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If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
This Statistica graph shows Arm's royalty unit shipments (not to be confused with total revenue or royalty revenue) at 8 billion for September 2022 quarter. I'm trying to find out what percentage of this could be attributed to Cortex M85 shipments but have been unable to find anything as yet.
Will keep looking...
AKIDA "CORTEX M-85" (hopefully) BALLISTA BABY
Arm Holdings chip shipments by quarter 2024| Statista
For the quarter ending in September 2022, Arm’s licensees reported shipments of eight billion Arm-based chips, with approximately 23 billion shipments of Arm-based chips shipped in the opening three quarters of 2022.
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Hi Beebo,
The BrainChip/SiFive agreement is couched in terms of a partnership so we may not see a licence agreement with SiFive. If it is a joint development (JD) or partnership, we would expect a share of sales income instead of licence fees and royalties, the expectation being that our share of sales income would be greater than licence fees plus royalties in the long term, but without the sugar-hit at the start.
Both companies are early stage, although SiFive is more advanced commercially.
BrainChip and SiFive Partner to Deploy AI/ML Technology at the Edge
Laguna Hills, Calif. – April 5, 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI chips and IP, and SiFive, Inc., the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, have combined their respective technologies to offer chip designers optimized AI/ML compute at the edge....
“We are pleased to partner with SiFive and have the opportunity to have our Akida technology integrated with their market-leading product offerings, creating an efficient combination for edge compute,” said Jerome Nadel, BrainChip CMO. “As we expand our ecosystem of portfolio partners, we want to be sure that these relationships are built on complementary technologies, enabling capabilities, and breadth of environments so that we can expand opportunities to as many potential customers as possible. Driving our technology into a SiFive-based subsystem is exactly the type of partnership that meets these goals.”
As far as ARM is concerned, being part of the ARM ecosystem would probably result in licences with ARM customers who chose to add Akida.
However, if ARM does produce chips with Akida, we could expect a licence unless the product is involved in a partnership or joint development.
My view on the Engineering Fees, is that BRN aren't charging the full costs to those selected Co's, just so as to get their foot in the door and keep the door and communications open indefinitely.After a few beer,
The day seem a bit better.
But here is a thought. Or conversation.
Why this quarterly so low in cash receipts. And where are the engineering fee?
It's obvious that's Brianchip hasn't signed any new customer since MegaChips directly.
But Brainchip had partnered with.......
We all know who they are. For the one who don't.(Refer to Brainchip.com.)
So in a partnership, for example;
Brainchip works with company A.
Brainchip will provide the technology, the engineering assistance and co development with Company A. Company A provide the development funding, product marketing and sales. Company A sell the product. Brainchip will receive % of the sales of products.
So in essence, Brainchip is providing the technology with engineering expertise and co development the product with Company A.
Hence, Brainchip ARE NOT receiving engineering fee from Company A. Why? Because it's a Partnership. Both company working together to develop a certain product. When completion of the product and are in the hands of customers = REVENUE & ROYALTIES.
So if this theory is on point, Revenue and Royalties will arrive from all directions.
Learning 🏖
(Just my intoxicated opinion. DYOR.)
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Agreed.
Just a snip of some of what Intellisense are involved in with Defence.
Not all pertain to us but they are well embedded as you say.
INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF: OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS | 70RSAT22C00000039 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $149,998.07 | CLOSEOUT | ||||
| 2023-01-06 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA945122C0026 Mod. P00002 | $0.00 | $499,999.00 | DIRECTED ENERGY AIMPOINT MANAGEMENT NETWORK (DEAMAN) | |||
| 2023-01-04 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W5170122C0009 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $1,099,993.68 | 873AUTHORITY SBIR PHASE II AWARD RESULTANT FROM SBIR DOD 20.2 BAA TOPIC #A220-110. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO UPDATE THE CONTRACT CLAUSES | |||
| 2023-01-03 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W911QY23P0004 Mod. 0 | $111,494.40 | $167,492.10 | SBIR PHASE I - PROPOSAL NO: A222-014-0086 | |||
| 2022-12-27 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833523C0087 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $239,986.00 | CHANGE THE TPOC TO DOUGLAS PAPENMEIER AND ALT. TPOC TO RYAN UBELHOR. UPDATE DFARS CLAUSE 252.232-7006 TO REFLECT THIS CHANGE. ALL OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS REMAIN UNCHANGED. | |||
| 2022-12-08 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W5170123C0001 Mod. 0 | $249,996.67 | $249,996.67 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS, SBIR PHASE I AWARD UNDER TOPIC: A224-015 | |||
| 2022-11-30 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W5170123C0025 Mod. 0 | $1,099,995.46 | $1,099,995.46 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS, INC. SBIR PHASE II FOR TOPIC N193-A01. | |||
| 2022-11-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833522C0381 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $239,994.00 | PI CHANGE | |||
| 2022-11-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA945122C0026 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $499,999.00 | DIRECTED ENERGY AIMPOINT MANAGEMENT NETWORK (DEAMAN) | |||
| 2022-11-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY | HQ085022C0009 Mod. P00003 | $0.00 | $249,998.00 | SBIR PHASE I - COR UPDATE MOD | |||
| 2022-11-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY | HQ085022C0009 Mod. P00004 | $0.00 | $249,998.00 | P00003 - WAWF SERVICE APPROVER UPDATE | |||
| 2022-11-23 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833523C0154 Mod. 0 | $139,997.00 | $239,993.00 | SBIR PHASE I. | |||
| 2022-11-22 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833523C0087 Mod. 0 | $139,992.00 | $239,986.00 | SBIR PHASE I | |||
| 2022-11-22 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W5170123C0028 Mod. 0 | $1,699,994.20 | $1,699,994.20 | SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PH II TOPIC A224-021, ADVANCED CIRCUIT BREAKER TECHNOLOGY FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS | |||
| 2022-11-15 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA872622C0002 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $999,998.92 | TRUSTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND RADAR (TAINCOR)PHASE II | |||
| 2022-11-08 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE ARMY | W9132T23C0003 Mod. 0 | $799,999.00 | $799,999.00 | CSO - TECHNOLOGY PILOT FOR CDC IPR U435CEI-I | |||
| 2022-11-08 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833522C0465 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $239,993.00 | RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. | |||
| 2022-11-02 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE NAVY | N6833523C0023 Mod. 0 | $139,998.00 | $239,995.00 | SBIR PHASE I. | |||
| 2022-10-14 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY | 6913G622P800030 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $149,997.17 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS SBIR PHASE I AWARD - MODIFICATION TO CHANGE COR | |||
| 2022-10-06 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA945122PA007 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $149,999.00 | COMPUTER VISION ENHANCED REFLECTANCE ANALYZER | |||
| 2022-10-04 | ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC. | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | Department of Defense (DOD): DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY | SPE8EJ21D0020 | SPE8EL22F19S6 | 1236755 | $692,955.00 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS, INC. | |
| 2022-09-30 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY | HQ085022C0009 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $249,998.00 | SBIR PHASE I INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | |||
| 2022-09-29 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA446022P0066 Mod. P00001 | $0.00 | $43,520.00 | ADVANCED MICRO WEATHER SYSTEM | |||
| 2022-09-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY | HQ085022C0009 Mod. 0 | $249,998.00 | $249,998.00 | PHASE I, INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS, INC., PERSISTENT INFRARED TRACKER FOR CLUSTERED HYPERSONIC MISSILES | |||
| 2022-09-28 | INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC | DEPT OF DEFENSE: DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE | FA446022P0066 Mod. 0 | $43,520.00 | $43,520.00 | ADVANCED MICRO WEATHER SENSOR |
Synsense originated in Zurich in 2017, probably as a Uni spin-off. They moved to China.Yes there is merit in what you are saying due to synsense and bmw comments via synsense website news in 15 April 2022. Refer link below
University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware | SynSense
Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen) SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power...www.synsense.ai
Then there is this from TSE forum in 27 Feb 22 with a potential dot join between BRN and BMW
Brainchip + BMW
Hey Folks. Since now I read a few hints that brings Akida together with BMW, but the last presentation was that obvious, that it may need an own Thread. We all saw in this presentation the racecar with its big "BMW Power" in the rear: This could have been a coincidence, because no other race...thestockexchange.com.au
I recall banter between posters on TSE linked to the above but doubt anyone will try to post links (dot joining) to convince you BRN tech is definitely in BMW upcoming EV range.
