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Didn’t I say we probably wouldnt get any more announcement on social media after we all had a moaned that they should putting them on the asx instead. I thinks that’s a kick in the balls for us share holders and we now get nothing
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Some large numbers being sold at .21. Let’s see the short numbers in a week
Unless selling due to EOY taxes
Unless selling due to EOY taxes
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Well it was 8 years from the 1st switch to the 2nd so switch 4 will probably be around 2044 so please stop down ramping
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Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the
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Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System
June 16, 2025 Jeffrey Burt
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the development of neuromorphic computing, hardware that looks to mimic the structure and function of the human brain.
It’s a subject that The Next Platform has spent a lot of time tracking its development, from possible operating systems for the systems and military interest to the need for partners and software to help bring useful neuromorphic computing to reality. As with other computing paradigms – quantum comes to mind – these things take time.
That said, sentiment in recent months seemingly has shifted from the technology itself to what will help break it out of its niche status and into the mainstream. Proof-of-concepts are being run and systems are scaling. A goal now appears to be finding that so-called “killer app,” the use case that will propel the technology forward.
Potential abounds. In a paper in Nature in January argued that neuromorphic computing is ready to make the leap into production environments, and in another Nature paper in April noted the power-efficient capabilities of the technology in pointing to such areas as Internet of Things and edge processing. AI is another area, given the electricity-hungry nature of the GPUs and the systems they power for training AI models. Neuromorphic systems may be able alleviate some of these demands.
Flying The Efficiency Flag
SpiNNcloud, the four-year-old company that in 2021 spun out of the Dresden University of Technology and whose chip architecture – SpiNNaker1 (the chip on the left below) – was designed by Steve Furber, the driving force behind the creation of the Arm microprocessor, is carrying that message of power efficiency and AI. On the landing page of its website, the company touts its SpiNNaker2 as the foundation of the “ultra energy-efficient infrastructure for new-generation AI inference,” at 18 times more efficient than the GPUs that are powering many AI systems now.The upcoming successor, SpiNNext (on the right), will come in 78 times more efficient, according to the company.
SpiNNcloud will now be able do to put the SpiNNaker2 architecture to the test. The German company launched the hybrid AI-level HPC platform, made it commercially available, and said that the Sandia National Laboratories – along with institutions like Technical University of München and Universität Göttingen in Germany – was among its first customers.
This week, company executives announced that Sandia has deployed SpiNNaker2, which simulates about 175 million neurons and is among the top five largest computing platforms based on how the human brain works.
(Photo Credit: Craig Fritz, Sandia National Labs)“Last time was a generic announcement: We started to work with Sandía,” Hector Gonzalez, co-founder and chief executive officer for SpiNNcloud, told The Next Platform. “They received the system, the supercomputer, and they’re going to be working with it in a few applications.”
24 Boards With 48 Chips Each
What the Sandia scientists stood up is a highly parallel architecture with 24 boards, each of which holds 48 SpiNNaker2 chips that are interconnected in toroidal topologies. Each microchip has 152 Arm-based low-power processing elements that are interconnected in a network-on-chip, Gonzalez said.
“The microchips get grouped into boards of 48 chips, and then these boards get also interconnected between boards to boards,” he said. “We have high-speed links that have been custom designed to expand the hierarchies of the boards. Then we interconnect the boards in a strategic way so that you build those toroidal large-scale networks. You fold them strategically so that you always ensure the shortest communication path. There is actually software that we use to find the right connectivity so the system starts to send packages and packets. Then there is a lead-based system that we identify for wiring the infrastructure. Once it’s wired, you put them into rack-based systems. Then we built large-scale systems using this technology.”
He noted the power-efficiency advantage over GPUs as well as other benefits. “Something that you can do that you cannot do with a GPU is that you can have super-fine granular control of all these 175K cores. This is one of the distinguishing factors. The system is a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous, so the individual processes can be fully controlled and you can fully isolate paths within the processor. This is … very difficult to do in a GPU because essentially in a GPU, you have these streams of multi-processors [where it’s] harder to isolate the paths.”
