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I think someone should call Athero and tell them we've beaten them to it!! 
Seriously though, this article is worth reading to gain an appreciation of just how exciting the opportunity is for us in the space vertical.
The main circuit board in Aethero’s prototype space computer. Image: Aethero.
Aethero, a San Francisco space computing start-up founded by Edward Ge and Amit Pinnamaneni, revealed its business model after raising $1.7M in seed funding last year.
The five-person firm wants to bring high-performance processing to satellites. Existing spacecraft have some amazing capabilities, but they’re hitting a bottleneck when it comes to compute, and the next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
What’s the pitch? “[Satellite] processing power is still very primitive,” Ge told Payload. “Satellites still require a ton of people on the backend. There’s still a ton of latency of getting data down. And the software and the AI and ML applications that can run on board are very much limited. [If we] put more processing software onto these satellites, we can vastly increase the use cases they can tackle. We let them handle way more tasks by themselves without needing input from Earth. And just like that we will enable massive, massive growth of the space economy—ultimately we want to be that Intel that enables that.”
Origin story: Ge and Pinnamaneni are childhood friends who dropped out of University of Michigan undergrad and grad programs, respectively, to found Aethero in 2023. They first encountered the problem they aim to solve while developing a previous company, which aimed to build a remote-sensing balloon platform for customers like the National Geospatial Agency.
“The problem is getting data fast enough,” Ge said. Even after collecting imagery of a target, an Earth observation satellite could take hours to transmit the raw data to providers and then on to customers. “What we can do with edge computing in space is compress that data and process it instantaneously.”
And as remote-sensing satellites increasingly use SAR and hyperspectral sensors, the data is only getting harder to manage. Widely used space computers today can deliver 5.3T operations per second, Ge said, while Aethero’s first generation product, AetherNxN, can perform 100T operations per second.
How it works: Aethero builds the radiation shielding and baseboard for its computers, and writes custom software to support space applications. Right now, it uses Nvidia’s Orin processors, but plans to develop a proprietary chip suited to machine learning applications after it gains traction in the market.
Though the company is launching a home-built demonstration satellite on an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission, Aethero doesn’t want to be in the satellite building business. It wants to corner the market on providing processing capabilities to other spacecraft developers.
The first spacecraft on orbit will use sensors and Aethero’s processors to train a computer vision model, which is likely the first time a private company has done that, per Ge. Once the product is proven to work in the space environment, he expects to find initial customers in EO and orbital services industries.
And there are more fanciful ideas: Ge speculated about a future where dozens of orbiting Aethero processors operate in sync, becoming the first space-rated supercomputer.
The AetherNxN computer in its rad-hardened enclosure. Image: Aethero.
The next big thing: Chris Bogdan, who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s space business, told Payload that edge computing in space is among the top tech that’s exciting investors: “If you can put computing at the edge and AI in a satellite, then all the data it collects, it doesn’t have to send down reams and reams of data, it sends down what’s important.”
Ali Partovi, managing director at Neo Ventures, led Aethero’s seed round, which was the first space-related investment from an early-stage investor who has backed firms like Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber
“For us, it’s at the end of the day just a computation investment, closer to software than aerospace,” he told Payload. “This is part of an inflection point, where the other needs of getting things to space have reached a point where it’s more feasible to start building things at the software layer.”
“We’ll look back on today—it was quaint, we used to have to send everything back to Earth and wait for hours,” he says.
payloadspace.com
Seriously though, this article is worth reading to gain an appreciation of just how exciting the opportunity is for us in the space vertical.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
By Tim FernholzMarch 15, 2024
Aethero, a San Francisco space computing start-up founded by Edward Ge and Amit Pinnamaneni, revealed its business model after raising $1.7M in seed funding last year.
