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[Bravo]

Approved watching techniques - Just have a look out your window:


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I really appreciate the guidance, Dodgy-Knees!

I must have completely misunderstood the watching protocol because my technique was like this.

But I’ll adopt your technique in future and report back.

 

[supersonic001]

#leadership #entrepreneurship #deeptech #semiconductors #neuromorphicvision #innovation #startups #techleadership | Luca Verre | 83 comments

Today is one of those days that stay with you. After much reflection, and following a decision I took a few weeks ago, I’ve decided to step down as CEO and Board Member of PROPHESEE. To the team, shareholders, customers, partners, and friends: thank you! You challenged me, supported me, and...

www.linkedin.com

Hmmm, what’s next Luca ………

 

[genyl]

For me the question is how low will the SP go before mid/late next year. It is pretty clear they most likely won't annonce a big contract before the Parsons deal. We will probably get some partnership news before then but those won't move the SP north.
Holding - since my average is around 0.29 which i thought at some point was a very good entry point..

 

[Diogenese]

I really appreciate the guidance, Dodgy-Knees!

I must have completely misunderstood the watching protocol because my technique was like this.


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But I’ll adopt your technique in future and report back.

Ditch the bubble gum and you've got it to a T.

 

[Tothemoon24]

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform

Renesas advances its SDV strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a multi-domain automotive SoC

www.eenewseurope.com

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform​

New Products | December 22, 2025
By eeNews Europe
AUTOMOTIVE SDV RENESASEMBEDDED DESIGN

---

Renesas Electronics has taken another step in its software-defined vehicle (SDV) strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a new multi-domain automotive SoC and a broader end-to-end development environment. According to the company, the move is aimed squarely at accelerating the design of highly integrated, AI-driven vehicle architectures.


For eeNews Europe readers, the announcement is relevant because it highlights how leading silicon vendors are converging ADAS, infotainment, and gateway workloads onto a single, safety-capable compute platform. It also offers insight into how open software stacks and early silicon access are being used to shorten automotive development cycles.

3nm multi-domain compute for SDVs​

At the core of the platform is the R-Car X5H, the latest device in the Gen 5 R-Car family. According to Renesas, it is the industry’s first multi-domain automotive SoC manufactured on a 3nm process. The company indicates that the device is designed to run advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and gateway functions concurrently on a single chip.

The company says the move to an advanced process node delivers up to 35% lower power consumption compared with previous 5nm solutions, while significantly increasing compute density. The SoC targets centralized SDV architectures, combining high performance with mixed-criticality support so that safety-related and non-safety workloads can coexist without compromise.


The R-Car X5H delivers up to 400 TOPS of AI performance, with the option to scale further using chiplet-based accelerators that can boost AI throughput by four times or more. Graphics performance reaches the equivalent of 4 TFLOPS, supported by a CPU complex of 32 Arm Cortex-A720AE cores and six Cortex-R52 lockstep cores with ASIL D capability, providing more than 1,000k DMIPS.

RoX Whitebox SDK targets faster development​

Alongside the new silicon, Renesas says it is expanding its R-Car Open Access (RoX) development platform with the RoX Whitebox Software Development Kit. The SDK is positioned as an open, scalable environment that integrates hardware, operating systems, middleware, and tools needed for next-generation SDV development.

The Whitebox SDK is built on Linux, Android and the XEN hypervisor, with additional support for AUTOSAR, EB corbos Linux, QNX, Red Hat and SafeRTOS through partners. Out of the box, developers can begin work on ADAS, L3/L4 autonomy, intelligent cockpit and gateway applications.

An integrated AI and ADAS software stack supports real-time perception and sensor fusion, while generative AI and large language models are intended to enable more advanced human–machine interfaces in future AI-driven cockpits, the company notes. The SDK also incorporates production-grade software from partners including Candera, DSP Concepts, Nullmax, Smart Eye, STRADVISION and ThunderSoft.

Sampling and demos​

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

I

 

[manny100]

This might be a silly question, but when Sean said "watch us now", I'm curious to know what it is we're supposed to be watching? How are we meant to watch what it is we're watching and what do you think constitutes acceptable watching?

I’m concerned I may be non-compliant. There is a distinct possibility I’ve been watching the wrong thing, or the correct thing in an unapproved manner. What if my watching technique itself is flawed?

