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[Boab]

Hold onto your seats chippers. I finally got some time to try out the choiceplus component of Hostplus super. Needless to say, watch the share price jump today. Nothing to do with the word Intel. Hope your all well and have a merry xmas.

Is it the same as Aussie Super? Max of 20% of your holdings allowed for an individual stock
Go get em tiger

 

[Sirod69]

As has been mentioned numerous times before, employing staff that have worldly experience in the technology space
is nonnegotiable, the huge opportunities that open up through their own networks, that have been built up over years
and years of trust and integrity, well this is no different.

With all the chatter about Apple recently and now linking in Sony, well here's a little or maybe large dot that you aren't
aware of, one of our Brainchip staff, whom I won't be naming for privacy reasons, has a son who is a fully qualified engineer,
currently working for Apple as lead manager in San Francisco.

Think about that for a moment, do you think Brainchip's technology has been mentioned in general conversation or not, I
don't know the answer, but if it were me, I'd have repeated the name Akida many times by now, but that's just me putting
on my sales hat.

Lou did pass a comment years ago, not long into his tenure, along the lines of, "if you're dealing with Apple for example, if
you dare mention their name, well, that's it, you won't be dealing with Apple ever again."

Have a thoughtful day.

Cheers for now. Tech

@TECH what do you want to tell us, hä?
You're talking in riddles,
and lou is now 12 years old?
If there's this son over there, we'll get him out, you know that
1000 eyes are watching you

 

[wilzy123]

Anyone else notice about 400k shares being shifted up the line as they are wiped?

Yep. It was happening yesterday too. Same bots at play.

 

[FrederikSchack]

Just found this paper that is mentioning Brainchip, I didn´t have time to read it, but it doesn´t mention Brainchip in this sentence: "A recent feature of neuromorphic chips that is especially interesting for space applications is on-chip learning, found in chips like Loihi, BrainScaleS2 and SPOON [63]." which is strange.....

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.05236v1.pdf?

 

[FrederikSchack]

Interesting that Akida has the next highest (or highest) accuracy in the MNIST test and achives the same level af accuracy as an ANN implemented on a Tesla P100

 

[Space Cadet]

I have found a paper primarily by Valeo from June 22. Might be one for Dodgy Knees if he has time.
Does not mention Akida but Simon Thorpe and Co get referenced for STDP. Interestingly one of the authors Senthil Yogamani left Valeo in October to work for Qualcomm.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...-time_Object_Detection_for_Autonomous_Driving

https://www.linkedin.com/in/senthilyogamani/?originalSubdomain=ie

SC

 

[Deleted member 118]

We ARE embedding our IP in everything everywhere ... not will be. Nice

 

[TechGirl]

 

[BaconLover]

 

[Newk R]

With Leonard Cohen lurking in the background.

Of course written by the great Leonard.

 

[Deleted member 118]

 

[Diogenese]

I like this quote "Sony is working on a new sensor using semiconductor technologies, letting more light in and reducing the possibility of under or overexposure"

Apple confirms it uses Sony camera sensors for its iPhones​

13 December 2022

Everyone in the smartphone industry knows that Apple keeps a tight lid on its suppliers and a lot the more technical specs of its products, so Tim Cook's visit to Sony's facility for CMOS sensors is kind of a big deal.

Analysts and fans have been suspecting this for a while now and Tim Cook finally admitted that Apple has been working with Sony for over a decade. Apple's CEO posted a photo of Sony's CEO Kenichiro Yoshida showing him around a Sony facility.

The Cupertino-based company isn't very vocal about its battery, chip and display suppliers either, but supply chain analysts have revealed g that Corning is making Apple's front and back glass sheets while Samsung and LG are supplying the majority of OLED panels. Chips, of course, come from TSMC's fabs.

However, the Sony-Apple deal for camera hardware was still largely unconfirmed and by the looks of it, it won't end anytime soon. According to some reports, Sony is working on a new sensor using semiconductor technologies, letting more light in and reducing the possibility of under or overexposure. Of course, that sensor will end up in future generation iPhones.

Apple confirms it uses Sony camera sensors for its iPhones

Hardly a shocking development, but it's good to have an official confirmation. Everyone in the smartphone industry knows that Apple keeps a tight lid on...

www.gsmarena.com

Learning.

Sometimes i like to ponder about the technology underlying new developments, so here are my purely speculative thoughts on this announcement on more light without overexposure.

Letting more light in needs a larger lens or longer exposure.

Both of these raise the probability of overexposure.

Longer exposure causes blur for moving objects.

We know Prophesee and Sony have developed a de-blurring system using the Prophesee DVS in conjunction with a "normal" camera. That solution must , a priori, involve some form of processor, which probably isn't Akida because our engagement with Prophesee postdates the Sony/Prophesee development.

Prophesee's DVS camera only acts on changes in light impinging on pixels, and is not tied to exposure times associated with frames, which means that the "event" signals from the DVS are generated almost instantaneously.

