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Neuromorphic computing: The future of AI and beyond​

In my role as a CTO at Atos, I am constantly on the lookout for emerging technologies that have the potential to revolutionise our industry. One such technology that has been gaining significant attention is neuromorphic computing. This innovative approach to computing is inspired by the structure and function of the human brain, and it promises to bring about a paradigm shift in how we design and implement artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Understanding neuromorphic computing​

Neuromorphic computing is a technology that aims to mimic how the human brain works, using either digital or analogue methods. Traditional AI systems typically rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), complex algorithms designed to recognize patterns and make decisions. However, neuromorphic computing takes a different approach by using spiking neural networks (SNNs).
Spiking neural networks are more similar to how neurons in the human brain communicate. In the brain, neurons send electrical signals to each other, often called "firing." Neuromorphic computing attempts to replicate this process, making it more like the natural way our brains process information.
In simpler terms, while traditional AI systems use a more straightforward and structured method to process data, neuromorphic computing tries to imitate the brain's more dynamic and natural way of working. This can potentially lead to more efficient and powerful computing systems that operate closer to how we think and learn.

Why neuromorphic computing matters​

Most of today's artificial intelligence developments rely heavily on graphics processing units (GPUs). GPUs are specialized hardware originally created to render graphics in video games. Now, they are widely used in AI based on their ability to handle complex calculations and simultaneously process large amounts of data. This ability to perform many calculations simultaneously makes them ideal for training AI models, which require quickly processing vast amounts of data.
However, this power comes at a cost. GPUs consume a significant amount of energy, which can be a drawback, especially in environments where energy efficiency is crucial.
On the other hand, neuromorphic computing offers a more energy-efficient alternative. Unlike traditional AI systems that use GPUs and deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing mimics how the human brain works using spiking neural networks. These networks are designed to operate more like biological neurons, which communicate through electrical spikes. This approach significantly reduces power consumption, making neuromorphic computing ideal for applications where saving energy is important.

Neuromorphic computing represents a significant leap forward in AI, mimicking the human brain and offering opportunities to create more efficient, adaptable, and powerful AI systems.

For example, in edge computing, where data processing occurs close to the source of data (like sensors or IoT devices), energy efficiency is critical. Neuromorphic computing can provide the necessary computational power without draining the battery life of these devices. Similarly, in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, where numerous devices are interconnected and constantly exchanging data, energy-efficient technologies like neuromorphic computing can lead to longer-lasting and more sustainable systems.
In summary, while GPUs are powerful and essential for many AI applications, they are energy intensive. With its brain-like approach and lower power consumption, Neuromorphic computing offers a promising alternative for energy-sensitive applications like edge computing and IoT devices.

The impact on AI and beyond​

Neuromorphic computing is expected to change many current AI technologies by saving power and improving performance in ways that current AI chips cannot. Early uses include detecting events, recognizing patterns, and training with small datasets. These abilities help AI systems handle the unpredictability of the real world, making them more robust and adaptable.
Additionally, it makes product development easier, allowing leaders to create AI systems that quickly respond to real-time events and information. This will lead to many future AI products, like autonomous drones and advanced robots.
For example, driverless cars are often considered dangerous because they can't react as quickly as humans in split-second situations. Tesla tried to solve this problem to avoid hitting obstacles on the road, but it failed in one case when a Tesla hit a deer and kept going because its AI didn't see the danger. Neuromorphic computing will help solve these kinds of problems in the near future.

Potential use cases​

1. Image and video recognition: Neuromorphic systems can be trained to recognize patterns and objects in images and videos, making them useful for tasks such as surveillance, self-driving cars, and medical imaging
2. Robotics: Neuromorphic computing can be used in robotics to create more adaptive and intelligent robots that can learn from their environment and perform complex tasks with greater efficiency
3. Edge AI: Neuromorphic computing is ideal for edge AI applications, where low power consumption and real-time processing are critical. This includes IoT devices and other edge computing scenarios
4. Fraud detection: Neuromorphic systems can be used to detect fraudulent activities by recognizing unusual patterns in transaction data, providing a more efficient and accurate method of fraud detection
5. Neuroscience research: Neuromorphic computing can aid in neuroscience research by providing a platform to simulate and study brain functions, leading to a better understanding of neurological disorders and the development of new treatments

These use cases highlight the versatility and potential benefit of neuromorphic computing in various fields, from enhancing AI capabilities to improving energy efficiency in edge devices.

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Neuromorphic computing represents a significant leap forward in the field of AI and computing. Its ability to mimic the human brain's structure and function offers unprecedented opportunities for creating more efficient, adaptable, and powerful AI systems. I am excited about the possibilities that neuromorphic computing brings and look forward to seeing how it will shape the future of technology.

Posted on: February 5, 2025

Neuromorphic computing: The future of AI and beyond

Neuromorphic computing mimics the human brain and offers opportunities to create more efficient, adaptable, and powerful AI systems.

atos.net

 

[GazDix]

Hi all,

I just received an email from Tony that they are no longer going to release the top 20 shareholder list.
They are not obliged to (which is true) and they have decided to discontinue the practice.

