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[Frangipani]

Exactly we are boxed in with Arm "integrated" This is exactly why this slide shows the way it is! Drink on me @Frangipani for making me dance all weekend. I think I will copy and frame this slide and place into my Brainchip box of treasures.

Chère MDhere,

while I am glad to hear that my post contributed to you having had an exhilarating weekend, I honestly don’t deserve all that gratitude and will pass it on to @chapman89 instead, as I believe he was the first one who drew our attention to that slide in early October and also sought clarification from Rob Telson on its interpretation. All I did was to repost another screenshot of that slide along with the link to Zach Shelby’s presentation, to make others aware it is now online.

Cheers,
Frangipani

 

[Labsy]

Yep management sure are trying to influence the budgies here with there special little meetings of a few of the brainwashed,if they can keep them singing the can’t wait till next quarter song,maybe just maybe they may be able to convince investors that they should keep us on as I’m sure that’s the only reason. We’ll just maybe they were the only ones stupid enough to continue to listen to the bullshit without throwing their shoes at them(a form of great insult in some political circles). Ever week that goes by is’ not closer to an announcement,it closer to bankruptcy sack the bludgers I say should have happen last AGM. Except the agm was full of happy clappers,sheep

Honestly, you are tremendously invested emotionally. it can't be good for your mental and physical well being. It's so much easier to just sell your holding and move on, rather than ramble about "bullshit this" and "sack the bludges" that... Im exausted reading your garbage. The beauty of the stock market. It's liquid. Sell up pall and move on if you've got the balls. I dare ya.

 

[Easytiger]

I don’t know who was in the group. I am taking a stab at who it may have been and I don’t read all the posts here daily to keep up though.

Tbh BRN Investor Relations have confirmed recently that over 40+ companies were still actively engaged in either 1000 or 1500…before 2.0 was out. Some of those are not small companies so unless Investor relations are flat out lying then Brainchip have a lot of projects and partners underway.

I know lack of detail is highly frustrating for sure.

With that many engagements and MB not afraid to say they have Brainchip in their POC, some things has to give up revenue in time.

What I don’t get is if we have 40+ companies still actively engaged in either 1000 or 1500 and then 2.0 built based on customer feedback, then how can the response to the ASX speeding ticket say that the company is not aware of any information concerning the share price increase.

It appears that a whole bunch of stuff is happening and advancing to commercialise and at the same time nothing is happening.

How does this reconcile?

 

[Mazewolf]

Paper offers perspective on future of brain-inspired AI as Python code library passes major milestone

Four years ago, UC Santa Cruz's Jason Eshraghian developed a Python library that combines neuroscience with artificial intelligence to create spiking neural networks, a machine learning method that takes inspiration from the brain's ability to efficiently process data. Now, his open source code...

techxplore.com

New paper. Article mentions Discord and Slack channels discussing neuromorphic tech...

 

[Galaxycar]

no Need to argue,quiet like the gif myself, I’ll just wait till the day after the next AGM I’ll get to cuddle you all back positive of that fact as every day passes. Not long to wait for the last laugh. Tic toc

 

[BigDonger101]

Are people really this naïve lol?

As always, I do understand the frustration and patience wearing a bit thin...

I do think that half of the people who are complaining about things they have no control over, would also be complaining about any stock they held which was down. You're not the only people who are having a tough time in these market conditions lol.

Just to give you a few example of highs during the Covid boom to the current lows now... (Please note these are not intra-day highs. Only EOD rough estimate highs)

IMU: High: 60 cents Low: 3.9 cents Today: 8.9 cents - Down 85% from high to todays finish.
ZIP: High: 14 dollars Low: 25 cents Today: 41 cents - Down 97% from high to todays finish.
IBX: High: 23 cents Low: 1 cents Today: .8 cents - Down 96.5% from high to todays finish.
POD: High: 81 cents Low: 2.9 cents Today: 3.6 cents - Down 95.6% from high to todays finish.
VR1: High: 27 cents Low: 2.5 cents Today: 2.7 cents - Down 90% from high to todays finish.
PBH: High: 16 dollars Low: 68.5 cents Today: 76 cents - Down 95% from high to todays finish.
OIL: High: 44 cents Low: 7.2 cents Today: 10 cents - Down 77.3% from high to todays finish.
NVX: High: 12 dollars Low: 61.5 cents Today: 73.5 cents - Down 94% from high to todays finish.
VUL: High: 16 dollars Low: 2.05 dollars Today: 2.42 dollars - Down 85% from high to todays finish.
SZL: High: 420 dollars Low: 9 dollars Today: 14.7 dollars - Down 96.5% from high to todays finish.

