Hi BenI don’t know now which CEO presentation it was but that is...

Hi Ben
I don’t know now which CEO presentation it was but that is not really important suffice to say he expressed frustration with the fact that AKD1000 was being described in some quarters as an accelerator.

The CEO and as I type this I think it was his presentation around the time of the AGM wanted to hammer home that AKD1000 is a processor.

In very lay terms the distinction is that AKIDA1000 is in fact a tiny neuromorphic computer/processor on a chip. It is a complete independent system on a chip which does not require any external memory or computer to function.

An accelerator is a very clever device which does what its name implies accelerates existing technology but does not have any independent capabilities. It is not a processor in other words.

This is the best example I can think of at the moment. NASA wants to send a micro satellite into space and it wants this tiny satellite to be able to plan and navigate a course to avoid coming into collision with other objects and at the end of its useful life set a course for re-entry which will cause it to burn up and disappear and not add to the space junk floating around the earth.

If they use AKD1000 and a sensor such as Majik-Eye job done.

If they use an accelerator they need Magik-Eye to have its own processor to communicate with the accelerator and then they need a CPU to process the information received by it from the accelerator and to pass back instructions to the accelerator to action. Thanks to the accelerator this can all happen much more quickly and more energy efficiently than would otherwise be the case.

Unfortunately the micro propulsion system that was invented for and with NASA back in 2007-8 would not have enough fuel because of the weight of all these extra bits to propel it and the micro satellite would be too small to fit them in along with the rest of the pay load it is taking into orbit.

Now there is one other issue for NASA because our micro satellite is going into space the first thing that they have to do is harden all the electronic components against the effects of radiation and extreme temperatures encountered. The more components the more complicated and expensive this becomes.

The second and most important is what is referred too as redundancy. Once the micro satellite is in orbit NASA can not replace parts that become unserviceable so they always build in redundancy. In simple terms it means having spare capacity by two. In other words three AKD1000 chips so if one fails the next one can step in and if it fails then the third can.

The same applies for the system using the accelerator it too has to be multiplied by three in circumstances where it was already too big and heavy.

I hope this helps.

My opinion only DYOR.