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[stuart888]

I was not aware that SiFive are collaborating with Intel on a ‘powerful tool for developers’

Is BrainChip also involved?

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HiFive Pro P550​

RISC-V is inevitable, and the HiFive Pro P550 development system exemplifies that.

In partnership, Intel and SiFive are excited to introduce the highest performance RISC-V development board, which is scheduled to be available Summer 2023.

The soul of the machine is the Intel Horse Creek SoC, built on the Intel 4 process, that includes a SiFive Performance™ P550 Core Complex, a quad-core application processor featuring a thirteen-stage, triple-issue, out-of-order pipeline with the RISC-V RV64GBC ISA, and on-board DDR5-5600 and PCIe Gen5.

Board features (subject to change) include; 16GB DDR5, 2x PCIe expansion slots, 1/10GbE Networking, USB 3, on-board graphics and a remote management ready interface (OCP DC-SCM).

This is a premium software development system ideal for developer desktop machines and rack-based build/test/deploy servers for RISC-V software development. RISC-V has no limits.



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HiFive™ Premier P550 - SiFive Boards

RISC-V is inevitable, and the HiFive Premier P550 development system exemplifies that. The soul of the RISC-V development board is a SiFive Performance™ P550 Core Complex, fabricated in a 12nm process technology.

www.sifive.com

BrainChip and SiFive Partner to Deploy AI/ML Technology at the Edge

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., April 5, 2022 — BrainChip Holdings Ltd, a commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI chips and IP, and SiFive, Inc., the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, have […]

www.hpcwire.com

Intel at 18:25

A high-class AI forum with people like @thelittleshort. Amazing to me, and it is people from all over the world investigating and reporting the findings to the 1000-eyes-team. Every twitter, Instagram, every YouTube, every financial statement, every everything.

Crazy. Brainchip has a great shot is to take for instance $25k to $250k, within 36 months. Nothing certain, but the dots say likely.

I actually feel like this is not just feasible, but a darn-good-chance. This company is freaky, they have the secret snn spiking key. Time, and low power smarts will prove out.

Akida 2.0 and 2.1 and 2.2 are in the works. Big catalyst as the BRN income stream goes from trickle (expected 2023) and a notch higher month after month ongoing.

Happy to be on the Brainchip Bus! Thanks thelittleshort!

 

[hamilton66]

Founder of Qualcomm and a couple of other well knowns.
Short video but I like to know what these guys are like in a relaxed setting.
"When the money hits the table that's when you find out the real character of people" so very true

Rise, enjoyed that a lot. And the best bloke in the room was - the Aussie!

 

[stuart888]

I've mentioned Chris Ciovacco a few times before because he pulls together multiple stock market issues, together with a comprehensive array of charts. This weeks video is an excellent summary of where we have come from - macro wise - and paints a 'balance of probabilities' picture for a new bull market globally.

If you choose to watch, and I believe it is worth doing especially this week, put the Playback Speed at 1.5. If global markets are entering into a new bull phase, it will certainly help our prospects within the tech market.

I watch every week. So good, the big picture. The first few weeks as a new viewer, I would pause to look at the charts he was looking at. Yeah @Dhm!

After a few weeks or longer, I was right on board. Could not say enough good things about this no commercial market breakdown. Once a month or every two weeks might be the sweet spot.

First thing I watch every Saturday morning. Technical charts, history, but easily digestible.

 

[FJ-215]

Good morning,

The company won't be making any comments about our new chip/s until it's official launch, which I would "assume" would be around June 2023, that is after the foundry has finished it's run and testing, before being handed over to our team to evaluate, before we in turn make the reference chips available to our clients.

Great to see Nikunj speaking in glowing terms with regards to our partners Edge Impulse:

"I am so delighted to share with you all that yesterday was the official launch of the support for #BrainChip #Akida technology on the #EdgeImpulse Studio. I am very excited with this launch as it allows anyone to build and deploy machine learning models on #Akida, which is an advanced technology that is designed based on Neuromorphic principles to deliver low power and low latency for ML inferences at the #Edge. This partnership aims to advance developments of millions of products that are looking to have the capability of the cloud at the #Edge where problems such as power, latency, privacy, etc are the biggest challenges to overcome."

"We are already seeing the excitement behind this launch by many, and I cannot wait to see what the community will accomplish with this integration."

