BRN Discussion Ongoing

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Frangipani

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"Below 26C not at 26, there is a huge difference and I think we are talking about the surroundings, not body temp, otherwise the glasses are useless."

Sorry, yes that's what I meant, 26°C and below.
Still not right 😛
25.9°C and below!

Good morning from Germany,

not that it makes much of a difference, but I should have translated the German original “bei Umgebungstemperaturen bis zu 26 Grad” literally as “at surrounding/ambient temperatures up to 26 degrees” - my bad.
So depending on whether they mean “less than” or “less than or equal”, the smart glasses might actually still work at 26.0 degrees. 🤪

The article doesn’t specify, though, why NEXA currently won’t function at higher temperatures.
 
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In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?
 
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Frangipani

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Nice to see the top brass at Tata posting about us

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Reckon that Accenture have put out a similar patent using ultrasound and gesture recognition; one of their patents that surfaced last year?

This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

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While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

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Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.
 
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Fascinatingly Intuitive.
Evening GazDix,

I thought all junkets, fairs etc would have fallen under SALES & MARKETING .

Yes , SHIPLOAD GOING OUT FOR SCANT RETURN.

From our last Annual Report , page 40.


Regards,
Esq.
 

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Frangipani

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C'mon TCS....ya know you want Akida 2.0 and TENNs.......sign here pls :)

Am I the only one who thinks that it is not going to be consultancy companies such as TCS or Accenture who are potentially going to sign an IP license with us, but rather their customers?
 
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Tata consultancy services with gesture recognition


Didn't BrainChip withdraw Akida 2 in favour of some company's development last year or so? Now they are presenting Akida 2 in Nuremberg and, at the same time, Tata informs about their new patent. Coincidence?
 
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Wonder if we'll get an intro to these guys as some point. Co funded by the EU and have also participated in space programs with ESA and NASA.

Like to think someone at ESA may discuss us with them sometime?





What are the challenges of implementing neuromorphic vision in AI?​

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Neuromorphic Vision


Neuromorphic vision is a field that draws on the workings of the human visual system to develop electronic systems that process visual information efficiently and in real time. This approach uses sensors and algorithms designed to mimic the biological properties of the eye and brain.
Instead of capturing data in fixed frames like traditional cameras, neuromorphic sensors record individual events (changes in light intensity) at each pixel. This makes them highly efficient in terms of energy consumption and processing speed.

Origins of Neuromorphic Vision​

The term ‘neuromorphic’ was coined by Carver Mead in the 1980s. Mead, a pioneer in microelectronics, proposed to design electronic systems inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Since then, research in neuromorphic sensors has evolved, with key milestones such as the development of event cameras (e.g. Dynamic Vision Sensor, DVS) that mimic the behaviour of the human eye.

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Neuromorphic vision is closely linked to AI, providing highly optimised and relevant data for the training and execution of deep learning and machine learning algorithms. Some of its main contributions are:
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  2. Energy efficiency: neuromorphic vision significantly reduces energy consumption compared to traditional cameras, improving the sustainability of AI-based applications.
  3. Non-redundant data: event-specific detection allows AI systems to work with non-redundant data, improving accuracy in tasks such as object recognition or navigation.

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– Medical devices: supports some technologies such as visual prostheses or biomedical analysis.
– Security and surveillance: provides highly accurate real-time detection of suspicious movements and critical events.
– Industry and automation: aiding quality inspection systems, tracking objects on assembly lines, and industrial IoT systems.
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– Unconventional data processing: instead of conventional images, neuromorphic sensors generate data in event format, which requires specific algorithms and new paradigms to interpret the data.
– Specialised learning algorithms: New algorithms, such as spiking neural networks (SNNs), are needed that are compatible with the asynchronous and event-driven nature of the data.
– Scalability: Algorithms and systems need to be scalable for large-scale applications, which has not yet been fully achieved.
– Lack of expertise and training: There are few experts in neuromorphic vision, and it takes time and resources to build technical teams.
In summary, neuromorphic vision has transformative potential in multiple industries. Its implementation is strategic for companies seeking technological advantage in artificial intelligence applications.

