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[JDelekto]

I can't find the megachips US website, the one where it highlights the Brainchip partnership. It seems to me that www.megachips.com has been offline now for at least a few days. It could be in the process of getting revamped and might be one to keep an eye on. Megachip.com defaults to the Japanese Megachips website, at least it does for me.

The link you posted comes up just fine for me (I'm here in the US). The MegaChips LSI USA LinkedIn page has a link that goes to the same URL, however, it does redirect to the Japanese Web site, but with the localization set to "English".

It's not uncommon for foreign companies to host one localized version of the Web site for the purposes of consistency and continuity. If the site doesn't come up for you, you might want to try pinging it, as it may not be resolving the "www.megachips.com" to its IP address, or perhaps your browser is not redirecting to the Japanese site.

 

[Foxdog]

Judging by your post, and others on the last few pages, there are clearly a lot of people on this forum that are financially and emotionally out of their depth. And there are others feeding the frenzy to which you are so susceptible.

For those that have a soft underbelly I suggest that you gird your loins, by going to back to look at posts that spell out the positives, instead of letting your minds be fed with garbage that festers and grinds your resolve into an unrecognizable cesspit of despair.

Are you for real? You choose to have a crack at me for agreeing with someone else's post but you've not said anything to them about the original post That's just weird.

 

[CrabmansFriend]

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Command Interview: AF Chief Scientist Dr. Victoria Coleman​

• Published Jan. 26, 2023
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THE FOLLOWING IS THE EDITED TRANSCRIPT OF AN AIRMAN MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH CHIEF SCIENTIST OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DR. VICTORIA COLEMAN AT THE PENTAGON, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.​

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Coleman serves as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff, and Chief of Space Operations. She provides assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the department’s mission. In this role, she identifies and analyzes technical issues, bringing them to the attention of department leaders. She interacts with other principals, operational commanders, combatant commands, acquisition, and science and technology communities to address cross-organizational issues and provide solutions. Dr. Coleman also interacts with other services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense on issues affecting the Department of the Air Force’s technical enterprise. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and is the Principal Science and Technology Representative of the Air Force to the civilian scientific and engineering community and to the public at large.

During the interview Dr. Coleman discusses the need to reestablish sustainable and trusted microelectronics development, manufacturing, testing and supply chain based in the U.S., the benefits of more focused and frequent testing of systems and the power of diversity in Science and Technology success.

Others are things, like neuromorphic architectures, where you move away from the traditional model of designing microprocessors. They are actually beginning to emulate how human neurons work. In some cases, the results that we get are phenomenal.
I'll give you a very concrete example. In the Air Force, we like to be able to match assets. Weapons that we have are matched with targets that we need to get after. So, you would want to make sure that you send the most appropriate weapon to the most appropriate target.
There are many, many combinations of doing this. For example, if I have 10 by 10, 10 assets and 10 targets, there are 25 billion combinations to finding the right match. A human being cannot do this. A computer maybe could do it. Classical computers can do 20 by 20, but they max out a 20 by 20.
A neuromorphic architecture can do 20 by 20 in about two milliseconds. So the capability that you get from the ability to build neuromorphic architectures completely changes the game.
Then there are also material advances. Using photonics, for example, for switching, you generate a lot less heat than if you switch voltages.
Quantum computing is another area where a lot of a lot of work has been done. We are seeing some applications already, like quantum navigation, for example, becoming really fundamental. Quantum navigation means that I can navigate without the benefit of GPS, which would be an incredible capability to have.
But you can go even further than that. One of the areas that I have been interested in for a very long time is what I call molecular computation, where you can actually take DNA structures and use DNA as a computational medium. DNA is a particularly good substance for computing.
Honestly, the only constraint that we have is putting enough money into the various research groups that can pursue these things.
Something that I care deeply about is our ability to prove out those innovations.
So we talked about CHIPS, but I want to put in a plug for one particular component of the CHIPS Act, actually the only component that we will be executing here in the DoD, which is the Micro Electronics Commons.
This is something that I've been working on for some time, certainly way before I went to DARPA. One of the things that has happened to us, in this desire to let the market forces rule, is that in order for us to prove out an innovation in microelectronics at the system level, we have to go overseas. We can't do it here at home.
So I talked just now about neuromorphic architectures. The NSF (National Science Foundation), through one of their expedition programs, has spent well over a $100 million on one specific project at Stanford University on neuromorphic architectures. Great work. Phenomenal. Smart, brilliant people.
In the university lab, maybe you can build three or 10, maybe 100 instances of a new device like that. In order for me to show the computational advantages that I just talked about, pairing targets to assets, I need to build millions. If I am going to go to a venture capitalist or an investor and say, “Please give me $20 billion to go and build a new fab to make this new thing,” why would they give me this money? I need to show to them that the computational benefits that I claim are achievable with this new structure have been proven.


Very interesting interview. I couldn’t copy and paste the whole thing in one post so here’s a snippet.

