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Him link no work
It says in his biography on linkden he has secured 2 plus million in IP sales for brainchip
 

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Defense Contractors Working with Akida​

Contractor / PartnerFocus AreaAkida’s RolePublic Status
RTX (Raytheon)Radar / AFRL contractNeuromorphic radar signal processing (micro‑Doppler signatures, target discrimination)Confirmed $1.8M AFRL contract (2025)
Bascom HunterRF systems, SATCOM, defense electronicsEvaluating Akida for low‑power, real‑time AI in communications and defense systemsTrials ongoing, no public AFRL tie‑in
Parsons (via Blue Ridge Envisioneering)Edge AI defense platformsIntegrating Akida into mission‑ready edge AI systems for defense and intelligenceStrategic partnership announced Oct 2025
ArquimeaDrones / rescue systemsUsing Akida with Prophesee event‑based cameras for autonomous swimmer detectionPublicly announced partnership
Quantum Ventura (with Lockheed Martin MFC)CybersecurityCyberNeuro‑RT tool using Akida for real‑time threat detectionConfirmed collaboration
Asked chat box to summarise it for me. Nothing new but good to see it all together. No doubt there is a few on NDA as well. The recent video has Sean saying defense is going well. Apart from the connections mentioned by 'Chat' Sean did say in the video there is also 'interest' for ground troops.
Arquima is included as it is a big defense supplier in the EU and to NATO. It also has announced a partnership with Lockheed.

Key Insights​

  • Multiple entry points: Akida is being tested across radar, RF/comm, drones, cybersecurity, and edge AI defense platforms.
  • Defense ecosystem: RTX and AFRL give Akida credibility in radar; Parsons expands it into edge AI defense systems; Bascom Hunter explores RF/comm; Arquimea applies it to drones; Lockheed indirectly touches it via Quantum Ventura.
  • Strategic trajectory: This spread suggests Akida is positioning itself as a common neuromorphic AI platform across defense contractors, with potential for convergence in future joint programs.
 
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They deleted both posts from LinkedIn and X… hope he don’t get a call from Sean 😱 but how? Because he left Brainchip… is he again working for us? I’m confused…
 
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What about that ?

 
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Think management may have just been caught with their pants down, If true and I say if, would explain the exodus of sales staff, Probably didn’t want a bar of what they knew was highly illegal. They wanted to shout to the rooftops the IP Deals but management have somehow been able to withhold this im formation from the market and shareholders,OH my this don’t look good. IN THE WORDS OF PAULINE HANSON ‘please explain should be coming from the ASX. Anyone with the full attachment should forward it straight to ASIC and the ASX.
 
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Think management may have just been caught with their pants down, If true and I say if, would explain the exodus of sales staff, Probably didn’t want a bar of what they knew was highly illegal. They wanted to shout to the rooftops the IP Deals but management have somehow been able to withhold this im formation from the market and shareholders,OH my this don’t look good. IN THE WORDS OF PAULINE HANSON ‘please explain should be coming from the ASX. Anyone with the full attachment should forward it straight to ASIC and the ASX.
Would you consider Renesas and Megachips IP wins?...he may have been involved on the technical side getting these across the line. That'd be my thoughts....though the lynch mob will look for anything to hang the BOD I guess.
 
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Would you consider Renesas and Megachips IP wins?...he may have been involved on the technical side getting these across the line. That'd be my thoughts....though the lynch mob will look for anything to hang the BOD I guess.
Lynch mob, even THE POM is scratching his head, May explain why the shorters are so confident if they know nothing will be announced until a certain date. But where is the 2 million where has it shown up in the financials, Where is the announcement of IP DEALS, But don’t worry the may have announced it on the back page under the sex ads of the Zimbabwean news🤣😂🤣😂
 
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Lynch mob, even THE POM is scratching his head, May explain why the shorters are so confident if they know nothing will be announced until a certain date. But where is the 2 million where has it shown up in the financials, Where is the announcement of IP DEALS, But don’t worry the may have announced it on the back page under the sex ads of the Zimbabwean news🤣😂🤣😂
Google's your friend (y)

Both Renesas and Megachips were Ann'd which you already know.
 
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Would you consider Renesas and Megachips IP wins?...he may have been involved on the technical side getting these across the line. That'd be my thoughts....though the lynch mob will look for anything to hang the BOD I guess.
This is straight away what I thought @Fullmoonfever! Pretty sure he was around at the time of those IP signings.
 
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But was there 2million dollars announced in the financials around the megachip and Renesas time,that would back up that statement??
 
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Is he back

This Halloween, intelligence comes alive on the edge 👻

At embedded world North America 2025, we're showcasing TENNS 1B, our state-space model built for the Akida platform. Designed for real-time reasoning and efficient edge performance, it proves that true intelligence doesn't need the cloud to think fast.

Smaller, smarter, and closer to the data source. The future of AI is alive and thinking ⚡🧠

A special thank you to Nikunj Kotecha, our Senior Solutions Architect, for breaking down how Akida makes on-device AI truly intelligent. Your expertise helps us show the world what purposeful AI looks like in action. 🙌

See us at:
📍 embedded world North America 2025
📅 November 4–6, 2025
📌 Anaheim Convention Center
🏠 Booth 3080

Yes, Nikunj Kotecha is apparently back (after he had left BrainChip almost two years ago), which I personally consider very positive news.

When I shared a post by Lloyd Watts earlier this week that included a recent photo taken at BrainChip’s Laguna Hills office, I had actually wondered whether the gentleman standing next to Tony Lewis was indeed Nikunj Kotecha (what a pleasant surprise!) or just someone strongly resembling him - he is also wearing different glasses now compared to earlier photos.


https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-477022

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So I checked out his LinkedIn profile that day, which didn’t give any indication, though, that he had returned to work for us or collaborated with our company in his capacity as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Coastaloupe.

