Ann: Taking Orders of Akida AI, page-260

Hi Filo

I take your point and I know you not to be a troll etc; so can I add some context.

Last year Brainchip announced the EAP customer and to take part you needed to pay an upfront fee of at least $50,000 and for this fee you received a board with an engineering AKD1000 chip and engineering support.

The fee of $50,000 increased depending on how much more engineering support you wanted.

The provision of engineering support meant that Brainchip had to restrict numbers of EAP’s it could take on at that time.

Since then they have turned themselves inside out to build the MetaTF to reduce the amount of engineering support required by customers.

They have been receiving feedback from the likes of @uiux and others about how easy or not it is and have been constantly working to make it as simple as humanly possible to reduce and hopefully eliminate entirely the need for engineering support.

Why because at the time when they could only service a maximum of about two dozen EAP customers they had last year well north of 100 NDA clients.

These new commercial products just released at $5,000 and $10,000 include in the price ten to twenty hours of engineering support if needed.

They are aimed at their commercial customers and are five and ten times cheaper than the original cost of entering the EAP program.

We all know the cost of new technology comes down over time and as the world becomes educated as @unix and others have and further improvements are made to MetaTF the costs of providing ten to twenty hours of engineering support will also disappear and become a help line.

Eliminating ten and twenty hours of engineering support at $150.00 knocks $1,500 and $3,000 off the cost of these two products as an example. Someone who is an engineer like @BarrelSitter might be able to put a number on this from an industry perspective.

My opinion only DYOR
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