Note the passion, millions of products. Nikunj knows the real potential of what is about to commence over the short/medium term.

I'd like to see our university program keep growing, it's a very powerful tool in getting young students up to speed in the Neuromophic computing space, as when all is said and done, they and their ideas are the future.

My own opinion/s.

Tech

Haven't even taped out the chips and you are talking launch dates!!!

Settle petal.

 

[stuart888]

Ok, here's something I have wanted to talk about for a while.

Many of us love swimming in the ocean.
We know there are sharks in there.
We still do it. Because it is fun.

We love investing in disruptive companies like Brainchip.
We know there are sharks out there with all sorts.
We still do it. Because it can be life changing.

I think it is about time we accept this fact, and stop blaming others for what's happening on the market.

Yes, there could be manipulation, in every share on ASX which includes Brainchip.
But what can we do about this?

ASX is their ocean, and we are just swimming in it.
We need to be careful, look for warning signs, keep finger on the market pulse and act accordingly.

Once I realised this, I stopped the blame game on manipulation, because quite frankly, they helped me accumulate shares in around 6 accounts over the last few years. Thanks to the SP appreciation, around 90% of my main account is BRN shares.
Make use of the market conditions, accumulate if you can, sit out or stay put... but whatever you do, we need to realise manipulators alone do not control the market.

We all enjoyed the share price going to $2.34, if not for the shorts and manipulators we would not have reached that levels.
Not many people think about this.

We are adults and we need to take responsibility for our actions, and stop blaming others. If you make decisions to buy or sell, just because an up ramper or down ramper made comments on a public forum, you need to stay off the market for a bit, read up, prepare yourself psychologically and come back again later. We need to be able to hear both sides of arguments when investing, that is how we learn and grow. We cannot control how people invest, trade, or make money on the markets. We can only control our own actions and our behaviour towards the information we receive - how we receive this information and what we do with it.

There are more than 100 million shorts on BRN now, and all we need is one good Announcement to put a smile on our face.

TSE is still a great platform, I went to HC two days ago after a long time to compare, and it is still a cess pool. If you still visit it, you know what I am talking about. We have community moderation here, if you feel someone is making disparaging comments or down ramping, report it. Zeebot has created the platform but it is up to us to keep it sane. And from what I see, we do a great job.

I know many won't like this view, but it is another view and is mine.

Akida Ballista.

Toss in the massive reduction in the M2 Money Supply @BaconLover. When money is flowing out of the system, a typical standard down cycle. Just for the short term, as innovation will blast back.

Enjoy the wild cycles, the chance to buy lower and wait for SNN low-power IoT with periodic cloud future to arrive. The difference between a year ago and today is night and day.

 

[BaconLover]

Toss in the massive reduction in the M2 Money Supply @BaconLover. When money is flowing out of the system, a typical standard down cycle. Just for the short term, as innovation will blast back.

Enjoy the wild cycles, the chance to buy lower and wait for SNN low-power IoT with periodic cloud future to arrive. The difference between a year ago and today is night and day.

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No doubt semiconductor will get back into the favourite sector again.
I'm not sure about Tech sector in general though. Once Edge AI becomes standard, those data leaking dependent companies like Facebook, Snapchat etc will go out of fashion and new players emerge.

At the moment, insiders are still selling their shares in Tech sector. (This is a fact, everything else above is my opinion)

 

[stuart888]

That fantastic article 4 Bits Are Enough got me digging into a little deeper into some of PvDM's writings.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/22/4831

I was thinking about the input spike data. For more simple pattern detection, my assumption it is typically an array of numbers. I could be way off with the voice or text, but video pixels would be numbers. Sound would be numbers, and all packed into an array, I believe. A big array, lots of numbers.

So I thought Akida version one was targeting use-cases where the events happen rarely. For example, the use-case of an endangered animal walking in front of a battery powered wilderness video camera. Only when it sees the very rare (less than 300 alive) Florida Panther does it trigger the event.

So lots of zeros, until some sort of animal passes past the camera, where motion detection triggers the video camera.

Then with the 1000fps video camera, I suppose that is Akida making inference and machine learning on 1000 fps is awfully special. On the edge, where only real events get captured and passed to the cloud on some timetable.

From sparse to fastest of all time!

Perhaps only the Brainchip SNN Team really knows, with their secret JAST sauce. Perhaps (low event bits, and after the first 4 events, Akida will demote all to zero). i==BigfanHere!