So can the DVS be used to control the exposure time for the "normal" camera?

Or, can the DVS be used to control the time of capture of signals from regions of the photoreceptor of the normal camera, or even individual pixels to avoid over-exposure?

Of course, to do this, you would need a processor capable of fully utilizing the almost zero latency capabilities of the Prophesee DVS.

Footnote: Sony has developed a 3D chip stacking manufacturing technique. One of the problems with this is that the embedded transistors generate a disproportionate amount of heat because it is difficult for the heat to escape. So, if they wanted to have a 3D DVS chip with optical sensor (pixel array), pixel processor, and SNN, they would need to use devices which produce minimal heat.

 

[JK200SX]

As has been mentioned numerous times before, employing staff that have worldly experience in the technology space
is nonnegotiable, the huge opportunities that open up through their own networks, that have been built up over years
and years of trust and integrity, well this is no different.

With all the chatter about Apple recently and now linking in Sony, well here's a little or maybe large dot that you aren't
aware of, one of our Brainchip staff, whom I won't be naming for privacy reasons, has a son who is a fully qualified engineer,
currently working for Apple as lead manager in San Francisco.

Think about that for a moment, do you think Brainchip's technology has been mentioned in general conversation or not, I
don't know the answer, but if it were me, I'd have repeated the name Akida many times by now, but that's just me putting
on my sales hat.

Lou did pass a comment years ago, not long into his tenure, along the lines of, "if you're dealing with Apple for example, if
you dare mention their name, well, that's it, you won't be dealing with Apple ever again."

Have a thoughtful day.

Cheers for now. Tech

@TECH what do you want to tell us, hä?
You're talking in riddles,
and lou is now 12 years old?
If there's this son over there, we'll get him out, you know that
1000 eyes are watching you
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I found him, but I won't name him for privacy reasons.

Looks like he could be a really good connection.

 

[Dhm]

ARM
EDGE IMPULSE
INTEL
ISL
MEGACHIPS
MERCEDES BENZ
MOSCHIPS
NASA
NUMEN
NVISO
PROPHESEE
RENESAS
SiFIVE
SOCIONEXT
VALEO

I suspect that this list would please many Board of Directors when considering the first 12 months performance of their Chief Executive Officer.

OF COURSE when considering the performance of Brainchip’s CEO Sean Hehir the Board would not have this list.

They would not have this list because it is incomplete as the list they will judge his performance against will have a further eight NDA covered Fortune 500 and Household named companies the identity of which remain hidden from all.

But even this list will be incomplete as the list will contain the names of those companies which come to Brainchip via MegaChips, Renesas, Valeo, MOSCHIP and via new sales leads such as the yet to be identified large communications company.

I wonder if the full list will be sufficient to ensure the CEO continues to lead Brainchip in 2023.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Hi FF, I didn’t realise there were “a further eight NDA covered Fortune 500 and Household named companies the identity of which remain hidden from all.”
That adds extra excitement to the NDA reveals - or lack thereof - because top tier companies who want to remain secret usually means they have higher volume products that may be household names. And if these companies can prove their absolute superiority over their competitors, well, that sounds like revenue revenue revenue and SP takeoff! Exciting times!

 

[Bravo]

Howdy Crew,

I was just flicking through this article published earlier today about Toyota re-considering its roll-out of electric cars and one particular sentence really caught my eye and caused me to start involuntarily drooling. It says " Toyota is considering introducing new technology from its suppliers, and improving the profitability of its electric cars".

If you recall @Makeme 2020 posted an article about Renasas #29,361 and at the end of that article it said "Renesas counts major OEMs including everyone from Toyota to Tesla as key customers, with the former also being a shareholder in the company".

Toyota changing course on its electric vehicle strategy – report

Tesla and BYD are the targets as Toyota takes a fresh look at its electric strategy.

www.drive.com.au

 

[Bravo]

 

[Deadpool]

Bacon, no home video's please

 

[Deleted member 118]

View attachment 24324

 

[Fact Finder]

As has been mentioned numerous times before, employing staff that have worldly experience in the technology space
is nonnegotiable, the huge opportunities that open up through their own networks, that have been built up over years
and years of trust and integrity, well this is no different.

With all the chatter about Apple recently and now linking in Sony, well here's a little or maybe large dot that you aren't
aware of, one of our Brainchip staff, whom I won't be naming for privacy reasons, has a son who is a fully qualified engineer,
currently working for Apple as lead manager in San Francisco.

Think about that for a moment, do you think Brainchip's technology has been mentioned in general conversation or not, I
don't know the answer, but if it were me, I'd have repeated the name Akida many times by now, but that's just me putting
on my sales hat.

Lou did pass a comment years ago, not long into his tenure, along the lines of, "if you're dealing with Apple for example, if
you dare mention their name, well, that's it, you won't be dealing with Apple ever again."

