Great podcast at EE Times together with Brainchip
As Slim Dusty said:
Tony Lewis makes the point that "events" and "spikes" are different, spikes being singal-valued occurrences, while events each have an individual magnitude value.Pinched this from FF over on the crapper.
A video and transcript. I did the read.
Exract: Note my bolded area:
" Jon Tapson (JT): At BrainChip, we are currently finishing off our Akita 2.0 architecture. And this is an expansion on all of BrainChip’s prior work. It’s essentially a neuromorphic chip, it’s event-based, and it makes use of the intrinsic sparsity in signals to achieve high levels of efficiency.But we have the same problem that any company has that does actual… there’s an enormous difference between research silicon, if I can put it that way, and commercial silicon. And the problem with commercial silicon is you’ve got to fit into the ecosystem of what everybody else is doing. The history of startup companies is littered with companies that had fantastic technology, but couldn’t progress across the interface to regular technology. The real problem is if you build a chip, the chip by itself is not a solution to anything. It’s got to go on a board, it’s got to have a software ecosystem around it. And the easier that is for customers and engineers to access, the better everything’s going to go."
From my bold above its easy to see why AKIDA 1000 and 1500 are now gaining traction. AKIDA is no longer in research and actually commercial and we fit into the eco system of what everyone else is doing.
Its taken time but we are seeing the proof unfold before our eyes right now.
The AKIDA1000 fit with QV gives us the 'only game in town" cybersecurity with a Defence name in Lockheed- Martin to sell it.
AKIDA 1000 and more recently the 1500 gets the wheels of Bascom Hunter moving and they aim to be a leader in Defence.
AKIDA1000 gives its partner Frontgrade the 'frontrunning' in Space.
I expect to see more of this as engagements that have been on for quite some time come to fruition.
We make our eco system partners better.
If you desire premier 'rad-hardness' entice NVDA (or near equivalent) to take a 10% position in the company.The share price hitting $2 again will make me radhard!
Stay tuned…If you desire premier 'rad-hardness' entice NVDA (or near equivalent) to take a 10% position in the company.
That should maintain this board in a state of hardness for many days and nights.
A lifetime perhaps.
Hi manny,
The EE Times podcast has foreshadowed some exciting developments, and I expect we will see some patents filed for them soonish.
In particular the "thinking" neuron will add another dimension to Akida/TENNs capabilities.
Then there's the 16-bit weights/activations which reportedly will facilitate new algorithms.
... I've got a nose-bleed thinking about it.
... and then the architecture of Akida 2 is being finalized, quite a while after the false dawn of tape-out a while ago. That indicates to me that there may have been some additional performance enhancements in the interim - maybe radhard, or ...?
Given the number of space and defence-related implementations, it may be that it has been decided to build in radhardness for Akida2???
What have I missed Diogenese?..Yes. The forecast 16-bit version for many more algorithms and the "thinking" neurons are exciting prospects ... and the expected completion of Akida 2 architecture is something we've been hoping for for a while.
Ahhhhh, you mean Jesse ChapmanInteresting like
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm an empty vessel making a lot of noise.What have I missed Diogenese?..
What's this about a "thinking" neuron and AKIDA 2.0 IP still being finalised now?
It was announced around 2 years ago now, that AKIDA 2.0 IP was available and now no announcement that they are still tinkering?..
Just an EETimes podcast thingo?
Isn't that something requiring an ASX release/correction, if something previously released on the ASX was incorrect?
It'll be very interesting to see if we partner up with Anduril in the not too distant future.
The reason why I say this is because I just did a little bit of poking around and discovered that Dr. Chaffra Affouda (see below), who is currently a Business Development Director at Anduril, worked as Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon Intelligence & Space from Apr 2019 to Sep 2022 before joinnig Anduril.
While he was at Raytheon, Dr. Affouda worked on developing multi-functional, neuromorphic infrared imaging sensors and cameras!
Prior to that he was with the US Naval Research Laboratory.
A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Close to Deal That Would Value It at $28 Billion
The Southern California start-up, which builds flying drones and missiles, is set to raise up to $2.5 billion.
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An employee demonstrates some of Anduril’s A.I. technology, in 2021.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times
By Erin Griffith and Cade Metz
Reporting from San Francisco
Feb. 7, 2025
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Anduril, an artificial intelligence military start-up, is set to complete a new round of funding that would double the value of the company to $28 billion, according to four people familiar with the negotiations.
The funding round, which is led by Founders Fund and has not yet closed, is raising up to $2.5 billion, the people said. Founders Fund alone plans to invest $1 billion, the largest check ever written by the firm, two of the people said.
