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[TechGirl]

After Teksun stated on their website that we are working with Toshiba, thought I would do a little digging.

Toshihide Fujiyoshi is the Project Manage from MegaChips & he reposted the press release - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in Global Foundries 22nm FD SOI.

But before he joined MegaChips he worked at Toshiba for 17 years & 9 months

 

[Diogenese]

And since the joint research centre initiative between Cisco and Brainchip Cisco seemed inevitable particularly where intelligent router security was concerned.

Toshiba has occasionally been a dot and at one point in the distant past I think Tech hinted at Toshiba as a possibility.

I personally would be surprised if Teksun used CHATGpt as they would know Brainchip is partnered with ARM, SiFive and Intel and why would you not check the content and it would stick out like the proverbial that they were not included.

I personally have no reason to doubt Teksun.

My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA

This had dropped off my LidaR:

https://brainchip.com/brainchip-and...ng-neural-adaptive-processor-snap-technology/

BrainChip signs an agreement with the Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Center to demonstrate BrainChip’s SNAP technology​

Highlights

• BrainChip signs an agreement with the Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Center to demonstrate BrainChip’s SNAP technology;
• The first demonstration will commence in December of 2016 and showcase traffic monitoring and advanced analysis capabilities;
• A second demonstration focusing on an in-vehicle camera for hazard detection and road safety is also being developed as part of the agreement

ALISO VIEJO, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/02/16 — BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BRN), (“BrainChip” or “the Company”), a leading developer of software and hardware accelerated solutions for Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications, is pleased to announce that it has signed a collaboration agreement with the Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Center (CIIC) to develop a series of demonstrations utilizing BrainChip’s Spiking Neuron Adaptive Processor (SNAP) technology.

CIIC is an industry and research collaboration center at Curtin University, established by Cisco with foundation partners Curtin University and Woodside Energy Limited. With access to advanced facilities and a global industry network, the CIIC is designed to build and foster innovation in an open environment to solve industry problems.

The first demonstration will showcase traffic monitoring and advanced analysis capabilities that will capitalize on the strength of the SNAP technology.

The SNAP Advantage

BrainChip’s SNAP technology can quickly learn, recognize and track complex objects in real time from multiple sources, such as video camera feeds.

The SNAP technology provides users a significant edge in a wide range of applications. Current traffic management systems must collect and store data, which then needs to be analyzed either manually or using an algorithm. This is a multi-stage process. In contrast, SNAP has the ability to perform the analysis on a single chip or circuit board with little instruction, making a SNAP-based solution significantly cheaper and faster to implement and maintain.

Demonstration One: Traffic Modeling and Advanced Analysis

Using SNAP technology, a computing platform connected to cameras placed at key locations on roads, end users can automatically:

• Identify vehicle types
• Count and categorize all vehicles
• Detect pedestrians
• Automatically produce real time traffic reports

The demonstration will include lab and field trials that will demonstrate the benefits of the BrainChip SNAP technology.

Demonstration Two: In-Vehicle Camera Solution

BrainChip is also developing an in-vehicle platform utilizing the SNAP technology, leveraging Cisco’s products where applicable, to perform three types of information processing:

• Positioning will use GPS information to record the location and speed of vehicles
• Computer Vision for road sign identification and detection, pedestrian detection, object detection in front of the vehicle and alarm generation to alert the driver
• Data Analytics to create a driving report that will contain locations traveled, speed of the vehicle and objects detected on the journey.

Back in 2016, they were using BrainChip SNAP. It would be interesting to compare it to its great-great grandchild.

 

[Bravo]

Greetings Earthlings,

Cisco is a no-brainer IMO because we've already worked with Cisco (and NASA and Amason and Lockheed Martin) IN OUTER SPACE in a collaboration that resulted in a new technology, christened, “Callisto" which also incorporated Cisco’s Webex communications.

Thanks to a yet undiclosed technology, otherwise known as AKIDA IMO.

 

[Diogenese]

Wow,

Massive.


Cisco was always a possibility.

Toshiba is plausible.

Linaro looks good too and have a strong ARM connection:

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Already a great day and still got the podcast to listen to!

Interesting that Linaro refer to standardization and BrainChip have just announced Akida gen 2 has 8-bit compatibility, which all the big boys are talking about, and somewhere there was a reference to Akida gen 2 having 8-bit model libraries/weights and 4-bit activations.

 

[Bravo]

Check out this "vineyard pest monitoring" which is a "must-have" for any vineyard to install incase I come visit. But, on a serious note, it says here "using Edge Impulse for machine learning, so it could feasibly include AKIDA IP IMO.

 

[Calsco]

I like these two parts in the podcast

- Edge AI is about to explode
- Sean stating to watch this space very soon regarding transformers.

 

[Bravo]

Linaro + Arm + Qualcomm.

Who just said "ecosystems very are important"?

 

[TechGirl]

After Teksun stated on their website that we are working with Toshiba, thought I would do a little digging.

Toshihide Fujiyoshi is the Project Manage from MegaChips & he reposted the press release - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in Global Foundries 22nm FD SOI.

But before he joined MegaChips he worked at Toshiba for 17 years & 9 months

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And a few interesting people have liked it the repost to

Principal Software Engineer | MCSD | Azure | .NET | gRPC
Lead investigator - Victorian Government
Senior Partner Manager - Arm
Customer Success Manager - Cloud Architect at IBM
Australian Army at Defence force
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAxZ0dQBsW6wvYEzrN0H6ZEXBoZL-o1u-4w

 

[DingoBorat]

If it's under NDA?