Best wishes all,
Gary

 

[Tezza]

Share holders are crying out for more transparency not secrecy. Would love to know why they are no longer releasing this info.

 

[uiux]

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology By Investing.com Studios

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology

www.investing.com

Which one?

 

[Boab]

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology By Investing.com Studios

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology

www.investing.com

Which one?

I doubt it's us as we signed up for another $20M with LDA of the 7th Jan.
Sounds like these negotiations have been going on for a while??
Still good news that someone like this has recognised the potential.

 

[Boab]

 

[mcm]

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology By Investing.com Studios

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www.investing.com

Which one?

Goodness ... surely BRN would have to be a candidate? Thanks for posting this!

 

[mcm]

View attachment 77290

"... is actively negotiating a major investment in a startup that specializes in the development of neuromorphic chip technology."​

BRN would still be considered a start-up.

 

[Boab]

"... is actively negotiating a major investment in a startup that specializes in the development of neuromorphic chip technology."​

BRN would still be considered a start-up.

Absolutely. I think we can rule out the likes of IBM, INTEL & Qualcomm

 

[MadMayHam | 合氣道]

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology By Investing.com Studios

Dubai Investment Fund Negotiates Major Investment in Neuromorphic Chip Technology

www.investing.com

Which one?

Good find @uiux , however prolly not us we're not exactly a startup.

Moreover I find the article a bit strange as I couldn't find this "Michael Reynolds" on LI at all, even with a search "Michael Reynolds dubai investment fund linkedin". Also why would they want to trumpet their potential investment prior to concluding the deal, jeopardising their entry price?

The author seems to be this Jon https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonstojan/ who's a marketer by profession, so who knows? He may have recently taken a position, on exchange or private, in one of the dozens of neuromorphic startups.

 

[Boab]

Good find @uiux , however prolly not us we're not exactly a startup.

Moreover I find the article a bit strange as I couldn't find this "Michael Reynolds" on LI at all, even with a search "Michael Reynolds dubai investment fund linkedin". Also why would they want to trumpet their potential investment prior to concluding the deal, jeopardising their entry price?

Could be a private Co not listed on a stock exchange.

 

[Bravo]

BrainChip has until the 28th of Feb to submit information on the capabilities our technology can bring to this.

Better get a wriggle on!

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Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS). (Northrop Grumman image)
WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has issued a call for industry ideas on how it can implement President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 “Iron Dome for America” Executive Order — a surprisingly fast turn around on a Pentagon program.
The Request for Information (RF) comes just four days after Trump’s order mandated Pentagon development of a comprehensive “shield” to repel any aerial attack on the US homeland. The RFI asks interested vendors to show and tell relevant capabilities by Feb. 28.
The request to industry is structured to be open to a wide range of ideas, as it seeks details on what capabilities can be “delivered or demonstrated” in two-year “epochs”: not later than Dec. 31, 2026; Dec. 31, 2028; Dec. 31, 2030 and “beyond” Dec. 31, 2030.

MDA is “conducting market research to assist in the identification of innovative missile defense technologies (system-level, component level, and upgrades) architectures, concepts, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to detect and defeat the threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks,” the RFI elaborates.
“MDA desires to collaborate with Industry on potential concepts to deploy and maintain a next-generation missile defense shield that will deter and defend its citizens and critical infrastructure against any foreign aerial attack on the Homeland and guarantee its secure second-strike capability,” it adds.
The list of technologies of interest reads as a cut-and-paste of the Trump executive order:

• Defense of the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries;
• Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer;
• Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept;
• Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities postured to defeat a countervalue attack;
• Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture;
• Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase;
• Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all components with next-generation security and resilience features; and
• Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.

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Interestingly, the RFI indicates MDA would take charge of deploying the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS), rather than the Space Development Agency (SDA). The fate of the HBTSS — which uses a medium-field-of-view camera optimized to provide high-fidelity missile tracking capable of providing targeting coordinates to anti-missile interceptors — has been the subject of a years-long tug-of-war between the two agencies.
MDA originally developed the sensor to help target its new Glide Phase Interceptor for knocking hypersonic missiles out of the sky. But SDA effectively killed the HBTSS program after the first two test satellites were launched last February, absorbing some of the technology into its own designs for new “fire-control capable” infrared sensors.
Thus, the Trump executive order breathes life back into the HBTSS program, and MDA has re-claimed control of it in the RFI.
As things stand today, however, SDA has no plans to integrate the two HBTSS sensors into its Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture — which begs the question of once HBTSS is developed how will it be deployed and operated so as to work with SDA’s Tracking Layer satellites and ground systems?

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[uiux]

BrainChip has until the 28th of Feb to submit information on the capabilities our technology can bring to this.

Better get a wriggle on!

