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Our Solutions Engineering Manager, Joshua Buck, recently engaged in a fascinating conversation with BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally. | Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)
Our Solutions Engineering Manager, Joshua Buck, recently engaged in a fascinating conversation with BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally. BrainChip's proprietary neuromorphic processor utilizes spiking neural networks to mimic human brain activity. Delve into this exclusive interview to learn more...
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Easytiger
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Agreed and would also love the CTO to do a podcast to market how the Akida silicon solution will be a massive differentiator for the PC and Mobile phone companies and how early adopters with Akida IP will have a market leading competitive advantage.
I have no idea what this thing dose but apparently it has a Neural DSP thing in it.
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Esq.
Great question...maybe send it to Tony and ask that Dr. Lewis addresses it...I like how Dr. Tony is fronting these podcasts, as I mentioned a while ago, his personality is different from Peters, but I still love our founder, he is not only a genius, but an extremely generous, kind soul.
I also believe with AI being introduced into our favorite device, the "beam me up Scottie" smartphone, being an edge device, we, Brainchip and
the Akida suite of products on the near horizon, will most certainly end up as an IP block within some companies smartphone, maybe Samsung
or Ericsson or even in an Apple some time soon !
Have a great weekend, back in Perth in a month, looking forward to coming home, my jail sentence is finally over...joke
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Frangipani
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Good morning from Germany, Esq.!
first of all I need to somewhat curb your enthusiasm, as Purdue University is not Tamal Acharya’s workplace - as I wrote in another post two days ago, he works for both Tata Consultancy Services and NeuroCortex.AI. Instead, the university name next to his place of residence (Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, India) signifies he is an alumni.
In his LinkedIn bio, we can see he pursued a post graduate program at Purdue, a one year intensive course to be precise. Sounds to me as if this this was done online (see reference to Simplilearn that offer online courses and also note that this was 2020-2021, when the US closed their borders to non-US residents due to the COVID-19 pandemic…)
While I haven’t yet come across any indication that Purdue University is collaborating with Brainchip, there are certainly some intriguing connections, the most obvious being Purdue is Kristofor Carlson’s Alma Mater!
What we do know is that there is neuromorphic research being pursued at Purdue, eg at C-BRIC, the “Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence”, which is “a five-year project supported by $32 million in funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) via its Joint University Microelectronics Program, which provides funding from a consortium of industrial sponsors as well as from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
C-BRIC - Center for Brain-inspired Computing
Center for Brain-inspired Computing
The comments in green are just off the top of my head. Some day, we will probably have dot-joined all of these universities!
Then, there is also a tenuous link via GlobalFoundries:
So my advice would be to definitely keep Purdue on our watchlist, but to hold off adding it to your majestic scroll for the time being…
chapman89
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Hi, can I ask a favour of those in Germany and beyond.
Is this gentleman the CEO of the German fund that was/is accumulating shares? I cannot remember the name of the fund and if somebody is able to post a recent photo of their shares in Brainchip? Also, does a fund have voting rights for AGM’s?
Is this gentleman the CEO of the German fund that was/is accumulating shares? I cannot remember the name of the fund and if somebody is able to post a recent photo of their shares in Brainchip? Also, does a fund have voting rights for AGM’s?
Pom down under
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Good Morning Frangipani ,Good morning from Germany, Esq.!
first of all I need to somewhat curb your enthusiasm, as Purdue University is not Tamal Acharya’s workplace - as I wrote in another post two days ago, he works for both Tata Consultancy Services and NeuroCortex.AI. Instead, the university name next to his place of residence (Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, India) signifies he is an alumni.
In his LinkedIn bio, we can see he pursued a post graduate program at Purdue, a one year intensive course to be precise. Sounds to me as if this this was done online (see reference to Simplilearn that offer online courses and also note that this was 2020-2021, when the US closed their borders to non-US residents due to the COVID-19 pandemic…)
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While I haven’t yet come across any indication that Purdue University is collaborating with Brainchip, there are certainly some intriguing connections, the most obvious being Purdue is Kristofor Carlson’s Alma Mater!
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What we do know is that there is neuromorphic research being pursued at Purdue, eg at C-BRIC, the “Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence”, which is “a five-year project supported by $32 million in funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) via its Joint University Microelectronics Program, which provides funding from a consortium of industrial sponsors as well as from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
C-BRIC - Center for Brain-inspired Computing
Center for Brain-inspired Computingengineering.purdue.edu
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The comments in green are just off the top of my head. Some day, we will probably have dot-joined all of these universities!