Are we supposed to watch each other? Are we meant to glance occasionally sideways or stare intensely at it for extended periods without blinking? Are you allowed to watch it when you're hiding behind a pot plant?

Is anyone else just pretending to watch while actually looking at nothing and hoping it still counts? (Not saying I've been doing that. I think my migraine proves that I've been watching to the best of my focal abilities).

Any guidance on watching standards, thresholds, or escalation procedures would be appreciated so I can continue watching in accordance with expectations.

TIA.

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I think we need to look at the recent videos by Steve Brightfield and Sean for their use of the key words - watch and now. The 'now' word Sean used caused an absolute meltdown and fear amongst downrampers over on the crapper.
Steve only used the 'now' word once from memory but went he straight for the adoption throat.
At the 35.20/25 Steve uttered in his video " I think we are seeing rapid adoption now". That is what we are looking/watching for.
In the AUSXBUS video Sean said " And so when does revenue really start to hit its stride? We believe right about now is the right time."
A little later Sean used the 'plenty of now and a couple of watch ' words in an exchange with the interviewer.
" So we think right about now, so you can look for some activity over the coming quarters and years, starting right about now, because there has been some criticism, if I'm fair in the market, the brain chip, it's volatile stock that it's sort of a story right now rather than an actual business. What do you say to that? I say to that, that watch us now. Just watch us now."
According to both Steve and Sean we are getting pretty close to some good things.
I recall Steve in an interview months prior to the Onsor news saying that wearable glasses were being looked at.
In his recent interview he stated rapid adoption for off the shelf Ear Buds/hearing aids and dropped a hint concerning Migraine wearables.

 

[Flenton]

I think we need to look at the recent videos by Steve Brightfield and Sean for their use of the key words - watch and now. The 'now' word Sean used caused an absolute meltdown and fear amongst downrampers over on the crapper.
Steve only used the 'now' word once from memory but went he straight for the adoption throat.
At the 35.20/25 Steve uttered in his video " I think we are seeing rapid adoption now". That is what we are looking/watching for.
In the AUSXBUS video Sean said " And so when does revenue really start to hit its stride? We believe right about now is the right time."
A little later Sean used the 'plenty of now and a couple of watch ' words in an exchange with the interviewer.
" So we think right about now, so you can look for some activity over the coming quarters and years, starting right about now, because there has been some criticism, if I'm fair in the market, the brain chip, it's volatile stock that it's sort of a story right now rather than an actual business. What do you say to that? I say to that, that watch us now. Just watch us now."
According to both Steve and Sean we are getting pretty close to some good things.
I recall Steve in an interview months prior to the Onsor news saying that wearable glasses were being looked at.
In his recent interview he stated rapid adoption for off the shelf Ear Buds/hearing aids and dropped a hint concerning Migraine wearables.

Don't forget this comment at 16:40... and you were saying that one day everyone will have a brainchip in their pocket.

 

[TECH]

At the 25 minute mark of Steve Brightfields interview he said Ear buds will become medically certified hearing aids off the shelf. That is potentially huge.
Disaster for hearing aid producers and sellers?
At 28 min on he says we have a customer with smart glasses and they can detect from brainwave activity whether it be migraine, in this case detecting Epileptic seizures before it happens.
That looks a giveaway that Migraine prediction is being worked on at least - another Onsor project?
Migraine detecton would be huge.

That was a great podcast, I really like Steve, he communicates very clearly, he knows his stuff and presents to me as a great ambassador for Brainchip.

Clearly, Sean's IP approach solely was wrong, a combined IP/Chip approach has now proven to be the best path forward, who told us that, that's correct, our partners and early customers, they recognised that the financial risk in outlying tens of millions of dollars in IP blocks within their own products at this early stage in neuromorphic chip technology was and still is too greater a risk... hence AKD 1000 and AKD 1500 are very, very relevant.

I see this acknowledgement by the company as a positive step, no arrogance here, fantastic!!

If we wish to succeed, we must always be open in our thinking, willing to adapt at short notice, like I and a number of other long termers mentioned at the time, AKD 1000 was too narrow, was absolute bullshit..yes we were short on funding, BUT, the movement to an ARM business model was premature and has potentially cost us a few years in progress....purely my self-centred opinion and my bais support for Peter and Anil, AKD 1000 was and will always be the masterstroke that set Brainchip on the road to success, despite taking 4 years longer than I had quietly hoped for.