Missile Defense Agency asks industry for American ‘Iron Dome’ concepts​

The agency's RFI seeks capabilities that can be deployed in "epochs" starting in 2026, and running in two year increments to "beyond" Dec. 31 2030.​

By Theresa Hitchenson February 03, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS). (Northrop Grumman image)
WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has issued a call for industry ideas on how it can implement President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 “Iron Dome for America” Executive Order — a surprisingly fast turn around on a Pentagon program.
The Request for Information (RF) comes just four days after Trump’s order mandated Pentagon development of a comprehensive “shield” to repel any aerial attack on the US homeland. The RFI asks interested vendors to show and tell relevant capabilities by Feb. 28.
The request to industry is structured to be open to a wide range of ideas, as it seeks details on what capabilities can be “delivered or demonstrated” in two-year “epochs”: not later than Dec. 31, 2026; Dec. 31, 2028; Dec. 31, 2030 and “beyond” Dec. 31, 2030.

MDA is “conducting market research to assist in the identification of innovative missile defense technologies (system-level, component level, and upgrades) architectures, concepts, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to detect and defeat the threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks,” the RFI elaborates.
“MDA desires to collaborate with Industry on potential concepts to deploy and maintain a next-generation missile defense shield that will deter and defend its citizens and critical infrastructure against any foreign aerial attack on the Homeland and guarantee its secure second-strike capability,” it adds.
The list of technologies of interest reads as a cut-and-paste of the Trump executive order:

• Defense of the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries;
• Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer;
• Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept;
• Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities postured to defeat a countervalue attack;
• Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture;
• Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase;
• Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all components with next-generation security and resilience features; and
• Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.

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MDA originally developed the sensor to help target its new Glide Phase Interceptor for knocking hypersonic missiles out of the sky. But SDA effectively killed the HBTSS program after the first two test satellites were launched last February, absorbing some of the technology into its own designs for new “fire-control capable” infrared sensors.
Thus, the Trump executive order breathes life back into the HBTSS program, and MDA has re-claimed control of it in the RFI.
As things stand today, however, SDA has no plans to integrate the two HBTSS sensors into its Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture — which begs the question of once HBTSS is developed how will it be deployed and operated so as to work with SDA’s Tracking Layer satellites and ground systems?

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By Justin Katz
Another unanswered question is which Defense Department organization will operate the future space-based and directed-energy interceptors to be developed by MDA as part of the Iron Dome plan.
The Ground-Based Interceptors that make up the sharp end of the Defense Department’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense System are “administered” by MDA (to include funding for upgrades) but the Army has operational control in support of US Northern Command. Further, both the Air Force and now the Space Force provide support functions to the overarching system. That long-standing arrangement also will apply to the Next-Generation Interceptor replacement program.
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The defense community may not have to wait for answers. Under the executive order, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has until March 28 to submit “a reference architecture, capabilities-based requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield” — a task that is being spearheaded by John Hill in his role performing the duties of the assistant secretary of defense for space policy.

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[AusEire]

Hi all,

I just received an email from Tony that they are no longer going to release the top 20 shareholder list.
They are not obliged to (which is true) and they have decided to discontinue the practice.

Best wishes all,
Gary

Had the same reply. I didn't see that you had posted this so wouldn't have bothered asking

 

[Iseki]

Yes, it probably was us they invested in, but have now had a change of heart and is dumping our shares. Only explanation of the huge swings.

 

[IloveLamp]

Hi all,

I just received an email from Tony that they are no longer going to release the top 20 shareholder list.
They are not obliged to (which is true) and they have decided to discontinue the practice.

Best wishes all,
Gary

What a fucking joke. It is the LEAST they can do for us and they choose not. We might as well be a field of mushrooms

 

[uiux]

Yes, it probably was us they invested in, but have now had a change of heart and is dumping our shares. Only explanation of the huge swings.

I read your posts lately in the voice of Eeyore

 

[GazDix]

Had the same reply. I didn't see that you had posted this so wouldn't have bothered asking

I did ask him back if there were any reasons why this practice has been discontinued.

Can really speculate until the cows come home why, but I will miss my little quarterly exercise!

My first feeling is that PVDM has finally sold shares as he is very well entitled too. Tech may grill me for that, but that is the integral reason I would prefer. If not this, well... keeping more cards closer to chest I can only hope is for shareholder's benefit.

There is a way to view the changes though, I think you need a subscription to Bloomberg or one of the resources the instos have. Does anyone have access to this? I remember someone did post a recently a new large accumulator of BRN shares.

Cheers all

 

[Xray1]

Hi all,

I just received an email from Tony that they are no longer going to release the top 20 shareholder list.
They are not obliged to (which is true) and they have decided to discontinue the practice.

Best wishes all,
Gary

IMO, Just another negative issue to add to an already long list of other matters to be raised at the next AGM ......... Wasn't it said at the last AGM, that the Co would take on board and improve communication with S/Holders.

 

[7für7]

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Which one?

If they (Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, etc.) want to implement their ambitious projects for the future, they won’t be able to avoid BrainChip in one way or another. We all know that our products have almost unlimited potential (not even considering the yet-to-be-invented products involving AI) in areas like smart cities, energy efficiency, data security, and more. From power plants operating energy-efficiently through Akida to make consumer electricity cheaper, to voice control systems and seamless translation… Many who have now pulled their money out of BrainChip and invested in DeepSeek or other companies will still witness it. Just my opinion. Patience is a virtue.