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Hey Frangipani,
Great research! Are you inferring that you believe that AKD1500 has been produced in silicon?
I’m only going from memory now but information was circulating here that well over 12 months ago AKD1500 was going to be produced in silicon by Brainchip but allegedly an anonymous potential partner/customer halted that production as they wanted to do it. I think @Diogenese was sniffing that trail. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong in my old age but could Airbus be that company that caused AKD1500 to be produced in silicon?
Great research! Are you inferring that you believe that AKD1500 has been produced in silicon?
I’m only going from memory now but information was circulating here that well over 12 months ago AKD1500 was going to be produced in silicon by Brainchip but allegedly an anonymous potential partner/customer halted that production as they wanted to do it. I think @Diogenese was sniffing that trail. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong in my old age but could Airbus be that company that caused AKD1500 to be produced in silicon?
Kenneth Östberg presented our poster on GRAIN – Radiation-Tolerant Edge AI at the RISC-V in Space Workshop 2025 earlier this week. | Frontgrade Gaisler
Kenneth Östberg presented our poster on GRAIN – Radiation-Tolerant Edge AI at the RISC-V in Space Workshop 2025 earlier this week. The GRAIN line of space computing products includes the newly announced rad-hard GR801 neuromorphic processor based on the BrainChip Akida 1.0 technology. Read...www.linkedin.com
This poster titled GRAIN - Radiation-Tolerant Edge AI, presented by Kenneth Östberg, one of its two co-authors (the other being Daniel Andersson), during the “RISC-V in Space” workshop in Gothenburg on Thursday…
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…finally reveals what NEURAVIS stands for - the name of that R&T project, which ESA awarded to the five consortium partners Airbus Toulouse, Airbus Ottobrunn, BrainChip, Frontgrade Gaisler and Neurobus in mid-2024 (see the July 2024 LinkedIn post by Airbus Space Project Manager Jérémy Lebreton below):
Neuromorphic Evaluation of Ultra-low-power Rad-hard Acceleration for Vision Inferences in Space.
The poster also provides more information with regards to the use cases currently being explored in the NEURAVIS project, although I’m afraid I couldn’t decipher everything due to the small print - maybe someone with eagle eyes or a magic tool to blow up the photo and unblur the small print can add in resp. correct what I’ve gathered so far:
1. Moon landing
Use Case #1: Vision-Based Navigation for Lunar Lander
Also see Alf Kuchenbuch’s recent comment on Argonaut, ESA’s lunar lander programme:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-452257
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2. Debris detection/collect (?)
Use Case #2: Monitoring (?) Building Block for In-orbit Maintenance
3. Docking
4. Object ? (looks like “simulation”, but appears to be a longer word?)
In addition, the poster lists four “Application scenarios” for GRAIN’s Radiation-Tolerant Edge AI:
1. Remote Terminal Unit
2. Stand-alone Controller
3. Near-edge processing unit
4. Auxiliary data-processing module
Lots of small print to decipher here as well!
Thank you, BrainChip team, for sharing the news. | Jérémy Lebreton
Thank you, BrainChip team, for sharing the news. At Airbus, we are very glad to be starting this new ESA R&T project called NEURAVIS with BrainChip , Neurobus and Frontgrade Gaisler. Our goal is to bring the disruptive technology of neuromorphic computing on an achievable path to the space...www.linkedin.com
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If I understand the above post correctly, we have yet to hear about what suggestion the NEURAVIS proposal has for AKD1500 (“BrainChip is proud that Airbus selected Akida for both COTS chips and IP in their proposal. ESA awarded the Airbus “NEURAVIS” proposal, including Akida in the Akida 1500 chip and on an FPGA together with Frontgrade Gaisler’s NOEL-V processor.”).
Whereas the underlined appears to refer to Frontgrade Gaisler’s newly revealed GR801 SoC that will incorporate Akida 1.0 IP - greatly benefitting the work of Airbus Toulouse computer vision experts such as Jérémy Lebreton (project lead) and Roland Brochard, as can be inferred from the GRAIN poster’s four listed use cases - there has to be another specific proposal by Airbus how to utilise our COTS chip AKD1500, then.
So I presume Airbus Ottobrunn and Neurobus might be the consortium partners currently collaborating on that second part of the NEURAVIS proposal?