Thanks for your input Manny over the last year, have a nice Christmas mate, God bless.
Tech/Chris

 

[manny100]

That was a great podcast, I really like Steve, he communicates very clearly, he knows his stuff and presents to me as a great ambassador for Brainchip.

Clearly, Sean's IP approach solely was wrong, a combined IP/Chip approach has now proven to be the best path forward, who told us that, that's correct, our partners and early customers, they recognised that the financial risk in outlying tens of millions of dollars in IP blocks within their own products at this early stage in neuromorphic chip technology was and still is too greater a risk... hence AKD 1000 and AKD 1500 are very, very relevant.

I see this acknowledgement by the company as a positive step, no arrogance here, fantastic!!

If we wish to succeed, we must always be open in our thinking, willing to adapt at short notice, like I and a number of other long termers mentioned at the time, AKD 1000 was too narrow, was absolute bullshit..yes we were short on funding, BUT, the movement to an ARM business model was premature and has potentially cost us a few years in progress....purely my self-centred opinion and my bais support for Peter and Anil, AKD 1000 was and will always be the masterstroke that set Brainchip on the road to success, despite taking 4 years longer than I had quietly hoped for.

Thanks for your input Manny over the last year, have a nice Christmas mate, God bless.
Tech/Chris

Thanks Tech/Chris, much appreciated and a great Xmas and new year to yourself.It has been a long haul for us longer term holders but that is in IMO in hindsight a reflection of just how disruptive and powerful AKIDA/TENNs is.
IMO the BRN team has done a great job in continuing to improve and develop our product while maintaining faith that the 'adoption' penny will drop - and that seems to be getting closer.
I admire the the way the BRN team ploughs straight through the doubters and just keeps building the business.
My personal positive view/spin on the delays is that they have just given me an opportunity to accumulate without a cent of debt. Each to their own though.
Cheers, Manny

 

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The first paragraph... they forgot to edit their copy paste from the LLM tool

 

[smoothsailing18]

FF

Andes Technology + BrainChip​

• Andes Technology (a major RISC-V CPU IP provider) and BrainChip have integrated BrainChip’s Akida AI IP with Andes’ RISC-V cores on development boards and platforms, such as the Andes QiLai Voyager Board with a RISC-V multicore CPU and the Akida AKD1500 accelerator. This shows practical use of both technologies together for edge AI compute solutions. Andestech+1

SiFive + BrainChip (industry collaboration)​

• SiFive (a leading RISC-V semiconductor company) has partnered with BrainChip to combine SiFive’s RISC-V processors with BrainChip’s Akida AI engine for edge AI/ML acceleration. Although this partnership is from 2022, it reflects a real industry effort to build combined RISC-V + neuromorphic AI solutions. BrainChip

Frontgrade Gaisler (space SoC project)​

• Frontgrade Gaisler is reportedly developing a space-grade SoC that integrates BrainChip’s Akida IP with a RISC-V processor (NOEL-V) for radiation-tolerant AI processing in space applications. This is a specific product application combining both architectures. BrainChip

 

[smoothsailing18]

I do hope Sean has his finger on the pulse with the chiplet market place as it is heading north in a big way. I remember Tech saying many moons ago that he didn't think they were considering this market for what ever reason iam unsure.
I hope he is wrong on this one as chiplets are the new design for automotive from what iam reading everyday.

 

[Jacob Kiraz]

I do hope Sean has his finger on the pulse with the chiplet market place as it is heading north in a big way. I remember Tech saying many moons ago that he didn't think they were considering this market for what ever reason iam unsure.
I hope he is wrong on this one as chiplets are the new design for automotive from what iam reading everyday.

What would tech know

 

[smoothsailing18]

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform

Renesas advances its SDV strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a multi-domain automotive SoC

www.eenewseurope.com

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform​

New Products | December 22, 2025
By eeNews Europe
AUTOMOTIVE SDV RENESASEMBEDDED DESIGN

---

Renesas Electronics has taken another step in its software-defined vehicle (SDV) strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a new multi-domain automotive SoC and a broader end-to-end development environment. According to the company, the move is aimed squarely at accelerating the design of highly integrated, AI-driven vehicle architectures.


