BRN Discussion Ongoing

[HopalongPetrovski]

I have been thinking about Tony Dawe's letter.
I thought that Akida2000 was the next chip to be taped out, however in TD's letter he states that the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers. I can't imagine BRN would have taped out Akida1500 without having firm commitments from licensee's or customers.
This raises a few questions.

• Who could want the Akida1500 so badly that BRN moved it ahead of the Akida2000 tape out.
• Once the Akida1500 has been examined, tested and passed, should we expect a new License Agreement? or
• Can we expect actual orders for the Akida1500 in the very near future, because the chip was MADE TO ORDER for someone?

I believe we have a good chance that an announcement will come very soon after Akida1500 has passed muster, and I think it will be the MOA announcements.

I think the Company is well aware that pressure is building and will adapt its strategy appropriately to facilitate revenue as rapidly as possible.
The people running the show want demonstrable success at least as much as we do.
Coming or going, it is their reputations that are on the line.
And they did not get where they are already by being slack jawed yokel’s.

 

[BaconLover]

I have been thinking about Tony Dawe's letter.
I thought that Akida2000 was the next chip to be taped out, however in TD's letter he states that the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers. I can't imagine BRN would have taped out Akida1500 without having firm commitments from licensee's or customers.
This raises a few questions.

• Who could want the Akida1500 so badly that BRN moved it ahead of the Akida2000 tape out.
• Once the Akida1500 has been examined, tested and passed, should we expect a new License Agreement? or
• Can we expect actual orders for the Akida1500 in the very near future, because the chip was MADE TO ORDER for someone?

I believe we have a good chance that an announcement will come very soon after Akida1500 has passed muster, and I think it will be the MOA announcements.

I don't think so VG;
1500 was meant to come ahead of 2000.
And note how AKD2000 is the ''optimized version'' of AKD1500.

 

[Shadow59]

Suddenly there seems to be interest in buying back in. Look at the buy side compared to the sell

 

[skutza]

So I believe that this forum is set up to self regulate, correct? So below is a list of threads for people to discuss topics. I suggest that if you feel a comment is on the incorrect thread, then if we all report the post it will be removed and in time then people will get the jist that we want certain discussion on certain threads. Saves having to skim the BS posts that are not needed on the main board. IMO and I'm always right.

except when I'm not.

 

[Moonshot]

also remember megachips report the other day - aiming to be LAUNCHING PRODUCTS - note the plural

they are also projected to increase revenue from 56000 M Yen to 72000 M Yen which - if my maths is right, about 100M USD increase in sales

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Also mega chips did back end design on akd1500

 

[misslou]

Wow what a thread this has become.

Do people need reminding that if you want to talk about exceeding your risk tolerance, go HERE.
Or if you feel like your self made timelines are not being kept by a company who didn't promise you anything, try going HERE or HERE.

Edit: the final "here" was supposed to be the crapper, how sad the links are blocked.

Thanks for trying Damo. They will just scroll past and keep repeating themselves despite so many well thought out and reasoned arguments as to why they don’t need to.

All the drama, the selfishness and need for attention. One person is even comparing their number of likes in private arguments. It’s like an episode of MAFS.

It seems many users support expression of all views (except those that don’t support all views) even if those views are lies, have been proven wrong, have been repeated many times before… they are all going to continue unapologetically expressing themselves despite driving away some of our most valuable contributors and there isn’t anything we can do about it.
We get told to shut up ourselves when we try to say something about it.

The thread doesn’t make sense with them on ignore, so those of us who’ve had enough of them either have to find a way to scroll past it to get to the worthwhile posts, or stay away from it until the share price improves.

 

[ndefries]

I have been thinking about Tony Dawe's letter.
I thought that Akida2000 was the next chip to be taped out, however in TD's letter he states that the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers. I can't imagine BRN would have taped out Akida1500 without having firm commitments from licensee's or customers.
This raises a few questions.

• Who could want the Akida1500 so badly that BRN moved it ahead of the Akida2000 tape out.
• Once the Akida1500 has been examined, tested and passed, should we expect a new License Agreement? or
• Can we expect actual orders for the Akida1500 in the very near future, because the chip was MADE TO ORDER for someone?

I believe we have a good chance that an announcement will come very soon after Akida1500 has passed muster, and I think it will be the MOA announcements.

Defititely agree. No one is going to all the effort to design, plan and tapeout based on a casual remark by a potential customer! it would be from some solid engagement and mutual development that requires it on the FDX platform. $$$$

The AKD1500 uses the latest features of BrainChip’s extremely energy-efficient, event-based, Akida™ AI IP in combination with the GlobalFoundries’ ultra-low leakage, proprietary FDX™ process technology platform, to deliver an ideal solution for always-on, at-sensor applications or other low-power embedded applications in AIoT, industrial, consumer and automotive markets.

