Fullmoonfever
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Maybe. And maybe they just want to slow down the adoption of their competitor’s technology while pushing forward their own.
Be good to hear from someone from BrainChip comment.
Not certain that's how it will work myself but could be wrong.IMO.... I think that Qualcomm knew all along as did Edge Impulse, that BrainChip as a Co and its technology wasn't up for sale nor any takeover target at any cost. Accordingly, imo Qualcomm knew quite well, that Edge Impulse has had a very long-standing association with BRN and who have jointly and extensively researched, experimented, tested, supported and adopted Akida IP with their own ei requirements over many years, at most likely a very significant / substantial financial cost. It's my view, that Qualcomm, just hasn't walked into this agreement with edge impulse purely by chance without firstly doing any of their own due diligence on both Edge Impulse and their partners or associates, unless there was a potential financial gain in it for them and as a potential back-door / foothold into BRN's technologically advanced Neuromorphic AI IP technology, which could in turn and most likely extend upon what Qualcomm can expand upon within their own current at the edge AI offerings as well as the only commercially available Neuromorphic AI products and solutions.
Like always DYOR
You still need the hardware / IP to run the process on eg datasets, models etc (EI assist Devs with the creation of these) but EI don't own the hardware / IP, we do.
As EI says:
"Build datasets, train models, and optimize libraries to run directly on device; from the smallest microcontrollers to gateways with the latest neural accelerators (and anything in between)."