BRN High: 2.10 dollars Low: 14.5 cents Today: 18.5 cents - Down 92% from high to todays finish. (Yes we had a $2.34 intraday high but did not close at $2.34 - Just clarifying before someone comments this.)

this is only to name a few. Bio-techs. BNPL's. Jr Explorers and technology. They all have one thing in common, all being speculative.

Any ways - It's been a tough time for investors in small caps over the past 3 years. Massive unrealised gains and massive unrealised losses. Thing do tend to change quite rapidly thou.

Rates have been increasing. Yields seem to not be slowing down and inflation doesn't help anyone.

Luckily for us, I really do believe small caps must be completely undervalued based on historic graphs and in contrast to the rest of the market.

My point is, majority of investors are all in the same boat, no matter which small cap speculative stock they have chosen in the past 2 1/2 years.

I have doubts like everyone. Then I logically think about the accomplishments from BRN in the past 2 years and feel more bullish than ever.

I see many bluechip companies talking specifically about SNN's and neuromorphic computing being the future. I'll happily take my chances as not many people know about this technology what so ever. Once the ship starts sailing it will be very hard to get cheap shares.

This talk of a second strike is also quite silly. It will only be more negative for everyone.

DYOR. This isn't financial advice.

Cheers.

 

[wilzy123]

what are we not allowed to talk about the secret meeting our management had with a select few on this forum site anymore, oh SORRY we have swept that under the carpet already ,please forgive me.

What's happening? Where am I? Who was that? What year is it?

 

[Humble Genius]

That's easy. ARM Helium is a vector extension of the instruction-set architecture and has nothing to do with any Akida IP.

Helium Technology

Arm Helium is a general-purpose vector extension that enhances compute performance of the Armv8-M architecture.

www.arm.com

Vector Extensions, Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA)

'Vector Extensions, Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA)' published in 'Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing'

link.springer.com

Thanks.

If only your name was Victor, I would've asked another question.

 

[Fastback6666]

What I don’t get is if we have 40+ companies still actively engaged in either 1000 or 1500 and then 2.0 built based on customer feedback, then how can the response to the ASX speeding ticket say that the company is not aware of any information concerning the share price increase.

It appears that a whole bunch of stuff is happening and advancing to commercialise and at the same time nothing is happening.

How does this reconcile?

It is the simple fact that when the SP surged up that one day to .25 no material announcements, deals or side communications were made by the company to cause the SP surge on that day.

That is the black and white of it and the company was confirming that they had no knowledge of why the SP moved up.

Yes Brainchip have a lot of projects on the go but this is just day to day work and not attributable to market moving events.

 

[Jasonk]

What I don’t get is if we have 40+ companies still actively engaged in either 1000 or 1500 and then 2.0 built based on customer feedback, then how can the response to the ASX speeding ticket say that the company is not aware of any information concerning the share price increase.

It appears that a whole bunch of stuff is happening and advancing to commercialise and at the same time nothing is happening.

How does this reconcile?

IMO I see the speeding tickets simply as asking has something that should not be public been made public / insider trading occurring to drive the price movement.

Similar to exploration lab results being leaked. The company knows they have hit something but they can't announce to market until 100% proven. They will respond will no, no, no, and no.

That's my take away.

 

[DingoBorat]

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Wearable headsets for augmented and virtual reality gaming aren't new, but in 2024 Apple is promising to disrupt and turbocharge the market when it releases its Vision Pro goggles, and re-branding them as 'spatial computers'. Apple's Vision Pro is a Paradigm Shift in XR​

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/new-apple-xr-headset-vision-pro-could-replace-pcs-and-iphones/

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A year or 2 ago, one of Apple's VR/AR (now XR?) team member's, liked on LinkedIn, a BrainChip AKIDA development milestone or something (may have been AKIDA in silicon?)..

It was around the same time, that they were having massive problems with the overheating of their headsets, because I remember suggesting on here, that they use liquid immersion cooling..

As long as you hold your breath, all is good


But then, I was really expecting to see AKIDA to show up in the iPhone 15..
They decided instead, to make a phone with overheating problems, greatly damaging their image and reputation (in my opinion)..

So who knows..

Sooner or later though, the large players will wake up/wise up and join the coming paradigm shifting revolution, that is AKIDA.

Neuromorphic Computing is the future and BrainChip's AKIDA, will get a decent slice of the pie, in my humble opinion..

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Wonder how interesting this acquisition could be for Renesas. My highlighting & links end of post.

Not saying involved but interesting the company has been also playing in the neuromorphic space as below.