Maybe BMW have changed camps in the last 12months with exploring AI tech for their vehicles with BRN. From a quick google there doesn’t appear to be any announcement by BRN they are exploring uses of AI tech with BMW as that noted by synsense in the article above on 15 April 2022
Maybe BRN / Bmw have this under a NDA unlike synsense. Who knows but doesn’t it take a few years to develop tech into products before rolling out to customers
BRN can’t be eveywhere but BRN TSE believers like us wish it will be in BMW and many other car manufactures. Fingers crossed BRN is everywhere for us shareholders.
Zurich has always been beguiled by analog SNNs.
CN113255905A Signal processing method for neurons in spiking neural network and network training method
20210716 (only filed in China)
The invention discloses a signal processing method for neurons in a spiking neural network and a network training method. Different from a single-pulse mechanism which is commonly used at present, the multi-pulse mechanism is designed. The neuron signal processing method comprises the following steps: a receiving step: at least one neuron receives at least one path of input pulse sequence; an accumulation step: performing weighted summation based on the at least one path of input pulse sequence to obtain a membrane voltage; and an activation step: when the membrane voltage exceeds a threshold value, determining the amplitude of the pulse excited by the neuron based on the ratio of the membrane voltage to the threshold value. In order to solve the problems of time consumption and low efficiency of a training algorithm caused by an increasing configuration parameter scale, efficient training of the spiking neural network is realized through technical means such as a multi-pulse mechanism, a periodic exponential function proxy gradient and addition of a neuron active inhibition degree as loss, and low power consumption of simulated hardware can still be maintained; and the technical effects of improving the precision and the convergence speed and the like are also brought.
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Analog may be somewhat more efficient than digital SNN as they are more directly analogous to wetware, but they are problematic from the accuracy point of view, and probably not as easy to adapt for ML, because they have to add lots of voltage spikes, and the spike amplitude can vary. This also limits the "bit"-count because it needs large voltage ceilings for lots of spikes which has to be able to accommodate the number/amplitude of spikes. And they need an Analog-to-digital converter.
Bravo
If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
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I wonder if DuetscheTelekom could be the mysterious telecommunications company that's been talked about. Check out all of the partners in the Kinetic edge Alliance. I spy with my little eye Arm.
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I wonder if DuetscheTelekom could be the mysterious telecommunications company that's been talked about. Check out all of the partners in the Kinetic edge Alliance. I spy with my little eye Arm.
How is edge federation taking shape, and why is it important?
If one operator develops a robust edge computing value proposition, how does that evolve when many operators collaborate on edge federation?
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With a reference architecture created from the products and expertise of its members, built atop the foundation of the Kinetic Edge, the alliance helps organizations design, deploy and operate edge computing in the real-world.Joint Solutions
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Holding onto what I've got
Just a wild thought, we know Brainchip annouced they've join into Intel Foundry services. Would this trigger intel foundry or better yet the parent 'Intel' needing to sign a NDA so as not so siphon off akida tech into theirs (as they may be privy to some secret sauce), at that point you may as well go the full testing phase and then use it?
