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[Bravo]

So back in August last year I was ruminating over the possibility if us being involved in the Arm V9 architecture (#27,71) but back then I thought it was via the Third Party IP, whereas in reality it will henceforth be via the Cortex M85, unless I'm mistaken, which wouldn't be too shabby!

 

[BaconLover]

It's massive. It's being used in with the M-class chip from arm. That's their smallest (M=microcontroller) so sales should be in the billions, all going well.

Evidence that ARM M series is not a new knowledge.
Validation of this is new, but pretty sure this is not surprising.
ARM has put Brainchip's name alongside the M series for a few months now on their website and a few others have also commented about this before.

 

[Fact Finder]

So back in August last year I was ruminating over the possibility if us being involved in the Arm V9 architecture (#27,71) but back then I thought it was via the Third Party IP, whereas in reality it will henceforth be via the Cortex M85, unless I'm mistaken, which wouldn't be too shabby!



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Hi @Bravo

You know that this only proves that AKIDA being compatible with Cortex M85 could feasibly be incorporated in V9 at some future point to upgrade V9's performance if a customer needs more performance for less power.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Bravo]

Speaking about Arm's V9 architecture... I would write more but my mouse has run out of juice.

 

[Bravo]

Hi @Bravo

You know that this only proves that AKIDA being compatible with Cortex M85 could feasibly be incorporated in V9 at some future point to upgrade V9's performance if a customer needs more performance for less power.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Hi @Fact Finder, yes I did consider that however I consoled myself by imagining how many of Arm's customers would choose in the not too distant future between something that was pretty good and something that was "amaze-balls" (as @TechGirl would say) and I feel pretty confident that most would likely go for the "amaze-balls" option.

 

[BadKittyKiki]

Can anyone confirm you can order this in Psilocybin variant?

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Well, then - "I'll have what she's having!" (Can't remember the name of the movie, only 90's kids will understand). Nevermind me, I came here to talk about SVB but got sidetracked by psilocybin. I'm 5 pages behind the current discussion and still catching up, so please excuse any seeming non sequitur comment posts from me in the interim.

 

[Sam]

I think a lot of people here think that this is saying that the Arm Cortex M85 comes with Akida installed.
That is not how I read it. As far as I can see the Cortex M85 is its own thing, it's just saying that Akida will work with it.
So just because Arm sell a Cortex M85, doesn't mean they will have Akida on board. - Unless I have interpreted this wrong( I am happy to be shown otherwise.)

BRN News: BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices - 13th Mar 2023, 8:30am

LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 12, 2023 /BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced it has validated that its Akida⢠processor family integrates with...

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Integrates

 

[Fact Finder]

Would have been pretty hard for ARM to mention Brainchip and AKIDA in this article it’s from A YEAR AGO.

Today the first time compability is announced ARM agree to comment and the following statement from ARM is included in the press release:

"In order to serve the diverse and growing IoT market, developers require a new standard of secure, high-performance microcontrollers, combined with endpoint ML capabilities," said Paul Williamson, SVP and GM, IoT Line of Business at Arm. "The integration of Arm's highest performance microcontroller with the Akida portfolio enables our partners to deliver on this potential and efficiently handle advanced machine learning workloads."

I am not sure without looking it up but this article probably even predates the announcement that ARM and Brainchip had become ecosystem partners.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

PS: Just looked up the date ARM and Brainchip was announced and yes it was after this article was written by about four months:

– May 22, 2022 – – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI IP, announced today it has been accepted into the Arm® AI Partner Program, an ecosystem of hardware and software specialists enabling developers to deliver the next

I think it is useful to compare what ARM said when first announcing that Brainchip was joining its Ecosystem partners last year:

“To support the wealth of opportunities that AI can provide, from automation of industrial devices to improved user experience for consumers, developers need access to intelligence at the edge,” said Mohamed Awad, vice president of IoT and Embedded at Arm. “As part of the Arm AI Partner Program, BrainChip will further enable developers to meet the need for high-performance and ultra-low power edge AI inference, unlocking new opportunities for innovation.”