Thanks for sharing this article. Always interesting to hear/read the views of 'product developers' or what kind of problems they are trying to solve. In this case for me the most interesting statement was:

A human being cannot do this. A computer maybe could do it. Classical computers can do 20 by 20, but they max out a 20 by 20.
A neuromorphic architecture can do 20 by 20 in about two milliseconds. So the capability that you get from the ability to build neuromorphic architectures completely changes the game.

To me that dosen't seem to appear a problem that needs to be solved at the edge. Yes of course, it might have its benefits or use cases there also, and maybe it makes the most sense of starting to verify a new technology at the edge because of its obvious advantages (low energy consumption) and the increasing number of AiOT devices or their use cases.

But I've been wondering for some time now if the kind of problems (van neuman hitting a bottleneck as mentioned by this lady) quantum computers are targeted to solve have some intersections with what neuromorphic/event-based computing could already do now or in the near future if scaled for High Performance Computing (large rendering clusters, lots of akidas inside servers etc.).

Has anybody of you an opinion to that?
I would be happy about food for thought/opinions/articles reagarding similar use cases of neuromorphic and quantum computing or using neuromorphic computing for the area of HPC.

 

[Bravo]

So I got thinking about the potential markets of our partners.

NB: The following is just my daydreaming, and not based on sufficient solid information to serve as investment advice.

This is a list of what I think are some of our larger potential partnership markets, ranked in my guess at the relative potential markets.

Happy to have this dissected and forensically examined.

Akida Market Partners

• MorseMicro
• Prophesee
• SiFive
• Valeo
• Socionext
• Edge impulse
• nViso

MorseMicro

The potential market for MorseMicro’s HaLow WiFi gateway is massive.

MorseMicro has the HaLow ultra-low power, ultra-long range, multitude WiFi for IoT.

The creators of HaLow include the inventors of the original WiFi.

HaLow could potentially become the standard for multi-device WiFi gateways.

If HaLow becomes the standard, not only could Akida be used in the gateway, but it may also be required in the connected devices.

The MorseMicro patent for their gateway circuit includes a MAC (multiply accumulate) processor.

Akida can perform MAC operations far more efficiently than a MAC ALU (arithmetic logic unit).

It is also possible that Akida could be used in the communication circuits of IoT devices connected to the HaLow gateway.

MorseMicro is a MegaChips partner, as is BrainChip.

@thelittleshort listed a number of MorseMicro engineers who are following BrainChip. This is significant as MorseMicro does not profess to be an AI company.


Prophesee

Prophesee event-based camera (DVS) and Akida are a hand-and-glove fit.

Akida’s speed and power efficiency surpass alternative technologies previously used with Prophesee.

The potential market for Prophesee is pretty well unlimited, from IoT security through ADAS, to NASA and DoD.

In conjunction with Sony, they have developed a camera blur elimination capability. I don’t know if Akida can be used advantageously with this, but if so, this market alone is huge.


SiFive

SiFive designs processors using RISC-V architecture (RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer).

RISC-V is a recently developed computing language and the creators have set up SiFive.

RISC-V is a major competitor to ARM, who use RISC-IV.

The SiFive market is in computers.


Valeo

Valeo makes sensors for ADAS.

Valeo are the market leaders in LiDaR.

Akida has a sweet spot for LiDaR.

The EV revolution will see massive demand for LiDaR in the next few years.


Socionext

Socionext is a major fabless chip designer who produced the production layout for Akida 1000.

They made a co-presentation with BrainChip and nViso at CES2023.


nViso

nViso has human emotion recognition software which has been adapted to utilize the image classification capabilities of Akida at greater than 1000 fps.

This may be useful in implementing the recently-mandated DMS (2022) (Driver Monitoring System) in Europe.


Edge Impulse

Edge Impulse provides ML algorithms for edge devices.

Akida is capable of greatly increasing the processing capability and power efficiency of these algorithms.

Dear Dodgy-Knees,

Do you think you could squeeze Cerence onto your list as a special favour to me?

Thanks in advance, Bravo (BFF’s 4ever)

 

[JDelekto]

Thanks for sharing this article. Always interesting to hear/read the views of 'product developers' or what kind of problems they are trying to solve. In this case for me the most interesting statement was:


To me that dosen't seem to appear a problem that needs to be solved at the edge. Yes of course, it might have its benefits or use cases there also, and maybe it makes the most sense of starting to verify a new technology at the edge because of its obvious advantages (low energy consumption) and the increasing number of AiOT devices or their use cases.

But I've been wondering for some time now if the kind of problems (van neuman hitting a bottleneck as mentioned by this lady) quantum computers are targeted to solve have some intersections with what neuromorphic/event-based computing could already do now or in the near future if scaled for High Performance Computing (large rendering clusters, lots of akidas inside servers etc.).

Has anybody of you an opinion to that?
I would be happy about food for thought/opinions/articles reagarding similar use cases of neuromorphic and quantum computing or using neuromorphic computing for the area of HPC.

How about predicting the weather a week in advance with at least 99.98% certainty?

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Ok first Akida ballista gets a month subscription to forum.

 

[White Horse]

Just because “some legends” have posted “reassuring stuff“ that others find comforting, does not necessarily mean it will come true. Nobody on here is a prophet, and nobody who is respectfully posting about their concerns should be shot down in flames or mocked with memes - it’s childish lowers this forums credibility.