For eeNews Europe readers, the announcement is relevant because it highlights how leading silicon vendors are converging ADAS, infotainment, and gateway workloads onto a single, safety-capable compute platform. It also offers insight into how open software stacks and early silicon access are being used to shorten automotive development cycles.

3nm multi-domain compute for SDVs​

At the core of the platform is the R-Car X5H, the latest device in the Gen 5 R-Car family. According to Renesas, it is the industry’s first multi-domain automotive SoC manufactured on a 3nm process. The company indicates that the device is designed to run advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and gateway functions concurrently on a single chip.

The company says the move to an advanced process node delivers up to 35% lower power consumption compared with previous 5nm solutions, while significantly increasing compute density. The SoC targets centralized SDV architectures, combining high performance with mixed-criticality support so that safety-related and non-safety workloads can coexist without compromise.


The R-Car X5H delivers up to 400 TOPS of AI performance, with the option to scale further using chiplet-based accelerators that can boost AI throughput by four times or more. Graphics performance reaches the equivalent of 4 TFLOPS, supported by a CPU complex of 32 Arm Cortex-A720AE cores and six Cortex-R52 lockstep cores with ASIL D capability, providing more than 1,000k DMIPS.

RoX Whitebox SDK targets faster development​

Alongside the new silicon, Renesas says it is expanding its R-Car Open Access (RoX) development platform with the RoX Whitebox Software Development Kit. The SDK is positioned as an open, scalable environment that integrates hardware, operating systems, middleware, and tools needed for next-generation SDV development.

The Whitebox SDK is built on Linux, Android and the XEN hypervisor, with additional support for AUTOSAR, EB corbos Linux, QNX, Red Hat and SafeRTOS through partners. Out of the box, developers can begin work on ADAS, L3/L4 autonomy, intelligent cockpit and gateway applications.

An integrated AI and ADAS software stack supports real-time perception and sensor fusion, while generative AI and large language models are intended to enable more advanced human–machine interfaces in future AI-driven cockpits, the company notes. The SDK also incorporates production-grade software from partners including Candera, DSP Concepts, Nullmax, Smart Eye, STRADVISION and ThunderSoft.

Sampling and demos​

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

I

It is 100% certain that BrainChip is not explicitly mentioned as being involved in the Renesas R-Car X5H based on the provided authoritative sources as of December 23, 2025

 

[Diogenese]

I do hope Sean has his finger on the pulse with the chiplet market place as it is heading north in a big way. I remember Tech saying many moons ago that he didn't think they were considering this market for what ever reason iam unsure.
I hope he is wrong on this one as chiplets are the new design for automotive from what iam reading everyday.

If memory serves, PvdM was unenthused when Mark Kennis asked about chiplets. However a lot of water under the bridge since then.

It is always open to the customer to use Akida IP in chiplets.

 

[Bossman]

What would tech know

Mate have you got a mirror at your house? You might want to go and have a good look at yourself.

 

[manny100]

Just revisiting the Sean video with 'Stocks Down Under' in Oct'25.
From 5.18 mark Sean talks about 12 to 18 months ago customers being prepared to have a look at AKIDA and explore.
He says now clients are coming in with specific plans saying we know what we want.
At the 6.20 mark he talks about wearables models and engagements that are progressing very well - note his plural engagements. He said we can expect to see a lot of more activity in wearables.
Backs up Steve Brightfield's recent remarks.
6.50 mark. From here Sean addresses interest in Radar. Starting with defense. Most radar decades old and needs innovation. The second point he made concerning radar was mobility trend. Drones have changed everything about defense. More mobility around everything including soldiers, eg carrying 'things' - likely means small devices. Solutions include long battery life and no network activity. Brainchip leaning hard into 'mobile' solutions.
Working with some interesting clients on mobile radar solutions and expect us to push harder into that market.
From about 8.05. What can we expect in the next 12 to 18 months.
Tech advancements. Gen AI supporting LLMs on the Edge and " a very exciting configuration with world class break through performance" - built with customer interaction and feedback.
8.45 - Talks about commercial side. Chip orders and Gen 2 - "down the track with extensive evaluations with certain customers right now so look for some licencees on that as well"
Given Steve Brightfields very recent revealing interview and a look back a couple of months to Sean's video - link below) its all starting to come together - still early in the piece though but you can sense is all getting close.

