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There wasn't any other info beyond what I reproduced here, on Facebook.
A quick squiz shows there are a few concerns working in the space.
FinalSpark in Switzerland as well as this mob Cortical Labs and of course, turning the dial up to 11, our Musky nemesis Brain chip.
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No doubt, the Frontgrade Gaisler team will be spruiking the GR801 at the upcoming 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
By the way, it was a picture taken at the Frontgrade booth during that very expo last year (and posted on LinkedIn by FG), in which I spotted Jonathan Tapson first working for us (https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-418645).
Since he lives in Colorado (although in Telluride, which isn’t exactly around the corner but still much closer to Colorado Springs compared to where our BrainChip staff in Southern California are based), I wouldn’t be surprised if he attended the Space Symposium again this year.
Especially since Frontgrade Gaisler won’t be our only partner there:
ANT61 CEO Michail Asavkin will be a speaker at the Space Symposium Innovate Pitch Competition “designed to showcase emerging space companies with proven technologies and provide an opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect with key stakeholders.” (https://www.spacesymposium.org/agenda/)
I’ve been wondering for quite some time now whether another startup pitching at that event - Little Place Labs - might be experimenting with Akida as well, since I have noticed Alf Kuchenbuch liking numerous posts by that spin-off from the University of Oxford (now headquartered in Houston, TX) and their co-founder and CEO Bosco Lai in recent months.
#spacecomputing | Frontgrade Gaisler
Meet the Frontgrade Gaisler team at the 40th Space Symposium arranged by the Space Foundation on 7-10 April in Colorado Springs, CO. You can find our colleagues Sandi Habinc, Jan Andersson Nerén, Linnéa Abrahamsson, and our external director on the board Mr Stefan Gustafsson, in the Frontgrade...www.linkedin.com
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Mitch Stevison, CEO of Frontgrade Technologies (the US parent company of Sweden-based Frontgrade Gaisler) is very much looking forward to attending the upcoming 40th Space Symposium (https://www.spacesymposium.org/) in Colorado Springs (April 7-10), organised by the Space Foundation (https://www.spacefoundation.org/).
In an interview uploaded to YouTube two days ago (my transcription is lightly edited for easier readability, eg. without filler words such as “erm”, “you know”, word repetitions etc), Mitch Stevison refers to the annual Space Symposium as “our biggest show of the year” and “the space ecosystem’s most meaningful cong [gets interrupted by the interviewer]”.
Asked about what he is most excited to see, he replies “I am always one that wants to listen to what the operational leaders are saying”, adding that the defence sector still makes up two thirds of Frontgrade Technologies’ business.
Relating to national security, Stevison tells the podcast episode’s listeners that “I’m always most interested in what is on the mind as the priorities from those leaders, from government that will speak at the conference. And then there’s always things that you just walk around and you see both from a competitive standpoint and from a technology standpoint that is interesting. Because the other thing we haven’t talked about here today is: partnership is key in whatever happens in the future of space. No one company is gonna be the solution set that is going to drive us to be what we need to be in space with respect to national security or even our commercial capabilities that every part of the ecosystem today demands that space is there at every moment of every day, whether it’s communications or GPS or anything else of that nature.”
From the perspective of the Frontgrade CEO, the upcoming Space Symposium is simply THE place to be: “There is nowhere else that we go, that I can literally touch every customer we have in a matter of two or three days. Everybody is there. You know, we support the European Space Agency from our facility in Sweden. They are a great partner for us in developing capabilities that we couldn’t develop ourselves. They’re gonna be there, so the Director of the European Space Agency. You’ll see leaders from NASA.”
He then shares that he was initially a little concerned about some of the Trump administration’s governmental directives about not travelling that could potentially result in fewer government officials showing up this year, but he recently talked to Space Foundation’s CEO Heather Pringle (a retired US Air Force major general who last served as the Commander of the AFLR) who reassured him that “the Space Operations Command had made this mission [attending Space Symposium 2025] essential for their employees (https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/About-Space-Operations-Command) and gave him “very high confidence that this would be one of the most well-attended Space Symposiums ever” despite those recent governmental directives.
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Nancy Pelosi on tariffs, in 1996, before she turned into the lizard woman..
(I'm pretty sure this was taken after the election results).
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Humans see in 3D.
" BrainChip’s Akida brings this innovative ability to look at vision, video, and other three-dimensional data as time series. An object visible through multiple two-dimensional frames, computed with the time element as the third dimension, makes video object detection much more effective. Akida’s support for efficient spatial-temporal convolutions makes this use case significantly faster with lower energy consumption."
