at SiTime. “These new edge devices and their precision timing heartbeat must perform reliably in the presence of extreme temperatures, thermal shock, and vibration. Here, our Elite X Super-TCXO shines by delivering 2x better stability and 30x higher reliability than quartz. Consequently, we believe that Elite X will now be the precision timing device of choice in edge equipment.”

To enable new time-sensitive services such as ADAS, virtual reality, and smart manufacturing, edge devices will need to deliver faster speeds with lower latency. Precision timing plays a crucial role in their success. Legacy timing devices such as quartz TCXOs and mini-OCXOs have well-known weaknesses such as sensitivity to thermal shock and vibration, stability degradation at high temperatures, and shorter operating life. By using silicon MEMS technology that is inherently more robust and reliable, Elite X overcomes these problems and enables the next generation of time-sensitive services everywhere.

In edge networks, additional specifications such as aging, warm-up time, and power consumption are important for overall performance. Even here, SiTime Elite X outperforms legacy timing devices, simplifies system design, and offers dependable, consistent performance.

Their new Elite X Super TCXO SiT5501 uses 4 x lower power. Samples of the SiT5501 Elite X Super-TCXO are available now, with volume production in Q3’2022.

 

[Straw]

Best bit of podcast for me was the mention of 'near term' and options of 4 foundries (might be selling IP but someone has to make and sell the chips).

 

[Earlyrelease]

What’s this?

Yip that’s the start of the revenue domino starting and the outcome for those strong enough to have held or kept on buying.

 

[Frank Zappa]

I think megachips were onboard a lot earlier than we think and I recon the announcement was made when megachips were ready to go live with something beneficial for there customers to purchase.
Ps
That’s my sensible written post done for the week.

I fully agree with you and that’s how every customer of Brainchip will behave so as to maximise their advantage over their competitors.Everyone knows that the rules do not apply to anything in China . So give the competitor nothing and take him nowhere except down the garden path

 

[Butterbot]

I feel like they’d enjoy a yarn about an emerging Australian company contributing to that car’s range.

 

[marsch85]

The game consoles look familiar....

 

[Fact Finder]

Hi FF,

Just to clarify I am saying Megachips own 25% of SiTime not SiFive.

Thanks should not watch TV and read. LOL