BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Deleted member 118]

Thank you, for not posting cooked diatribe. Forum has really gone downhill last few days.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

So Rise, as @Bravo piles on the scaling-mountain-of-dots and @TECH outlines the logical timeframes, it has triggered your derisked-threshold?

Therefore, you activate a Binary Step Function to buy some more BRN. Very logical!!!
(Dio mentioned Step Functions and got me curious.)

https://towardsdatascience.com/getting-to-know-activation-functions-in-neural-networks-125405b67428

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BRN has been de-risked for me for sometime, share price fluctuations are out of my control it's all about trying to pick a price I'm happy with topping up and imo the prices we are seeing are going to be dirt cheap compared to future price.

 

[ENZee2]

Attention all whining and whinging, lazy people, who are still holding mommies hand.
If you haven't registered on the companies website for email updates, then you don't deserve to know what's going on.
Don't be so, FFFing pathetic.

Here Here Post of the day

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Attention all whining and whinging, lazy people, who are still holding mommies hand.
If you haven't registered on the companies website for email updates, then you don't deserve to know what's going on.
Don't be so, FFFing pathetic.

Agreed WH, A few holder who I got in have previously stated 'whinge , whinge nothing going on with BRN " I've told them to sign up to company website also sub to brn YouTube channel also to sign up here. One is not too bad but the other I feel like slamming my elbow straight into his face, such a f dick.
Edit... Oh and of course when asked if the price was over a buck something a piece they would not give a flying shag with the lack of official news.
Edit 2 no one was harmed in the construction of this post.

 

[thelittleshort]

An extract from the article.

FD-SOI
GlobalFoundries was the first player to enter the 22nm race. Three years ago the company introduced a 22nm FD-SOI technology. For some time, Samsung has offered 28nm FD-SOI with an 18nm version in the works.

In addition, GlobalFoundries is developing a 12nm planar version of FD-SOI, which is expected to appear in 2022. Generally, 22nm or 18nm FD-SOI doesn’t compete with 16nm/14nm finFETs, and they serve different markets with little overlap.

FD-SOI uses a specialized SOI wafer, which integrates a thin insulating layer (20 to 25nm thick) in the substrate. This layer isolates the transistor from the substrate, thereby blocking the leakage in the device.

FD-SOI also is based on a planar, fully depleted architecture. “This essentially eliminates the random dopant fluctuation, providing superior mismatch and electrostatics to improve sub-threshold slope,” GlobalFoundries’ Schaeffer said.

GlobalFoundries’ 22nm FD-SOI technology, called 22FDX, incorporates high-k/metal-gate with silicon-germanium in the channel. It provides 30% higher performance and 45% lower power compared to 28nm. It was production-qualified in early 2017.

Recently, GlobalFoundries added more capabilities to the mix. “Sub-6GHz RF, mmWave, ultra-low leakage and ultra-low power extensions have all been qualified,” Schaeffer said.

What makes FD-SOI attractive are two features—low-power and body bias. It enables drive currents of 910μA/μm (856μA/μm) at 0.8 volts, with voltage operations down to 0.4 volts.

“Body bias is the ability to fully control the threshold voltage (Vth) of the transistors dynamically by polarizing the back gate of the transistor. Vth—which was a parameter determinable only by process through complex doping techniques—is now programmable dynamically through software,” said Manuel Sellier, product marketing manager at Soitec. “Designers can use this feature to dynamically manage the leakage in their circuit, and also to compensate static (process) and dynamic variations (temperature, voltage, and aging) efficiently. The result is a 4X to 7X energy efficiency gain at ultra-low power.”

FD-SOI also supports forward body biasing. When polarization of the substrate is positive, the transistor can be switched faster, according to STMicroelectronics.

FD-SOI, however, has three drawbacks—cost, ecosystem and adoption. For years, FD-SOI has had limited adoption. Intel, TSMC, UMC and others have never adopted FD-SOI, saying bulk CMOS enables high-performance devices at better costs. For example, an SOI wafer sells from $370 to $400 each, compared to $100 to $120 for a bulk CMOS wafer.

But FD-SOI does have a lower mask count, which compensates for the wafer cost. FD-SOI has 22 to 24 mask steps, while a comparable bulk CMOS process has 27 to 29 mask steps, according to IBS.

FD-SOI is closing the gap, too. “We are now looking at what we view as the limit of bulk CMOS,” IBS’ Jones said. “Transistor costs for 22nm FD-SOI are within 5% of the transistor costs for 22nm HKMG (high-k/metal-gate). 22nm FD SOI gives 30% to 50% lower power consumption compared to 22nm HKMG, which is important for wearable and IoT devices.”

The FD-SOI community, however, lags in terms of the EDA/IP ecosystem. “The IP ecosystem for 22nm FD-SOI is strengthening, but 22nm HKMG bulk CMOS has a broader IP ecosystem,” Jones said.