Anduril designs and builds autonomous systems and weapons for the military and other government agencies, including flying drones, missiles, underwater vessels and surveillance equipment for monitoring both national borders and the battlefield. It is one of a new wave of companies building systems based on A.I. technologies for the government.
Founders Fund, started by the entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, has backed Anduril since its start in 2017, and one of Anduril’s co-founders, Trae Stephens, is a partner at the firm. Mr. Thiel, who also co-founded Palantir, a military technology company, has long been a backer of Republican candidates, including President Trump in 2016 and JD Vance’s run for Senate in 2022.
Six months ago, Anduril raised $1.5 billion at a $14 billion valuation.
Founders Fund declined to comment. CNBC first reported details of the funding talks.
The latest influx of cash comes as defense technology start-ups are ebullient about their prospects. Enthusiasm for building technology for the U.S. military has grown in recent years in Silicon Valley, a reversal from more than a decade of shying away from those contracts. As recently as 2018, thousands of employees at Google signed a letter protesting the company’s military contracts.
That resistance has slowly shifted, as more venture capital firms pour money into the sector.
Mr. Trump is expected to turbocharge investments further. Palmer Luckey, Anduril’s founder, has supported the president since his 2016 campaign. He donated to Mr. Trump’s campaigns in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections, and has hosted fund-raisers.
On the night of the presidential election in November, Mr. Luckey posted a meme celebrating Mr. Trump’s victory. Elon Musk, the tech executive and a close adviser to the president, responded, saying it was “very important to open DoD/Intel to entrepreneurial companies like yours.”
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Interview with Dr. Chaffra Affouda, Director of Business Development at Anduril Imaging - Photonics Project
Dr. Chaffra Affouda is a Business Development Director at Anduril Imaging, where his role is to grow the core technologies that will enable the next generation of infrared focal plane arrays and systems. He graduated from SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY in 2006 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science. He then...photonicsproject.org
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Diogenese ............What a pity and a great loss, that AI_Inquirer has left this forum with his rather extensive knowledge and willingness to share information here at TSE ..... But was forced to leave due to some questionable posters here in the past having a go at him for not towing the Co line of only posting positive things about Akida.Yes. The forecast 16-bit version for many more algorithms and the "thinking" neurons are exciting prospects ... and the expected completion of Akida 2 architecture is something we've been hoping for for a while.
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We aim at sustainable growth through profitability and growth opportunity.www.megachips.co.jp
I guess you have to remember that even if V2 was released to lead customers that they will run their own testing on scenarios or use cases that we may not have covered and as such will make ongoing development requests, additions or bug fixes.Diogenese ............What a pity and a great loss, that AI_Inquirer has left this forum with his rather extensive knowledge and willingness to share information here at TSE ..... But was forced to leave due to some questionable posters here in the past having a go at him for not towing the Co line of only posting positive things about Akida.
I note, that back on the 24 Oct 2023 .... AI enquirer questioned where Akida 2 was up to...see below post of his:
- " Oct 24, 2023
- Something that has been particularly frustrating for me is prior to the launch of 2.0 it was repeated that EAP customers had already been actively evaluating 2.0, and the official release of 2.0 marked its general availability.
When the release came out it said 2.0 was available for ‘early access’ only.
Now in this 4C: “focusing on the ongoing development and availability of the 2nd Generation Akida technology platform to lead customers”.
I'm skeptical that they have a fully developed second-generation product, and the suggestion that customers were delaying decision on IP deals for the 2.0 release seems quite misleading. "......
Accordingly, imo it seems to me, that A1_Inquirer was once again correct on his assumptions from way back in Oct 2023 that Akida 2 was still on the development phase.
Hi DB,Could be an interesting project to just keep an eye on.
Recently awarded (end last year) to a team from Purdue with other collaborators including Argonne which falls under the DOE.
We know the DOE understand Akida via Quantum Ventura and CyberNeuro-RT so maybe we may get some testing look ins with this project. And yes, I realise Dr. Kristofor Carlson has links back to Purdue too as well as Global Foundry, our 22nm producer, also having a partnership with Purdue.
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Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub - Microelectronics Commons
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CHEETA: CMOS+MRAM Hardware for Energy-EfficienT AI
This project seeks to develop a neuromorphic processor with in-memory computing (IMC) to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck and MRAM for higher density and energy efficiency that enables a new generation of robust energy efficient AI. The desired end-state will see a greater than 100X improvement in energy efficiency and sensor-to-decision latency over current commercial state-of-the-art solutions.
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Purdue University wins Microelectronics Commons Project to advance AI hardware through the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub
A Purdue project through the Microelectronic Commons program will pursue lab-to-fab transition of pioneering research performed by the university Purdue for over a decade.www.purdue.edu