The following is taken from the Brainchip web site:

"BrainChip has announced an Early Access Program (EAP) for the Akida neural processor SoC.

via ElectronicsWeekly

Partners have engaged in the early development of systems and solutions utilising the software development environment and chip simulator all contained in the Akida Development Environment (ADE).

By utilizing the complete flow available in the ADE, designers have successfully developed and trained highly-optimized neural network solutions using the Company’s development flow, including the Tensorflow and Keras environments.

Optimised and trained models can be run on the ADE to evaluate performance on the Akida processor. With the Akida evaluation board, the same trained networks and control files used in the ADE will be used to program the neural processor SoC to run the complete neural network.

This enables partners to implement their hardware solutions quickly and efficiently.

“Leading companies in the automotive industry and surveillance market have committed to the Early Access Program or signed Development Agreements,” says Brainchip CEO Lou DiNardo, “additionally, we are focused on opportunities in the Smart Home area, Smart Health and Industrial IoT.”"

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The leading companies in the automotive industry could just be Ford and Valeo but which leading company in the surveillancemarket is it most likely to be???

Global Market Outlook for the Video Surveillance Market to 2025 - World Market Forecast to Reach $51.36 Billion by 2025

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DUBLIN, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Video Surveillance Market: Focus on Ecosystem, Application (Infrastructure, Commercial Residential, Industrial, Institutional, Others), and Region - Analysis and Forecast, 2020-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The video surveillance industry analysis projects the market to grow at a significant CAGR of 10.06% on the basis of value during the forecast period from 2020 to 2025. Asia-Pacific region dominated the global video surveillance with a share of 58.12% in 2019.
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The absence of large bandwidth, storage network connection, and the threat to data integrity are some of the factors that are restraining the market growth. (AKD1000 ADDRESSES ALL THESE ISSUES - MY COMMENT)

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• CP Plus
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• Cisco Systems, Inc.
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• FLIR Systems, Inc.
• Genetec Inc.
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• Hanwha Techwin Co. Ltd.
• Honeywell Security
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
• IDIS Co. Ltd.
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• Panasonic Corporation
• Pelco
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• SenseTime
• Solink Corporation
• Sony Corporation
• The Infinova Group
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• VideoIQ, Inc.
• Vivotek Inc.
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