Hi Tech,
I've said many times that I think that one thing which has retarded commercialization has been the lack of silicon COTS, but I do recognize that, at the time the "IP only" decision was made we were under great financial constraints, so I was happy to see very recently that, in addition to the algorithm product announcement a few months ago, there was mention of silicon as a product, although we haven't been told which hat they are pulling it out of. However, the lack of silicon over the last few years has given our competitions (Synsense, Innatera, ...) a "first-to-market" type of advantage, while we shot ourselves in the foot by producing TENNs just as the ink was about to be applied to the paper. But even that has not stopped a number of customers/EAPs from being impressed with Akida 1.
There has been a constant stream of good news for a few years. Today, we see Tony Lewis praising TENNs in relation to the ISL announcement, but as everybody says, that won't even slightly lacerate the mustard without $$$$. So I've always been in the camp of those expecting a big announcement before the US move becomes a reality, and hopefully before the AGM.
Yes, "Too narrow" was something which, like "the market will do what the market will do"*, was poorly expressed (glib?). My interpretation is that the potential field of application was expanding exponentially, and some new applications required greater accuracy and compatibility with the de facto 8-bit standard, and greater context (NLP cf KWS).
* Actually, I think that, at that time, the US directors were not aware of how corrupt the ASX is. The scales have fallen from their eyes now, hence the move.