Just trying to always learn more.

 

[Izzzzzzzzzzy]

No doubt semiconductor will get back into the favourite sector again.
I'm not sure about Tech sector in general though. Once Edge AI becomes standard, those data leaking dependent companies like Facebook, Snapchat etc will go out of fashion and new players emerge.

At the moment, insiders are still selling their shares in Tech sector. (This is a fact, everything else above is my opinion)

Sorry what does edge AI have to do with Facebook and Snapchat leaking data. Your data on this website TSEX is also being sold to provide advertisements through cookies. That statement cannot be just thrown around without context. Unless you are talking about being hacked then that’s something very different as well.

 

[Izzzzzzzzzzy]

Just wanted to pick some minds here, what is everyone’s realistic expectation or opinion on the up coming 4c? As for the past couple of ones i have had no expectations, I will keep the same sentiment for the up coming one. I just really really wish to be proven wrong.

 

[stuart888]

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Google has been life changing. The best company in massive innovation (google maps, android, youtube) where everything is free to the user.

Big data has its place for sure. I own google stock from years back, but my new money is going to Brainchip.

Edge IoT via SNN is Brainchip's to grab the spotlight over time. Lots of AI/ML companies are going to win.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

SiFive Horse Creek was showcased in October 2022, so they would have been seeing each other for some time before that.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/1...rm-sifive-p550-risc-v-cpu-8gb-ddr5-pcie-gen5/

There is no mention of NNs or AI accelerators in this article from 20221010:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/1...rm-sifive-p550-risc-v-cpu-8gb-ddr5-pcie-gen5/
Horse Creek platform specifications:

• CPU – SiFive P500 quad-core RISC-V processor @ up to 2.2 GHz with a 13-stage, 3-issue, out-of-order (OoO) pipeline, private L2 cache, and common L3 cache
• Memory – DDR5-5600 interface
• PCIe – PCIe Gen5 through Intel’s PCIe PHY with 8 lanes, Synopsys PCIe Root Hub controller
• Other peripheral interfaces – I3C, Quad and Octal SPI, UART, peripheral DMA
• Package – 19×19 FBGA
• Process – Intel 4 technology

Our affair with SiFive goes back to April 2022
https://brainchip.com/brainchip-sifive-partner-deploy-ai-ml-at-edge/
but we did not start going out with Intel until December 2022.

https://brainchip.com/brainchip-joins-intel-foundry-services-to-advance-neuromorphic-ai-at-the-edge/

There is nothing to indicate that Horse Creek uses Akida. [Now I'm talking like ChatGPT (where I get all my answers from)].

As for the GPT response, it is couched in broad generalizations without any real detail, almost like it was under NDA.

@Diogenese

Further info I posted on Horse Creek, SiFive etc beginning of Jan.

Have zoomed in and snipped a couple pics from presso which were interesting I thought.

Additional IP such as AI accelerators and I see they using Xilinx on the board too.

Not sure if any of this assists our opps of getting involved at some point?

BRN Discussion Ongoing

Happy new year to all the brainiacs here. This year is shaping up nicely to be a good year for us, and if not there's always the next one. One thing is for sure, it will happen and I'm willing to wait. My holding is going nowhere and I've convinced the kids their shares we got them are long...

thestockexchange.com.au

 

[BaconLover]

Sorry what does edge AI have to do with Facebook and Snapchat leaking data. Your data on this website TSEX is also being sold to provide advertisements through cookies. That statement cannot be just thrown around without context. Unless you are talking about being hacked then that’s something very different as well.

How AI Can Help With Data Privacy - BairesDev

The more digital our lives get, the more exposed we become. That’s why companies are working on ways to ensure privacy while using AI.

www.bairesdev.com

As I very clearly mentioned in my post, that was my opinion.
This is an article I have come across, hope that shines some light into what I was saying. Again, the article doesn't specify edge AI, but we know BRN could be a key player in cybersecurity.
As to Facebook and Snapchat, well, those were examples, and when I thought about data leaks, those were the companies that came to my mind. Again, it is my opinion.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Ok, here's something I have wanted to talk about for a while.

Many of us love swimming in the ocean.
We know there are sharks in there.
We still do it. Because it is fun.

We love investing in disruptive companies like Brainchip.
We know there are sharks out there with all sorts.
We still do it. Because it can be life changing.