Neuromorphic Vision and Artificial Intelligence in ARQUIMEA​

ARQUIMEA, from its research center located in the Canary Islands, has a research orbital dedicated to robotics and another to Artificial Intelligence that develops projects that explore the potential of neuromorphic vision.
In addition, all ARQUIMEA Research Center projects belong to the QCIRCLE project, co-funded by the European Union, which aims to create a center of scientific excellence in Spain
Found your post searching for Arquimea on Tsex.

An Embedded Software Research Engineer from Arquimea just liked one of Brainchip's recent LinkedIn posts.

Here's the post and like:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brai...p&rcm=ACoAABNRhjYBFfSUxFCyQN7T30eFUWBJTh-LcmM

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Nothing concrete but thought you'd like to know! Arquimea could be a rabbit hole worth chasing given we now know someone working there is aware of Brainchip.
 
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The two gentlemen standing next to Alf Kuchenbuch and Gilles Bézard in the top picture are Jules Lecomte and Axel von Arnim from fortiss, by the way!
Great to see them visiting the BrainChip booth!
Coincidentally, I had posted another picture with Jules Lecomte in it just two hours ago, regarding the CORINNE project… Or was it telepathy? 😉

Anyway, today was definitely not Jules Lecomte’s first encounter with Akida:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-447484

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great telepathy! well done!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!

Fortiss is the München/Munich-based Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems (https://www.fortiss.org/en/about-fortiss).
It is a non-profit limited company, whose shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria (2/3) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Fraunhofer Society (1/3).
They have been doing neuromorphic research for years, collaborating extensively with Intel, and as partners in the Human Brain Project also experimented quite a bit with SpiNNaker. In addition, they have also worked with IBM:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-418482

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As I mentioned in my above post last night, fortiss and neuroTUM (TU München) jointly organised a Neuromorphic Hackathon in mid-November, where a student team mentored by Jules Lecomte (fortiss), Gregor Lenz (Neurobus) and Arunkumar Rathinam (University of Luxembourg) won the challenge using Akida.

Note, though, that fortiss have also newly partnered with Innatera alongside us.


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Research partnerships:

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In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?
Yep. When I heard the BrainChip team proudly mention that existing partners visited their booth I kinda of thought surely they already communicate with each other enough. And don’t we already have enough customers to focus on. I think it’s fair enough having Tony as a keynote speaker, I can see the value. But how much value are we getting from our booth that’s 1/10 tenth of the size of Edge Impulses.
 
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I am a stage where I want the shareholders to tell Sean, Antonio and others to stay in America and hold the AGM on Zoom. Save the business class flights, hotels and meal allowances for a time when BrainChip is making a profit.
 
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In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?
Hi GazDix.
I sympathise with what you're expressing and having worked at a company that went the conference and trade show route, I felt the same way at the time.
And it took a hell of a lot of persistence and years of apparently wasted expense, before it eventually paid off.
In many cases the opportunity tide turned on the established reputation of being a major "player" in the market and getting to know and be known by the other significant entity's and their key personal.
It's the old "not what you know but who" that often opens doors to partnerships and opportunities that don't otherwise get advertised and much of it is done on a nod and a handshake, amongst known, and more significantly, trusted colleagues.
I could never keep up with him, but my boss who drove this strategy would spend each night of the trade shows out drinking and carousing with his contemporaries until they eventually became pals. Pals who do deals with each other.
It's also a good place to meet new players who sometimes have access to innovative or cheaper options that can be exploited.
It's still cut throat business, but eventually just showing up and being seen amongst the big boys starts to lend one some gravitas.
Of course you still need a compelling and competitive offering but waiting around to be discovered can take significantly longer, and faster growth is achieved through perceived presence in the market.
After initially being sceptical, then seeing it play out over time, I came away a believer.
So much in business comes down to "who" you know, and "who" knows you.
It was actually what first drew me to Sean.
His contacts. But, like I said, it takes time.
And longer than many of us wagered for, I think.
Although also still think that given they are now pushing for the redomicile, they must be close to a significant breakthrough.
I certainly bloody hope so. 🤣
 
