It’s always difficult to convey emotional states over the internet, and people often misunderstand things. I’m not hyperventilating, nor am I stressed. These are simply observations I’ve made—nothing more. Aside from wanting to see the short sellers burn, I’m still optimistic.
ah, one took the bait too early, as your 30% is just a drop in the Ocean where it is going .......
I suspect the Fools will be releasing there updated research paper soon enough. The stage is set for something positive from Sean I hope. Those Fools are not the guys to friendly to BRN...........hey, Pdu it seems that you could have got a better deal today with your super investment, matter in fact if you wait till Friday it will be even better for you ...
Ease up, Dolciah, one took the bait too early, as your 30% is just a drop in the Ocean where it is going .......
The LDA deal in its entirety is an insolvency blocker to go with our Insider holdings take over blocker.
yeah, to get their free RSU at the AGM... anyway I wouldn't rely too much on them, ..........what is really needed is revenue & that won't show up till next quarterly if there is somthing there, & I would say an IP license that would be a miracle now ..........I suspect the Fools will be releasing there updated research paper soon enough. The stage is set for something positive from Sean I hope. Those Fools are not the guys to BRN..
MegaportX.
There is some truth in that statement.
I know and I can’t wait until we hit the $10 mark, just hope I’m still aliveah, one took the bait too early, as your 30% is just a drop in the Ocean where it is going .......
I think its slow market adoption of AI at the Edge, especially AKIDA style rather than IP that is the issue.
You’re right. Plus they definitely have the resources to produce a gazillion chips. Megachips is the other obvious one. PVDM said years ago words to the effect that shareholders did not fully understand the worth of the Megachips deal. Here’s hoping. Mario Kart anyone?
Papa you raise a good point and one that hasn't been discussed in a long time. That being how many chips did they make and now how many are left. Whilst I know this discussion could be taken down a negative path I want to focus on the positives and likely next steps, well from an ill informed retail investor. The first question arising from how many were left is we don’t know how many were produced and without speculation as we did to death back then that was never disclosed. So what next if no IP and no chips what do we have. Maybe that was why the sudden capital raise was it for another batch of Ak1000, this time maybe produced in the good old USA to prove it can be made away from TSMC and to get other chip makers to see our product whilst being able to continue to provide the “show and tell” market hoping they buy the IP as intended. If that is the case and there is not yet an IP buyer for AK 2000+ could it be they make both?. Yes purely tantalising thought but based on nothing but hope but love to hear thoughts of others. And finally for those neigh sayers I am still holding from the original listing and have only bought and still buying as my pennies allow but as a spec stock which I like many others think there is too much smoke for there not the be fire…. Eventually.
Also, Laurent Hili’s comment that I posted earlier today points to Akida technology being envisioned for a lunar lander initially - an ESA mission to the Moon, not to Mars.
I believe the Argonaut lunar lander is what we might be looking at - ESA recently announced that it is targeting 2031 for the lander’s first mission to the Moon’s surface.
Argonaut
Argonaut is Europe’s autonomous access to the Moon, allowing us to play a major role on the surface of our natural satellite. The lunar lander is being designed for a series of missions with many options for its payloads – from cargo and infrastructure delivery to scientific operations, a rover...www.esa.int
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Argonaut is Europe’s autonomous access to the Moon, allowing us to play a major role on the surface of our natural satellite. The lunar lander is being designed for a series of missions with many options for its payloads – from cargo and infrastructure delivery to scientific operations, a rover or a power station, Argonaut is being designed as a versatile access to the Moon.
Argonaut elements
Argonaut will launch on an Ariane 6 rocket in a direct flight to the Moon. An Argonaut mission from launch to landing could take from a week to a month, depending on orbits and mission design. No area is off-limits for Argonaut, the spacecraft will be able to land at any region on the Moon.
The Argonaut spacecraft has three main components: the lunar descent element that takes care of flying to the Moon and landing on target, the cargo platform element that is the interface between the lander and its payload, and finally, the element that mission designers want to send to the Moon.
Adaptability is key in the Argonaut design, the cargo platform element is designed to accept any mission profile: cargo for astronauts near the landing site, a rover, technology demonstration packages, production facilities using resources on the Moon, a lunar telescope or even a power station.
Argonaut is continuing Apollo and Artemis tradition to name lunar missions after Greek mythology. Argonaut is the name given to the sailors of the Argo ship who took Jason on the quest to find the golden fleece. ‘Argonaut’ means ‘sailors of the Argo’ and the individual missions using ESA’s lunar lunar delivery service will be named after the individual mythical Argonauts.
Space agencies have much in store on the Moon for humankind and Argonaut is offering autonomous European access as well as strong possibilities for partnership. As part of the Artemis programme, ESA is participating in NASA’s Orion service module that ferries astronauts, and Europe is supplying modules to the international Gateway in lunar orbit. Argonaut could be an independent complement to the Artemis programme offering cargo delivery and more.
Leading Moon exploration with strong partners
Argonaut
The lunar lander is being designed with versatility in mind as a strong part of ESA’s lunar strategy and Argonaut could be included in the Artemis programme to deliver cargo, rovers and more, or as stand-alone scientific missions.
The Apollo astronauts never lived and work through the lunar night – a night on the Moon is 14 days long and temperatures on the surface plummet to a chilling –150°C.
One capability of the lander will be to bring a sizable share of the food, water, air, and equipment for a crew of four women and men working on the Moon through the night. The Argonaut lunar descent element will be able to bring up to 2100 kg worth of cargo platform element and payload to the Moon – equivalent to a camper van. The European lander can deliver much more than simple cargo: it could function as a survival kit for the explorers of our new frontier.
Sustaining Moon science for decades
What is ESA’s Moonlight initiative?