Hi Bravo,
The attraction of SPECK may be that it comes with built-in DVS camera, but it has a small brain, something they could no doubt remedy in Son-of-SPECK. Or maybe that's the right number of neurons for the job. Akida is over-engineered so it can deal with all eventualities.
https://www.synsense.ai/products/speck/
SPECK™
The world’s first fully event-driven neuromorphic vision SoC using the dynamic vision sensing and the spiking neural network technology.
Overview
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Speck™ is a fully event-driven neuromorphic vision SoC. Speck™ is able to support large-scale spiking convolutional neural network (sCNN) with a fully asynchronous chip architecture. Speck™ is fully configurable with the spiking neuron capacity of 320K. Furthermore, it integrates the state-of-art dynamic vision sensor (DVS) that enables fully event-driven based, real-time, highly integrated solution for varies dynamic visual scene. For classical applications, Speck™ can provide intelligence upon the scene at only mWs with a response latency in few ms.
Self Driving
Lane detection
- Sign recognition
- Driver attention tracking
- Obstacle detection
Learning
Learning to the Top 🕵♂️
In my culture their a saying;
" Release the shrimp to catch the prawn"
And totally agree, when starting a new business (SNN), got to give the discount to get the customer, before making profit.
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NOT THE BRAINCHIP QUARTERLY REPORT
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
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8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
neurotechx.com
18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
#robotics #ai #machinelearning #innovation #space #spaceaustralia #startups #growingspace “
19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
Explore the advanced features and enhanced performance of this cutting-edge platform, empowering efficient and accelerated AI processing.
brainchip.com
8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
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18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
#robotics #ai #machinelearning #innovation #space #spaceaustralia #startups #growingspace “
19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
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Very well put together ...... many thanksNOT THE BRAINCHIP QUARTERLY REPORT
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
Explore the advanced features and enhanced performance of this cutting-edge platform, empowering efficient and accelerated AI processing.
8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
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18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
#robotics #ai #machinelearning #innovation #space #spaceaustralia #startups #growingspace “
19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
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Do I detect the guiding hand of Blind Freddy??NOT THE BRAINCHIP QUARTERLY REPORT
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
Explore the advanced features and enhanced performance of this cutting-edge platform, empowering efficient and accelerated AI processing.
8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
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18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
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19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
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Nice. Appreciated.NOT THE BRAINCHIP QUARTERLY REPORT
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
Explore the advanced features and enhanced performance of this cutting-edge platform, empowering efficient and accelerated AI processing.
8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
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18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
#robotics #ai #machinelearning #innovation #space #spaceaustralia #startups #growingspace “
19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
I must've been asleep at the wheel....I don't recall reading these Ann's via CommSec?
Not that can of worms again
Well that explains why the share price fell 40% this year!NOT THE BRAINCHIP QUARTERLY REPORT
The ‘Not the Brainchip Quarterly Report’ is a document that sets out material that might have been considered for inclusion in the Brainchip Quarterly 4C Report released April, 2023 but was overlooked by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
The material contained herein is publicly available and mostly to be found on the Brainchip website.
Date: 29 April, 2023
Author: Fact Finder
Summary of Highlights from the first quarter 2023
1. SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse announced today official support for BrainChip's neural processor AI IP , making BrainChip the first strategic IP partner on the Edge Impulse platform. - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
2. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 15, 2023 / A new white paper by 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, evaluates the current state of edge AI benchmarks and the need to continually improve metrics that measure performance and efficiency of real-world, power-conscious edge AI deployments. – Tech Alert: BrainChip Showcases Compelling Benchmarks and Recommends Better Metrics for AI Devices at the Edge
3. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 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 that it has achieved tape out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries' 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip's IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip's extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries' ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.