Brainchip news release taping out AKIDA 1500 2025 - Search Videos

Watch videos instantly on Bing—enjoy direct playback, discover related clips, and dive into trending content all in one place.

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[Diogenese]

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform

Renesas advances its SDV strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a multi-domain automotive SoC

www.eenewseurope.com

Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform​

New Products | December 22, 2025
By eeNews Europe
AUTOMOTIVE SDV RENESASEMBEDDED DESIGN

---

Renesas Electronics has taken another step in its software-defined vehicle (SDV) strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation R-Car platform, built around a new multi-domain automotive SoC and a broader end-to-end development environment. According to the company, the move is aimed squarely at accelerating the design of highly integrated, AI-driven vehicle architectures.


For eeNews Europe readers, the announcement is relevant because it highlights how leading silicon vendors are converging ADAS, infotainment, and gateway workloads onto a single, safety-capable compute platform. It also offers insight into how open software stacks and early silicon access are being used to shorten automotive development cycles.

3nm multi-domain compute for SDVs​

At the core of the platform is the R-Car X5H, the latest device in the Gen 5 R-Car family. According to Renesas, it is the industry’s first multi-domain automotive SoC manufactured on a 3nm process. The company indicates that the device is designed to run advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and gateway functions concurrently on a single chip.

The company says the move to an advanced process node delivers up to 35% lower power consumption compared with previous 5nm solutions, while significantly increasing compute density. The SoC targets centralized SDV architectures, combining high performance with mixed-criticality support so that safety-related and non-safety workloads can coexist without compromise.


The R-Car X5H delivers up to 400 TOPS of AI performance, with the option to scale further using chiplet-based accelerators that can boost AI throughput by four times or more. Graphics performance reaches the equivalent of 4 TFLOPS, supported by a CPU complex of 32 Arm Cortex-A720AE cores and six Cortex-R52 lockstep cores with ASIL D capability, providing more than 1,000k DMIPS.

RoX Whitebox SDK targets faster development​

Alongside the new silicon, Renesas says it is expanding its R-Car Open Access (RoX) development platform with the RoX Whitebox Software Development Kit. The SDK is positioned as an open, scalable environment that integrates hardware, operating systems, middleware, and tools needed for next-generation SDV development.

The Whitebox SDK is built on Linux, Android and the XEN hypervisor, with additional support for AUTOSAR, EB corbos Linux, QNX, Red Hat and SafeRTOS through partners. Out of the box, developers can begin work on ADAS, L3/L4 autonomy, intelligent cockpit and gateway applications.

An integrated AI and ADAS software stack supports real-time perception and sensor fusion, while generative AI and large language models are intended to enable more advanced human–machine interfaces in future AI-driven cockpits, the company notes. The SDK also incorporates production-grade software from partners including Candera, DSP Concepts, Nullmax, Smart Eye, STRADVISION and ThunderSoft.

Sampling and demos​

Renesas has begun shipping R-Car X5H silicon samples, evaluation boards, and the RoX Whitebox SDK to selected customers and partners. The company noted that it plans to showcase AI-powered multi-domain demonstrations of the platform at CES 2026.

I

Hi TTM,


Back in Decemebr 2022, there was an announcement about Renesas taping out Akida IP:

https://brainchip.com/renesas-is-ta...etwork-snn-technology-developed-by-brainchip/

eeNews Europe — Renesas is taping out a chip using the spiking neural network (SNN) technology developed by Brainchip.​

Dec 2, 2022 – Nick Flaherty

This is part of a move to boost the leading edge performance of its chips for the Internet of Things, Sailesh Chittipeddi became Executive Vice President and General Manager of IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit at Renesas Electronics and the former CEO of IDT tells eeNews Europe.

This strategy has seen the company develop the first silicon for ARM’s M85 and RISC-V cores, along with new capacity and foundry deals.

“We are very happy to be at the leading edge and now we have made a rapid transition to address our ARM shortfall but we realise the challenges in the marketplace and introduced the RISC-V products to make sure we don’t fall behind in the new architectures,” he said.

“Our next move is to more advanced technology nodes to push the microcontrollers into the gigahertz regime and that’s where the is overlap with microprocessors. The way I look at it is all about the system performance.”

