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Socionext isn't a partner, but on a more positive note our website shows a couple of new names: CVEDIA and Quantum Ventura.

It's actually a little confusing (or perhaps deliberately obscure) what the true relationship is.
I think we are both a 'customer" of sorts, but also a partner, the ecosystem way similar to Arm and IFS.


BrainChip Receives Akida Chips from Socionext America

"The chips were manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from a production mask set provided in May 2021. This mask set follows the successful production of engineering samples from the Company’s Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and the subsequent delivery of evaluation boards."

"[Socionext America] supported all assembly and test operations for the Akida devices, including a review of the TSMC Process Control Monitoring (PCM) data, assembly, device electrical testing, and simulation correlation."



BrainChip and Socionext Provide a New Low-Power Artificial Intelligence Platform for AI Edge Applications

"Socionext Inc., a leader in advanced SoC solutions for video and imaging systems, will offer customers an Artificial Intelligence Platform that includes the Akida SoC, an ultra-low power high performance AI technology."
 
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buena suerte :-)

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It's actually a little confusing (or perhaps deliberately obscure) what the true relationship is.
I think we are both a 'customer" of sorts, but also a partner, the ecosystem way similar to Arm and IFS.


BrainChip Receives Akida Chips from Socionext America

"The chips were manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from a production mask set provided in May 2021. This mask set follows the successful production of engineering samples from the Company’s Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and the subsequent delivery of evaluation boards."

"[Socionext America] supported all assembly and test operations for the Akida devices, including a review of the TSMC Process Control Monitoring (PCM) data, assembly, device electrical testing, and simulation correlation."



BrainChip and Socionext Provide a New Low-Power Artificial Intelligence Platform for AI Edge Applications

"Socionext Inc., a leader in advanced SoC solutions for video and imaging systems, will offer customers an Artificial Intelligence Platform that includes the Akida SoC, an ultra-low power high performance AI technology."
Thanks Damo ...yep a bit confusing? this is from their website .......

Advanced AI Solutions for Automotive​

Socionext has partnered with artificial intelligence provider BrainChip to develop optimized, intelligent sensor data solutions based on Brainchip’s Akida® processor IP. ???
 
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It's actually a little confusing (or perhaps deliberately obscure) what the true relationship is.
I think we are both a 'customer" of sorts, but also a partner, the ecosystem way similar to Arm and IFS.


BrainChip Receives Akida Chips from Socionext America

"The chips were manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from a production mask set provided in May 2021. This mask set follows the successful production of engineering samples from the Company’s Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and the subsequent delivery of evaluation boards."

"[Socionext America] supported all assembly and test operations for the Akida devices, including a review of the TSMC Process Control Monitoring (PCM) data, assembly, device electrical testing, and simulation correlation."



BrainChip and Socionext Provide a New Low-Power Artificial Intelligence Platform for AI Edge Applications

"Socionext Inc., a leader in advanced SoC solutions for video and imaging systems, will offer customers an Artificial Intelligence Platform that includes the Akida SoC, an ultra-low power high performance AI technology."
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Very complicated!

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No April Fool !!

For mine, it’s not confusing what our battler’s relationship is all about with Socionext. The following comes from my 1 April’23 post about the three year rule regarding integrating new technology into finished products…

“ In June 2019 (almost FOUR years ago) our battler signed an agreement with Socionext. Almost four years ago, Vice President Noriaki Kubo said…’we are excited to join Brainchip in the design, development and introduction of Akida SoC…bringing AI to edge applications is a major industry development, and also a strategic application segment for Socionext‘. Ten months later in April 2020 (THREE years ago) Mr Kubo added the words COMMERCIAL PARTNERS to how Socionext saw their relationship with our battler. Mr Kubo remains VP of Socionext to this very day.

Me myself personally thinks Socionext is the sleeper in the pack !!! “

It is no surprise to me that Socionext, a commercial partner of four years and a company that back then considered bringing AI to edge applications as a major industry development, and also a strategic application segment for Socionext, is about to bring home the Akida bacon.

For mine, the bacon is also about to be served by other partners mentioned in my 1 April 2023 post…namely Valeo, Ford, Magik Eye, Vorago, NASA, Renasas and Megachips.

Ahh…the smell of sizzling bacon…even better than a democracy sausage !!
 
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HopalongPetrovski

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It's actually a little confusing (or perhaps deliberately obscure) what the true relationship is.
I think we are both a 'customer" of sorts, but also a partner, the ecosystem way similar to Arm and IFS.


BrainChip Receives Akida Chips from Socionext America

"The chips were manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from a production mask set provided in May 2021. This mask set follows the successful production of engineering samples from the Company’s Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and the subsequent delivery of evaluation boards."

"[Socionext America] supported all assembly and test operations for the Akida devices, including a review of the TSMC Process Control Monitoring (PCM) data, assembly, device electrical testing, and simulation correlation."



BrainChip and Socionext Provide a New Low-Power Artificial Intelligence Platform for AI Edge Applications

"Socionext Inc., a leader in advanced SoC solutions for video and imaging systems, will offer customers an Artificial Intelligence Platform that includes the Akida SoC, an ultra-low power high performance AI technology."
I have formed the opinion that BrainChip is content atm to just leave things pretty much on the downlow.

