Just got around to having a look at the Brainchip CES 2026 web page.
https://brainchip.com/ces-2026/
My favourite is the Quantum Venture neuro RT cybersecurity running on the Brainchip Edge AI Box for small office protection.
https://shop.brainchipinc.com/products/akida™-edge-ai-box
- Host CPU: NXP i.MX 8M Plus Quad SOC
- AI/ML Accelerator: 2 x AKD1000 (BrainChip Akida Chip) Over PCIe
- On Board Memory: 4GB LPDDR4, 32GB eMMC
- all for only $1000 (US).
There's a lot more small offices than big offices, That's not to say we won't have a surprise for the big offices by CES 2027.
As someone remarked a while ago, this sounds more exciting than the washing machine handbook.
Of course, others may prefer the Deep Perception
Visual Computing Pipeline Full compute pipeline using the AKD1000 for drones and mobile devices, or the Haila
Ultra-Low Power Connectivity Bluetooth and WiFi integration with the AKD1500 for wearable visual classification.
HaiLa is also very exciting.
A reminder from the sensors Converge 2025 mid year show:
https://brainchip.com/brainchip-and...-ai-connectivity-for-iot-sensor-applications/
Laguna Hills, Calif. – June 24, 2025 –
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, brain-inspired AI, today announced a strategic collaboration with HaiLa Technologies, an innovator in ultra-low power wireless connectivity. BrainChip and HaiLa are working with leading OEMs and ecosystem partners to bring their combined capabilities to market across medical, environmental, and infrastructure monitoring domains.
Together, the companies will demonstrate how BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic technology pairs seamlessly with HaiLa’s BSC2000 radio frequency integrated circuit RFIC to enable breakthrough power efficiency for connected sensor applications in IoT, medical, and smart infrastructure markets.
The combined technologies produce an ultra-efficient architecture that paves the way for continuously connected battery-operated devices that can last the entire life of the product on a single coin cell battery. This joint demonstration leverages HaiLa’s hyper power-efficient passive backscatter wireless communication over standard Wi-Fi infrastructure with BrainChip’s Akida™ https://brainchip.com/brainchip-and...-ai-connectivity-for-iot-sensor-applications/Akida 1500 event-based AI processor. The integration provides a unique platform for anomaly detection, condition monitoring, and other sensor-intelligence tasks while operating on just microwatts of power.
BrainChip and HaiLa are teaming up to deliver smarter, ultra-low-power solutions for intelligent connected edge devices, making it easier to run AI at the edge without draining battery life. HaiLa’s BSC2000 is a Wi-Fi-compatible connectivity RFIC designed to showcase extreme power savings in IoT environments. When paired with Akida’s energy-efficient, event-driven AI compute, the result is a uniquely optimized approach.
“As a pioneer in neuromorphic computing, we are excited to partner with HaiLa to demonstrate how advanced low-power AI processing can work in tandem with ultra-efficient wireless connectivity,” said Steve Brightfield, CMO at BrainChip. “By combining our Akida technology with HaiLa’s innovative RF platform, we’re making intelligent, battery-powered edge sensors a practical reality.”
“Our collaboration with BrainChip brings together two power-conscious technologies that redefine what is possible at the edge,” said Patricia Bower, Vice President of Product Management at HaiLa. “With backscatter Wi-Fi and neuromorphic AI operating on microwatts, developers can create continuously monitored, intelligent sensors that last for years without battery replacement. This is transformative for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and other real-time sensing applications.”
While I was down this rabbit hole, I stumbled across this:
https://www.haila.io/post/securing-extremely-low-power-iot-devices-challenges-and-perspectives
Securing extremely low power IoT devices: Challenges and perspectives
Recent years have seen a rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) security regulations around the world- most notably, the European Union Cybersecurity Resiliency Act (CRA), the UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI) and the US CyberTrust Mark. The emergence of these regulations was motivated, among other things, by the sheer number of cybersecurity threats originating from IoT devices in these regions.
While some of these regulations, such as the US CyberTrust Mark, are voluntary, others, such as the CRA and the PSTI, are mandatory meaning that every IoT device entering those markets need to comply with all the requirements set forth in those regulations. This means that IoT devices are now required to meet a minimum level of security standard for global market acceptance across multiple regions.
Complying with these regulatory requirements is particularly challenging for battery less or ambient powered IoT devices (such as sensors or monitoring devices) given the energy and computational constraints characterising these devices. Securing ambient powered and battery less IoT devices to comply with regulatory requirements calls for a complete change of paradigm: security must be considered an integral part of the IoT device design process. Processes involved in the design, manufacturing, and deployment of IoT devices must be security-aware and the chain of trust must be clearly established [1].
Wouldn't it be funny if the HaiLa people had a look over the shoulder of the BRN/QV demo?
t. I'm buying some more 
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