In addition, Gonzalez said the microchip is not what’s typically found in a neuromorphic system because it doesn’t commit to spiking neurons [which mimic how the brain processes information through electrical pulses]. With SpiNNaker2, “you can pretty much implement [and] leverage these event-based characteristics from the neuromorphic domain, even in the mainstream DNN domain, even in mainstream deep neural networks. At the same time, it also lets you scale up neural symbolic models. Because it’s fully programmable, you can actually scale up neural symbolic modes, like reasoners that have a symbolic layer, where at the same time you have neural layers.”
Sandia Labs is no stranger to neuromorphic computing. A year ago, it added to its arsenal with the Hala Point system powered by Intel’s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor, using the system to test AI workloads and how the performance compares with systems running on CPUs, GPUs, and other chips. The addition of SpiNNaker2 is part of the same ongoing initiative at Sandia to use such architectures to run energy-efficient AI applications that consume less power than traditional GPU-based systems, the company said.
SpiNNcloud’s Gonzalez outlined a number of applications for SpiNNaker2, including small multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) that are deployed at scale in every processor. The MLPs are small, so using a GPU would be overkill, he said, “but then you have many, many of them, and these MLPs are designed to find molecules. It’s designed to have pattern matching between molecules in the drug discovery processes and also databases of profiles of patients. This is a strategy to do highly parallel drug discovery very efficiently.”
Others include QUBO–based optimization or logistics problems that can address different types of complex mathematical simulations and challenges that involve random worker algorithms, which use randomness to explore solutions to various problems.
“You just simulate this worker so you deploy this worker at scale and then you can do complex mathematical simulation leveraging the large-scale characteristics of the system,” Gonzalez said.
A Call For Sparsity
SpiNNcloud will continue to create the architecture to support generative AI algorithms that can run machine learning workloads through dynamic sparsity, fueled by recent breakthroughs in machine learning that is moving the industry from dense modeling to extreme dynamic sparsity, where only a subset of neural pathways is activated based on the input into the system, which the company said help address the energy challenges in current AI computing.“There is very interesting directions where you get to find [and] granularly execute only parts of the network to retrieve the outputs,” Gonzalez said. “This is what is known today as mixture of experts. People in this field have shown that the larger the number of experts you have, you can actually reduce the computational work. The sparsity is very large. You have a computational footprint that’s very small. You get to reduce significantly the computational cost of these models. The problem is that standard hardware today is not designed for this fine granular isolation of paths, and this is where this type of very hybrid hardware that has characteristics from neuromorphic – so it has event-based communication – has a huge impact to offer into this mainstream AI domain. Essentially, you get two isolate paths, whereas the standard architectures like GPUs and all the GPU derivatives – Cerebras, SambaNova – they are optimized towards the regular 10 cases. They work better when you have fully utilized blocks.”
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I’d like to see that fit in my hearing aid
Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the
Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System
June 16, 2025 Jeffrey Burt
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the development of neuromorphic computing, hardware that looks to mimic the structure and function of the human brain.
It’s a subject that The Next Platform has spent a lot of time tracking its development, from possible operating systems for the systems and military interest to the need for partners and software to help bring useful neuromorphic computing to reality. As with other computing paradigms – quantum comes to mind – these things take time.
That said, sentiment in recent months seemingly has shifted from the technology itself to what will help break it out of its niche status and into the mainstream. Proof-of-concepts are being run and systems are scaling. A goal now appears to be finding that so-called “killer app,” the use case that will propel the technology forward.
Potential abounds. In a paper in Nature in January argued that neuromorphic computing is ready to make the leap into production environments, and in another Nature paper in April noted the power-efficient capabilities of the technology in pointing to such areas as Internet of Things and edge processing. AI is another area, given the electricity-hungry nature of the GPUs and the systems they power for training AI models. Neuromorphic systems may be able alleviate some of these demands.
Flying The Efficiency Flag
SpiNNcloud, the four-year-old company that in 2021 spun out of the Dresden University of Technology and whose chip architecture – SpiNNaker1 (the chip on the left below) – was designed by Steve Furber, the driving force behind the creation of the Arm microprocessor, is carrying that message of power efficiency and AI. On the landing page of its website, the company touts its SpiNNaker2 as the foundation of the “ultra energy-efficient infrastructure for new-generation AI inference,” at 18 times more efficient than the GPUs that are powering many AI systems now.
The upcoming successor, SpiNNext (on the right), will come in 78 times more efficient, according to the company.
