Well that's what I would have said a couple of months ago, but it looks like the whole Akida circuit design has undergone a total overhaul recentlyMy opinion is I only wish the decision to tape out Akida 1500 was made a year ago as I believe it could have been. Glad it's happening finally yet long in the tooth imo.
https://brainchip.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Akida1-IP-Product-Brochure-V2.1-1.pdf
Akida 1
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Self-contained neural processor
• Scalable fabric of 1-128 nodes
• Each neural node supports 128MACs
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I'm guessing that the 1500 is still basically the same as Akida 1 minus the ARM Cortex processor, which would thus mean that 1500 supports 128 MACs per node. The MACs are 4*4 MACs.
I also wonder if the 1500 can be provided as an M.2 or PCIe board. That would involve some changes via MetaTF so the resident processor could supply the necessary configuration functionality that the ARM Cortex provides for Akida 1.
The supply of 1500 chips on their own indicates a fairly sophisticated customer who has the ability to perform the precision soldering to have the chip attached to a PCB.
EDIT: I should qualify this by saying that I do not know for sure that the Akida circuit has been changed, but the MACs are new to me.
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