DingoBorat
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Your memory is confused with what happened to the production of AKD2000 chips (which got to the "taping out" stage).
AKD1500, was produced by Global Foundries and has been utilised, by Bascom Hunter
BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries
BrainChip's latest milestone: AKD1500 chip arrival from GlobalFoundries. Explore the future of semiconductors here.
brainchip.com
BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries (August 2023)
In late December(2024) BrainChip signed a US$100,000 contract with U.S. defence contractor Bascom Hunter, for the sale and support of AKD1500 chips for full scale evaluation of commercial products, which will provide significant improvements over traditional CPU, GPU, and TPU processors and are considered optimal for low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) Machine Learning (ML) applications.
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Papacass
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Cheers. Knew I was getting old.Your memory is confused with what happened to the production of AKD2000 chips (which got to the "taping out" stage).
AKD1500, was produced by Global Foundries and has been utilised, by Bascom Hunter
BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries
BrainChip's latest milestone: AKD1500 chip arrival from GlobalFoundries. Explore the future of semiconductors here.brainchip.com
BrainChip Receives First Shipment of AKD1500 Chips in Silicon from Technology Partner GlobalFoundries (August 2023)
In late December(2024) BrainChip signed a US$100,000 contract with U.S. defence contractor Bascom Hunter, for the sale and support of AKD1500 chips for full scale evaluation of commercial products, which will provide significant improvements over traditional CPU, GPU, and TPU processors and are considered optimal for low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) Machine Learning (ML) applications.
I just prepare myself for the next punch in my face
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Knowing our luck we will get a $$$ sensitive announcement today and end up red
HopalongPetrovski
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HopalongPetrovski
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Hi Papacass,
You've misremembered:
"It is Akida 2 that has been on again - off again".
DingoBorat
Slim
Comsec app can't handle the pressure..
Volume sold in stocks, going up, then down
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ASX is possibly struggling with volume of selling/buying too..
Volume sold in stocks, going up, then down
...ASX is possibly struggling with volume of selling/buying too..
Bravo
If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
I don't see why not—unless Qualcomm is already working on a new iteration of Snapdragon that incorporates features similar to AKIDA. How feasible that is, I'm not entirely sure.
As far as I know, the current Snapdragon product isn't neuromorphic, isn't event-based, doesn't operate at ultra-low power, and doesn’t support real-time on-device learning.
Judd Heape, VP of Product Management for Camera, Computer Vision, and Video at Qualcomm Technologies, was quoted in a June 2023 EE Times article saying, “These event-based sensors are much more efficient because they can be programmed to easily detect motion at very low power. When there’s no movement or change in the scene, the sensor consumes almost no power. So that’s really interesting to us.”
In that context, he was referring to Prophesee and image-based sensors, but the underlying principle still applies I would have thought—event-based sensors just make sense. And AKIDA is event-based.
We also know that a drone company is exploring a combination of AKIDA and Prophesee’s camera. Not Snapdragon. That says something.
So why wouldn’t Qualcomm want to integrate our technology to gain a foothold in new markets—especially ones that are battery-powered and highly power-constrained? Surely paying for a licence would be chicken feed for the likes of Qualcomm, so I honestly don't know why they wouldn't be considering it.
Maybe someone with deeper technical insight can weigh in here.
EETimes article about Prophesee-Qualcomm deal
Full article here: https://www.eetimes.com/experts-weigh-impact-of-prophesee-qualcomm-deal/ Experts Weigh Impact of Prophesee-Qualcomm Deal ...
image-sensors-world.blogspot.com
DingoBorat
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May as well hear from the horse's mouth, what the deal is..
I'm reliably informed, that he and Ron Vara have conversed and have concurred on the way forward.
Try not to think about the short term turmoil.
Fear will turn to greed, soon enough.
It’s the good old “good cop bad cop” game. Trump will kick everyone’s ass and musk want zero tax policy with Europe… I think soon trump will call his dogs back again as usual.
If you ask me, it’s the biggest opportunity since the last big crash to buy cheap whatever you want to buy. If you sell, you are so stupid!
On the other hand a zero-tariff policy similar to a free trade agreement is something the US simply cannot afford with Europe, because Europe has such strict import regulations and requirements that it already fails at something like chlorinated chicken. I think if they manage to find a middle ground for certain products—especially in the tech and automotive sectors—it would benefit everyone. But what do I know.
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