7 years, page-4

Patent lodged does not mean it is ready.
Significant improvements to the technology since that first patent is what the inventor have said.
16 more patents to be lodged.
Brainchip is still 5-10 years ahead of the pack now if not more.

2008 was the GFC so kiss good bye to getting funding then, especially with the dotcom bust was still fresh.
Smart phones was almost non existent then.
All the science have been done now.
Brainchip is at the commercialization stage.
The world is ready to embrace AI.
Everyone is throwing money at AI.
The majors are frantically trying to develop AI.
The resource bust creates prime opportunity for access to capital via RTO.
Peter Van Der Made will be the richest man in Australia if not the world.
I will have a net wealth in the hundreds of millions.
Humanity will no longer be at the mercy of death and diseases because AI in a couple of decades will have solved the gene riddle.
Everyone young enough to survive a couple decades will not have to die anymore.
etc etc etc