A lot of people seem to be confused about this announcement and...

A lot of people seem to be confused about this announcement and the images included in it, so here's a simple summary:

The first image in the press release is not the design that will be shipped to participating EAP customers, that's a demo logic board which carries the exact same features and functionally but in an expanded, debug capable form (indicated by the 8 segment displays, as well as the large connectors and the hand soldered wires in the top right. This is the design they have validated.

"Neuromorphic system-on-a-chip" means just that:
- "neuromorphic system" - Brainchip processor.
- "on a chip" - you guessed it, it's on a chip/logic board.

This explains the photoshopped logic board and brainchip in the second image - this is because this board has not been created yet. The hint is in the wording "The NSoC >>>WILL BE<<< in an M.2 PCIe format card and USB alternative ."
(The second image is the M.2 card, not the USB system as many on HC have stated)

So what does this all mean? well, it doesn't really matter what kind of logic board the chip is on (Debug, m.2 or USB) as they will all function the same. the Debug logic board though has been used to verify/validate communication to, and capability of, the brainchip ON the logic board. The reason behind validating on the Debug board is because it is much easier to do so, but more importantly, much CHEAPER to do so, too.


The biggest take aways from this should be that:

a) The boards provided to EAP customers will work, so all attention can be paid to the actual brain chip on the boards.

b) The announcement of the USB variation is VERY good news. These will be much easier for EAP customers to play with and will minimise and mitigate a lot of the issues that a lot computers could potentially have with communicating with non-consumer grade technologies, wether supplied with drivers or not.

c) The chip will be produced under a 28nm manufacturing process, which is somewhat underwhelming but not a huge issue as brainchip is creating such a different technology to current processors. For reference, intel is currently manufacturing, quite successfully so, on a 14nm production line. This means they manufacture at twice the "fidelity" brainchip currently can, or more simply they could pack twice the amount of power into the same space. (only in theory - their attempts to produce a neuromophic chip have so far
been relatively unsuccessful)

*Note: I've dumbed the above down significantly in the interest of ease of explanation, but in essence it all means the same.

As always DYOR DYOR DYOR!!
I've been doing mine since I bought in at .07, and I'm still holding (and will be for the foreseeable future).

Regards,
Your friendly electrical engineer.