Their energy and focus being on the people and places of influence and confluence in our industry.
The education facilities, the conferences and workshops afforded importance and attended by our peers (and want-to-be peers) in associated industries.

We are still very much a wannabe and we need to show that we can be a serious player, with commercial nous, stable and innovative tech and reliable backup when things go pear shaped.

Whilst we are still traversing this sort of never never land on the path to commercialisation they are happy to keep flying under the radar, kicking goals where they can and gradually embedding themselves into the fabric of as many eco-systems as possible.

We are establishing our credentials and still doing the hard yards around the traps, as any growing business must, winning some, losing some, enduring the sometimes slow and tedious task of introducing something new.

There is laggard resistance inherent in ingrained systems which needs to be overcome or sometimes merely waited out.

At the same time as we are cementing our place in the coming present, we are continuing development of our product with an eye to the future.
Very much that duck on the water, unseen legs beating the path to success.

Hopefully most of the tax year selling concluded now and is looking far more like "normal" trading today.
Would be nice to enjoy a slow steady climb back up towards a more realistic level before the Akida's to come.

GLTAH
 
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Unfortunately I have to disappoint you, the SC1260 does not contain Akida according to socionext.

 
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Perhaps a silly or naive question. But how do we know we are part of this and that ChatGPT doesn't come with other goodies, which would make us irrelevant?

Friendly fire only, I am generally insterested to know and don't have time to read every single comment here.
 
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We need I.P sales don't we
 

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Day traders and fans of Disney’s Frozen move on, nothing to see here…

Brainchip’s former CEO Louis DiNardo has been quoted many times as having said
“In our case, what we are finding is a sweet spot in LiDAR environment”
(quote according to the following transcript of the March 26, 2020 Market and Product Development Update: https://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network275603.html)

We also know that NASA is quite enamoured with Brainchip.

So I reckon chances are good we could be involved in ELSA, the “Europa LiDAR Sensor Assembly” (being developed by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory), which is part of the Europa Lander project, “a concept for a potential future mission that would look for signs of life in the icy surface material of Jupiter's moon Europa.”

The mission is planned for early next decade and would obviously not generate much revenue by itself, but as you all know, a lot of applications originally developed by NASA for use in space later ended up as terrestrial applications and products.

And then of course there would be the prestige of having repeatedly been validated as “out of this world” by NASA, although by the time the Europa lander will navigate its way through the asteroid belt, many a WANCA will have become a believer anyway…


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There is also a November 2022 webcast, in case you would like to find out more about that space mission and ELSA in particular:


Research carried out at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory is quite intriguing for BRN shareholders in general, I’d say. Have a look at their newly released annual report from which the above pages about ELSA were copied:

 
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Ready for a breakthrough in semiconductor technology? Samsung Electronics has just unveiled their groundbreaking AI-focused foundry vision that'll revolutionize the chip industry at their event today. Here's a quick break down of the big news:
• Transaction-level Machine Learning (TLML) technology, a far-reaching neural network-based machine learning technology designed to unleash the full potential of high-performance, low-power applications.
• TRANSISTOR-AIDED DESIGN (TAD), allowing designers to automatically customize components on the transistor level to speed up chip development processes.
• Na FLOW, a software package designed to significantly reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to design and manufacture semiconductors.

 
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Ready for a breakthrough in semiconductor technology? Samsung Electronics has just unveiled their groundbreaking AI-focused foundry vision that'll revolutionize the chip industry at their event today. Here's a quick break down of the big news:
• Transaction-level Machine Learning (TLML) technology, a far-reaching neural network-based machine learning technology designed to unleash the full potential of high-performance, low-power applications.
• TRANSISTOR-AIDED DESIGN (TAD), allowing designers to automatically customize components on the transistor level to speed up chip development processes.
• Na FLOW, a software package designed to significantly reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to design and manufacture semiconductors.

Lots of competition out there. Hopefully we can maintain our lead that they say we have.
 
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Day traders and fans of Disney’s Frozen move on, nothing to see here…

Brainchip’s former CEO Louis DiNardo has been quoted many times as having said
“In our case, what we are finding is a sweet spot in LiDAR environment”
(quote according to the following transcript of the March 26, 2020 Market and Product Development Update: https://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network275603.html)

We also know that NASA is quite enamoured with Brainchip.

So I reckon chances are good we could be involved in ELSA, the “Europa LiDAR Sensor Assembly” (being developed by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory), which is part of the Europa Lander project, “a concept for a potential future mission that would look for signs of life in the icy surface material of Jupiter's moon Europa.”

The mission is planned for early next decade and would obviously not generate much revenue by itself, but as you all know, a lot of applications originally developed by NASA for use in space later ended up as terrestrial applications and products.

And then of course there would be the prestige of having repeatedly been validated as “out of this world” by NASA, although by the time the Europa lander will navigate its way through the asteroid belt, many a WANCA will have become a believer anyway…


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There is also a November 2022 webcast, in case you would like to find out more about that space mission and ELSA in particular:


Research carried out at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory is quite intriguing for BRN shareholders in general, I’d say. Have a look at their newly released annual report from which the above pages about ELSA were copied:

... but the laser will melt the ice ...


China syndrome all over again ...
 
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Unfortunately I have to disappoint you, the SC1260 does not contain Akida according to socionext.



You’ve lost me mate - where specifically does it say, or imply that Akida IP is not engrained in this chip?
 
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