I think it is about time we accept this fact, and stop blaming others for what's happening on the market.

Yes, there could be manipulation, in every share on ASX which includes Brainchip.
But what can we do about this?

ASX is their ocean, and we are just swimming in it.
We need to be careful, look for warning signs, keep finger on the market pulse and act accordingly.

Once I realised this, I stopped the blame game on manipulation, because quite frankly, they helped me accumulate shares in around 6 accounts over the last few years. Thanks to the SP appreciation, around 90% of my main account is BRN shares.
Make use of the market conditions, accumulate if you can, sit out or stay put... but whatever you do, we need to realise manipulators alone do not control the market.

We all enjoyed the share price going to $2.34, if not for the shorts and manipulators we would not have reached that levels.
Not many people think about this.

We are adults and we need to take responsibility for our actions, and stop blaming others. If you make decisions to buy or sell, just because an up ramper or down ramper made comments on a public forum, you need to stay off the market for a bit, read up, prepare yourself psychologically and come back again later. We need to be able to hear both sides of arguments when investing, that is how we learn and grow. We cannot control how people invest, trade, or make money on the markets. We can only control our own actions and our behaviour towards the information we receive - how we receive this information and what we do with it.

There are more than 100 million shorts on BRN now, and all we need is one good Announcement to put a smile on our face.

TSE is still a great platform, I went to HC two days ago after a long time to compare, and it is still a cess pool. If you still visit it, you know what I am talking about. We have community moderation here, if you feel someone is making disparaging comments or down ramping, report it. Zeebot has created the platform but it is up to us to keep it sane. And from what I see, we do a great job.

I know many won't like this view, but it is another view and is mine.

Akida Ballista.

Awesome post Mr.Bacon

 

[Mccabe84]

Just wanted to pick some minds here, what is everyone’s realistic expectation or opinion on the up coming 4c? As for the past couple of ones i have had no expectations, I will keep the same sentiment for the up coming one. I just really really wish to be proven wrong.

Im not expecting anything in the 4C till the 2nd half of this year

 

[TheUnfairAdvantage]

Just wanted to pick some minds here, what is everyone’s realistic expectation or opinion on the up coming 4c? As for the past couple of ones i have had no expectations, I will keep the same sentiment for the up coming one. I just really really wish to be proven wrong.

From memory Megachips is the only company that has signed and sealed IP licence with payment for such licence outstanding. It has been accrued but not paid. From memory this is because there were milestones for product sales in the Ip licence. The half yearly recognised product sales and engineering associated to that licence. I am hoping that those milestones have been met and payment has been made ie recognised as cash receipted in this coming 4c. Hoping for $4m from Megachips. Bonus if Socionext or renasus has paid something.

 

[Diogenese]

That fantastic article 4 Bits Are Enough got me digging into a little deeper into some of PvDM's writings.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/22/4831

I was thinking about the input spike data. For more simple pattern detection, my assumption it is typically an array of numbers. I could be way off with the voice or text, but video pixels would be numbers. Sound would be numbers, and all packed into an array, I believe. A big array, lots of numbers.

So I thought Akida version one was targeting use-cases where the events happen rarely. For example, the use-case of an endangered animal walking in front of a battery powered wilderness video camera. Only when it sees the very rare (less than 300 alive) Florida Panther does it trigger the event.

So lots of zeros, until some sort of animal passes past the camera, where motion detection triggers the video camera.

Then with the 1000fps video camera, I suppose that is Akida making inference and machine learning on 1000 fps is awfully special. On the edge, where only real events get captured and passed to the cloud on some timetable.

From sparse to fastest of all time!

Perhaps only the Brainchip SNN Team really knows, with their secret JAST sauce. Perhaps (low event bits, and after the first 4 events, Akida will demote all to zero). i==BigfanHere!

Just trying to always learn more.

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Hi Stuart,

I'm not sure I follow your drift.

"I was thinking about the input spike data. For more simple pattern detection, my assumption it is typically an array of numbers. I could be way off with the voice or text, but video pixels would be numbers. Sound would be numbers, and all packed into an array, I believe. A big array, lots of numbers."

There's quite a lot I don't understand about how Akida works, but here is a summary of my understanding.

Sensor data is analog. For instance, a pixel puts out a voltage signal whose amplitude is proportional to the strength of light hitting the pixel.

