BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Fiendish]

Sounds great! However, we were all extremely confident we were going to be in the Nintendo Switch 2.

But the MegaChips license hasn’t been renewed (as far as anyone is aware) and if had been renewed, I suspect this news would be significant enough to warrant an ASX announcement

What‘s your take on when MegaChip’s might renew the license? Do you think they may be waiting for the release of AKD 1500 or 2500 or Nintendo Switch 3, for example?

I didn't expect to be in Nintendo switch, it would have been nice though.

I expect the first big wins will be with military and probably boring industrial stuff.. the wearables/medical devices is already happening but i suspect bigger revenue will come from less sexy areas first up.

I would expect megachips would be primarily interested in sensors for industrial and robotics rather than developing products for nintendo.

As for the license i wouldn't have the foggiest.

If Akida does turn up in gaming i expect that rather than megachips, the first to use it will be game developers and studios, for the reasons i stated early, hyper realistic NPCs and more immersable worlds or the gesture/eye tracking stuff in VR gaming.

That could also lead into simulations and VR training for various industries.

Whilst the low power aspect could be advantageous for consoles like the switch, gaming consoles are powered so thats kinda lost on gaming consoles. I imagine the low heat advantage will be very attractive for gaming and 3d rendering ect.. that shit gets hot!

Me tired now.

Lets see what tomorrow brings!

 

[7For7]

I didn't expect to be in Nintendo switch, it would have been nice though.

I expect the first big wins will be with military and probably boring industrial stuff.. the wearables/medical devices is already happening but i suspect bigger revenue will come from less sexy areas first up.

I would expect megachips would be primarily interested in sensors for industrial and robotics rather than developing products for nintendo.

As for the license i wouldn't have the foggiest.

If Akida does turn up in gaming i expect that rather than megachips, the first to use it will be game developers and studios, for the reasons i stated early, hyper realistic NPCs and more immersable worlds or the gesture/eye tracking stuff in VR gaming.

That could also lead into simulations and VR training for various industries.

Whilst the low power aspect could be advantageous for consoles like the switch, gaming consoles are powered so thats kinda lost on gaming consoles. I imagine the low heat advantage will be very attractive for gaming and 3d rendering ect.. that shit gets hot!

Me tired now.

Lets see what tomorrow brings!

I don’t think the real question is what Akida products can or cannot do. The real question is where BrainChip will choose to focus. And we can already see where its industrial focus is heading … at least for now, it is clearly not the gaming industry.

I actually brought up ideas like VR tracking and gesture recognition here quite a while ago,if someone can remember that…but without much response. When it comes to VR, for example, controller-free gameplay especially regarding gesture recognition, could be a major use case. Another one would be improved boundary warning systems, so people do not end up smashing their hands into a wall or the TV. Since I play VR myself, I know these problems very well. Battery consumption is also annoying. Playing with a cable is annoying on a so called stand alone console.

And while we are on the subject of wire …with something like Akida, you could theoretically enable amazing experiences on a standalone headset without needing to stay connected to Steam the whole time.

But as I said, BrainChip seems to have different industry priorities. You can already see that from the website. What licensees eventually choose to build and offer with the technology is a different story.

 

[Rach2512]

Love the comment from Kevin on this post.

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[Diogenese]

Akida classifies input signals. As Kevin has demonstrated, it be used in a music generation implementation as a coprocessor with a CPU running IBM's Symphony software.

I haven't studied Kevin's description of how this works, but it seems as though he used Symphony's Multiple Scheduling feature to utilize the outputs from different music models loaded on the ten Akida chips. I guess there were models for strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, etc, which responded to the sheet music, or rather the QDNP adaptation of the sheet music as the activations for each Akida chip, and Symphony coordinated the resulting outputs.

This could only have been done by someone who has intricate knowledge of Symphony, as well as expertise in music, and is familiar with the operation of Akida. Serendipitously, Kevin was in the right place at the right time, with the wherewithal to pull off this magic.

https://www.ibm.com/products/analytics-workload-management

Multiple scheduling schemes
A fair-share scheduling scheme with 10,000 priority levels can be used for multiple jobs for a single application. Preemptive and resource-threshold-based scheduling is available with runtime change management. Multi-dimensional scheduling is supported with the ability to specify slot definition for each consumer in terms of up to four customizable resource metrics.

To convert to gaming implementation, simply make changes mutatis mutandis.

 

[Diogenese]

Love the comment from Kevin on this post.

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Hi Rach,

That is a fantastic endorsement of Akida and its agnostic compatibility not only with other processors, but also with other software, as well as a great example of Kevin's expertise with Symphony, QDNPs, ML, etc.

... and remember these are small 80 npu Akida 1s.

We need an interview with Kevin and Tony Lewis.

 

[cosors]

off topic
The WBT section here on TSE is so neglected that I wanted to draw your attention to this great interview, since some of us are holding both.

WBT Discussion 2022

There are 2 ASX announcements today titled "Becoming a substantial holder". The biggest one with JP Morgan shows multiple transactions. Can anyone explain what it is all about, please?

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[HopalongPetrovski]

We used to talk about Akida 1 being ubiquitous. Well, with the new generations, I think Akida will be quadruple ubiquitous.

 

[SharesForBrekky]

A job going at the moment at IBM:

https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=102720&source=WEB_Search_APAC

"Preferred technical and professional experience:
• Brain Inspired Algorithms: Exposure to brain-inspired algorithms, learning with memories, and knowledge representation and reasoning, with the ability to apply them to real-world AI problems. • Quantum and Neuromorphic Architectures: Experience working with quantum and neuromorphic architectures, with the ability to leverage them for next-generation AI solutions. • Computer Vision and NLP: Exposure to computer vision, NLP, question answering, and causal inference, with the ability to apply them to deliver innovative AI solutions.