In always-on, at-sensor use cases, Akida can completely offload feed-forward networks without the use of a CPU, which enables extremely energy efficient intelligent sensors. For other low-power embedded applications, the CPU solely performs sensor fusion processes or runs the application with Akida managing all the AI acceleration to significantly minimize CPU workload and system load, freeing up the MCU for other general-purpose computation. - BrainChip Tapes Out AKD1500 Chip in GlobalFoundries 22nm FD SOI Process
4. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 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 a partnership with AI Labs Inc. to collaborate on next-generation application development leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine.
System health monitoring is a critical use case in industrial efficiency and productivity. As machines and processes get more complex, the ability to detect anomalies, identify challenges, predict impacts and offer solutions becomes increasingly difficult. Especially when those changes are barely discernible as standard machine diagnostics or discernable to human observation. A combination of the Minsky AI Engine, smart models, and the sensory inference capabilities of BrainChip's Akida™ provides a compelling and cost-effective solution to these real-world problems.
"Minsky is the world's most easy-to-use, proprietary, enterprise-grade AI engine that does not require data scientists or software developers to model and run predictions," said Bhasker Rao, Founder of Ai Labs. "When optimized for BrainChip's neuromorphic IP platform, the resulting solution will fuel rapid growth in the industrial AIoT space. Together with BrainChip's Akida IP and MetaTF™, we can radically improve development and deployment of predictive maintenance applications, such as vibration analysis, gas sensing, temperature sensing and others, preventing costly potential failures and reducing machine downtime. This streamlines processes and increases industrial efficiency and profitability." - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
5. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 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 that it has entered into a partnership with emotion3D to demonstrate in-cabin analysis that makes driving safer and enables next level user experience.
emotion3D offers state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning software for image-based analysis of in-cabin environments. This analysis enables a comprehensive understanding of humans and objects inside a vehicle. The partnership will allow emotion3D to leverage BrainChip's technology to achieve an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning while processing everything locally on device within the vehicle to ensure data privacy.
"We are committed to setting the standard in driving safety and user experience through the development of camera-based, in-cabin understanding," says Florian Seitner, CEO at emotion3D. "In combining our in-cabin analysis software with BrainChip's on-chip compute, we are able to elevate that standard in a faster, safer and smarter way. This partnership will provide a cascading number of benefits that will continue to disrupt the mobility industry." - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
6. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 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 that Teksun has joined its Essential AI Ecosystem. The partnership will begin the process of incorporating BrainChip's neuromorphic technology into a broad range of AI-featured devices that demand efficient and cost-effective performance.
Teksun focuses on end-to-end IoT & AI product development and enables differentiated intelligent solutions, such as predictive and preventative maintenance in industrial applications, analytics and diagnostics for digital healthcare, automotive, and vision-based devices for security and surveillance, to name a few. The partnership between the two companies will demonstrate and proliferate BrainChip's technology through Teksun product development channels.
"Teksun is committed to innovation and dedicated to providing our customers with the most advanced IoT solutions," said Brijesh Kamani - Founder & CEO of Teksun. "With BrainChip's Akida processor, we will be able to deliver next-generation AIoT devices that are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before and not just meet, but exceed the expectations of our customers." - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
7. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 6, 2023 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the second generation of its Akida™ platform that drives extremely efficient and intelligent edge devices for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions and services market that is expected to be $1T+ by 2030. 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 MRI and CT scans for vital signs prediction, and time series analytics used in forecasting, and predictive 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 reduces model size and operations performed, while maintaining very high accuracy. This can shrink design cycles and dramatically lower the cost of development.
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. This powerful acceleration, combined with Akida's ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections, allows it to self-manage the execution of complex networks like RESNET-50 completely in the neural processor without CPU intervention and minimizes system load.
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 form factor devices like hearable and wearable devices, that take raw audio input, medical devices for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and other vitals that consume only microwatts of power. This can scale up to HD-resolution vision solutions delivered through high-value, battery-operated or fanless devices enabling a wide variety of applications from surveillance systems to factory management and augmented reality to scale effectively.
"We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device, intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices," said Roger Wendelken, Senior Vice President in Renesas' IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. "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. With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few."