SpiNNcloud will now be able do to put the SpiNNaker2 architecture to the test. The German company launched the hybrid AI-level HPC platform, made it commercially available, and said that the Sandia National Laboratories – along with institutions like Technical University of München and Universität Göttingen in Germany – was among its first customers.
This week, company executives announced that Sandia has deployed SpiNNaker2, which simulates about 175 million neurons and is among the top five largest computing platforms based on how the human brain works.
(Photo Credit: Craig Fritz, Sandia National Labs)
“Last time was a generic announcement: We started to work with Sandía,” Hector Gonzalez, co-founder and chief executive officer for SpiNNcloud, told The Next Platform. “They received the system, the supercomputer, and they’re going to be working with it in a few applications.”
24 Boards With 48 Chips Each
What the Sandia scientists stood up is a highly parallel architecture with 24 boards, each of which holds 48 SpiNNaker2 chips that are interconnected in toroidal topologies. Each microchip has 152 Arm-based low-power processing elements that are interconnected in a network-on-chip, Gonzalez said.
“The microchips get grouped into boards of 48 chips, and then these boards get also interconnected between boards to boards,” he said. “We have high-speed links that have been custom designed to expand the hierarchies of the boards. Then we interconnect the boards in a strategic way so that you build those toroidal large-scale networks. You fold them strategically so that you always ensure the shortest communication path. There is actually software that we use to find the right connectivity so the system starts to send packages and packets. Then there is a lead-based system that we identify for wiring the infrastructure. Once it’s wired, you put them into rack-based systems. Then we built large-scale systems using this technology.”
He noted the power-efficiency advantage over GPUs as well as other benefits. “Something that you can do that you cannot do with a GPU is that you can have super-fine granular control of all these 175K cores. This is one of the distinguishing factors. The system is a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous, so the individual processes can be fully controlled and you can fully isolate paths within the processor. This is … very difficult to do in a GPU because essentially in a GPU, you have these streams of multi-processors [where it’s] harder to isolate the paths.”
In addition, Gonzalez said the microchip is not what’s typically found in a neuromorphic system because it doesn’t commit to spiking neurons [which mimic how the brain processes information through electrical pulses]. With SpiNNaker2, “you can pretty much implement [and] leverage these event-based characteristics from the neuromorphic domain, even in the mainstream DNN domain, even in mainstream deep neural networks. At the same time, it also lets you scale up neural symbolic models. Because it’s fully programmable, you can actually scale up neural symbolic modes, like reasoners that have a symbolic layer, where at the same time you have neural layers.”
Sandia Labs is no stranger to neuromorphic computing. A year ago, it added to its arsenal with the Hala Point system powered by Intel’s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor, using the system to test AI workloads and how the performance compares with systems running on CPUs, GPUs, and other chips. The addition of SpiNNaker2 is part of the same ongoing initiative at Sandia to use such architectures to run energy-efficient AI applications that consume less power than traditional GPU-based systems, the company said.
SpiNNcloud’s Gonzalez outlined a number of applications for SpiNNaker2, including small multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) that are deployed at scale in every processor. The MLPs are small, so using a GPU would be overkill, he said, “but then you have many, many of them, and these MLPs are designed to find molecules. It’s designed to have pattern matching between molecules in the drug discovery processes and also databases of profiles of patients. This is a strategy to do highly parallel drug discovery very efficiently.”
Others include QUBO–based optimization or logistics problems that can address different types of complex mathematical simulations and challenges that involve random worker algorithms, which use randomness to explore solutions to various problems.
“You just simulate this worker so you deploy this worker at scale and then you can do complex mathematical simulation leveraging the large-scale characteristics of the system,” Gonzalez said.
A Call For Sparsity
SpiNNcloud will continue to create the architecture to support generative AI algorithms that can run machine learning workloads through dynamic sparsity, fueled by recent breakthroughs in machine learning that is moving the industry from dense modeling to extreme dynamic sparsity, where only a subset of neural pathways is activated based on the input into the system, which the company said help address the energy challenges in current AI computing.