 

[poor guy]

A job going at the moment at IBM:

https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=102720&source=WEB_Search_APAC

"Preferred technical and professional experience:
• Brain Inspired Algorithms: Exposure to brain-inspired algorithms, learning with memories, and knowledge representation and reasoning, with the ability to apply them to real-world AI problems. • Quantum and Neuromorphic Architectures: Experience working with quantum and neuromorphic architectures, with the ability to leverage them for next-generation AI solutions. • Computer Vision and NLP: Exposure to computer vision, NLP, question answering, and causal inference, with the ability to apply them to deliver innovative AI solutions.

Brainchip should offer one of their good developers to IBM..

 

[TheDrooben]

Not sure if posted already.....a research paper from one of our university partners Cornell Tech

Benchmarking the Energy Cost of Assurance in Neuromorphic Edge Robotics

Deploying trustworthy artificial intelligence on edge robotics imposes a difficult trade-off between high-assurance robustness and energy sustainability. Traditional defense mechanisms against adversarial attacks typically incur significant computational overhead, threatening the viability of...

arxiv.org

Happy as Larry

 

[TheDrooben]

Another recent paper.....

Federated Few-Shot Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware: An Empirical Study Across Physical Edge Nodes

arxiv.org

Happy as Larry

 

[Jacob Kiraz]

I love a good dot join from our astute posters, Silence @ the BRN Offices

 

[manny100]

Sounds great! However, we were all extremely confident we were going to be in the Nintendo Switch 2.

But the MegaChips license hasn’t been renewed (as far as anyone is aware) and if had been renewed, I suspect this news would be significant enough to warrant an ASX announcement. I must admit I’m not really sure about the finer details of the ASX rules in regards to reporting on renewals of licenses, so I really have no idea what we should expect.

What‘s your take on when MegaChip’s might renew the license? Do you think they may be waiting for the release of AKD 1500 or 2500 or Nintendo Switch 3, for example?

Hi Bravo,
The question is why would Megachips renew the license for AKIDA1000?
Most mobile assets including robotics require the latest tech or risk being superseded.
As far as robotics go AKIDA1000 while still being great tech is starting to look outdated.
Arquimea were among the first of out clients to run through AKIDA Cloud for Gen2/TENNs and are looking forward to AKIDA2500 for their Robotics and autonomous defense needs.
No doubt Megachips would have utilised the Akida Cloud set up.
BRN over the journey have realised humans still need to try before they buy.
While companies like Aquimea are excited by Gen2/TENNs they still feel the need to try the AKD2500 Chip itself before committing.
Brainchip recognises 'this try before you buy' in the AKD ASX announcement 13th Feb'26.
" This development effort leverages BrainChip’s edge-AI differentiation by enabling customers to experience, measure, and confirm the advantages of event-based, low-power processing in a real-world silicon implementation. Demonstrating these capabilities is essential to expanding customer confidence and driving future engagement through IP licensing, system integration, and next-generation product cycles—consistent with the Company’s ongoing message of building long-term strategic positioning in edge AI markets."
My bold above.
and, there is an expectation of this leading to future licenses.
"Demonstrating these capabilities is essential to expanding customer confidence and driving future engagement through IP licensing, system integration, and next-generation product cycles—consistent with the Company’s ongoing message of building long-term strategic positioning in edge AI markets."
My bold above.

 

[TheDrooben]

Real-Time Disaster Response and Recovery by using Neuromorphic Computing-Enabled Autonomous Agents – IJSREM

ijsrem.com

Happy as Larry

 

[Fiendish]

I love a good dot join from our astute posters, Silence @ the BRN Offices

Can someone get Jacobs dummy please

 

[HarryCool1]

Can someone get Jacobs dummy please

Got him!!

 

[Jacob Kiraz]

Got him!!

Nek minit this time nxt year where @ 11 cents, I hope not but i wonder the look in the Room ?
Tech will be saying 2028 now

 

[Jacob Kiraz]

Hi Bravo,
The question is why would Megachips renew the license for AKIDA1000?
Most mobile assets including robotics require the latest tech or risk being superseded.
As far as robotics go AKIDA1000 while still being great tech is starting to look outdated.
Arquimea were among the first of out clients to run through AKIDA Cloud for Gen2/TENNs and are looking forward to AKIDA2500 for their Robotics and autonomous defense needs.
No doubt Megachips would have utilised the Akida Cloud set up.
BRN over the journey have realised humans still need to try before they buy.
While companies like Aquimea are excited by Gen2/TENNs they still feel the need to try the AKD2500 Chip itself before committing.
Brainchip recognises 'this try before you buy' in the AKD ASX announcement 13th Feb'26.
" This development effort leverages BrainChip’s edge-AI differentiation by enabling customers to experience, measure, and confirm the advantages of event-based, low-power processing in a real-world silicon implementation. Demonstrating these capabilities is essential to expanding customer confidence and driving future engagement through IP licensing, system integration, and next-generation product cycles—consistent with the Company’s ongoing message of building long-term strategic positioning in edge AI markets."
My bold above.
and, there is an expectation of this leading to future licenses.
"Demonstrating these capabilities is essential to expanding customer confidence and driving future engagement through IP licensing, system integration, and next-generation product cycles—consistent with the Company’s ongoing message of building long-term strategic positioning in edge AI markets."
My bold above.

I love it our 1st bit of tech in Akida 1000 is outdated with no success or deals

 

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[7For7]

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