The five-person firm wants to bring high-performance processing to satellites. Existing spacecraft have some amazing capabilities, but they’re hitting a bottleneck when it comes to compute, and the next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
What’s the pitch? “[Satellite] processing power is still very primitive,” Ge told Payload. “Satellites still require a ton of people on the backend. There’s still a ton of latency of getting data down. And the software and the AI and ML applications that can run on board are very much limited. [If we] put more processing software onto these satellites, we can vastly increase the use cases they can tackle. We let them handle way more tasks by themselves without needing input from Earth. And just like that we will enable massive, massive growth of the space economy—ultimately we want to be that Intel that enables that.”
Origin story: Ge and Pinnamaneni are childhood friends who dropped out of University of Michigan undergrad and grad programs, respectively, to found Aethero in 2023. They first encountered the problem they aim to solve while developing a previous company, which aimed to build a remote-sensing balloon platform for customers like the National Geospatial Agency.
“The problem is getting data fast enough,” Ge said. Even after collecting imagery of a target, an Earth observation satellite could take hours to transmit the raw data to providers and then on to customers. “What we can do with edge computing in space is compress that data and process it instantaneously.”
And as remote-sensing satellites increasingly use SAR and hyperspectral sensors, the data is only getting harder to manage. Widely used space computers today can deliver 5.3T operations per second, Ge said, while Aethero’s first generation product, AetherNxN, can perform 100T operations per second.
How it works: Aethero builds the radiation shielding and baseboard for its computers, and writes custom software to support space applications. Right now, it uses Nvidia’s Orin processors, but plans to develop a proprietary chip suited to machine learning applications after it gains traction in the market.
Though the company is launching a home-built demonstration satellite on an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission, Aethero doesn’t want to be in the satellite building business. It wants to corner the market on providing processing capabilities to other spacecraft developers.
The first spacecraft on orbit will use sensors and Aethero’s processors to train a computer vision model, which is likely the first time a private company has done that, per Ge. Once the product is proven to work in the space environment, he expects to find initial customers in EO and orbital services industries.
And there are more fanciful ideas: Ge speculated about a future where dozens of orbiting Aethero processors operate in sync, becoming the first space-rated supercomputer.
The next big thing: Chris Bogdan, who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s space business, told Payload that edge computing in space is among the top tech that’s exciting investors: “If you can put computing at the edge and AI in a satellite, then all the data it collects, it doesn’t have to send down reams and reams of data, it sends down what’s important.”
Ali Partovi, managing director at Neo Ventures, led Aethero’s seed round, which was the first space-related investment from an early-stage investor who has backed firms like Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber
“For us, it’s at the end of the day just a computation investment, closer to software than aerospace,” he told Payload. “This is part of an inflection point, where the other needs of getting things to space have reached a point where it’s more feasible to start building things at the software layer.”
“We’ll look back on today—it was quaint, we used to have to send everything back to Earth and wait for hours,” he says.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
The next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
payloadspace.com
It's a good idea to simply ignore innovations from other companies and present your own product as groundbreaking.I think someone should call Athero and tell them we've beaten them to it!!
Seriously though, this article is worth reading to gain an appreciation of just how exciting the opportunity is for us in the space vertical.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
By Tim FernholzMarch 15, 2024
The main circuit board in Aethero’s prototype space computer. Image: Aethero.
Aethero, a San Francisco space computing start-up founded by Edward Ge and Amit Pinnamaneni, revealed its business model after raising $1.7M in seed funding last year.
The five-person firm wants to bring high-performance processing to satellites. Existing spacecraft have some amazing capabilities, but they’re hitting a bottleneck when it comes to compute, and the next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
What’s the pitch? “[Satellite] processing power is still very primitive,” Ge told Payload. “Satellites still require a ton of people on the backend. There’s still a ton of latency of getting data down. And the software and the AI and ML applications that can run on board are very much limited. [If we] put more processing software onto these satellites, we can vastly increase the use cases they can tackle. We let them handle way more tasks by themselves without needing input from Earth. And just like that we will enable massive, massive growth of the space economy—ultimately we want to be that Intel that enables that.”