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Hi GazDix.
I sympathise with what you're expressing and having worked at a company that went the conference and trade show route, I felt the same way at the time.
And it took a hell of a lot of persistence and years of apparently wasted expense, before it eventually paid off.
In many cases the opportunity tide turned on the established reputation of being a major "player" in the market and getting to know and be known by the other significant entity's and their key personal.
It's the old "not what you know but who" that often opens doors to partnerships and opportunities that don't otherwise get advertised and much of it is done on a nod and a handshake, amongst known, and more significantly, trusted colleagues.
I could never keep up with him, but my boss who drove this strategy would spend each night of the trade shows out drinking and carousing with his contemporaries until they eventually became pals. Pals who do deals with each other.
It's also a good place to meet new players who sometimes have access to innovative or cheaper options that can be exploited.
It's still cut throat business, but eventually just showing up and being seen amongst the big boys starts to lend one some gravitas.
Of course you still need a compelling and competitive offering but waiting around to be discovered can take significantly longer, and faster growth is achieved through perceived presence in the market.
After initially being sceptical, then seeing it play out over time, I came away a believer.
So much in business comes down to "who" you know, and "who" knows you.
It was actually what first drew me to Sean.
His contacts. But, like I said, it takes time.
And longer than many of us wagered for, I think.
Although also still think that given they are now pushing for the redomicile, they must be close to a significant breakthrough.
I certainly bloody hope so. 🤣
The drinking part sounds appealing.
 
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I am a stage where I want the shareholders to tell Sean, Antonio and others to stay in America and hold the AGM on Zoom. Save the business class flights, hotels and meal allowances for a time when BrainChip is making a profit.
Yeah not attending world renowned tech shows that a lot of big players attend to keep showcasing a revolutionary new product, and avoiding face to face confrontation at agm’s would be a real show of strength. Traction is needed soon, but what a bullshit couple of comments.
 
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!

Fortiss is the München/Munich-based Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems (https://www.fortiss.org/en/about-fortiss).
It is a non-profit limited company, whose shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria (2/3) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Fraunhofer Society (1/3).
They have been doing neuromorphic research for years, collaborating extensively with IBM and Intel.


As I mentioned in my above post last night, fortiss and neuroTUM (TU München) jointly organised a Neuromorphic Hackathon in mid-November, where a student team mentored by Jules Lecomte (fortiss), Gregor Lenz (Neurobus) and Arunkumar Rathinam (University of Luxembourg) won the challenge using Akida.

Note, though, that fortiss have also newly partnered with Innatera alongside us.


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Research partnerships:

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"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!"

...It is a non-profit limited company..




"It says PROFIT! I'm gonna be rich!"
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Shezza

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This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

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While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

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Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.
 
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manny100

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This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

View attachment 79260

While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

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Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.
Thanks Frangipani, Tata applied for the patent on 14/12/22 so they have been playing with it for over 2 years.
We just might be getting closer to another validation event via Tata sometime this year.
Not sure what product use or uses they have in mind for it.
TATA did say health and Industrial.
Now that Onsor has the honor of the 1st wearable i think we see plenty of work being done with AKIDA on all sorts of afflictions.
 
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In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?
I was thinking the same thing, We have had enough exposure to gain interest but obviously The Team are still chasing.......
 
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Yeah not attending world renowned tech shows that a lot of big players attend to keep showcasing a revolutionary new product, and avoiding face to face confrontation at agm’s would be a real show of strength. Traction is needed soon, but what a bullshit couple of comments.
Glad the Hawks will smash you tonight sunshine.
 
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