2021 BRN Discussion, page-7269

Going back over some earlier BRN  notes when they used to throw out Big company names in relevant industries  and of late the names are never mentioned . Just Big household names  in the top 500 etc

But anyway to fill in time this seems familiar First BRN  update at the time

The Akida IP was available for sale as a license in mid-2019, targeting applications in vision and acoustic systems with a direct OEM sales presence. Suppliers include Bosch, Valeo, Continental, Sony, On Semi and Omnivision. BrainChip is working on establishing an IP ecosystem.

SONY

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/News/Press/202005/20-037E/

Sony Corporation today announced the upcoming release of two models of intelligent vision sensors, the first image sensors in the world to be equipped with AI processing functionality.*1

Including AI processing functionality on the image sensor itself enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, addresses privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs.

They are the world's first image sensor to be equipped with AI image analysis and processing functionality on the logic chip.
The signal acquired by the pixel chip is processed via AI on the sensor, eliminating the need for high-performance processors or external memory, enabling the development of edge AI systems.

The sensor outputs metadata (semantic information belonging to image data) instead of image information, making for reduced data volume and addressing privacy concerns

IMX500 (bare chip product)  

I'm putting this together on the fly   Recently didn't one of BRN staff  which i posted work on something in same lines  chip as upbove it was in their resume   UIUX commented on it