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Correct me if Iam wrong research partners are not defined as partners that will be used in a car ? . Nit picking isn’t the answer to the facts there are no neuromorphic partnerships announced to date that will be known to the market until Mercedes advise on this topic.
Nitpicking? Hang on, you literally wrote
They have no reason to announce any particular partnerships of any kind until such time, so we continue to speculate.
hence my comment about the research partnerships they recently announced, and besides, research partnerships can of course eventually lead to the real deal. Why do you think they are doing such research in the first place?! Just for fun? Would they pick partners they could never ever imagine signing a deal with? And how about Akida in the EQXX - was that not research that could potentially lead to the signing of an IP license?
At least we can agree on “So we continue to speculate.”
We’ll likely need quite a bit of patience, though, as the journalists who were recently shown around MB’s Future Technologies Lab, were told by MB’s neuromorphic researchers that the technology were “still in its infancy” and required “extensive testing and certification” before going into production cars, saying they were expecting the hardware to be available in the 2030s…
cf references to various online articles

Today, numerous articles on some of the promising future technologies Mercedes-Benz is exploring were published online, after the carmaker had recently invited journalists to its Future Technologies Lab in Sindelfingen.
And of course - you guessed it - neuromorphic computing was one of them.
(I also find solar coating another interesting concept).
There was also a press release by MB itself:
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Neuromorphic Computer soll Energiebedarf einschränken
Zukünftige Fahrzeuge werden mehr Funktionen wie autonomes Fahren bieten, was den Energiebedarf steigert. Mercedes-Benz setzt auf Neuromorphic Computing, um KI effizienter zu machen und den Energieverbrauch um bis zu 90 % zu senken.mbpassion.de
Playmobil-Männchen im Einsatz…
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German magazine auto, motor und sport published both an online article and a video on MB & neuromorphic computing earlier today (both in German) that literally confirm what I’ve been suspecting: that Mercedes-Benz is nowhere near to implementing neuromorphic technology at scale into their serial cars…
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Neue KI-Chips von Mercedes für mehr Reichweite
Mercedes forscht an neuromorphen KI-Chips, die den Energiehunger künstlicher Intelligenz in der Elektronik fürs autonome Fahren eindämmen sollen. Aktuell würde ein Level-4-System nämlich die Reichweite eines E-Autos um bis zu 30 Prozent verringern. Wie die Technik funktioniert und was...www.auto-motor-und-sport.de
“Der Weg in die Serie ist noch weit.” - “It’s still a long way to serial cars”.
“Bis neuromorphe Chips ihren Weg ins Auto finden, wird es wohl noch einige Jahre dauern.” - “It’ll probably take a few years / It looks as if it will still take a few years until neuromorphic chips will find their way into (serial) cars.”
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Mercedes forscht an neuer KI-Technik für autonome E-Autos
Um den Energiehunger von KI-Systemen zu stillen forscht Mercedes an neuromorpher Hardware, mit der autonomes Fahren effizienter werden soll.www.auto-motor-und-sport.de
“Diese Technologie steht jedoch noch am Anfang und erfordert umfangreiche Tests und Zertifizierungen, bevor sie in Autos eingesetzt werden kann.”
“However, this technology is still in its infancy and requires extensive testing and certification before it can be used in cars.”
Something similar is said in the video itself around the 5 min mark.
Other articles are behind a paywall, but maybe one of you happens to be a subscriber and could check out whether there are any additional snippets of interest worth sharing?
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Das Auto der Zukunft: Besuch im Forschungslabor von Mercedes-Benz
Flotte Akkus, stromerzeugende Lacke und wartungsfreie Bremsen: Das Auto der Zukunft ist weit mehr als ein Smartphone auf Rädern. Ein Besuch im Forschungslabor von Mercedes-Benz.www.faz.net
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Seltene Einblicke: Bremsen ohne Feinstaub – und 5 weitere Zukunftspläne von Mercedes
Der Autohersteller Mercedes-Benz definiert sich als Innovationsmotor – und gewährt einen seltenen Blick in die Forschungswerkstatt. Was dort entwickelt wird, lesen Sie hier.www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
My guess is that the next Mercedes-Benz LinkedIn post regarding NC will give us some more details about the research collaboration with HKA (Hochschule Karlsruhe) on neuromorphic cameras. Or it might be a post announcing the collaboration between Mercedes and Neurobus that I had spotted on Nov 12 (https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-441454).
Here are two more articles by journalists who attended MB’s recent Future Technologies Lab Open House. Both describe NC as a potential solution to drastically cut the energy consumption of SAE Level 4 autonomous functions and quote Mercedes-Benz engineers as saying they were expecting such neuromorphic hardware to become available in the 2030s…
Yup, you read that right.
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Fortschritt durch Technik: Mercedes-Innovationen - WELT
Mercedes öffnet die Türen zu seinen Forschungs-Labors einen Spalt weit – und zeigt Projekte, die in den nächsten Jahren unsere Mobilität beeinflussen werden. Und zwar weit ins Elektroauto-Zeitalter hinein.www.welt.de
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The exact same article can be found on the Handelsblatt website as well:
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Also note that Markus Schäfer calls the MB Future Technologies Lab their early-tech kitchen - in my opinion that’s yet another hint that we won’t be seeing the visionary ideas cooked up there implemented in any serial cars about to be released…
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Which also means that BrainChip’s current advantage of already having a commercially available neuromorphic chip or IP is no longer going to be that relevant in a few years’ time. For the time being, research chips will do…
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