The tide is turning. Cadence, Mentor and Synopsys have been certified for various EDA tools for GlobalFoundries’ FD-SOI technology.

“There are some unique capabilities for RF, for example, with integrated FD-SOI, which are very hard to equal in other ways,” said Wally Rhines, president and CEO of Mentor.

FD-SOI has other advantages. “While the finFET gives you near zero leakage, you still have dynamic power. One of the advantages of FD-SOI is dynamic power. If you can reduce the voltage from one volt down to 0.6, that’s a 65% reduction in power. FD-SOI has some advantages in being able to dynamically alter the power versus the performance balance,” Rhines said.

My vote is for satellites

FDX™ FD-SOI | GlobalFoundries

Purpose-built for connected intelligence at the edge You’ve already envisioned a high-performing, low-power design for your product. Now it’s time […]

gf.com

 

[Taproot]

This from August 21
Looks like AKD500 will be next

What does the road ahead look like for Akida?
AKD1000 is only the beginning of what the company expects to be a robust product portfolio (Figure 33): – AKD500: BRN is in the planning stages for AKD500, which is a low-cost version of the AKD1000, for the consumer products market. – AKD1500: BRN is also in the process of developing and prototyping AKD1500, which will have additional features to execute Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Transformer networks. LSTM is a form of recurrent neural network which can learn order dependence in sequence prediction problems. It finds applications in machine translation and speech recognition. Transformer networks, on the other hand, find their applications in natural language processing (NLP) due to their ability to resolve the vanishing gradient problem – the time for which the memory is retained by the network, which is critical in order to process lengthy texts. – AKD2000: It is the optimised version of AKD1500 and the company has already started work on a prototype at its lab in Perth.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Am I mistaken but I do recall that these different versions of chips can all be combined at a later stage?

 

[Getupthere]

In electronics and photonics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final result of the design process for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards before they are sent for manufacturing. The tapeout is specifically the point at which the graphic for the photomask of the circuit is sent to the fabrication facility.

 

[cassip]

BRN

 

[Cirat]

BRN

Always loved the clean, crisp and visually standout nature of our new website as well as the kite which they use in marketing material such as the recently released White Paper.
The kite reminds me of a song (decades ago) which says it all about Brainchip:

"Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite"

Nothing more to say

 

[White Horse]

I think what happened was we have had a huge runs over the last couple of years and retraced well too.
We have had a few Anns like NASA, Ford etc which caused massive runs after BRN was asked to ''please explain''.
We have plenty of organisations such as AFR, Motley Fools etc., their friends, other hedge funds, instos... who all would ask for a ''fair and reasonable'' market by reporting these to ASX (I say this because I know there are reporters on AFR who specialise in this sort of reporting and have listened to their side of story myself).
Unfortunately retails are not in their club so our reports will be in the bin straight away.

I believe WBT isn't having such huge volatility and is possibly flying under the radar already so they wouldn't have an issue. Their SOI is comparatively lower, at around 173 million and out of that around 34 million is with top 20. Not much room for the big guys to play around.

These are only my opinion only, dyor.



Exactly

Hi BL,
It's not "exactly", because I was not supporting an argument for more disclosure.
I was pointing out that Weebit are going the same FAB route as us with 22nm FD-SOI.
Nothing to do with the argument you and others have been flogging to death all day.
If you and others can't get you mind around the companies disclosure policy, you should sell
and buy into these other companies of which you are so enamored.
Actually , not just today, but what seems like forever.

Regards
WH

 

[JK200SX]

I had to read that a couple of times too. I believe they meant.......

BRN have released the design to Global Foundries and expect they will have the chips manufactured and returned to BRN in the 2nd quarter.

We expect our next
reference chips (plural) to be delivered in Q2 of this year.

Question: Do people read this as (many/plural) AKIDA1500 chips being delivered in Q2, or does the plural imply Akida1500, AKIDA500, AKIDA2000, etc?

 

[TECH]

Good evening, well it's still rather hot here in Perth 33c as I write this.

Today's release of the quarterly I found to be pleasantly surprising, the results reflected our company maintaining good control over the expenses, modest cash receipts which was to be expected.

It was good to see the CEO actually name the Akida chip, so now we all know that the reference chip is AKD 1500.

A USB version will be coming, as this has already been mentioned by a company employee in a recent video with one of the Universities we are engaged with, I did find that disclosure rather interesting given whom it was mentioned to.

Nice grants of nearly $700,000 USD to help out with the current R&D expenses, some of you may think too much is being spent in this department, but we must progress, that old saying rings true, "you only truly get what you pay for"...Peter, Anil and all our engineers could probably earn more elsewhere, but I have a feeling that their passion isn't always all about money, more of an addiction, and I say that in a respectful manner.

Finally, Seans comment I really enjoyed reading was the one I have been harping on about recently.

