BrainChip Confirms Completion of the Akida™ Production Design
December 02 2020 - 7:58PM
Business Wire
Socionext to Provide Physical Design Services
in Preparation for Production Mask Set and Wafer Fabrication at
TSMC
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of
ultra-low power high performance artificial intelligence
technology, today provides the following update on the development
of the Company’s Akida™ Neuromorphic System-on-Chip. (NSoC).
The Company confirms that the Register-Transfer Level (RTL)
design has been completed and transferred to the Company’s
manufacturing partner, Socionext America (SNA). SNA will complete
the physical design of the device and all related engineering tasks
required to transfer the full device files (tape-out) to Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for mask creation and
wafer fabrication.
The mask set will be utilized to manufacture production wafers
as well as support qualification testing and parametric testing of
the Akida device. Production wafers will be used to support
potential customer requirements, including a full range of Quality
and Reliability (QA) data as well as a detailed Data Sheet (DS) and
User’s Manual.
BrainChip CEO Louis DiNardo commented, “The Akida device design
will be transferred to TSMC for use in manufacturing production
wafers in support of potential customer requirement in 2021 and
beyond. This is a major milestone for the Company as we move to
commercialize the Akida NSoC.” He continued, “Our chosen markets in
Smart Home, Smart Transportation, Smart Medical and Smart City
include some of the most discriminating customers in the
electronics industry. Through our partnership with SNA and TSMC we
have world-class resources and expect to have a robust Integrated
Circuit (IC) that suits their requirements for both performance and
reliability.”
Akida brings artificial intelligence to the edge in a way that
existing technologies are not capable. The solution is
high-performance, small, ultra-low power and enables a wide array
of edge capabilities. The Akida NSoC and intellectual property, can
be used in applications including Smart Home, Smart Health, Smart
City and Smart Transportation. These applications include but are
not limited to home automation and remote controls, industrial IoT,
robotics, security cameras, sensors, unmanned aircraft, autonomous
vehicles, medical instruments, object detection, sound detection,
odor and taste detection, gesture control and cybersecurity.
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.
Additional information is available at
https://www.brainchipinc.com.
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