Then, there is also a tenuous link via GlobalFoundries:
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So my advice would be to definitely keep Purdue on our watchlist, but to hold off adding it to your majestic scroll for the time being…
Legend.
Thankyou for the above.
One shall hold the quill steady for now on Perdue.
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CHIPS
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Hi charles2,
when I first saw (and posted) that LinkedIn post 4 hours ago, it still said “April 11”, but I just checked again and noticed it has since been edited to “April 16”, just like it was stated all along in the press release I had copied from the BrainChip website. So I guess April 16 it is. Sigh…
(Note the first image shows that even the earlier post had already been edited - maybe the person in charge had initially gotten the podcast guest wrong as well?!)
I actually start to suspect our company is vying to get included in Guinness World Records 2025 with “the most blunders in consecutive press releases”…
Next up, just waiting to happen: A social media post on the collaboration with EDGX mixing up the Belgianand German
flags.
But seriously - these constant errors NEED to stop!!! How hard can it be?!
Unprofessional and not befitting for a world-class company…
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CHIPS
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Yes, it is him from "Frankfurter Vermoegen AG."
EDIT: New figures
They have 2 fonds!
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Just remember our 1st podcast was there with DellPC makers have been in a slump since the end of a pandemic-era boom in sales for working and learning from home. The industry has pinned its hopes of a revival on a new generation of laptops and desktops with more powerful chips that can handle artificial intelligence tasks such as summarizing documents without having to send data to the cloud.
Intel is preparing such chips, as are rivals including Qualcomm. Reuters has reported that Nvidia also plans to use its strength in AI chips to jump into the PC market with a new chip as early as 2025.
Apple is planning to highlight the AI processing capabilities of the new chips
Apple plans Mac line overhaul with AI-focused M4 chips, Bloomberg News reports
The company is aiming to release the updated computers late this year and early next year, and they would include new iMacs, a low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, high-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, and Mac minis, the report said. The industry has pinned its hopes of a revival on a new...finance.yahoo.com
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Fullmoonfever
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Geez...I'm thinking I might send them one of these or similar to neaten things up a bit.
First it was tableclothgate...now it's cablegate.
Pom down under
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Frangipani
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Speaking of your legendary scroll - I’ve been meaning to ask you, what was it that ultimately convinced you to include Ericsson in your list shortly after posting the above?
To me, this is a little premature, as I understood those circulating lists to be about companies and institutions Brainchip has verifiably been engaged with and not about companies or institutions whose researchers may have experimented with AKD1000 without Brainchip even being aware (and possibly finding out from us here on TSE, once two or more of the 1000 Eyes have spotted a publication.) That list would evidently be much, much longer!
Unfortunately, FF’s question about Ericsson went unanswered during the recent Virtual Investor Roadshow, but he had nevertheless included Ericsson in his list and has been pushing this connection very hard ever since. Mind you, I am not saying at all they couldn’t be behind one of the NDAs, but currently there is not enough evidence for me to add them to one of those lists.
Personally, I’d much prefer to place Ericsson under the iceberg waterline for the time being, as we simply don’t know whether those Ericsson researchers who published that often quoted December 2023 paper (Towards 6G Zero-Energy Internet of Things…) have been engaged with our company in any official way.
Especially since Ericsson has been closely collaborating with Intel - they even established a joint lab in Santa Clara, CA in 2022.
https://www.ericsson.com/en/news/20...ach-new-milestone-with-tech-hub-collaboration
“The Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub has established itself as an incubator for cutting-edge advancements and new hardware technology exploration, achieving one milestone after another. Celebrating a series of firsts – including the recent successful Cloud RAN call using Intel’s future Xeon processor, codenamed Granite Rapids-D – the hub has been instrumental in the development of technologies that help service providers build open, resilient, sustainable and intelligent mobile networks.”
Around the same time some Ericsson researchers were playing with Akida last year, as is evident by the December 2023 publication @Fullmoonfever shared with us on Boxing Day, at least one other Ericsson employee who is a Senior Researcher for Future Computing Platforms was very much engaged with Intel and gave a presentation on “Neuromorphic Optimisers in Telecommunications Networks” using Loihi in July 2023.
