jtardif999
Regular
You are confusing the AKD1000 chip with the Akida 1000 architecture (the IP). The chip is mostly being sold to EAPs for prototyping their designs. Our Akida 1000 IP has always been a sales objective and will continue to be. On the other hand the AKD1500 is being sold to the customers driving its design - as a chip. The AKD1500 is based on the Akida 1000 architecture with some further modifications such as removing the ARM preprocessor. The Akida 2000 architecture (like Akida 1000) will have an associated reference chip created (by the 3rd quarter this year?). The Akida 1000 and Akida 2000 architectures will be our IP sales objectives going forward. This is summed up in the description of the 3 types of IP going forward for basic, advanced and highly complex use cases. Akida 1000 is still as important as it ever was in the basic and advanced use cases. Sean is talking about the AKD1000 reference chip in the presentation, not the architecture. AIMO.Here's a verbatim print of what Sean stated during the confernce.
Virtual Investor Conference, April 13 2023
at approx. 28 mins 40 seconds.. in the Q&A
"The next one (question)…Why do you release information about the Akida 1500 - that’s the next chip, when there is no appreciable? (unintelligible) amount of sales, basically saying why are we gonna announce another chip when the 1000 hasn’t been ah uh you know not not a lot of revenue…
The 1000 is our first chip.. it um, the reason we, the first chip really is a demonstration chip and a reference chip, that’s why.
We were not leaning into making a lot of money on that. It was just to prove it so it was never intended to be a revenue stream at all, so, you know – we have sold modest amounts but it really really just a demonstration chip, more than anything else.
The 1500 we do anticipate selling some of those because ……"