It seems clear to me that in this May, 2022 announcement ARM was standing back somewhat and leaving it to developers to try out AKIDA as an Ai solution. Of course this led to the Edge Impulse bonanza of excited statements about AKIDA science fiction from a developers standpoint.

A quantum leap has however occured to today's statement where ARM no longer is standing back but actively promoting the advantages of AKIDA being combined with its Cortex M85 its highest performance microcontroller and we have ARM promoting it as a solution to its PARTNERS not just to its developers to play around with to see what it might be able to do.

AKIDA has clearly had the ARM SEAL OF APPROVAL stamped all over it and such statements by ARM will not be glossed over by its PARTNERS.

Attempts to minimise the significance of this press release have absolutely no value whatsoever to genuine shareholder investors but more importantly to ARM PARTNERS.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[thelittleshort]

 

[ndefries]

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Back on page 653 there was lots of talk about Akida and Plumerai and Anil was clearly a fan. Is Akida being hidden in this demo???

 

[BadKittyKiki]

Do not forget that if Brainchip was invested in Silicon Valley Bank it would have lost a commercially price sensitive sum of money and be obligated to make an ASX announcement.

The correct and logical conclusion if there is no announcement is that there is nothing to announce.

While I would prefer an announcement to fend off the attacks by WANCA’s the absence of any announcement means everything is AOK at Brainchip.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Ok, good point! Well, in that case, I might shoot off to go peer with furrowed brow into the bassinet of my other favourite child, WBT.
Be back later!

 

[thelittleshort]

Exactly. And when it comes to wearables, one of the key things consumers look at when comparing wearable devices is battery life. Manufacturers are aware of this. So if given the chance to significantly improve battery life, they wont be passing up on it.

 

[Bravo]

Back on page 653 there was lots of talk about Akida and Plumerai and Anil was clearly a fan. Is Akida being hidden in this demo???

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Yes @ndefries, that was back in May 2022 when Plumerai and Texas Instruments presented together at the Embedded Vision Summit.

 

[Fact Finder]

I think it is useful to compare what ARM said when first announcing that Brainchip was joining its Ecosystem partners last year:

“To support the wealth of opportunities that AI can provide, from automation of industrial devices to improved user experience for consumers, developers need access to intelligence at the edge,” said Mohamed Awad, vice president of IoT and Embedded at Arm. “As part of the Arm AI Partner Program, BrainChip will further enable developers to meet the need for high-performance and ultra-low power edge AI inference, unlocking new opportunities for innovation.”

It seems clear to me that in this May, 2022 announcement ARM was standing back somewhat and leaving it to developers to try out AKIDA as an Ai solution. Of course this led to the Edge Impulse bonanza of excited statements about AKIDA science fiction from a developers standpoint.

A quantum leap has however occured to today's statement where ARM no longer is standing back but actively promoting the advantages of AKIDA being combined with its Cortex M85 its highest performance microcontroller and we have ARM promoting it as a solution to its PARTNERS not just to its developers to play around with to see what it might be able to do.

AKIDA has clearly had the ARM SEAL OF APPROVAL stamped all over it and such statements by ARM will not be glossed over by its PARTNERS.

Attempts to minimise the significance of this press release have absolutely no value whatsoever to genuine shareholder investors but more importantly to ARM PARTNERS.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

This brings me to the further significant point to note.

When we read about the AKD1500 we were told by Brainchip it was developed in response to customer requests. I mentioned in a much earlier post today that if ARM is looking to promote AKIDA IP with its ARM Cortex M85 then the onboard Cortex M4 used by AKIDA1000 is redundant.

So in response Brainchip has removed the Cortex M4 and is producing a reference chip not in 28nm but in 22nm with GlobalFoundries as a demonstrator.