Investors and traders alike, can only act on the information at hand, and right now that information isn’t strong enough to prevent this abysmally poor SP performance. This is why we are being shorted, and this is why shareholders have concerns. It’s justified.

Fact - management are being too coy with announcements. Tony and I have spoke face to face about this, and the company has obvious concerns about ramping, but I believe they are now over correcting. The tape out should have been announced, as should the Intel arrangement. They didn’t need to be marked as price sensitive. Other companies are releasing similar announcements without issue, and the company has an obligation for continual disclosure - not by socials, but by the proper platform.

Fact - there has been less commercial adoption than we all expected. Megachips was over two years ago and Renesas was over a year. Two licences in two years is piss poor.

Fact - the company isn’t releasing enough information to the shareholders about things that matter. What happened to the EAP? How many are still included in the programme? In fact, is the programme still running? Not everyone has the time to spend all day talking to a bunch of anonymous people on a forum to gain insight, nor should they have to. The company needs to do better here.

Echos of baseless optimism on here are getting old. The company needs to start performing financially - it’s not a not for profit, it’s a public company with marketable product. Shareholders need and deserve a proper update on what is actually going on, so we can make informed decisions. Seans statement in the 4c was a cop out.

Continuous bleating, feeding the cesspit.

You are not going to change managements resolve.

You and others can keep this up till you are blue in the face.

Take heed of this famous quote.

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

 

[Foxdog]

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Continuous bleating, feeding the cesspit.

You are not going to change managements resolve.

You and others can keep this up till you are blue in the face.

Take heed of this famous quote.

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Go back to the crapper Weird Horse. The forum there is much more suited to your style, or distinct lack thereof.....

 

[robsmark]

Continuous bleating, feeding the cesspit.

You are not going to change managements resolve.

You and others can keep this up till you are blue in the face.

Take heed of this famous quote.

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Better take my happy pill then and pretend I’m in magic lollipop land.

 

[White Horse]

Are you for real? You choose to have a crack at me for agreeing with someone else's post but you've not said anything to them about the original post That's just weird.

Yes, I am for real. And I highlight the opening words.
Judging by your post, and others.

 

[Colorado23]

Adida ballista

 

[Colorado23]

Ha akida ballista

 

[White Horse]

Better take my happy pill then and pretend I’m in magic lollipop land.

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Go back to the crapper Weird Horse. The forum there is much more suited to your style, or distinct lack thereof.....

Funny, that's what I was thinking about you and some of your fellow bleaters.

 

[Colorado23]

I feel for some that have been with BRN for the long hall. Like me, I'm sure many hoped this great organisation may be our answer to an early retirement. It may not be as quick as we'd hoped, but there are still so many reasons why I still believe this company is the one to do so. Good luck to you all in 2023 and I'm sure all of your patience will be rewarded.

 

[CrabmansFriend]

How about predicting the weather a week in advance with at least 99.98% certainty?

That's a good use case .
But i assume the quality of prediction would be less dependent on the type of computing (of course there is some horse power for number crunching needed) but more on the amount of quality data collected (temperatures, barometric pressures, humidity, wind directions, cloud movements, etc. ...)

 

[robsmark]

Funny, that's what I was thinking about you and some of your fellow bleaters.

I just say it as I see it pony.

 

[Diogenese]

Dear Dodgy-Knees,

Do you think you could squeeze Cerence onto your list as a special favour to me?

Thanks in advance, Bravo (BFF’s 4ever)

Sorry Bravo,

I still have Cerence in my Black Hats list.

All the companies I listed are confirmed sightings, not dots joined.

As long as they are behind an NDA, or worse, a competitor, they don't get a White Hat.

 

[Quatrojos]

That's a good use case .
But i assume the quality of prediction would be less dependent on the type of computing (of course there is some horse power for number crunching needed) but more on the amount of quality data collected (temperatures, barometric pressures, humidity, wind directions, cloud movements, etc. ...)

It would be an awesome use case if the weather wasn't a chaotic system.

 

[Slade]

@JDelekto Thanks, yes the link works for me too but previously that link would have taken you to a different megachips website, not the English version of the Japanese site.

 

[cassip]

Hi to all,
I appreciate this place of discussion and would like to add something.

• what would be different now if there had been an ASX-announcement for AKD1500?
• did CEO have significant reasons for keeping information on a lower level? Sure there were several for this: concerns about ramping (atm LDA capital shares are beeing sold). So the consideration that the announcement does not make a significant difference (as it is more an successful but expected update of the known company progress and as 4C is due as separate source of information) may has influenced this decision.
• important: is information consistent, as same words are used in the last two 4Cs? Yes: because it was pointed out that there were (macroeconomic and other) headwinds that caused delay. In the present 4C the assumptions on market penetration and broad adoption are confirmed.
• If there is a prospect to (even more) important updates it may be better to limit the official announcments to that.
• In between: current market environment is difficult, for shareholders and for companys as well/all the more.

Just some thoughts.

Regards
Cassip