Origin story: Ge and Pinnamaneni are childhood friends who dropped out of University of Michigan undergrad and grad programs, respectively, to found Aethero in 2023. They first encountered the problem they aim to solve while developing a previous company, which aimed to build a remote-sensing balloon platform for customers like the National Geospatial Agency.
“The problem is getting data fast enough,” Ge said. Even after collecting imagery of a target, an Earth observation satellite could take hours to transmit the raw data to providers and then on to customers. “What we can do with edge computing in space is compress that data and process it instantaneously.”
And as remote-sensing satellites increasingly use SAR and hyperspectral sensors, the data is only getting harder to manage. Widely used space computers today can deliver 5.3T operations per second, Ge said, while Aethero’s first generation product, AetherNxN, can perform 100T operations per second.
How it works: Aethero builds the radiation shielding and baseboard for its computers, and writes custom software to support space applications. Right now, it uses Nvidia’s Orin processors, but plans to develop a proprietary chip suited to machine learning applications after it gains traction in the market.
Though the company is launching a home-built demonstration satellite on an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission, Aethero doesn’t want to be in the satellite building business. It wants to corner the market on providing processing capabilities to other spacecraft developers.
The first spacecraft on orbit will use sensors and Aethero’s processors to train a computer vision model, which is likely the first time a private company has done that, per Ge. Once the product is proven to work in the space environment, he expects to find initial customers in EO and orbital services industries.
And there are more fanciful ideas: Ge speculated about a future where dozens of orbiting Aethero processors operate in sync, becoming the first space-rated supercomputer.
The AetherNxN computer in its rad-hardened enclosure. Image: Aethero.
The next big thing: Chris Bogdan, who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s space business, told Payload that edge computing in space is among the top tech that’s exciting investors: “If you can put computing at the edge and AI in a satellite, then all the data it collects, it doesn’t have to send down reams and reams of data, it sends down what’s important.”
Ali Partovi, managing director at Neo Ventures, led Aethero’s seed round, which was the first space-related investment from an early-stage investor who has backed firms like Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber
“For us, it’s at the end of the day just a computation investment, closer to software than aerospace,” he told Payload. “This is part of an inflection point, where the other needs of getting things to space have reached a point where it’s more feasible to start building things at the software layer.”
“We’ll look back on today—it was quaint, we used to have to send everything back to Earth and wait for hours,” he says.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
The next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
I watched my wife washing the dishes yesterday. I thought to myself, "Hmm, it would be a relief if there was a device that washes the dishes automatically... I'll will build one and call it 'Automatic Dishwasher.' I already have the first parts for it in the basement. Who knows maybe this will be the next groundbreaking technology for every household BOoOOm
I wonder how they will make the presentationI think someone should call Athero and tell them we've beaten them to it!!
Seriously though, this article is worth reading to gain an appreciation of just how exciting the opportunity is for us in the space vertical.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
By Tim FernholzMarch 15, 2024
The main circuit board in Aethero’s prototype space computer. Image: Aethero.
Aethero, a San Francisco space computing start-up founded by Edward Ge and Amit Pinnamaneni, revealed its business model after raising $1.7M in seed funding last year.
The five-person firm wants to bring high-performance processing to satellites. Existing spacecraft have some amazing capabilities, but they’re hitting a bottleneck when it comes to compute, and the next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
What’s the pitch? “[Satellite] processing power is still very primitive,” Ge told Payload. “Satellites still require a ton of people on the backend. There’s still a ton of latency of getting data down. And the software and the AI and ML applications that can run on board are very much limited. [If we] put more processing software onto these satellites, we can vastly increase the use cases they can tackle. We let them handle way more tasks by themselves without needing input from Earth. And just like that we will enable massive, massive growth of the space economy—ultimately we want to be that Intel that enables that.”
Origin story: Ge and Pinnamaneni are childhood friends who dropped out of University of Michigan undergrad and grad programs, respectively, to found Aethero in 2023. They first encountered the problem they aim to solve while developing a previous company, which aimed to build a remote-sensing balloon platform for customers like the National Geospatial Agency.