"Advancements in AI require parallel advancements in on-device learning capabilities while simultaneously overcoming the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and latency," said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "BrainChip has demonstrated the ability to create a truly intelligent edge with Akida and moves the needle even more in terms of how Edge AI solutions are developed and deployed. The benefits of on-chip AI from a performance and cost perspective are hard to deny." - BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
By following the link herein you can access all of the independent semiconductor testimonials that accompanied the release of the Second-Generation Akida Platform:
BrainChip Introduces Second-Generation Akida Platform
Explore the advanced features and enhanced performance of this cutting-edge platform, empowering efficient and accelerated AI processing.
8. LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 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 will showcase its Akida™ platform for next-generation edge AI at Embedded World 2023, March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. BrainChip will exhibit in booth 2-238 at the TinyML pavilion and also have a presence in partner booths such as Edge Impulse.
Akida processors power next-generation edge AI in a range of industrial, home, automotive, and scientific environments. Akida's fully digital, customizable, event-based neural processor and IP is ideal for advanced AI/ML devices such as intelligent sensors, medical devices, high-end video-object detection, and ADAS/autonomous systems. Akida's neuromorphic architecture delivers high performance with extreme energy efficiency that enables partners to deliver AI solutions previously not possible on battery-operated or fan-less embedded, edge devices. Akida also has a unique ability to learn on device in a secure fashion, without need for cloud retraining. - Media Alert: BrainChip Demonstrates Edge AI Processing at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg
9. 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 the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for next-generation intelligent edge devices.
Arm Cortex-M85 delivers the highest levels of performance in the Arm Cortex-M family. It enables system developers to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs for IoT and embedded applications that require enhanced digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Use cases include smart home devices, robotics, and drone control, secured system controllers and sensor hubs. By successfully demonstrating Akida's capabilities with the Arm Cortex-M85 in a fully functioning environment, BrainChip paves the way for a new generation of intelligent edge devices that are capable of delivering unprecedented levels of performance and functionality, built on leading-edge technology from Arm.
"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." - BrainChip integrates Akida with Arm Cortex-M85 Processor, Unlocking AI Capabilities for Edge Devices
10. 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, joins the Edge Impulse ML Series as a Platinum Partner to showcase advanced edge machine learning innovation with an audience of invite-only guests.
The exclusive series features six one-day, in-person events that explore the benefits of edge machine learning, ways to differentiate products with embedded intelligence and how to deliver value in less time while lowering operating costs using AI tools like Edge Impulse. Each event features keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, customer success stories, insights on deploying ML solutions at scale and live demonstrations.
At Edge Impulse ML events, BrainChip presents “Edge AI: Ready When You Are!” The keynote addresses AI’s promise to provide new capabilities, efficiencies and economic growth, all with the potential for improving the human condition. There are numerous challenges to delivering on this promise, particularly the need for performant, secure edge AI. BrainChip will highlight the readiness of the industry to deliver edge AI and the path to its imminent transition. - Media Alert: BrainChip Illustrates AIoT Readiness at the Edge Impulse ML Series
11. 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 that Intellisense Systems Inc. has selected its neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP). Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability." - BrainChip's Neuromorphic Technology Enables Intellisense Systems to Address Needs for Next-Generation Cognitive Radio Solutions
12. 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, and Blue Ridge Envisioneering (BRE), an engineering specialist serving the defense and intelligence communities, today announced a collaboration to support advanced decision-making applications for broad range of tactical devices.
BRE, a Black Signal Technologies company, will integrate BrainChip AkidaTM processors in a variety of high performance applications.
Tactical devices such as these are deployed where they have restrictive thermal requirements and limited access to power yet are required to operate efficiently. Akida’s ability to perform data processing, including AI/ML tasks at the edge, and its power-conserving neuromorphic design makes its utility in military and intelligence settings a potential breakthrough.
