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[Slade]

Me trying to explain to my wife why BrainChip is a good investment.

 

[Slade]

My Wife

 

[Diogenese]

April 29, 2021

SiFive and Samsung Foundry Extend Partnership to Accelerate AI SoC Development​

Configurable SiFive RISC-V AI SoC Development Platform is built on 14nm Samsung process technology to accelerate custom Machine Learning solutions
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 29, 2021– SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today announced the next phase of their partnership with Samsung Foundry, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology. The extended partnership will enable and accelerate the development of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning inference and training SoCs based on SiFive RISC-V processors and built using Samsung Foundry technology infrastructure.
The SiFive RISC-V AI SoC Development Platform combines SiFive RISC-V technology, high-speed peripherals, and multiple AI accelerator blocks. The collaborative effort was further customized with a customer-specific AI inference accelerator IP and an Open Compute Project Microsoft Zipline accelerator, resulting in an AI accelerator SoC tape out on Samsung 2nd generation 14LPP FinFET technology on April 13th, 2021. The ability to rapidly integrate additional IP to the SiFive RISC-V AI SoC Development Platform enables customers to optimize workload processing with custom SoCs.
The AI accelerator SoC tapeout and inference IP integration utilized SEMIFIVE Platform SoC technology. SEMIFIVE Inc. is the pioneer of platform-based SoC design for the Samsung Foundry ecosystem. Featuring verified PCIe Gen. 4 connectivity and quad-channel 32-bit LPDDR4/4X interfaces, SEMIFIVE provides off-the-shelf opportunities to develop custom hardware focused on the AI workload.
"Samsung Foundry is committed to building a rich and resilient ecosystem with our industry partners," said Mijung Noh, VP of Foundry Design Service Team at Samsung Electronics. "We are pleased to work with SiFive to accelerate our customers' AI / ML custom SoC design, illustrating the innovation potential we can achieve together."
“Working in partnership with Samsung Foundry has accelerated SiFive’s ability to deliver our highly-efficient and configurable approach for SoC design and implementation,” said Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive. “We’re excited to continue to co-innovate with Samsung Foundry as we launch our latest SiFive Intelligence products to accelerate the development of next-generation AI SoCs with Samsung’s advanced process technology.”
SiFive’s industry-leading portfolio of RISC-V-based processor Core IP scales from the AI-focused SiFive Intelligence line of Linux-capable 64-bit multi-core processors with enhanced RISC-V Vector capabilities to area-optimized real-time cores. SiFive Core IP is silicon-proven and pre-integrated with SiFive Shield, a whole-SoC security solution, SiFive Insight advanced trace and debug capabilities, and optional SiFive hardware cryptographic accelerator (HCA). Read more information on the latest update for the SiFive 21G1 release on the SiFive Intelligencepage.
Further development of the AI accelerator SoC by integrating SiFive Intelligence products into the chip will create a heterogeneous compute platform for machine learning that can be tuned to meet the needs of edge AI, automotive, 5G/networking, or data center accelerator needs.
About SiFive
SiFive is the leading provider of processor cores, AI accelerators, and SoC IP to enable domain-specific designs based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture specification. SiFive offers scalable, configurable processor cores pre-integrated with security, trace, and debug features for workload-specific accelerator designs. Founded by the inventors of RISC-V, SiFive has design centers worldwide and backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, SK hynix, Qualcomm Ventures, Western Digital, Intel Capital, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, and Prosperity7 Ventures. For more information, please visit www.sifive.com.

Hi FF,

A year ago SiFive was crowing about a "a customer-specific AI inference accelerator".

That is, the SoC silicon had to be designed for each specific customer, or at least for each customer application.

Akida's versatility makes the customer-specific design of SoC's obsolete. Now they can use the one SoC architecture for any customer-specific AI inference application. The "programming" of Akida comes down to a firmware reprogramming of the the model library used in the configuration of the Akida neuron weights.

 

[Space Cadet]

Punching above your weight much Slade?

SC

 

[Diogenese]

Me trying to explain to my wife why BrainChip is a good investment.
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Hi Slade,

Was your grandfather Heath Robinson?

 

[Slade]

Punching above your weight much Slade?

SC

Way above.

 

[TechGirl]

Hi FF,

A year ago SiFive was crowing about a "a customer-specific AI inference accelerator".

That is, the SoC silicon had to be designed for each specific customer, or at least for each customer application.

