BrainChip Confirms Validation of the Akida Neural Processor
September 17 2020 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Company Completes Initial Functional
Testing
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of
ultra-low power high performance AI technology, today announced
that the Company has validated the AkidaTM Neuromorphic
System-on-Chip (NSoC) design with functional silicon. The Akida
NSoC is a complex integrated circuit that includes multiple
interfaces, Data-to-Event Converters, a CPU complex, on-chip memory
and a neuron fabric to implement a complete neural network with no
external components required
The Akida device was produced at a Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company (TSMC) foundry and utilizes a standard logic
28nm process. The Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) used by the Company in
April 2020 in order to accelerate the delivery of the integrated
circuit engineering samples, provided packaged and tested devices
for internal validation and testing in August 2020, These device
will support the demands of customers participating in the
Company’s Early Access Program (EAP).
The Akida NSoC neuron fabric is comprised of cores that are
organized in groups of four to create nodes, which are mesh
networked. The cores can be implemented for either convolutional
layers or fully-connected layers. This flexibility allows users to
develop networks with ultra-low power Event-Based Convolution as
well as Incremental Learning. The nodes also can be used to
implement multiple networks on a single device
The NSoC will be available in an M.2 PCIe format card and a USB
alternative. Device drivers and SDK with example neural networks
will be provided for both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Louis DiNardo, BrainChip CEO commented, “We have validated the
functionality of the Akida silicon and performed significant
testing. The devices received from the MPW will provide engineering
samples and evaluation boards for our early access customers. Now
our focus is on continued development of software and firmware
drivers. We expect to produce a production mask set in the fourth
quarter of 2020 and then move forward with volume production wafer
fabrication, assembly and test operations.” Mr DiNardo continued,
“The BrainChip team is very proud of this significant achieve and
milestone in our quest to introduce Akida and achieve commercial
success with a revolutionary product that solves the real-world
challenges of implementing artificial intelligence at the
Edge.”
About Brainchip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN)
BrainChip is a global technology company that is producing a
groundbreaking neuromorphic processor that brings artificial
intelligence to the edge in a way that is beyond the capabilities
of other products. The chip is high performance, small, ultra-low
power and enables a wide array of edge capabilities that include
on-chip training, learning and inference. The event-based neural
network processor is inspired by the spiking nature of the human
brain and is implemented in an industry standard digital process.
By mimicking brain processing BrainChip has pioneered a processing
architecture, called Akida™, which is both scalable and flexible to
address the requirements in edge devices. At the edge, sensor
inputs are analyzed at the point of acquisition rather than through
transmission via the cloud to a data center. Akida is designed to
provide a complete ultra-low power and fast AI Edge Network for
vision, audio, olfactory and smart transducer applications. The
reduction in system latency provides faster response and a more
power efficient system that can reduce the large carbon footprint
of data centers.
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