And a couple of weeks ago, Intel published a podcast with Mischa Dohler, VP of Emerging Technologies at Ericsson in Silicon Valley and formerly a university professor at King’s College London, who was the Chair of the Wireless Communications Department there as well as Director of their Centre for Telecommunications Research.
He was already involved with Ericsson while still in the UK:
In this podcast, shared here on TSE a couple of times in recent weeks, Mischa Dohler - amongst other things - shared his thoughts on neuromorphic and quantum computing, and while it was a great endorsement of the benefits of neuromorphic technology in general, he was rather vague about the scope of its future integration at Ericsson.
See the podcast video in Bravo’s link:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-418271
And here you can read the transcript:
Telecom's Future: What's Possible in Telehealth, Neuromorphic Computing, and the Arts (197) - intechnology.intel.com
In this episode, Camille talks with Mischa Dohler, VP of Emerging Tech at Ericsson, about telehealth, neuromorphic computing, and the arts.
intechnology.intel.com
Camille Morhardt 15:39
Explain neuromorphic computing to us.
Mischa Dohler 15:42
It’s an entirely new compute paradigm, right? So in the computer science world, we talk about a Von Neumann architecture. So Von Neumann introduced that architecture, saying, “Hey, let’s have the compute engine, which we call CPU these days, decoupled from the memory where you store your information, and then connect it with a little bus there.” And that takes a lot of time to actually get this information forth and back between memory and compute. It costs a lot of energy.
Now, along comes neuromorphic, where you have actually completely new materials, which allow you to put computing and memory in the very same instance. So you don’t need to ship all that information forth and back, you can do it in many ways. One way is just to use very new material, kind of meta materials to make that happen. And it turns out by doing this, you save a lot of energy, because you know, you can suddenly just maintain part of the little chip infrastructure, which you need to do certain calculus rather than keeping everything powered at the level of ones and zeros as we deal with our traditional infrastructure.
So it turns out that bringing this memory and compute together, we save a lot of energy. Then people came along said, “Hey, why don’t we build entirely new ways of calculating things?” And the neuromorphic compute fabric allows us to do operations without using energy for multiplications. And multiplications, we need that a lot. Right? So we roughly have additions and multiplications. Now multiplications take about a 10th of the energy today in neuromorphic. Put it all together, and suddenly very complex operations like AI consume a million times less energy than our traditional CPU fabric and GPU fabric. And everyone was, “Hey, why don’t we use that?” And everybody got very excited about this, of course, loads of technology challenge this, like the very early kind of CPU years in a way.
But you know, companies like Intel, really pushing this very hard and as a great fabric, and other companies out there. And I’m trying to understand, where are we commercially? Would that make sense to implement that? You know, and our gear, we’ll have 6G gear, which we’ll have by then at the end of this decade.
Camille Morhardt 17:56
So how is neuromorphic computing and a roll into 6G?
Mischa Dohler 18:00
So we still don’t know; we’re still investigating as a community. I’m not saying Ericsson per se, but as a community trying to understand where will it be. What we are starting to see, 6G will really be about a lot more antenna elements. So we call this ultra-massive mime, whatever you want to call it at the moment, we may have a 64 elements on the roof. And then maybe you know, you have like six maybe in the phone, “Hey, what if we scale this up to 1,000 antenna elements on the roof?” And then suddenly, you start thinking, “Hey, you know, if I have to power all these 1,000 elements, and connect all the processing, in addition, my bandwidths are getting wider. More users are coming on. My compute energy, you know, will just go through the roof.” And we’ve done the calculus, it’s really crazy. So there’s no way we can do that. So we need new ways of dealing with that energy increase. Neuromorphic comes along. It’s one of the contenders. So it’s not the only one. There’s other stuff as well, we’re looking at. But neuromorphic essentially gives you the ability to really bring down this energy envelope, whilst not jeopardizing the performance on that.
So it turns out that neuromorphic cannot be used for all algorithmic families. So we’re trying to understand what can be done, what cannot be done. Should it be really integral as part of our stack to process data? Or should it sit on the side as we like to do it today? You know, this is publicly available, then we just call certain acceleration functions when we need it, and then continue with processing. So a lot of question marks, and that makes it so exciting because we need to take very difficult strategic decisions very quickly, to make sure we remain competitive towards the end of this decade.