As of today, he still hasn’t updated his profile, even now that BrainChip posted the video featuring him as a Senior Solutions Architect (which was also his previous job title) talking about TENNS 1B (he refers to it as TENNS LLM in the video), the compact state-space model running directly on the Akida FPGA platform that BrainChip is going to showcase at embedded world North America 2025 next week:


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It remains to be seen whether this is just a temporary contract or (hopefully) the return to a permanent position.
 
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But was there 2million dollars announced in the financials around the megachip and Renesas time,that would back up that statement??
Don't know....why don't you go have a look?
 
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The 2 million was predicted by the megachips license according to that article

“He led BrainChip technical team in securing a multi-year license agreement for its Intellectual Property (IP) of Akida AI accelerator with MegaChips, a japanese based global fabless semiconductor company. The multi-year licensing valued in millions and a $2 million forecast expected in royalties”

 
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Of course, it is totally possible whoever remaining at Brainchip is smart enough to continue this line of work. But may be hard to tell until there is a concrete patent filing or publication in top AI conferences for TENNs, which we have yet to seen without Olivier or Rudy. So does TENNs even have a future at Brainchip, or would the company take another 5 years pivoting to a new product line? "Could be, who knows?" as eloquently remarked by Dr. Tony Lewis ..

Engineers are logging their work down for others in the company to see, so anyone with expertise in this field can carry on where they left, it's not like they have done a Nobel Prize worthy discovery, is it?
Those 2 guys are not gods, O made problems and got 5 cold toes in the ass. R wanted to work for N and left. And that's that, end of story!

O and R are not gods, but I doubt Brainchip can just easily hire "experts in the field" off the street either. Maybe try a deep research with ChatGPT to see whoever left really have the "expertise". And I'm talking about engineers who do actual work, not yappers

Well said, @bludybludblud.

And @Guzzi62 is doing them injustice, seemingly blind to their major contributions over the years. Anyone who disagrees with me on this, please take the time to read the following:

Take a look at the names of the five inventors of BrainChip’s award-winning Eye-Tracking TENNs model. Sadly, our company will no longer benefit from this creative quintet’s synergistic mix of talents for future TENNs models:



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Sébastian Crouzet and Rudy Pei have since both left our company.
Five weeks ago, Olivier Coenen shared on LinkedIn that he was fired.
It looks as if we are also about to lose Sasskia Brüers-Freyssinet, judging from the changes she made in her LinkedIn profile shortly after Olivier Coenen was let go - all of a sudden, she uploaded a profile photo and changed her status to “Open To Work”.
That would leave Douglas McLelland as the only remaining-with-BrainChip inventor of this SOTA-leading TENNs model.

Keep this in mind when rereading Olivier Coenen’s 6+month-old LinkedIn post that he titled “On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation”. While all the TENNs patents would highly likely have been assigned to the inventors’ employer, ie. BrainChip, our former Senior Research Scientist warned of the potential consequences when crucial staff are not retained:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_on-the-importance-of-talent-and-expertise-activity-7314016757499711489-gCAg?

“Patents, while valuable, are often meaningless without the continued involvement and expertise of the individuals who created them. True innovation is fundamentally driven by talent, knowledge and experience - not merely by patents alone. Investing in people is equally, if not more, important than investing in technology itself.”

Only time will tell whether or not he will be right with respect to TENNs.
One thing is indisputable, though: there would be no TENNs models today without Olivier Coenen and Rudy Pei.

While our company may possibly attract equally gifted talent to replace those that are no longer employed with us (whatever the reason), no one should blame us shareholders, the co-owners of this company, to be concerned about the exodus of some of those brilliant minds who were instrumental in getting the company to where it is today thanks to their talent, passion, perspiration and perseverance, in an environment where they were able to flourish - at the time.

The recent return of Nikunj Kotecha is wonderful news, but doesn’t alter my opinion that the departure of numerous valuable experts has been an unfortunate loss for our company.

And I find it highly disrespectful of you, @Guzzi62, to dismiss Rudy Pei and Olivier Coenen as “some uninteresting ex employees”, thereby virtually ignoring their immensely valuable contributions to our company over the years.

And I’m not only referring to TENNs here. Let’s also not forget the USD 1.8 million AFRL award (of which USD 800,000 are payable to our subcontractor Raytheon/RTX). As I mentioned at the time of his sacking, it seems Olivier Coenen was instrumental in securing this SBIR II award and also served as the project’s PI:


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I'd advise everyone to listen to what our CTO Tony Lewis said about his (now ex-) colleagues 18 months ago during his presentation at NICE 2024 (Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference):




From 0:05 min:

"So a lot of the work that I'm gonna talk about is work, where the foundation was really made by two of my co-authors here - Rudy and Olivier. They laid the foundation to [?] this work a couple of years ago, and this is in turn based on other work that's been going on for 40 or 50 years. But we finally figured out a way of putting it all together and doing some kind of interesting things."

From 20:04 min:

"This polynomial space is really intriguing. And it would never have come into my knowledge set if I hadn't collaborated with the two physicists who are on my team."



And please also take a minute to read what Anil Mankar and Kris Carlson commented under another of Olivier Coenen’s LinkedIn posts, which he published shortly before the one I quoted above:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_innovation-is-often-viewed-as-driven-solely-activity-7313242078317056004-H8oU?

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“Some uninteresting ex employees”? Seriously?
That’s plain ridiculous!
 
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