We have a large fluctuation in the SP over the last couple of weeks but what is most exciting is the volume of stock sold and bought everyday even with very low free float.
There are a lot of people who are questioning the tech, quite a few with doubts about the ability of the company to deliver and some who just want to make their presence felt by constantly degrading the company's work .
I think there are still a lot of people on these boards who cannot comprehend the track BRN is on given the director's close links to Qualcomm and possibly other semiconductor chip makers.
September 2013
Calxeda, for example, shut down in 2013 after raising more than $90 million in venture capital to build ARM chips for servers. The ARM architecture that Qualcomm licenses is particularly well suited for low-powered devices such as phones and tablets, not power-hungry servers.
June 2014
Intel follows Qualcomm down neural network path.
One of the reasons Intel Corp. is interested in putting FPGA die next to its Xeon processors is so that it can deploy neural networks along side its x86 processors. Of course, in the longer term Intel could try to go for monolithic implementation of CPU cores and FPGA fabric if it can obtain the appropriate IP.
Jan 2015
If you’ve been following Intel, you know that the company has struggled badly to keep up with Qualcomm, the Intel of the smartphone industry, whose president, Derek Aberle, pointed out that Qualcomm is on its seventh generation of application processors that have been integrated with cellular radios. That was a dig at Intel, whose first generation chip, Sofia, is in qualification with hardware partners and carriers—and with just a 3G radio inside. (An LTE-equipped Sofia chip is due in the second half of 2015, Krzanich said.) Smartphones demand that cellular radios be integrated into the application processors that power them, for reasons of cost and space.
Feb 2015
Besides offering faster performance while using less energy, a test conducted on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 shows that the 64-bit processor actually runs cooler than the Snapdragon 801. - Phone arena review
The Zeroth platform streamlines user interaction by simplifying the number of steps it takes to complete a given task—even using past experience and contextual awareness to inform anticipatory actions. That’s why one of the areas we’re particularly interested in applying this technology to is Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
Mar 2015
Another new feature of Zeroth, also functioning fully on-device, provides the ability to recognize faces in near real time on a Snapdragon-powered device using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a top level classifier that can be retrained on device.
June 2015.
Intel to acquire Altera for 16.7 Billion.
“The acquisition will couple Intel’s leading-edge products and manufacturing process with Altera’s leading field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology,” Intel said in the statement. “The combination is expected to enable new classes of products that meet customer needs in the data center and Internet of Things market segments.”
Sept 2015
Intel said it would work with cellular heavyweights Ericsson and Nokia to commercialize NB-LTE (Narrow-Band LTE), a variant of the latest cellular technology that uses a small amount of radio spectrum to efficiently carry small amounts of data.
Oct 2015
BRN announced
So why did they use one of the xilinx board and not any other board available in the market ? Sure there are many other FPGA boards available for an example Altera's products ?
Oct 2015
Qualcomm partners with Xilinx
On Thursday, Qualcomm lifted the veil on its plans to go after the server market — which is presently dominated by , whose chips run 95% of units.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), today announced a strategic technical collaboration to deliver industry-leading heterogeneous computing solutions with new levels of efficiency and performance through FPGA-enabled dynamic workload acceleration on Qualcomm Technologies’ server platforms.
Target applications include compute acceleration, big data analytics, machine learning, storage and CloudRAN.
Forward ?
With their Zeroth platform Qualcomm may have figured out running CNN's with software retaining a top classifier on board. However, to bring to life its second or possibly third generation of hardware that will do all the processing on the hardware/board what does it need ?
Also their recent partnership with Xilinx puts Peter's choice of using Xilinx board into perspective about possible Fortune 500 partners.
Is it Qualcomm who will get on board as soon as the API start working ? Well I will let the readers do the thinking.
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