“Now you have accelerators for driving AI with neural processing units rather than a dual core CPU. We are working with a third party taping out a device in December on 22nm CMOS,” said Chittipeddi.

Brainchip and Renesas signed a deal in December 2020 to implement the spiking neural network technology. Tools are vital for this new area. “The partner gives us the training tools that are needed,” he said.

The original Renesas licence was for Akida1 IP, but by the end of 2022, TENNs would have been available for EAPs. Initially Renesas said they would use their in-house DRP for the heavy AI loads\ and relegate Akida to sweeping the swarf. They may be ruing that decision if they stuck to the plan.

TENNs has supplanted Transformers, which replaced LSTM which replaced RNN. This is a major advance in AI/NN.

Copied from elsewhere:

Update QuantizeML to version 0.18.0​

New features​

• Introduced PleiadesLayer for SpatioTemporal TENNs on Keras
• Keras sanitizer will now bufferize Conv3D layers, same as ONNX sanitizer. As a result, SpatioTemporal TENNs from both frameworks will be bufferized and quantized at once.
• Dropped quantization patterns with MaxPooling and LUT activation since this is not supported in Akida
• Dropped all transformers features

https://github.com/Brainchip-Inc/akida_examples/releases


Google developed Transformers (in 2017?) as the bee's knees for NLP (natural language processing).

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-transformer-models-work-for-language-processing/

September 12, 2025/#Python

How Transformer Models Work for Language Processing​

If you’ve ever used Google Translate, skimmed through a quick summary, or asked a chatbot for help, then you’ve definitely seen Transformers at work. They’re considered the architects behind today’s biggest advances in natural language processing (NLP).

It all began with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which read text step by step. RNNs worked, but they struggled with long sentences because older context often got lost. LSTMs (Long Short-Term Memory networks) improved memory, but still processed words in sequence, slow and hard to scale.

The breakthrough came with attention: instead of moving word by word, models could directly “attend” to the most relevant parts of a sentence, no matter where they appeared. In 2017, the paper Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer, which replaced recurrence with attention and parallel processing. This made models faster, more accurate, and capable of learning from massive amounts of text.

TENNs may have the potential to make Transformers, LSTM, and RNN obsolete.

"Could be
Who knows?
There's something due any day
I will know right away soon as it shows
It may come cannonballing down through the sky
Gleam in it's eye
Bright as a rose
Who knows?
It's only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Under a tree
I gotta feeling theres a miracle due
Gonna come true"

Sondheim and Bernstein couldn't have said a truer word ...

 

[Diogenese]

Just revisiting the Sean video with 'Stocks Down Under' in Oct'25.
From 5.18 mark Sean talks about 12 to 18 months ago customers being prepared to have a look at AKIDA and explore.
He says now clients are coming in with specific plans saying we know what we want.
At the 6.20 mark he talks about wearables models and engagements that are progressing very well - note his plural engagements. He said we can expect to see a lot of more activity in wearables.
Backs up Steve Brightfield's recent remarks.
6.50 mark. From here Sean addresses interest in Radar. Starting with defense. Most radar decades old and needs innovation. The second point he made concerning radar was mobility trend. Drones have changed everything about defense. More mobility around everything including soldiers, eg carrying 'things' - likely means small devices. Solutions include long battery life and no network activity. Brainchip leaning hard into 'mobile' solutions.
Working with some interesting clients on mobile radar solutions and expect us to push harder into that market.
From about 8.05. What can we expect in the next 12 to 18 months.
Tech advancements. Gen AI supporting LLMs on the Edge and " a very exciting configuration with world class break through performance" - built with customer interaction and feedback.
8.45 - Talks about commercial side. Chip orders and Gen 2 - "down the track with extensive evaluations with certain customers right now so look for some licencees on that as well"
Given Steve Brightfields very recent revealing interview and a look back a couple of months to Sean's video - link below) its all starting to come together - still early in the piece though but you can sense is all getting close.

Brainchip news release taping out AKIDA 1500 2025 - Search Videos

Watch videos instantly on Bing—enjoy direct playback, discover related clips, and dive into trending content all in one place.

www.bing.com

Hi manny,

I think that your post is reinforced by the supplanting of Transformers by TENNs. In particular, a better NLP technique will improve GenAI - "world class performance".

But TENNs is not a one-trick-pony. It provides the Midas touch to all AI applications.