"In the coming quarter, the Company will focus on key sales targets and converting technical evaluations into paid licenses"

You will remember that the company made almost a U-Turn when approximately 3 months prior to our last AGM we gave up the business model of being a chip supplier to solely become a potential leading supplier of Edge AI IP, proven in silicon and truly unmatched to date by any other company, despite many articles that allegedly state otherwise.

The journey continues......keep watching this space.

Tech

 

[BaconLover]

Hi BL,
It's not "exactly", because I was not supporting an argument for more disclosure.
I was pointing out that Weebit are going the same FAB route as us with 22nm FD-SOI.
Nothing to do with the argument you and others have been flogging to death all day.
If you and others can't get you mind around the companies disclosure policy, you should sell
and buy into these other companies of which you are so enamored.
Actually , not just today, but what seems like forever.

Regards
WH

" I was pointing out that Weebit are going the same FAB route as us with 22nm FD-SOI."
I was saying the same thing too, no need to get worked up.

As to selling my shares, it's none of your business how I invest and trade. I own shares in this company, and I'll share my views here. It's not your private property to tell me what to do.

As to everything else,
Of course you're entitled to your opinion.
Have a great evening.

 

[Bravo]

Always loved the clean, crisp and visually standout nature of our new website as well as the kite which they use in marketing material such as the recently released White Paper.
The kite reminds me of a song (decades ago) which says it all about Brainchip:

"Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite"

Nothing more to say

It reminds me of this gnarly toon! Try and stop yourself rocking out to this toe-tapping number, I dare you. Its so “lit” that it’ll keep you awake all night thinking you’ve developed restless leg syndrome.

 

[JK200SX]

Not Sure if this has been posted from 2021:

Akida spiking neural processor could head to FDSOI

Startup BrainChip Inc. has a road-map of larger and smaller SoC exemplars of its Akida spiking neural networking processing architecture and could go to fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI).

www.eenewseurope.com

BrainChip is starting to deliver its Akida1000 system chip to customers although the company insists that is main business model is intellectual property licensing, similar to ARM’sThe Akida1000 contains 80 neural processors and is implemented in 28nm CMOS (see Brainchip’s Akida is a fast learner) and Brainchip announced the start of volume production in April 2021. This was shortly after Louis DiNardo quietly left the position of CEO in March. Peter van der Made, the founder of Brainchip and previously CTO, has taken up the CEO role.


Anil Mankar, chief development officer, told eeNews Europe: “Chip production volume is just starting now. But you will see a lot of IP licensing going forward.” He added: “We are process agnostic.”

The near-term focus is supplying the Akida IP to 22nm although some customers may go back to 90nm process, Akida executives said.

Rob Telson, vice president of worldwide sales, said BrainChip is drawing up plans for smaller and larger versions of Akida under the names Akida500, Akida1500 and Akida2000. Some of these may well comply to a new generation of the Akida architecture – Akida 2.0 – due to arrive in 2022. It is thought Akida500 could be implemented in 22nm FDSOI manufacturing process, and serve as a demonstrator of the agnostic nature of the Akida architecture.


Mankar emphasizes that the Akida architecture can implement both conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) that allow for a broader range of data processing models and learnings. The human brain based on spiking signals passed between neurons. “Spikes are spatio-temporal. There’s a lot of information to extract from spikes that we are not yet taking advantage of,” said Mankar.

The scalability of the architecture is also important, he said. “Our IP can from 2 processing nodes to 128,” said Mankar. If a licensee goes to 7nm CMOS then they can go to many nodes, he added.

 

[FJ-215]

We expect our next
reference chips (plural) to be delivered in Q2 of this year.

Question: Do people read this as (many/plural) AKIDA1500 chips being delivered in Q2, or does the plural imply Akida1500, AKIDA500, AKIDA2000, etc?

I'm assuming one run of Akida 1500 as there is no mention of taping out other designs. Global Foundries could handle it, they have a multi project wafer program. The same as system TSMC used for Akida, only difference would be the whole wafer would be ours with the different variants.

Multi-Project Wafer Program

 

[Bravo]

I'm assuming one run of Akida 1500 as there is no mention of taping out other designs. Global Foundries could handle it, they have a multi project wafer program. The same as system TSMC used for Akida, only difference would be the whole wafer would be ours with the different variants.

Multi-Project Wafer Program

Whenever anyone talks about wafers I automatically think of waffles and then I have to go and raid the fridge. Does that happen to anyone else?

 

[SERA2g]

There hasn't been much talk about some of the finer points.
One I particularly like,
We expect our next
reference chips (plural) to be delivered in Q2 of this year.

I had assumed this to mean they will have AKD1500 reference chips in hand by Q2 end (30 June 2023) now that tape out has occurred.

I also assume this would be a small run of chips similar to AKD1000 which from memory was only a few thousand.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Amazing stuff coming our way. I can't wait.

Davos 2023 - Are you Ready for Brain Transparency?

While the promise of neurotechnology to gain insight into the human brain is growing, this Davos 2023 session throws light on what brain transparency would mean.

www.weforum.org