2022 BRN Discussion, page-26

Hi IDD,

My interpretation of the announcements on testing of the commercial (production) Akida 1000 SoC is that the performance improvement is at least partly attributable to hardware tweaks.

https://brainchipinc.com/brainchip-completes-testing-production-akida-chips/

Aliso Viejo, Calif. – 8 November, 2021 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), (OTCQX: BCHPY), a leading provider of ultra-low power, high-performance artificial intelligence technology and the world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI chips, today confirmed that functionality and performance testing of the AKD1000 production chips has been completed, which showed better performance than the original engineering samples.As part of the continued development of its Akida™ Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), BrainChip tested a production version of its AKD1000 chip with several neural network applications, including object classification, keyword spotting and spiking neural networks.

The improved performance and lower power consumption results were achieved through a better layout and some minor design changes to the design, which were recognized after previous testing of earlier engineering samples.