Akida's versatility makes the customer-specific design of SoC's obsolete. Now they can use the one SoC architecture for any customer-specific AI inference application. The "programming" of Akida comes down to a firmware reprogramming of the the model library used in the configuration of the Akida neuron weights.

 

[Space Cadet]

Nailed it TechGirl. That's the exact look I had when i rrad it!

SC

 

[VictorG]

Hi FF,

A year ago SiFive was crowing about a "a customer-specific AI inference accelerator".

That is, the SoC silicon had to be designed for each specific customer, or at least for each customer application.

Akida's versatility makes the customer-specific design of SoC's obsolete. Now they can use the one SoC architecture for any customer-specific AI inference application. The "programming" of Akida comes down to a firmware reprogramming of the the model library used in the configuration of the Akida neuron weights.

yes of course, I knew that.

 

[Diogenese]

Owls have more neck vertebrae than giraffes so they can look over their shoulders ...

 

[TechGirl]

Nailed it TechGirl. That's the exact look I had when i rrad it!

SC

I know right Dio blew me out of the water with that one

 

[TechGirl]

Owls have more neck vertebrae than giraffes so they can look over their shoulders ...

 

[Townyj]

Jack Kang... Dropping Some...

Golden Nuggets! Oh yeahhh

 

[Fact Finder]

Way above.

Here was I thinking you drank to forget now I discover it’s self doubt. LOL

 

[Slade]

Here was I thinking you drank to forget now I discover it’s self doubt. LOL

I have had the most interesting times whilst drunk.

 

[Okeydokey01]

Given the timing of the different announcements, Renesas and BrainChip in Dec2020, Renesas and SiFive April 2021, and now BrainChip and SiFive. It looks to me like Renesas discovered Akida first and that SiFive on seeing Renesas’s adoption of Akida have decided to partner with BrainChip. So while it might be sometime before we see revenue from the SiFive collaboration and an actual commercial agreement materialize, we do have a commercial agreement with Renesas and Akida could very well be in Renesas latest generation of their RZ/Five.

We really do continue to partner with the "right" sort of companies. Given how broad the potential application of our tech is. Working with the likes of Renesas, Megachips and now SiFive just extends our scope and accelerates or drive into areas of the market we may not have gotten to on our own. There are many markets that will only be able to be successfully penetrated via partnerships with the likes of these companies.

While we may wish for an announcement and the positive impact on the SP it would bring, the more work we do now, announcement or not will only stand to amplify the Big Bang when this does finally pop. The reality of explosive growth in uptake and revenue may very well surprise us in its scale and speed. As you have said Slade, Renesas was a first mover with Brainchip in this space and Mercedes the same in Automotive. Knowing who we are working with as early access partners, my bet is a few more of these come to light and we are off to the races.

 

[MDhere]

It's arrived!
no bottle opener
but what on earth is the metal thing for if anyone has one? it was repacked by dhl so maybe they took openener if there was one..
And well for the chip circuitboard thing, time will tell if i know how to use it lol but im intrigued by the metal thing? Anyone know?

 

[Dozzaman1977]

What fantastic news for brainchip and shareholders today, thanks to the 1000 eyes for all the fantastic research and dot joining today...... It looks like the bus has a full tank of petrol and has started its journey
I'M A BIT DISSAPOINTED THAT I HAVE NOT SEEN A GREEN BABY DRINKING A BEER

 

[Fact Finder]

Me trying to explain to my wife why BrainChip is a good investment.
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By the way I think the reason you are having trouble getting her to understand it’s because over on the far right the answer shown to the equation is 4 which having double checked it should be 42. Makes a huge difference she will probably get it now that she knows AKIDA is the meaning of life.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Slade]

We really do continue to partner with the "right" sort of companies. Given how broad the potential application of our tech is. Working with the likes of Renesas, Megachips and now SiFive just extends our scope and accelerates or drive into areas of the market we may not have gotten to on our own. There are many markets that will only be able to be successfully penetrated via partnerships with the likes of these companies.

While we may wish for an announcement and the positive impact on the SP it would bring the more work we do now, announcement or not will only work to amplify the Big Bang when this does finally pop. The reality of explosive growth in uptake and revenue may very well surprise us in its scale and speed. As you have said Slade Renesas was a first mover with Brainchip in this space and Mercedes the same in Automotive. Knowing who we are working with as early access partners, my bet is a few more of these come to light and we are off to the races.

Yes. and I am now inclined to take our CEO's advice and, rather than try to anticipate announcements, follow the financials. The 2022 and 2023 quarterlys are going to be very interesting.