Have a thoughtful day.

Cheers for now. Tech

Post verified from my memory though as I say getting old. Nice dot Tech.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

PS. Can we all now destroy our technology devices so as not to destroy any developing relationships as the CFO has also spoken about customer exposure disasters as well.

 

[jtardif999]

Scientists Create Brain-Inspired Superconducting Circuits​

In the past, ‘neuromorphic chips’ have been developed that use brain-like software. What are these and what issues with them caused you to look even further?​

Neuromorphic chips exist along a spectrum. Some chips are nearly identical to digital computers at the device level, still using silicon transistors and binary digits to represent everything, and only departing from conventional processors at the level of the architecture and the communication protocol. Examples of this approach include IBM’s TrueNorth chip and Intel’s Loihi chip. They’re digital chips, but memory—though still separate from processors—is more broadly distributed across the system. These chips communicate by sending spike events from each processor to many others, more like neurons in the brain that communicate with spikes sent from each neuron to thousands of synapses. So some neuromorphic chips leverage the very same devices, hardware, and fabrication infrastructure as conventional digital computers, but they are processing information in a way that is based on the spiking neurons and distributed architecture of the brain. This is quite a sensible thing to do, because you can get going already. All the infrastructure is already there.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are neuromorphic chips that go even further and use silicon transistors as analog devices, taking another page from the book of the brain. Instead of binary, on-off signals from transistors, these efforts use transistors in what is called the “sub-threshold” regime in which the current through the transistor can take a continuum of values as a function of the applied voltage. This can lead to dramatic energy savings. The problem here is that the functional form of the current through the transistor is exponential, meaning a small change in the applied voltage or a small change in the fabrication of the transistor leads to a large change in the current response.

Scientists Create Brain-Inspired Superconducting Circuits

In AZoM's latest interview, we talk with Jeff Shainline from the NIST in Boulder, CO, about his research looking at forming superconducting circuits with synaptic behavior. This research could transform how we approach AI and computing.

www.azom.com

Thanks @Sirod69 - fascinating read, I recommend everyone take a look at this. It may inadvertently describe some of our secret sauce by way of a current ‘limitation’ in example semi-conductor Neuromorphic architectures. The author is a device physicist who claims to be working on using light with superconductors (instead of electricity with semiconductors) to improve neuron communication.

From the article,

“In the brain, when a neuron spikes, it sends a signal along what is called an axon. This axon branches to deliver the information to thousands of synapses. The signal is able to maintain its strength across the entire branching axon due to the brilliant, self-assembled nanotechnology from which we are all constructed. The signal regenerates as it propagates, and it can do this because the neuron is embedded in the extracellular medium, which continually supplies the needed charge—ions—to regenerate the signal. It is extremely difficult and energetically inefficient to accomplish the same feat with transistors and copper wires.

If the output signal of a neuron is generated by a transistor, it is not possible for that transistor to source enough current to drive a long, branching copper wire up to a voltage that will cause the thousands of recipient synapses to register the event. So instead, the neuromorphic community has come up with a clever workaround. Neurons do not make direct, dedicated connections to their downstream synapses. Instead, each neuron only makes a connection to a node in a communication network. This communication network then handles the spikes sent between all neurons.

This form of communication is much more like packets being sent across the internet than it is like spiking neurons sending messages over axons in the brain. Such a communication method has been a key enabler of existing neuromorphic systems because if you are trying to use the circuits that are fabricated in an existing silicon microelectronics process, there isn’t another option. However, the problem is that this shared communication infrastructure does a reasonable job up to a certain scale—maybe about a million neurons (our brains have 86 billion neurons)—but beyond that, it gets bogged down. It takes too long for a message sent by a neuron to arrive at its synaptic destinations, particularly when many other neurons fire closely in time. The latency to send a message depends on the traffic on the network. This is the primary impediment to scaling existing neuromorphic systems, and this was the starting point that led to our work on photonic communication between spiking neurons.”

The author mentions Loihi and TrueNorth as examples of existing semiconductor Neuromorphic architectures and by the description above describes limits to the number of synapses that will receive an update to the associated synaptic weights after a nueron fires.

Now I’ve suspected for a long time that the quantity of synapses being updated by the firing has a direct affect on whether any actual learning can be done. We know that the Akida spec provides for a far greater number of synapses to nuerons ratio than Loihi (by an order of magnitude and some). If as described in the article the limitation of chips like Loihi is to do with updating synapses then perhaps part of the secret sauce possessed by BrainChip is that they have been able to work out how to solve this problem and allow one nueron firing at a threshold to update ten thousand synapses in the case of Akida and thus enable on chip learning. It’s well worth the read and this is AIMO.

PS. As for light and superconductors replacing existing tech I think we’re pretty safe for a while yet as this would require massive changes to existing infrastructure.

Regards,
jtard