“Almost all conventional Deep Neural Networks are developed to run on power-hungry GPUs that strain power systems and generate a significant amount of heat; when data must be processed in real-time on a remote device, the challenge for hardware developers is immense,” said Stefan Moritz, BRE. “BrainChip’s Akida will be useful for tactical devices that ingest sensor data and use AI/ML to improve decision- making.” - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices
13. Technology Virtual Investor Conference: Presentations Now Available for Online Viewing
(CEO Sean Hehir’s presentation to the conference is available through the above link.)
14. April 26, 2023 – BrainChip took top honors at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, German. VDC Research created the award to recognize those companies that make the most important advances in the IoT and embedded software, hardware, and services industries.
BrainChip took the award for IP. The Akida 2nd Generation Platform supports the embedded AI processor market and is sure to drive groundbreaking progress in the industry, particularly at the far Edge. More complex networks like RESNET-50 can be processed by Akida without CPU intervention and the platform supports 8-bit weights to go with existing 4,2,1 bit support. Akida also adds an efficient vision transformer implementation for acceleration and can handle 3D data for applications like video object detection and target tracking as well as 1D time series data for streaming data on devices with limited memory, battery, and compute resources. - https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023/04/vdc-awards-brainchip-an-embeddy-award-at-embedded-world-2023/
15. LAGUANA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / 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 that it will be joining partners Prophesee, Socionext, and VVDN January 5-8 at CES to showcase compelling solutions on constrained edge devices, featuring its Akida™ processors. Akida processors simplify development by supporting today's mainstream network models and workflows while being future-proofed for next-generation edge AI solutions.
BrainChip joins Prophesee at The Venetian Hotel as part of a technology showcase highlighting Prophesee's Metavision® platform. BrainChip partners with Prophesee to optimize computer vision AI performance and efficiency to deliver next-generation platforms for OEMs interested in integrating event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
BrainChip joins Socionext in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility Zone, located in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall in Booth 10654. Socionext will be showcasing its leading-edge technologies and solutions in automotive imaging, AI, and smart sensing to help customers develop feature rich custom SoCs that enable product differentiation with an added competitive edge. Socionext has played an important role in the implementation of BrainChip's AI technology in SoCs and the companies are working together to satisfy the need for AI in edge computing. As part of this showcase, BrainChip will be highlighting its functionality with NVISO's human-behavior software designed for the automotive in-cabin environment.
VVDN Technologies has more than a decade of experience in product engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions. VVDN offers a value proposition by being a one-stop shop for customers by offering complete hardware, software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. The company's focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Cloud and Apps. To enable the same, BrainChip will be highlighting its industry leading technology at the VVDN Technologies Booth 10870 at CES developing opportunities for next generation products. - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brainchip-joins-technology-partners-during-170000207.html
16. 2023 – TATA CONSULTING SERVICES CONTINUE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAINCHIP AND RECEIVE CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL WORK BY ANIL MANKAR VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -
Sounak Dey
Senior Scientist, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Network, TCS Research
Emergence of small satellites for earth observation missions has opened up new horizons for space research but at the same time posed newer challenges of limited power and compute resource arising out of the size & weight constraints imposed by these satellites. In our paper, titled "Low Power & Low Latency Cloud Cover Detection in Small Satellites Using On-board Neuromorphic Processors", accepted at #IJCNN 2023, a premier AI conference, we have shown how a multistage CNN trained on multispectral Earth observation images for Cloud Cover Detection, can be converted into an SNN using the CNN2SNN conversion toolkit of Brainchip. Further, the converted SNN running on AKIDA neuromorphic platform can achieve 95.46% accuracy while power consumption and latency are found to be upto 230x & 7x more efficient than the CNN running on a Jetson TX2.