My bold above.
Game changing. See Aug'23 Forbes article below.
BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge
" BrainChip’s Akida brings this innovative ability to look at vision, video, and other three-dimensional data as time series. An object visible through multiple two-dimensional frames, computed with the time element as the third dimension, makes video object detection much more effective. Akida’s support for efficient spatial-temporal convolutions makes this use case significantly faster with lower energy consumption."
My bold above.
Game changing. See Aug'23 Forbes article below.
BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge
BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge
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Old news, we were looking at documentation on this 3 years ago.
You need a controlled environment to run the bloody thing, and it requires a fair bit of juice.
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Excellent interview.
Mitch Stevison | Frontgrade
Dr. J. Mitch Stevison serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontgrade Technologies. In this role, Mitch leads the company with the assistance of the senior leadership team.
She is a criminal. Hopefully she goes to jail.
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I'm very happy to have joined Paddington Robotics as part of an ambitious… | Gregor Lenz
I'm very happy to have joined Paddington Robotics as part of an ambitious team! We're focused on applications to solve real-world problems from day 1 and we're moving fast. In between we have breaks playing foosball so really what's not to like? If you want to build with us and help us grow a...
Gregor Lenz, until recently CTO of our partner Neurobus (https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-456183) and co-author of Low-power Ship Detection in Satellite Images Using Neuromorphic Hardware alongside Douglas McLelland (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11319) has joined the London-based startup Paddington Robotics (https://paddington-robotics.com/ - the website doesn’t yet have any information other than “Paddington Robotics - Embodied AI in Action”):
Paddington Robotics | LinkedIn
Paddington Robotics | 398 followers on LinkedIn. Solving AI + general purpose robotics in the real world | Bridging the gap between the digital world and the physical world, between product and research - solving AI + Robotics, whilst solving real world problems.
Some further info I was able to find about the London-based startup founded late last year, whose co-founder and CEO is Zehan Wang:
https://www.northdata.de/Paddington%20Robotics%20Ltd·,%20London/Companies%20House%2016015385
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Paper just came up from April 1st (no joke 
) by the eBrain Lab NYU who have been working with Akida.
Website and full paper links below with a a couple of snips, abstract, pic of AKD1000 in action and conclusion.
ebrain4everyone.com
) by the eBrain Lab NYU who have been working with Akida.Website and full paper links below with a a couple of snips, abstract, pic of AKD1000 in action and conclusion.
eBRAIN Lab: Advanced Machine Learning Research | eBRAIN Lab
Discover the eBRAIN Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi, led by Prof. Muhammad Shafique. We specialize in cutting-edge research and development in machine learning technologies. Explore our innovative projects and contributions to the field.
ebrain4everyone.com
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So it’s not going to be the GR765, then, but a completely new SoC, the GR801.
As predicted, Jörg Conradt’s lab at KTH Stockholm will be collaborating:
He better practice spelling and saying “Akida” correctly ASAP!
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-449511
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Svenska rymdprocessorn får neuromorf AI
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Svenska rymdprocessorn får neuromorf AI
Jan Tångring,04 april 2025Frontgrade Gaisler tar fram ett chip som integrerar dess egen rymdprocessor med australiska Brainchips neuromorfa AI-processor Akida.
Beställningen kommer från Svenska rymdstyrelsen. En först tape-out ska komma i slutet av året.
Chipet heter GR801 och blir den första produkten i Gaislers nya produktlinje Grain (Gaisler Research Artificial Intelligence NOEL-V). På GR801hittar vi Gaislers Risc V-processor Noel V och Brainchips neuromorfa processor Akida.
Brainchip har utvecklat sin strömsnåla accelerator Akida i två decennier. Den är digital men är neuromorf (liknar biologiska hjärnceller) i meningen att den simulerar de spikpulser som biologiska hjärnor använder för signalering, inklusive att beräkningarna är händelsestyrda – de väntar på spikpulserna.
Akida kan integreras i SoC:er och utvecklas i standardarbetsflöden som Tensorflow. Den kan tränas under drift.
KTH har konstruerat en demo som kopplar en sensor – även den neuromorf – till GR801. Den kommer från forskargruppen Neurocomputing Systems (NCS), som leds av professor Jörg Conradt.
Gaislers produktlinje Grain är till för att möjliggöra mer avancerade och autonoma rymduppdrag – med stöd av energieffektiv AI.
GR801 kommer att jobba i både kommersiella och institutionella rymduppdrag.
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Frontgrade Gaislers strålningshärdade mikroprocessorer finns i hela solsystemet – från Merkurius till Neptunus.