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So quantum is just such a fascinating fabric, and it’s all evolving. The only downside it has at the moment is it’s extremely energy consuming. So contrast that with neuromorphic, which consumes almost zero, quantum is you need to cool it bring it down. So we need a lot of innovation there. And we also need to make sure that if we use a quantum computer, the problem is so hard that we would need like trillions of years to do it on a normal fabric because then the whole energy story makes sense. It needs to be sustainable.
Camille Morhardt 22:36
It sounds like rather than a consolidation of compute technologies, you’re looking at a heterogeneous mix of compute technologies, depending on the function or the workload, is that accurate?
Mischa Dohler 22:46
Absolutely. It’s a very great observation, Camille. That’s exactly what we’re looking at. And you know, specifically in the heterogeneous setting of quantum and traditional compute, we just published a blog on how we use quantum and traditional compute as a hybrid solution to find the optimum antenna tilt. It’s a very hard problem when you have loads of antennas, many users; we work with heuristics so far, so heuristics are algorithmic approaches, which aren’t optimum, but try to get as close as to the optimum, we can do that. With a quantum solver, suddenly, you get much closer to the true optimum in a much quicker time, and we’re able to do that much better than just a non-heterogeneous solution.
Camille Morhardt 23:24
If you had just a huge amount of funding to look at something that’s of personal interest to you, what would it be?
Mischa Dohler 23:30
You know, I would probably try a little bit what we tried to do in London, push the envelope on both, really. So you know, try to understand how can we bring the innovative element of technology together with a creative element of the arts? And really get both communities start thinking, how can they disrupt their own ecosystems; it’s a very general view, but you know, usually it comes out when you bring them together. And we have new stuff coming out now in technology, and I think this envelope between accelerated fabric like neuromorphic, and quantum is one, AI is another and robotics, is yet another, specifically soft robotics. So it’s not only about hard robots walking but actually soft robots which are quite useful in medicine, many other applications. So that’s the technology envelope, and the connectivity connecting it all–5G, 6G, etc.
And then on the artistic side, we have new ways of procuring the arts–whether you use let’s say, glasses, new ways of stages, haptic equipment, you know, creating immersive experiences, creating emotional bonds, creating a digital aura in arts, which we couldn’t do before, right. So before you would go in an exhibition, there is nothing before going exhibition, great experience going out of the exhibition, and then you forget about it. So building these digital aura trails, I think, you know, this is where technology can really help.
So loads of opportunities there. It would really bring arts back into the curriculum, bring it back into schools, bring it back into universities, make it an integral part of our educational process. That’s really what I’d love to see.
Camille Morhardt 24:58
What is the soft robot?
Mischa Dohler 25:00
A soft robot is a robot which mimics the way how, let’s say an octopus walks. It’s very soft. There’s no hard element there. And we love to explore that world because, you know, nobody can be very close to real big robots. So I’m not sure you’ve ever been close to one. I had one at King’s ABB. These are beasts, these are industrial things, you know, you don’t really trust it. If somebody hacks in there or something happens, you know, they just swing and you’re just basically toast. But the soft robot can really enable that coexistence I think with humans, use it in surgery. So the ability to control soft tissue, you know, like an octopus, I think or a snake. That’s the title of inspirational biological phenomena we use to design that.
Camille Morhardt 25:42
Well, Mischa, everything from octopuses to Apple Vision Pro to neuromorphic computing. Thank you so much for your time today. It’s been a fascinating conversation.
Mischa Dohler 25:53
My pleasure, Camille. Thank you for having me.
[I happened to notice the transcript is not 100% accurate, eg it misses him saying “So it’s still a big question mark.” at 17:24 min before continuing with “So we still don’t know”…
Oh, and I thought his remarks about soft robots were very intriguing! ]
Frangipani
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Howdy Dallas,
I noticed the PDF document you just posted is dated September 17, 2021.
@CHIPS posted up-to-date (April 10, 2024) info for both DUI Wertefinder and DigiTrends Aktienfonds earlier today:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-418855
Here are the direct links to the respective fact sheets (German only) by Frankfurter Vermögen:
(BRN: 2.28 % as of April 10, 2024)
(BRN: 5.29 % as of April 10, 2024)
Schönes Wochenende schon mal,
Frangipani
CHIPS
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Thanks for the links @Frangipani. I did not have enough time for that this morning because I had to get to work urgently.
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