Thanks to all the co-authors Chetan Kadway Arijit Mukherjee Dr. Arpan Pal and a special thanks to Gilles Bézard and BrainChip without whose active support this work would not have been successful. Tata Consultancy Services - Research #SNN #NeuromorphicComputing
17. QUANTUM VENTURA CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH INTO NEUROMORPHIC SNN COMPUTING AND HOW BRAINCHIPS AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAY BE UTILISED WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS SUPPORTING THE PUBLISHED FINDINGS BY TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, EDGE IMPULSE & NVISO THAT AKD1000 OUT PERFORMS GPU’S BOTH ON COST, PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION:
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18. BRAINCHIP’S AKIDA TECHNOLOGY MAKES AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE REPAIR ROBOTS POSSIBLE AND Gilles BEZARD FROM BRAINCHIP’S FRENCH OFFICE SHARED ANT61s SOCIAL MEDIA POST:
“ A neuromorphic chip inspired by the human mind? It seems like a concept from a sci-fi novel, yet it's the perfect core for our cutting-edge space robot!
In 2025, we plan to launch our repair robot to orbit. Akin to the skilled droids from Star Wars, it will be repairing a spacecraft. Our robot needs an AI-driven brain that surpasses the limitations of current technology to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum of space.
We needed something exceptional.
We teamed up with BrainChip , the pioneers behind the neuromorphic Akida AI chip. This cutting-edge chip enables our robots to perceive and interact with their surroundings in space, learning in the process.
Our robot's brain, powered by this groundbreaking technology, is set to launch into orbit in January 2024 aboard the Space Machines Company spacecraft. Once there, we will refine our robot's vision system, training with a video feed directly from the satellite's cameras.
Working with the Brainchip team on this mission was a great pleasure! They supported us along the way, providing their chips and engineering advice.
In the coming weeks, we'll tell you more about the chip's capabilities and what we had to do to space-qualify our system.
Stay in touch.
#robotics #ai #machinelearning #innovation #space #spaceaustralia #startups #growingspace “
19. BRAINCHIP UPS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN ON 2 MARCH, 2023 WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUTOSHI YAMAZAKI AS ITS COUNTRY HEAD, JAPAN. Mr. Yamazaki has a distinguished career having served as:
VP & GM at LeapMind Inc Efficiera Division, VP & GM at Blueoil Division, Director ARM Japan, Market Development Manager, Manager Sales & then Director of Sales Broadcom Limited Japan and Marketing Manager InfineonTechnologies.
WARNING: As this report was constructed from publicly available material it should be read as likely not to be comprehensive of everything achieved by the Board and Management of Brainchip during first quarter 2023 as they have publicly stated they are not permitted to talk about the bulk of their customer engagements as a result of non disclosure agreements. Therefore the above entirely factual list should not be relied upon for any purpose particularly not for valuing Brainchip as any valuation that is arrived at without all the relevant material is likely to be highly inaccurate.
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I have to confess that im coming at an age where i write myself notes but i have a bit of a diary addiction where i have more then one diary for the same year be it like a daily diary or a weekly diary and then there is my phone diary. But then in my phone disry i write advance notes to remind me on the day why i wrote it such as this one below!
At the time it appears 25 April i read something so interesting that it provoked me to jot in my phone diary with not one but two exclamations and i don't even own Tesla shares. Now why did i do this!? Time will tell if my suspicions are founded and in which note pad im referrimg to !
lol I vaguely remember thinking it was worthy of me diarising this event.
And yes i wrote it as i believe it relates to brainchip down the track. my opinion and im sticking to what ever my thoughts were on 25th april! 
At the time it appears 25 April i read something so interesting that it provoked me to jot in my phone diary with not one but two exclamations and i don't even own Tesla shares. Now why did i do this!? Time will tell if my suspicions are founded and in which note pad im referrimg to !
lol I vaguely remember thinking it was worthy of me diarising this event.
And yes i wrote it as i believe it relates to brainchip down the track. my opinion and im sticking to what ever my thoughts were on 25th april!
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love it! Akida Ballista baby !
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