Renesas Extends Tender Offer for Proposed Acquisition of Sequans​

Shareholders to Receive U.S. $0.7575 per Ordinary Share and U.S. $3.03 per ADS in cash
November 20, 2023

Pondering given that Sequans is....

Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a leading developer and supplier of cellular IoT connectivity solutions, providing chips and modules for 5G/4G massive and broadband IoT. For 5G/4G massive IoT applications, Sequans provides a comprehensive product portfolio based on its flagship Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT and Calliope Cat 1 chip platforms, featuring industry-leading low power consumption, a large set of integrated functionalities, and global deployment capability.

Sequans was also one of the consortium partners, with several others, in the INGENIOUS H2020 project which wrapped up around Mar this year.

Shipping / Intermodal supply chains was one of the POCs. Didn't someone post a like or something on BRN from someone in shipping not long ago or am I just getting tooooo many dots in my head

The project says (excerpt) the following....

The iNGENIOUS network layer brings new smart 5G-based IoT functi¬onalities, federated Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) nodes and smart orchestration, needed for enabling the projected real-time capable use cases of the supply chain. Security and data management are fully recognized as important features in the project. iNGENIOUS will create a holistic security architecture for next-generation IoT built on neuromorphic sensors with security governed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and tile-based hardware architectures based on security by design and isolation by default. In the application layer, iNGENIOUS new AI mechanisms will allow more precise predictions than conventional systems.

Renesas Extends Tender Offer for Proposed Acquisition of Sequans

www.renesas.com

https://scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/project/957216

https://ingenious-iot.eu/web/proof-of-concepts/

 

[entretec]

More of the latest Geek Brainchip goodness from Sally Ward-Foxton on TechTechPotato at [06:37].



Interestingly, she comments that Brainchip has support for Transformers but it isn't done in the Spiking domain

 

[RobjHunt]

More of the latest Geek Brainchip goodness from Sally Ward-Foxton on TechTechPotato at [06:37].



Interestingly, she comments that Brainchip has support for Transformers but it isn't done in the Spiking domain

And more interesting, she mentions Brainchip is ONE of the first to release a spiking neural network accelerator. Which are the others?

 

[Diogenese]

More of the latest Geek Brainchip goodness from Sally Ward-Foxton on TechTechPotato at [06:37].



Interestingly, she comments that Brainchip has support for Transformers but it isn't done in the Spiking domain

Hi entretec,

great find!

Referring to SW-F's comment about transformers not being implemented in the spike domain, the ViT is implemented in additional circuitry connected to the SNN. I would guess that the NN is involved in ViT in combination with the additional circuitry. ViT is implemented in silicon without CPU involvement:

https://brainchip.com/akida-second-generation/

https://brainchip.com/akida-generations/

Vision Transformers, or ViTs, are a type of deep learning model that uses self-attention mechanisms to process visual data.
ViTs were introduced in a paper by Dosovitskiy in 2020 and have since gained popularity in computer vision research.
In a Vision Transformer, an image is first divided into patches, which are then flattened and fed into a multi-layer transformer network. A multi-head self-attention mechanism in each transformer layer allows the model to focus on the relationships between image patches at differing levels of abstraction to capture local and global features.
The transformer’s output is passed through a final classification layer to obtain the predicted class label.

Key Benefits:​

• Complete hardware acceleration: ViT encoder block fully implemented in hardware for execution independent of host CPU.
• Highly Efficient Performance: Execution in hardware without CPU overhead, highly reduces energy consumption while improving speed.
• Low footprint, High scalability: Compact design reduces overhead. Can scale throughput and capacity with up to 12 nodes.

 

[Tothemoon24]

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[Frangipani]

Ok I just have to share this as we are all excited about arm brainchip and M85 and here is our renesas man. I love the passion on this guy and the interviewer has no clue what renesas is trying to express! Love it when he says its not just the first, its the first on earth!!! almost says universe but he doesn't quite know if there is anything else out there in the universe lol and interview says do u think its the best in this conference he says OF COUSRE!
Love this renesas guy! Well done Renesas!

Really enjoyed that video, thanks for sharing, at the end he said something awesome like the M85 is the star of the show, first one on earth and if customers want to be winners too then come and check it out

And he said this product will be in market this year

Others have already commented on the fact that said Renesas MCU has an embedded Helium accelerator. I will leave the discussion on whether this indicates that Akida is likely not involved (as it would not be needed) or could be integrated nevertheless to more qualified posters, and would like to shift the focus to the “first one on Earth” remark, which I interpreted somewhat differently.