Frontgrade Gaisler is developing a chip that integrates its own space processor with Australian Brainchip's neuromorphic AI processor Akida.
The order comes from the Swedish Space Agency. A first tape-out should come at the end of the year.
The chip is called GR801 and will be the first product in Gaisler's new product line Grain (Gaisler Research Artificial Intelligence NOEL-V). The GR801 features Gaisler's Risc V processor Noel V and Brainchip's neuromorphic processor Akida.
Brainchip has been developing its low-power Akida accelerator for two decades. It is digital but is neuromorphic (similar to biological brain cells) in the sense that it simulates the spike pulses that biological brains use for signaling, including that the computations are event-driven - they wait for the spike pulses.
Akida can be integrated into SoCs and developed in standard workflows like Tensorflow. It can be trained during operation.
KTH has constructed a demo that connects a sensor - also neuromorphic - to the GR801. It comes from the Neurocomputing Systems (NCS) research group, led by Professor Jörg Conradt.
Gaisler's Grain product line is designed to enable more advanced and autonomous space missions - supported by energy-efficient AI.
GR801 will work in both commercial and institutional space missions.
- “Grain is an exciting venture for Gaisler, as we are well positioned to enable new capabilities for real-time data processing, autonomous navigation, Earth observation, and object recognition and tracking,” says Sandi Habinc, Director of Operations at Frontgrade Gaisler.
Frontgrade Gaisler's radiation-hardened microprocessors are found throughout the solar system - from Mercury to Neptune.
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Frangipani
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Hi CHIPS,
FYI: it’s the same paper I had already posted about on Wednesday:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-456495
You may want to try the link I had shared then (a slightly different one)
although the www.arxiv.org link @Fullmoonfever provided actually works fine for me.
Alternatively, you’ll find screenshots of the whole paper in my post.
Schönes Wochenende
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Hello Frangipani
There was a misunderstanding from my side because I thought that the article was also to be seen at this link https://ebrain4everyone.com/
The other one worked fine then. Thank you for your help.
Schönes Wochende!
CHIPS
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Intel, TSMC outline deal to form chipmaking venture, says report
Chip giant Intel and foundry TSMC have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to run Intel's chip manufacturing.
www.eenewseurope.com
Intel, TSMC outline deal to form chipmaking venture, says report
Business news | April 4, 2025By Peter Clarke
TSMC INTEL JV FOUNDRY
Struggling chip giant Intel and Taiwanese foundry TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to run Intel’s chip manufacturing plants, according to a report in The Information.
TSMC is set to take a 20 percent stake in the venture with Intel and US fabless chip companies holding the majority, the report said referencing unnamed sources. At least some but not necessarily all of Intel’s wafer fabs will be included under the venture, the report said as details are worked out.The possibility of a deal was previously reported last month just as Lip-Bu Tan was taking over as CEO.
It was reported at the time that TSMC had been invited to come up with a plan by the Trump administration to try and resolve a long-running crisis at Intel which had been the world’s pre-eminent chip company.
TSMC has offered to share some of its manufacturing process technology with Intel in exchange for a 20 percent in the new company, The Information has reported. TSMC will also take control of manufacturing and training of workers in the venture’s wafer fabs.
TSMC has held talks with potential partners such as AMD, Broadcom and Nvidia, according to previous report. Each partner might hold a minority stake but in aggregate the majority would be owned by US headquartered companies, a condition likely imposed by the US government.
If the deal goes ahead it will be an example of rapid and radical decision making by Tan. In his first speech as Intel CEO Tan said he would sell-off non-core businesses but also re-iterated a promise to create a world class foundry operation out of Intel’s chip manufacturing capabilities.
Related links and articles:
www.intel.comwww.tsmc.com
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Excellent interview.
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Dr. J. Mitch Stevison serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontgrade Technologies. In this role, Mitch leads the company with the assistance of the senior leadership team.www.frontgrade.com
Please listen to the visionary concepts, made reality, by our team in… | Mitch Stevison Ph.D.
Please listen to the visionary concepts, made reality, by our team in Sweden! Bringing a partnership with BrainChip together to accelerate neuromorphic processing into reality. More than important just to space….think well beyond this to full multi-domain capabilities that move autonomy to...
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#edgeai #aiinspace #spacetech #akida #innovation | BrainChip
The BrainChip team wrapped up our week at the RISC-V in Space Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden where they were on hand for Frontgrade Gaisler’s announcement of their new GRAIN AI space computing platform, featuring our Akida neuromorphic technology. Our booth welcomed both new and familiar...
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