“There is very interesting directions where you get to find [and] granularly execute only parts of the network to retrieve the outputs,” Gonzalez said. “This is what is known today as mixture of experts. People in this field have shown that the larger the number of experts you have, you can actually reduce the computational work. The sparsity is very large. You have a computational footprint that’s very small. You get to reduce significantly the computational cost of these models. The problem is that standard hardware today is not designed for this fine granular isolation of paths, and this is where this type of very hybrid hardware that has characteristics from neuromorphic – so it has event-based communication – has a huge impact to offer into this mainstream AI domain. Essentially, you get two isolate paths, whereas the standard architectures like GPUs and all the GPU derivatives – Cerebras, SambaNova – they are optimized towards the regular 10 cases. They work better when you have fully utilized blocks.”
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Anyone seen Mr. Hehir 
You are very late. This update is already a couple of days available and it was discussed in forums.
Please remember: You want to sell your BC shares!!
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Just like the promised revenue........ Coming Soon!
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I'm alright , never had balls in the first placeDidn’t I say we probably wouldnt get any more announcement on social media after we all had a moaned that they should putting them on the asx instead. I thinks that’s a kick in the balls for us share holders and we now get nothing
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Founding Member.
You were lead to believe in the company?
By who?(Be specific)
When you invest in a company generally you do some kind of research on the company before you invest in it.
Did YOU do this? Then when YOU decided to throw money at it. Did YOU continue to do research and keep updated on whats going on?
You say you No Longer believe that the company is going to succeed. So obviously YOU have seen something that has brought YOU to that conclusion.
Notice how I emphasised the word YOU there. That implies that it is YOU who made the decision to firstly research what the company does, then YOU decided to invest, then YOU continued to research and follow the progress of the company and now YOU find yourself no longer believing in what the company is trying to achieve for reasons XYZ.
To be honest with you if I were in your shoes I know exactly what I would do next. I'm not going to tell you what that is because that is a decision that ONLY YOU can make.
For the record we all make bad decisions and anyone that says otherwise is flat out lying. I've sold shares in 2 companies this year. 1 because I bought hype and got my ass handed to me and the other funnily enough I should have held on to as it has now done a x3 from my original buy price. I sold it at 150% profit.
I'm still invested in Brainchip because I still firmly believe that they will be successful. That is MY BELIEF. Taking a bit longer than I expected but hey I can't control that.
Sometimes I imagine how a typical Brainchip dev meeting goes down:
Sean walks into the office, coffee in hand:
“So… what do we have today? Anything better than TENNs or… Pick…Piks ? Or whatever that other thing was called? You know what I mean. Steve? Got anything new?”
Steve, nervously:
“Uh… no, sir. I mean, we don’t really… but I was thinking, sir… maybe we could just, like, cut the PICO chip in half and call it Akida Atto.
We could say we’re still working on it… that would buy us some time, sir.”
Sean (sips coffee):
“Steve… you’re a genius. 5 million shares for you. Let’s do it.”
And who knows.. maybe they read my post, look each other in their eyes and say…”fu… let’s do this”!
Sean walks into the office, coffee in hand:
“So… what do we have today? Anything better than TENNs or… Pick…Piks ? Or whatever that other thing was called? You know what I mean. Steve? Got anything new?”
Steve, nervously:
“Uh… no, sir. I mean, we don’t really… but I was thinking, sir… maybe we could just, like, cut the PICO chip in half and call it Akida Atto.
We could say we’re still working on it… that would buy us some time, sir.”
Sean (sips coffee):
“Steve… you’re a genius. 5 million shares for you. Let’s do it.”
And who knows.. maybe they read my post, look each other in their eyes and say…”fu… let’s do this”!
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If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
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Intel’s is overhauling its engineering leadership team in an effort to help with its AI comeback. New hires include executives such as Jean-Didier Allegrucci (AI SoC) and Shailendra Desai (AI architecture) signals a pivot toward AI-first development, with neuromorphic computing potentially in the spotlight.
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Intel’s is overhauling its engineering leadership team in an effort to help with its AI comeback. New hires include executives such as Jean-Didier Allegrucci (AI SoC) and Shailendra Desai (AI architecture) signals a pivot toward AI-first development, with neuromorphic computing potentially in the spotlight.
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Intel Starts Re-Engineering Its Executive Ranks
It has been two and a half months since new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan gave the keynote at Intel’s Vision 2025 event, and the company has been
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