“The problem is getting data fast enough,” Ge said. Even after collecting imagery of a target, an Earth observation satellite could take hours to transmit the raw data to providers and then on to customers. “What we can do with edge computing in space is compress that data and process it instantaneously.”
And as remote-sensing satellites increasingly use SAR and hyperspectral sensors, the data is only getting harder to manage. Widely used space computers today can deliver 5.3T operations per second, Ge said, while Aethero’s first generation product, AetherNxN, can perform 100T operations per second.
How it works: Aethero builds the radiation shielding and baseboard for its computers, and writes custom software to support space applications. Right now, it uses Nvidia’s Orin processors, but plans to develop a proprietary chip suited to machine learning applications after it gains traction in the market.
Though the company is launching a home-built demonstration satellite on an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission, Aethero doesn’t want to be in the satellite building business. It wants to corner the market on providing processing capabilities to other spacecraft developers.
The first spacecraft on orbit will use sensors and Aethero’s processors to train a computer vision model, which is likely the first time a private company has done that, per Ge. Once the product is proven to work in the space environment, he expects to find initial customers in EO and orbital services industries.
And there are more fanciful ideas: Ge speculated about a future where dozens of orbiting Aethero processors operate in sync, becoming the first space-rated supercomputer.
The AetherNxN computer in its rad-hardened enclosure. Image: Aethero.
The next big thing: Chris Bogdan, who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s space business, told Payload that edge computing in space is among the top tech that’s exciting investors: “If you can put computing at the edge and AI in a satellite, then all the data it collects, it doesn’t have to send down reams and reams of data, it sends down what’s important.”
Ali Partovi, managing director at Neo Ventures, led Aethero’s seed round, which was the first space-related investment from an early-stage investor who has backed firms like Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber
“For us, it’s at the end of the day just a computation investment, closer to software than aerospace,” he told Payload. “This is part of an inflection point, where the other needs of getting things to space have reached a point where it’s more feasible to start building things at the software layer.”
“We’ll look back on today—it was quaint, we used to have to send everything back to Earth and wait for hours,” he says.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
The next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
- "…and as you know, AI is the next industrial evolutionary phase... imagine deploying an AI in one of your satellites into space..."
- "Yes... okay... you know... BrainChip has already done that..."
- "And once you've analyzed the data then..."
- "Akida has already done that... you don't need imagination for that..."
- "Hm? Yes... you know... in any case, our AI..."
- "Are you even listening to us?"
Shadow59
Regular
...we've just been on the phone to Brainchip.
davidfitz
Regular
I knew the Unigen Cupcake Ai Edge Server was in full production but is it available yet? Not sure how long these things take to produce!
unigen.com
Cannot find any info other than this. I did email their sales team and was told it would more likely be available through their distributors. No timeframe was provided.
Hoping for a surprise in the next quarterly as it is 9 years today since I purchased my first parcel of shares
. Never expected to hold this long and for the share price to still be this low but I am hoping to celebrate next year’s anniversary in style.
Silver lining is that I have been able to accumulate a lot more at very low prices over time
A big shout out to all of the other patient holders who have been here just as long!
Cupcake Edge AI Server in Full Production - Unigen
Unigen Corporation proudly announces the successful production launch of its highly anticipated Cupcake Edge AI Server. The first units have been produced at our cutting-edge facilities in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Penang, Malaysia, marking a significant milestone in Unigen’s commitment to delivering...
unigen.com
Cannot find any info other than this. I did email their sales team and was told it would more likely be available through their distributors. No timeframe was provided.
Hoping for a surprise in the next quarterly as it is 9 years today since I purchased my first parcel of shares
. Never expected to hold this long and for the share price to still be this low but I am hoping to celebrate next year’s anniversary in style.Silver lining is that I have been able to accumulate a lot more at very low prices over time
A big shout out to all of the other patient holders who have been here just as long!