Just like @Steve10, I believe Bernd Westhoff, Director of Microcontroller Product Marketing at Renesas - while doing his best in promoting the MCU with its instant AI experience they had just launched by the time this video at Embedded World 2023 was recorded (“the latest and greatest you can get right now”) - must have been very much aware of the fact that the first time ever the Arm Cortex-M85 had been used in conjunction with AI was in space (so most likely NASA). (Mind you, I don’t have any proof of this, but to me this is the only way his reaction makes sense).

Hence, when the interviewer asked him out of the blue whether it was the first time that AI was on the Arm Cortex-M(85) (from 1:06 min), Bernd Westhoff couldn’t simply answer “yes“, as that statement would have been untrue. Instead, after instinctively replying with “no”, he somewhat awkwardly but also cleverly rephrased his answer and thus technically wasn’t lying when he subsequently stated that the Renesas MCU was the very first time any vendor “on Earth” had launched the first Arm Cortex-M85 + AI combo implemented on silicon. (Mental note: But not the first one floating around in the Universe).

So IMO “the first one on Earth” is meant to be understood quite literally as the first one on the planet sold to regular customers (pick whatever view of our globe you fancy most), as opposed to the first one ever developed, as Bernd Westhoff could not truthfully claim that Renesas were the ultimate pioneers on a universal scale marrying the Cortex-M85 core with AI. We can only speculate as to why he didn’t mention who on earth had beaten Renesas “in the Universe”, but I reckon he didn’t have any alien Arm customers in mind, when he said “I mean, come on, this is the only one on Earth!” (from 7:57 min)

 

[Pom down under]

Others have already commented on the fact that said Renesas MCU has an embedded Helium accelerator. I will leave the discussion on whether this indicates that Akida is likely not involved (as it would not be needed) or could be integrated nevertheless to more qualified posters, and would like to shift the focus to the “first one on Earth” remark, which I interpreted somewhat differently.

Just like @Steve10, I believe Bernd Westhoff, Director of Microcontroller Product Marketing at Renesas - while doing his best in promoting the MCU with its instant AI experience they had just launched by the time this video at Embedded World 2023 was recorded (“the latest and greatest you can get right now”) - must have been very much aware of the fact that the first time ever the Arm Cortex-M85 had been used in conjunction with AI was in space (so most likely NASA). (Mind you, I don’t have any proof of this, but to me this is the only way his reaction makes sense).

Hence, when the interviewer asked him out of the blue whether it was the first time that AI was on the Arm Cortex-M(85) (from 1:06 min), Bernd Westhoff couldn’t simply answer “yes“, as that statement would have been untrue. Instead, after instinctively replying with “no”, he somewhat awkwardly but also cleverly rephrased his answer and thus technically wasn’t lying when he subsequently stated that the Renesas MCU was the very first time any vendor “on Earth” had launched the first Arm Cortex-M85 + AI combo implemented on silicon. (Mental note: But not the first one floating around in the Universe).

So IMO “the first one on Earth” is meant to be understood quite literally as the first one on the planet sold to regular customers (pick whatever view of our globe you fancy most), as opposed to the first one ever developed, as Bernd Westhoff could not truthfully claim that Renesas were the ultimate pioneers on a universal scale marrying the Cortex-M85 core with AI. We can only speculate as to why he didn’t mention who on earth had beaten Renesas “in the Universe”, but I reckon he didn’t have any alien Arm customers in mind, when he said “I mean, come on, this is the only one on Earth!” (from 7:57 min)

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Renesas' New Ultra-High Performance MCUs are Industry's First Based on Arm Cortex-M85 Processor

Renesas Electronics today introduced the world’s most powerful microcontrollers (MCUs), delivering breakthrough performance of over 3000 CoreMark points, and fully deterministic, low latency, real-time operation that satisfies customers’ most demanding application needs.

www.design-reuse.com

RA8M1 - 480MHz Arm Cortex-M85 Based Microcontroller with Helium and TrustZone

The RA8M1 MCU Group features the industry’s first 32-bit microcontrollers based on the Arm® Cortex®-M85 (CM85) core, delivering over 3000 CoreMark at 480 MHz.

www.renesas.com

 

[Pom down under]

Renesas Unveils Processor Roadmap for Next-Gen Automotive SoCs and MCUs

www.renesas.com

 

[Pom down under]

Power Your Edge AI Application with the Industry’s Most Powerful Arm MCUs

The AIoT has been enabled by higher MCU compute capability and thin neural network models that are more suited for edge and end point devices than traditional CPUs and MPUs.

www.renesas.com