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For scientists, the Moon’s qualities of being interesting, close, and useful are an enticing motivation to understand our place in the Universe. Argonaut will allow going beyond short excursions with just a handful of instruments. Driven by scientists’ priorities, the European lander would allow samples to be analysed from previously unexplored and hard-to-get-to regions of the Moon.
Argonaut will use ESA’s Moonlight navigation and telecommunication capabilities around the Moon, allowing for fast communication with the Gateway and Earth to return scientific or operational data, as well as location finding for the automated landing – Argonaut will be able to land with an accuracy of less than 100 m.
Terrae Novae destinations: Moon
The teams in ESA, international partner agencies, European industry, and in the scientific institutions are on this journey together that will bring benefits in the form of inspiration, innovation, and economic growth to all Europeans.
Argonaut was approved at ESA’s Council at ministerial level in 2022 and is now in development. Five missions are foreseen in the next decade, fitting in with ESA’s Terrae Novae strategy for human and robotic exploration.
Technical details
Launcher Ariane 64 Launch Site Kourou, French Guiana Mass on Earth 10 000 kg Mass on the Moon without cargo 1600 kg Delivered mass (CPE+ payload) up to 2100 kg Size 4.5 m in diameter, up to 6 m tall Landing accuracy 50–100 m Mission types Multiple and diverse:
- Cargo logistics
- Science & exploration missions
- technology demonstration packages
- Power generation, storage and distribution systems
- in-situ resource utilisation plants
- and more...
A CAD model for illustration purposes of the Lunar Descent Element is available here. Please consider mentioning ESA if any material is made using this CAD model
Update:
I just noticed that Alf Kuchenbuch has meanwhile edited his post, adding (“That is my dream.”), and that Laurent Hili posted an identical comment twice in response to a) that post resp. b) Alf Kuchenbuch’s comment under yesterday’s post by Steve Thorne, making it crystal-clear that it will still take time until Alf’s dream might come true (and at the same time also stresses that it is by no means 100% guaranteed - he literally says BrainChip “could” play a role, not “will” play a role and that it is one of the technologies they are seriously looking at - I am not sure whether he wanted to express the alternatives they are looking at are non-neuromorphic or whether that could also point to one or more neuromorphic competitors being evaluated in parallel by ESA…)
“We are actively working on it to make it a reality(…) #brainchip could play a role and is one of the technology [sic] we are seriously looking at.”
Sounds to me as if either someone from ESA or BrainChip requested Alf Kuchenbuch to edit his post in order to clarify we’re not there, yet, and to stop the rumour mill…
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, I speculated that Laurent Hili from ESA may have been hinting at the future Argonaut Lunar Lander, when he posted on LinkedIn that neuromorphic computing was being considered by ESA for several use cases, including a lunar lander.
A Moon exploration scenario
A mock-up of the Argonaut lunar descent element on show at the LUNA facility inauguration
Argonaut elements
Argonaut mission patch
Recently discovered BrainChip’s Akida 2.0 neuromorphic chip and I’m blown away! 
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On 28 January, Jörg Conradt, who leads the Neuro Computing Systems Lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, gave a presentation titled "Energy-smart Neuromorphic Sensing and Computation for Future Space Applications” at the AI for Space Applications Workshop that took place at KTH’s Digital Futures hub.
The workshop was held as part of the ASAP project:
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While the first presentation slide didn’t look too exciting from a BRN shareholder’s perspective…
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… we actually did get a mention later on, when Jörg Conradt touched upon a number of neuromorphic startups…
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…although he didn’t get it quite right. Not only did he mix up the names of our company and its neuromorphic processor - he also misspelled and pronounced the latter as “Aikida”. And since when does BrainChip sound like a place name?
To be fair, though, he actually gave us an “out of this world” mention by pointing to what he mistook to be our company’s name and telling his audience (from 14:50 min):
“In fact, this company develops IP, and a very big Sweden-based space company has recently teamed up with Aikida [sic] to develop hardware - computing hardware - that they can send into space, that is potentially very robust against radiation and other effects.
So we have a common project starting on what to do with that hardware, and that’s my point of contact into space.”
It sounds as if Jörg Conradt’s lab at KTH will somehow be involved with whatever Frontgrade Gaisler has planned for Akida…
All the more reason he ought to familiarise himself with A & B ASAP.
Encouragingly, Akida made another appearance shortly after (this time with impeccable orthography) - if only for a split second, before Jörg Conradt moved on to the next slide. It was in the context of a research project titled Neuromorphic Edge Computing for Urban Traffic Monitoring in the city of Stockholm, funded by Digital Futures, a cross-disciplinary research centre established by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Akida was listed alongside SpiNNaker 2 and Loihi 2 under “neuromorphic chips” and even had the honour of providing an exemplary image for that category.
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Jörg Conradt didn’t specify whether or not the different neuromorphic processors were going to get benchmarked against each other, but I assume that’s the plan.
Here is some further information I found about said project that runs from January 2024 to December 2025 and “estimates a 100x reduction in power and a 20x reduction in installation cost.”
Edge computing for urban traffic monitoring — Digital Futures
Embedding low-power event cameras with low-power neuromorphic local computation provides a uniquely scalable solution for the growing need to monitor urban traffic and resource flows in real time...www.digitalfutures.kth.se
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I wonder whether this urban traffic monitoring project with the help of event-based cameras was somehow inspired by the 2023 tinyML Pedestrian Detection Hackathon submission (utilising Akida) from Cristian Axenie’s SPICES lab at TH Nürnberg. It doesn’t seem that far fetched to make a connection - after all, they know each other well: Jörg Conradt was Cristian Axenie’s PhD supervisor at TUM (Technical University of Munich).