White Horse
Regular
I think someone should call Athero and tell them we've beaten them to it!!
Seriously though, this article is worth reading to gain an appreciation of just how exciting the opportunity is for us in the space vertical.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
By Tim FernholzMarch 15, 2024
The main circuit board in Aethero’s prototype space computer. Image: Aethero.
Aethero, a San Francisco space computing start-up founded by Edward Ge and Amit Pinnamaneni, revealed its business model after raising $1.7M in seed funding last year.
The five-person firm wants to bring high-performance processing to satellites. Existing spacecraft have some amazing capabilities, but they’re hitting a bottleneck when it comes to compute, and the next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
What’s the pitch? “[Satellite] processing power is still very primitive,” Ge told Payload. “Satellites still require a ton of people on the backend. There’s still a ton of latency of getting data down. And the software and the AI and ML applications that can run on board are very much limited. [If we] put more processing software onto these satellites, we can vastly increase the use cases they can tackle. We let them handle way more tasks by themselves without needing input from Earth. And just like that we will enable massive, massive growth of the space economy—ultimately we want to be that Intel that enables that.”
Origin story: Ge and Pinnamaneni are childhood friends who dropped out of University of Michigan undergrad and grad programs, respectively, to found Aethero in 2023. They first encountered the problem they aim to solve while developing a previous company, which aimed to build a remote-sensing balloon platform for customers like the National Geospatial Agency.
“The problem is getting data fast enough,” Ge said. Even after collecting imagery of a target, an Earth observation satellite could take hours to transmit the raw data to providers and then on to customers. “What we can do with edge computing in space is compress that data and process it instantaneously.”
And as remote-sensing satellites increasingly use SAR and hyperspectral sensors, the data is only getting harder to manage. Widely used space computers today can deliver 5.3T operations per second, Ge said, while Aethero’s first generation product, AetherNxN, can perform 100T operations per second.
How it works: Aethero builds the radiation shielding and baseboard for its computers, and writes custom software to support space applications. Right now, it uses Nvidia’s Orin processors, but plans to develop a proprietary chip suited to machine learning applications after it gains traction in the market.
Though the company is launching a home-built demonstration satellite on an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission, Aethero doesn’t want to be in the satellite building business. It wants to corner the market on providing processing capabilities to other spacecraft developers.
The first spacecraft on orbit will use sensors and Aethero’s processors to train a computer vision model, which is likely the first time a private company has done that, per Ge. Once the product is proven to work in the space environment, he expects to find initial customers in EO and orbital services industries.
And there are more fanciful ideas: Ge speculated about a future where dozens of orbiting Aethero processors operate in sync, becoming the first space-rated supercomputer.
The AetherNxN computer in its rad-hardened enclosure. Image: Aethero.
The next big thing: Chris Bogdan, who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s space business, told Payload that edge computing in space is among the top tech that’s exciting investors: “If you can put computing at the edge and AI in a satellite, then all the data it collects, it doesn’t have to send down reams and reams of data, it sends down what’s important.”
Ali Partovi, managing director at Neo Ventures, led Aethero’s seed round, which was the first space-related investment from an early-stage investor who has backed firms like Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber
“For us, it’s at the end of the day just a computation investment, closer to software than aerospace,” he told Payload. “This is part of an inflection point, where the other needs of getting things to space have reached a point where it’s more feasible to start building things at the software layer.”
“We’ll look back on today—it was quaint, we used to have to send everything back to Earth and wait for hours,” he says.
Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute Into Orbit
The next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.
Aethero's web site is very basic.
I sent them a link, pointing them to our BrainChip/ Ant61 web page.
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AARONASX
Holding onto what I've got
I wonder if this will assist in improvements one way or another.
EXCLUSIVE-TSMC considering advanced chip packaging capacity in Japan, sources say
CoWoS®
buena suerte :-)
BOB Bank of Brainchip
I knew the Unigen Cupcake Ai Edge Server was in full production but is it available yet? Not sure how long these things take to produce!
