BrainChip Ships Akida™ Evaluation Boards
December 07 2020 - 9:11PM
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Company Provides Shipments to Early Access
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BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of
ultra-low power high performance artificial intelligence
technology, today provides the following update on the on the
shipment of the Company’s evaluation boards for the Akida
Neuromophic System-on-Chip (NSoC).
The Company confirms that shipment of evaluation boards began in
November 2020. The evaluation board compliments the Company’s Akida
Development Environment (ADE) for Early Access Partners (EAP) that
have developed Akida compatible networks. The ADE is a robust
development environment that allows potential customers to design a
neural network as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and utilize
the ADE workflow to convert the network to an Event-Based CNN or
develop a native Spiking Neural Network (SNN).
The effect of implementing an Event-Based CNN is to
significantly reduce power consumption by processing only non-zero
activations and take advantage of the sparsity in most data.
Additional power savings are captured by aggressive quantization
without a meaningful loss of accuracy for most network designs.
Once converted to an Event-Based CNN network, a designer can
quantize both weights and activations to 1, 2 or 4 bits
selectively.
The Akida neural fabric provides significant new features that
allow true AI Edge Learning rather than simple AI Edge Training,
which requires connectivity through the cloud or a data center to
re-train a network as new classifiers are detected. Additionally,
the ability to implement AI Edge Incremental Learning is unique to
the Akida NSoC and allows potential customers to deploy a new and
valuable feature in the AI Edge products.
BrainChip CEO, Louis DiNardo commented, “The Akida NSoC has
proven to provide significant power savings and is the complete
integration of a neural network design. Akida introduces new and
powerful features to the high-growth AI Edge market.” He continued,
“True AI Edge learning does not exist with current AI solutions and
our ability to provide this and other features while significantly
reducing both power consumption, size and the Bill-of-Materials
(BOM) has attracted the attention of leading suppliers in the Smart
Home, Smart Transportation and Smart City markets. We believe that
these capabilities also will provide new solutions in Smart
Healthcare applications that serve our mission of supporting
Beneficial AI applications and improve the human condition globally
in terms of diagnosis of infectious diseases, cancers and a wide
array of challenging global health concerns. We are excited about
our technology and the potential to impact many industries
including healthcare and energy conservation which are clearly a
global concern.”
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 Healthcare,
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 and sound
detection and classification as well as odor and taste, 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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