A digital camera will then have an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) to convert the analog pixel signal to digital bits, say 16 bits. As you say, these digital numbers are arranged in an array corresponding to the pixel array.

The matrix of these digital bits is what CNN operates on to classify the object being photographed. When the CNN compares small segments (sliding windows) of the matrix with the images stored in the 16-bit image model library, it performs a Multiply Accumulate computation (MAC) by multiplying the two 16-bit numbers together for each pixel. The processing is sequential as the sampling window "slides" across the larger matrix.

Akida uses N-of-M coding and the JAST rules directly on the analog pixel signal.

The strength of the light impinging on a pixel determines both the amplitude of the analog signal and the time when the signal is generated, the stronger the light input, the faster the analog signal is generated. N-of-M coding utilizes this timing to select the strongest incoming signals (N signals) and to ignore the later arriving (M-N) signals because most of the image information is contained in the stronger signals. The pixels are processed in parallel so the timing of the input analog signals can be compared, hence the millions of neurons.

In addition, where the content of adjacent pixels is the same (within a predetermined threshold value), only the first pixel is processed. This provides sparsity in processing so only edges of uniform image segments are processed.

Thus
CNN requires the ADC process for every pixel - Akida does not need ADC.
CNN processes every pixel - Akida only processes N-of-M pixels
CNN processes every pixel - Akida only processes changes in pixel strength.
CNN uses MAC for every pixel - Akida does not use MAC.
CNN runs entirely in software on a CPU. Akida runs in a SoC almost without CPU involvement*
CNN requires the fetching of instructions and image data from memory (von Neumann bottleneck) - Akida stores the data with the NPUs.

*Akida 2-bit and 4-bit operation now uses of the order of 3% CPU operation and 97% silicon for recurrent NNs.
https://brainchip.com/4-bits-are-enough/

 

[Getupthere]

I’m not expecting too much from the Dec 4c.

Particularly with renesas only Taping out last month.

Looks like Renesas were 6 months behind schedule.

Bring on 2023!!

 

[Diogenese]

@Diogenese

Further info I posted on Horse Creek, SiFive etc beginning of Jan.

Have zoomed in and snipped a couple pics from presso which were interesting I thought.

Additional IP such as AI accelerators and I see they using Xilinx on the board too.

Not sure if any of this assists our opps of getting involved at some point?

BRN Discussion Ongoing

Happy new year to all the brainiacs here. This year is shaping up nicely to be a good year for us, and if not there's always the next one. One thing is for sure, it will happen and I'm willing to wait. My holding is going nowhere and I've convinced the kids their shares we got them are long...

thestockexchange.com.au

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Hi Fmf,

Intel of course have their own NNs, and I think it's too early to have Akida in the Intel Horse Creek mix.

Xilinx Spartan is a COTS FPGA.

https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/spartan-6.html

FPGA are Xilinx's bread and butter, so it would be drawing a long bow to link BrainChip to Intel via Xilinx.

 

[TasTroy77]

Just wanted to pick some minds here, what is everyone’s realistic expectation or opinion on the up coming 4c? As for the past couple of ones i have had no expectations, I will keep the same sentiment for the up coming one. I just really really wish to be proven wrong.

I Am not expecting any substantial revenue in the 4C until the second quarter of 2024 in regard to royalty payments.
Ongoing engineering fees and hopefully more licence agreement payments as Sean Hehir mentioned that they were trying to achieve.

if you think about it the time line from initial Eap testing - licence agreement- the extensive training of the companies engineers- integration into a new product may take quite a few years to come to market especially with Automotive products that has to be accountable for all the safety elements that encompasses that industry and government regulations.

All this should come as no surprise as Sean said Revenue would be lumpy and mentioned headwinds in the last quarterly.

A certain degree of patience will be required for the next 18 months as everything dose not always go to plan even in the best company and due to macro global economic pressures the baby often gets thrown out with the bath water.

The share price I could not predict this year. If we are under $5 I will be taking up @Realinfo offer of an afternoon at "The Briars "
I am very confident that Brainchip will be the go to solution for Edge Ai devices and by 2025 we should be flying , INTEL, ARM and Mercedes don't associate with turds that's for sure.

 

[TasTroy77]

Haven't even taped out the chips and you are talking launch dates!!!

Settle petal.

I believe that Tech is referring to the latest incarnation of AKIDA not the Renesas development.