Good Day All,
How fitting, WA Public Holiday today, local Brainchip shareholders are considering changing Labor Day to Akida Day
I had a dream a few months ago that 2 reference chips were being developed simultaneously,
launch of chips, dreams can come true, never
say never I guess.
Well what a solid announcement ! Full of Positivity, Full of Facts.
To me it's very clear, we already know that this site is being monitored from time to time, it's clear that our company listens, despite what some
may think, it's clear that our business strategy is unfolding very nicely, at a speed that reflects, discipline and control, meaning any major slip ups
can hopefully be avoided as commercialization starts to take shape.
I think that's the longest set of quotations from Sean since he started, apart from the AGM and a few interviews, and his words are very powerful, which I have highlighted below (others have probably already mentioned), none-the- less I'll repeat them.
Sean Hehir, BrainChip CEO said,
“Our customers wanted us to enable expanded predictive intelligence, target tracking, object detection, scene segmentation, and advanced vision capabilities.
This new generation of Akida allows designers and developers to do things
that were not possible before on an Edge device. By inferring and learning from raw sensor data,
we take a substantial step toward a cloudless Edge AI experience. With this launch,
we have significantly extended our competitive advantage in neuromorphic AI.”
This hyper-efficient, yet powerful neural processing system, architected for embedded Edge AI applications, now adds efficient 8-bit processing to go with advanced capabilities such as time domain convolutions and vision transformer acceleration, for an
unprecedented level of performance in sub-watt devices, taking them
from perception towards cognition.
The second-generation of Akida
now includes Temporal Event Based Neural Nets (TENN) spatial-temporal convolutions
that supercharge the processing of raw time-continuous streaming data, such as video analytics, target tracking, audio classification, analysis of health monitoring data such as heart rate and respiratory rate for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive production line maintenance. These capabilities
are critically needed in industrial, automotive, digital health, smart home and smart city applications. The TENNs allow for
radically simpler implementations by consuming raw data directly from sensors -
drastically reducing model size and operations performed, while
maintaining very high accuracy. This
can shrink design cycles and
dramatically lower the cost of development.
Mr Hehir added, “The development of the second generation of Akida was
strongly influenced by our customers’ feedback and driven by
our extensive market engagement. We have recently expanded our sales organisation to become
truly global and we are focused on executing
more IP licence agreements and generating revenue growth over coming years.
Another addition to the second generation of Akida is
Vision Transformers (ViT,) acceleration a leading-edge neural network that has been shown to
perform extremely well on various computer vision tasks, such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation.
The Akida IP platform has a
unique ability to learn on the device for
continuous improvement and data-less customization
that improves security and privacy. This, combined with the efficiency and performance available, enable very differentiated solutions
that until now have not been possible. These include secure, small battery powered devices like hearing aids and wearable electronic devices such as watches, medical devices for monitoring vital signs, and consume
only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, batteryoperated or fan-less devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and
augmented reality to scale effectively.
Akida comes with a Models Zoo and
a burgeoning ecosystem of software, tools, and model vendors, as well as IP, SoC, foundry and system integrator partners
For the ones who aren't aware or have forgotten, our initial plans to send our first chip design to the fab was delayed by around 1 year, why, because Peter, Anil, Kris and co, listened very carefully to what our EAP's thought, what they wanted, how they considered Brainchip could make more of a initial statement by bridging the gap between CNN's and the new kid on the block SNN's....this proved to be a real winner for our team, it's what I called at the time "an olive branch" then came more simplifying, with MetaTF, developers aren't neuroscientists, they could model their designs around Akida without having to learn whole "new programming", as is required with Loihi.
From the opening line in Sean's address, it is very clear that Peter, Anil and the team have followed the same path, that is, not being arrogant, or ego focused, but simply listening to our customers, yes they are customers now, and doing our upmost to deliver the goods.
Do you think our partners are happy ? you better believe it, we are clearly leading this revolution, so pleased for our Founder/s today.
Have a great afternoon all. Tech