Then they can't comment..

 

[Diogenese]

I watched this and ......

Well, .... for Brainchip stockholders such as myself, the Synaptics interview was unsettling. Starting at the 3 hour 52 minute mark it is remarkably what I imagine a Brainchip interview might sound like. Certainly I must be missing something in my understanding of the 3 year abvantage Brainchip says they have over the competition which I imagine Synaptics would be considered to be. Synaptics sure looks like they are a formibable competetitor.

I would love to see an interview with Anil Mankar commenting on a review of the Synoptics interview minute by minute.

Anyone else care to comment on the Synaptics segment? Regards, dippY

Hi Dippy,

I haven't watched the video, but my records show that, in 2019, Synaptics were using a software NN:

US11076080B2 Under-display image sensor for eye tracking 2019-12-05

A method for eye tracking is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first image captured by a first camera based at least in part on reflections of light emitted by a light source. The reflections may be partially occluded by an electronic display disposed in front of the first camera. The method may further include detecting an eye of a user in the partially occluded first image and determining a position or orientation of the eye relative to the electronic display.

[030] ... In some embodiments, a neural network model (e.g., a convolutional neural network (CNN)) or other algorithm may be used to filter out noise or interference, such as a “screen door effect,” from the occlusions by the display pixels and/or display subpixels. The resulting image may be used for eye tracking or other applications.

[0120] For example, the processor 1120 may execute the image filtering SW module 1132 to filter images received via the camera interfaces 1114 and/or 1116 . In executing the image filtering SW module 1132 , the processor 1120 may use the neural network model 1133 or other algorithm to filter, reduce, or eliminate noise (such as a screen door effect) or interference from images received via the camera interfaces 1114 and/or 1116 .

Is there anything in the video which suggests a hardware digital SNN?

 

[Bravo]

Like I said, it's a no-brainer.

 

[FrederikSchack]

Can we put competitors to bed with the following extract:

“Currently existing neuromorphic architectures include
• IBM TrueNorth,
• Intel Loihi,
• Tianjic,
• SpiNNaker,
• BrainScaleS,
• NeuronFlow,
• DYNAP, and
• Akida.

Some of the above architectures are fully neuromorphic [31,32], while other remain hybrid, meaning that they use asynchronous circuits together with synchronous proces- sors [33,34].

Despite the field being still in its infancy, the first commercial neuromorphic processor was made available worldwide in August 2021. It is Akida from Australian company BrainChip. Unfortunately, these hardware platforms are very expensive at the time of writing and (apart from Akida) not feasibly available.”

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/6/3037/pdf

My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA

We could add Synsense, Hailo and Rain. Maybe Qualcomm?

I think NeuronFlow isn't a company, it's GrAI Matter that makes NeuronFlow.

How many of those sell IP blocks (crucial to IoT and AIoT) that is implementable in other chips?

How many of them do Vision Transformers and TENN?

How many have one shot learning?

I think we will not have much direct competition for some years at least.

 

[robsmark]

Then they can't comment..

I think that would depend on how the NDA was written. It could be that once the initiator (let’s assume that is the client) has broken the NDA, then it become obsolete.

I’m keen to see the companies response here.

 

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[TECH]

I think that would depend on how the NDA was written. It could be that once the initiator (let’s assume that is the client) has broken the NDA, then it become obsolete.

I’m keen to see the companies response here.

The Director of Global IR would probably be flooded with emails today, not from me though.

I was told that once Mercedes mentioned us at last years CES we could comment, as the NDA had in fact appeared to have been ........
but this comment turned out to be false.

I expect that one line on Teksuns website will be removed, lets see, that way the company aren't required to make any comment
and nor is Teksun.

My view only.

 

[Steve10]

In April, 2018 BRN announced Bager of Southern California as exclusive sale representative for southern California.

BrainChip Inks Bager Southern California as Exclusive Sales Representative for Southern California

BrainChip Inks Bager Southern California as Exclusive Sales Representative for Southern California April 18, 2018

brainchip.com

Bager Southern California has been in business since 1980 and has increased its sales every year, including during the major downturns in the semiconductor industry. It has three sales offices, located in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. BrainChip adds to Bager’s prestigious line card, which already includes premier high technology companies such as Toshiba, Delta Electronics, Epson, and Lattice Semiconductor to name just a few. Bager’s unprecedented longevity equates to deep ties with all of the major OEMs in the region.

Bager might be the link between BRN & Toshiba.

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Jason George from Bager liked the Akida Gen 2 article.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-george-03b49ba?trk=org-employees

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[Yoda]

Share price aside (which is a temporary malaise) I'd say things are going pretty well wouldn't you? It's increasingly clear that Brainchip's ambition for Akida to be the ubiquitous standard is slowing taking shape. Can there really be any doubt of substantial, I mean really substantial, revenue in the not-so-distant future? We can all see that on the horizon right? I certainly want to be around for that and confess I've even bought some more.

 

[stuart888]

Share price aside (which is a temporary malaise) I'd say things are going pretty well wouldn't you? It's increasingly clear that Brainchip's ambition for Akida to be the ubiquitous standard is slowing taking shape. Can there really be any doubt of substantial, I mean really substantial, revenue in the not-so-distant future? We can all see that on the horizon right? I certainly want to be around for that and confess I've even bought some more.

Happy times for Spiking Smarts, yeah Brainchip!