 

[alwaysgreen]

also remember megachips report the other day - aiming to be LAUNCHING PRODUCTS - note the plural

they are also projected to increase revenue from 56000 M Yen to 72000 M Yen which - if my maths is right, about 100M USD increase in sales

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So they are hoping to increase their total revenue to approx. $557 Million USD.

Of that, how much revenue could we expect for the use of Akida? It is hard to quantify but as a complete guess, if we are in say 20 percent of their products which equates to revenue to Megachips $114 mill USD and as a guess, we receive 2% of said revenue, that would be $2.28 million USD.

Would be nice to know the exact breakdown of the contract and their forecast for products with Akida inside but we will never get that info.

 

[VictorG]

I don't think so VG;
1500 was meant to come ahead of 2000.
And note how AKD2000 is the ''optimized version'' of AKD1500.

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The thing that sent me into a head spin was TD's statement - "the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers".
Why would TD say that if it had nothing to do with customer engagement as it was the next scheduled role out anyway.
I'm probably clutching at straws.

 

[toasty]

The thing that sent me into a head spin was TD's statement - "the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers".
Why would TD say that if it had nothing to do with customer engagement as it was the next scheduled role out anyway.
I'm probably clutching at straws.

I don't think theres any straws involved. Remember what happened with the first iteration of the product after it was given to EAP's???

 

[BaconLover]

The thing that sent me into a head spin was TD's statement - "the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers".
Why would TD say that if it had nothing to do with customer engagement as it was the next scheduled role out anyway.
I'm probably clutching at straws.

EAPs would have the option imo.

 

[toasty]

EAPs would have the option imo.

Snap!!

 

[mkm109]

So I believe that this forum is set up to self regulate, correct? So below is a list of threads for people to discuss topics. I suggest that if you feel a comment is on the incorrect thread, then if we all report the post it will be removed and in time then people will get the jist that we want certain discussion on certain threads. Saves having to skim the BS posts that are not needed on the main board. IMO and I'm always right.
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except when I'm not.

I think this is a sensible way to address the problem

 

[BaconLover]

Let's be positive.

Remember once a famous person said ''Let's be kind to each other''?

Take it easy guys.

 

[jtardif999]

Brilliant! Let's go with the person who hasn't produced one sale in a year. And let's do that again next year. And keep doing that.
You should see the in-depth analysis that even football clubs go to to appoint a new coach. You'd be astounded.

You’re digging yourself a deep hole here… maybe just ease back on the throttle a little bring her in for a safe landing . Me and many others here were sitting on 60-70% losses for nearly 2 years when the share price was languishing at around 6c. I believe we will all reap the benefit of this company’s (imo), expert timing and positioning in the industry over the next few years.

 

[Diogenese]

Hey, what did I do?

I was hoping you'd show up.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Was just skimming a paper from last years NeurIPS conference.

The authors listed responses to some questions and one answer in particular to an official Reviewer question was good to see.

Hope they take note and we get some enquiries along this line of research as well.

Hybrid Neural Autoencoders for Stimulus Encoding in Visual and...

We propose an encoder-decoder based stimulus encoding framework for sensory neuroprostheses and demonstrate its effectiveness for visual prostheses.

openreview.net

Hybrid Neural Autoencoders for Stimulus Encoding in Visual and Other Sensory Neuroprostheses​

Question.

5. What is computational burden of these Encoder? Since they are for implantable applications this would be an important metric. Latency for such computing these models. Definitely cannot use NVIDIA GPU for the implanted application. How would this scale

Answer.

We agree that further discussion on deployment is necessary, and have added a deployment section in the Discussion to address this (lines 299-303). To summarize, the encoder inference time for a single target MNIST image is 1.2 ms on a Nvidia 3090 GPU and 4.1ms on a single-core 2.1GHz CPU, and the saved model takes 5.3MB of memory. Future work could reduce these measures by employing techniques such as pruning, mixed floating point precision, search over smaller encoder architectures, or Tensorflow Lite conversion. Another practical solution may come in the form of Edge AI accelerators (e.g., Intel’s Neural Compute Stick) and deep learning-compatible neuromorphic hardware (e.g., BrainChip’s Akida Neuromorphic SoC), which can lead to orders of magnitude reductions in size, weight, and power compared to conventional CPUs or GPUs.

 

[Diogenese]

The thing that sent me into a head spin was TD's statement - "the Akida1500 tape out was because of direct engagement with customers".
Why would TD say that if it had nothing to do with customer engagement as it was the next scheduled role out anyway.
I'm probably clutching at straws.

Someone posted a NASA SBIR the other day in which they bagged Akida for having a superfluous CPU, while praising FD-SOI.

 

[Deadpool]

Relax Pal. People are just talking and expressing themselves. Who said it has to be just all one’s and zero’s or dots which may or may not be relevant to anything? Sometimes some of us get a little carried away, but that too is just humans being human. When we are all just androids on steroids it gets pretty boring. Variety is the spice of life.

You have a very Zen energy about you of late old hop

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Well ain't that a lovely sight