2021 BRN Discussion, page-26585

Thanks Terroni. Some highlights so far are:

• Edge market projected to be 60B by 2025. Whilst we won't secure all of this market, there aren't many competitors right now, and we've got a good head start. We aim to maintain this advantage for years
• Loihi 2 - Intel are our closest competitor, but Loihi2 is a research chip that's not capable of doing everything that AKD1000 is doing today.
• Intel's focus on Loihi is a validation of our technology; we have a considerable lead on them for now but need to maintain this lead
• We plan to sell chips to retail next year, as we want to put them into the hands of many people - even though this won't be as lucrative as IP sales, the aim is to help establish Akida as the chip of choice when it comes to edge AI
• Testing of our chips should be finished in next 2-3 weeks
• Socionext working with our IP and planning to release their chip next year (so we're definitely not embedded in current SynQuacer)
• There's a lot of interest from the automotive sector (not just from Ford)
• Our paradigm is to pull data processing out of the data centre and back onto the device