Here's a little something from the recently released Huawei Annual Report:
Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. 2018 Annual Reporthttps://www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corporate/pdf/annual-report/annual_report2018_en.pdf?la=zhNew Technologies Overcome the Computing Bottleneck"As Moore’s law approaches its limits,
the industry is constantly on the lookout for new computing architectures and algorithms that can deliver faster computing speeds. Due to the growing diversity of apps, data is becoming more diverse. Smartphones, smart homes, IoT, and smart cars use a range of different forms of data, including numerical, text, images, and video. Data volumes are also growing. The amount of global data generated and stored annually, including data copied, will reach 180 zettabytes in 2025, a 20-fold increase of the current amount. To cope with this explosion of data, we will need to grow global AI computing capacity by 10 times every year.
To that end,
we will need intelligent computing architectures that offer high concurrency and extremely low power consumption. There will be x86 architecture, dedicated GPUs for graphic processing, NPUs for AI, and DSPs for signal processing. No single architecture is effective in every scenario, so diversified architecture is the right way forward. In addition, breakthroughs in quantum computing and
neuromorphic computing will take computing power to a whole new level."
I still believe Huawei got in contact with BrainChip!
BrainChip Holdings (ASX:BRN) March 2018 Quarter Update
May 02, 2018https://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network169365.html"There was a follow up question because
I did mention last time that we had an inbound from a large cell phone manufacturer. I would just remind you that
it's a cell phone manufacturer in China. They
have their own semiconductor group, so yes, it's a
very active dialogue and we're getting to know each other, but we're
being very cautious as that relates to question on the next piece of paper, which is
protecting our IP.
Large cell phone manufacturer, China with their own semiconductor business.
We
need to really be careful about what IP we expose, but more globally
we have taken very seriously protecting the IP of the company and both Peter and Neil as well as Bob and the rest of the team has spent a lot of time in the past quarter making sure that we understand what we call white space between patents and where we can
put incremental rings around our IP to make sure it's well protected."
Look, but don't touch? Or is it: Talk, but don't look?
BrainChip Holdings (ASX:BRN) Year-End Update 2018
January 11, 2019https://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network211744.html"Here, given the original ban imposed on ZTE and the recent arrest of
Huawei’s CFO,
are we still talking to the Chinese cell phone manufacturer? We'll talk. We'll continue to talk. We're not going to show them anything."
Bonus quote, from the Year-End Update 2018, by Louis:
"
we are talking directly to all the major automobile manufacturers"
(20min delay)