Cupcake Edge AI Server in Full Production - Unigen
Unigen Corporation proudly announces the successful production launch of its highly anticipated Cupcake Edge AI Server. The first units have been produced at our cutting-edge facilities in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Penang, Malaysia, marking a significant milestone in Unigen’s commitment to delivering...
Cannot find any info other than this. I did email their sales team and was told it would more likely be available through their distributors. No timeframe was provided.
Hoping for a surprise in the next quarterly as it is 9 years today since I purchased my first parcel of shares
View attachment 59283
Silver lining is that I have been able to accumulate a lot more at very low prices over time
A big shout out to all of the other patient holders who have been here just as long!
Congratulations oh patient ones !
I have another few weeks to go for my 9th anni but so looking forward to see where we stand on the 10th anni...next year ??!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
And a few weeks later some more at half the price....Sounds familiar
and added many many more at 0.05c/0.06c ... etc etc 
........ Something substantial soon hopefully........ Cheers Chippers
Food4 thought
Regular
Wondering what the average amount of shares people hold.
And also I am thinking do I hold enough
What’s the idea amount one should hold
What’s the amount that will see amazing growth moving forward
And also I am thinking do I hold enough
What’s the idea amount one should hold
What’s the amount that will see amazing growth moving forward
supersonic001
Regular
I love the old school original approach and best hand written shopping list ever, it shows thought process with notes adjacent, it provides self identity and style through hand written text, and finally passion in listing the continual growth of our silent partners that continue to be extracted by this amazing group of detectives…..
Is this also being emulated on the Iceberg diagram / analogy and reposted for all …… is the iceberg image something we can set for easy access by all from time to time ?
Cheers SSC
AusEire
Founding Member.
AGM locked in for the 21st of May. Should be a good day. Voting in all those renumeration packages and listening to Mdiddy tell us about his bakery/cafe for half an hour and that other guy ranting and raving about how entitled everyone is except him.
Belated Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone! Hope you were all celebrating your Irish heritage
Belated Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone! Hope you were all celebrating your Irish heritage
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AI_Inquirer
Regular
A few months back, I shared an article featuring Brainchip in a project called Nimble AI. This isn't a small PhD project; Nimble AI has 19 project partners across Europe with €10 million funding from both the EU and UK governments.
While keeping tabs on Nimble, there hasn't been further mention of Brainchip or any more media releases I've found. However, I did notice the project coordinator of Nimble AI liking a Brainchip related post on LinkedIn.
Have a good dig into their website. It's interesting stuff. https://www.nimbleai.eu/
For the tech heads, there's a scientific paper discussing how SNNs integrate and operate within the chip stack. While it doesn't explicitly mention Brainchip, it predates the article referencing Brainchip, suggesting that Brainchip might have been incorporated later on. DATE23_nimbleai.pdf
Take a look at the project partners and their respective roles. There are some heavyweight companies and contributors involved, hopefully providing exposure to Brainchip. https://www.nimbleai.eu/consortium/
Also worth noting is Xabier Iturbe's got a second new role as the coordinator of the Spanish Association of the Semiconductor Industry's newly formed working group for neuromorphic tech.
Se constituye el grupo de trabajo en Tecnologías Neuromórficas e IA de AESEMI
El día 1 de Febrero de 2024 el grupo de trabajo en Tecnologías Neuromórficas e IA de AESEMI ha iniciado sus actividades, coordinado por el centro tecnológico vasco IKERLAN.
aesemi.org
I think it depends on everyone’s pocket. For someone are 500.000 shares peanuts… someone else can not effort even 3000 shares and hold just 2000… but one for sure: never invest more than your personal situation allows you to.
Pom down under
Top 20
HOORAY. A practical example of how to use Akida which can be sent to anyone with an idea for their own project. I've sent the link to Silicon Chip Magazine to pique their interest.
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