if you think chip design industry is a race of who burns the...

if you think chip design industry is a race of who burns the most amount money in r&d at a particular stage, you clearly have no clue.

with your logic, every single ground breaking, disruptive technology should only be made by companys like Arm, Google, Amazon, apple, AMD, nvidia and etc in nowadays. And then travel back to the time before these companies success, apply the same logic you used, you would think these company have no chance since they spent fractions on r&d compare to ibm, Intel, and so on.

putting amount of RnD spent as your sole criteria on world of invention is just... I don't know what to say to you.

by the way you completely misunderstood the akida 1.0 s success. Customers tested akida 1.0 and realised the potential of this technology, and they saw the ability of brn team to advanced the design base on 1.0 to a whole new level to better serve their needs. That's why some of them even invested time and effort to work with brainchip to develop this highly anticipated akida 2.0. Not to mentioned akida 1.0 ip was loved by renesas and megachip and they paid millions for the license. If akida 1.0 failed as you suggested, why would renesas tape a product using akida 1.0 ip two years after signing the license?

you bash on the company so hard calling it totally a failure, and saying akida 2.0 will be a failure too, yet you still claiming you will buy it at lower price. Is investing in failed and failing company your strategy in investing?