Smaller form factor with even lower power use and reduced latency making it sound like the absolute perfect fit for the range of use cases that ARM Cortex M85 is actually already used for by ARM's PARTNERS.

ARM's engineers having the AKIDA demonstrator chip can take the PARTNERS product and hook up the already in place M85 to AKD1500 and immediately show the PARTNER what adding in a little AKIDA technology will do for them.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Further progress...noice

Get the feeling maybe been working on this in the background with ARM for some time

From mid last year on their roadmap etc inc M85 and helium back then.

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Feeling stupid here 😂 but where is the actual link for video? Chapman posted link a couple of minutes ago.

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Anyone looked into this? NEW chip coming from SynSense..........called XYLO Thoughts? https://www.synsense-neuromorphic.com/technology/...

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[thelittleshort]

Yes @ndefries, that was back in May 2022 when Plumerai and Texas Instruments presented together at the Embedded Vision Summit.

Back on page 653 there was lots of talk about Akida and Plumerai and Anil was clearly a fan. Is Akida being hidden in this demo???

I was pretty convinced back then of a BrainChip Plumerai relationship of some sort

Below for anyone who has joined since then

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[White Horse]

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Hi TLS, here is the news article.

BrainChip launches second generation Akida platform for edge AI applications​

Mar 8, 2023 | Abhishek Jadhav

Categories Edge Computing News | Hardware | Public Companies

BrainChip, a provider of neuromorphic processors for edge AI on-chip processing, has revealed the latest version of its Akida platform, designed to serve the increasing demand for embedded edge AI applications. The platform uses vision transformers and spatial-temporal convolution to offer high-performance and power-efficient solutions for the network edge.
According to the company, the new Akida platform incorporates 8-bit processing for high performance. The Akida IP platform is intended for small form factor devices in healthcare and consumer electronics, such as hearable and wearable devices.

“We licensed Akida neural processors because of their unique neuromorphic approach to bring hyper-efficient acceleration for today’s mainstream AI models at the edge,” says Roger Wendelken, the senior vice president of Renesas’ IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit.
BrainChip leverages vision transformers, a specifically designed transformer, to accomplish vision processing tasks such as image recognition. BrainChip used vision transformers due to their aptitude for object detection, image classification and semantic segmentation.
Akida’s second-generation technology includes Temporal Event Based Neural Nets (TENN) spatial-temporal convolutions that allow for simplified processing of raw time-continuous streaming data including video analytics, audio classification and target tracking. The company says these abilities can enable faster design cycles and lower the cost of development.
“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 in a low-power edge device,” says Sean Hehir, the CEO of BrainChip.

 

[Murphy]

I actually have developed a tremor and the cardiologist said it was a common side effect of my cardiac issues but I reckon it’s my constant state of excitement regarding AKIDA technology advances.

You would have to admit though, FF, Brainchip is very close to your heart!


If you don't have dreams, you can't have dreams come true!

 

[Murphy]

Well, then - "I'll have what she's having!" (Can't remember the nane of the movie, only 90's kids will understand). Nevermind me, I came here to talk about SVB but got sidetracked by psilocybin. I'm 5 pages behind the current discussion and still catching up, so please excuse any seeming non sequitur comment posts from me in the interim.

The faking scene in 'When Harry Met Sally' I reckon.

If you don't have dreams, you can't have dreams come true!

 

[rgupta]

Do not forget that if Brainchip was invested in Silicon Valley Bank it would have lost a commercially price sensitive sum of money and be obligated to make an ASX announcement.

The correct and logical conclusion if there is no announcement is that there is nothing to announce.

While I would prefer an announcement to fend off the attacks by WANCA’s the absence of any announcement means everything is AOK at Brainchip.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I assume every company on asx like wsp, life 360 already made an announcement on asx. That means others including brn who did not declare is not going to be directly effected.
So it is best to put up a full stop to these thoughts from here on.