A list of SIX FACTS that we know:ONE:
BRAINCHIP RENESAS ASX ANNOUNCEMENTAliso Viejo, Calif. – 23 December 2020 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of ultra-low power, high-performance AI technology, today announced the signing of an intellectual property license agreement with Renesas Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Japan-based Renesas Electronics Corp., a tier-one semiconductor manufacturer that specializes in microcontroller and automotive SoC products.
The unconditional agreement provides for:
• a single-use, royalty-bearing, worldwide IP design license for the rights to use the Akida™ IP in the customer’s SoC products, which continues while the customer continues to use the Akida IP in its products. The parties agreed to customary termination terms;
• BrainChip to provide implementation support services (at an agreed fee to cover costs) aimed at facilitating the customer’s adoption and commercialization of the Akida-licensed product during the first year of the license agreement.
• The agreement provides for various payment terms including the payment of ongoing royalties based on the volume of units sold, commencing at certain agreed volume threshold and the net sale price of the customer’s products. The royalties remain in effect throughout the life of the licensed product.
• Brainchip to provide software maintenance services, which attract a separate fee if the customer elects to continue to use these services after the first two years of the agreement.
The Akida neural processor’s game-changing ultra-low power consumption, high performance and on-chip training enables smart sensor integration by solving power and footprint challenges for a variety of sensor technologies. The Akida SoC consumes significantly lower power than needed by alternative AI solutions while maintaining the required performance and accuracy in a fraction of the physical space.
“This is an exciting and significant milestone in obtaining the Company’s first IP licensing agreement. Furthermore, this is a market validation of our technology” said Lou DiNardo, CEO of BrainChip. “Licensing Akida IP also provides us with an opportunity for recurring revenue over the lifetime of our customer’s SoC product.
We are equipped to help additional customers integrate Akida technology into their products, which benefit from low power and real-time performance, as well as extend capabilities to provide AI solutions to IoT devices at the edge without the need for cloud connectivity.”
This announcement is authorised for release by the BRN Board of Directors.
TWO:
WHAT KEN SCARINCE SAID ABOUT RENESAS 13 OCTOBER, 2021
"Our first and top choice is licencing theIP. We get revenue off every chip sold in perpetuity.."
"We already are selling our IP..."
"We have already done a licence for theIP. That we did very early, it happened last November with a Japanese chipmaker. They have licenced our IP and they are working on their chip rightnow and it is expected out some time next year..."
"RENESAS is the IP licence we sold lastNovember...Very reputable Tier 1 company... proud to be partnered withthem...We are looking forward to when they bring their chip to market..."
A. “Renesas is the only commercial engagement that I amable to report upfront.I’m not allowedto talk about aspects of that engagement.
“Our IP is more economic for a company if they arereally intent on high volume production”
“But its tough right now because we can’t talk aboutcustomers and we can’t talk about deals we are working on, but when we can itwill be appreciated.”
THREE:
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT RENESAS AND WHERE IT INTENDS POSITIONINGEDGE OR ENDPOINT Ai
What is Renesas' e-AI Solution?
The Renesas e-AI development environment makes itpossible to implement learned Deep Neural Network (DNN) results onto an MCU/MPUin conformance with an e2 studio C/C++ project.
e-AI Demonstration Experiment
An e-AI demonstration experiment revealed that e-AIhas greatly improved detection precision with regards to facility abnormalitiesthat previously could only be properly judged by a skilled technician oroperator.
Neural Network Structures Supported by e-AI Translator
Renesas' e-AI Translator is a tool that convertsand imports the inference processing of neural network models which have beentrained in an open-source deep learning framework into source code files forthe e² studio IDE.
Translator Tutorial
This tutorial introduces the procedure of outputtinga file for the Renesas e-AI Translator and executing it on a Gadget Renesasboard.
e-AI Development Environment & Downloads
Tools for running learned AI on Renesas MCUs and MPUscan be downloaded from our website.
e-AI Translator has been released in Sep 2021. Support “TensorFlow Lite”8bit quantization, this is effective function for reducing ROM usage and RAMusage.
Links & Contact Information
Submit inquiries and access additional information,development environments, supported products, and other resources.
Videos
e-AI Solution
Renesas embedded AI connects us to machines we relyon with more speed and precision, even sensing and addressing problems beforethey arise.
e-AI MotorControl Failure Prediction
Embedded AI (e-AI) makes motor control moreintelligent. This demonstration shows motor control and fault detection with aRenesas MCU.
IntelligentManufacturing with e-AI
This demonstration shows an AI unit solutionconnected to actual equipment, where an abnormality judgment is made.
Solutions for Manufacturingthat Accelerate "Real-time" and "Safety"
This video demonstrates predictive maintenance ofequipment through the use of e-AI.
CardiovascularDisease Predictor Reference Kit
This video shows a demonstration of a biologicalmonitoring solution for home healthcare applications.
e-AI HealthcareDevice Development Kit
This video provides a demonstration of thebiomedical information monitor module.
DeviceCoordination Application with e-AI
This video shows a demonstration of a parking lotmanagement system coordinating with peripheral devices.
ForecastingSolutions for Office Automation Equipment
Using a printer as an example, this video shows adevice forecasting its own failure.
Object DetectionVia SSD
OpenCV DNN inference running a Mobilenet SSD modeldemonstrate an end-point AI solution delivered through high-performance CPUcores.
ObjectRecognition with OSS AI Frameworks on the RZ/G1 MPU
Integrated support for popular AI frameworks andmultiple open-source AI models makes it easy to start designing an embedded AIapplication.
FacialRecognition
An RZ/A1H MPU performs facial recognition andclassification to offer content targeting different demographics.
FOUR:
RENESAS SUPPLIES SEMICONDUCTORS TO DELLhttps://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=9h9x4
RenesasUSB3.0 Host Controller Driver
This package provides the Renesas USB3.0 HostController Driver and is supported on Inspiron Notebook, Vostro Notebook andXPS Notebook models that are running the following Windows Operating Systems:XP, VISTA and Windows 7.
FIVE:
DELL TECHNOLOGIES BUYS A LOT OF SEMICONDUCTORS. (Not all from Renesas)
https://www.verdict.co.uk/dell-ceo-semiconductor-shortage-to-continue-for-a-few-years/
The eponymous CEO of Dell has joinedthe choir of top industry executives predicting that the ongoing globalsemiconductor shortage “will probably continue for a few years”. Michael Dell,who founded the company which bears his name in 1984, voiced his concerns asautomakers and tech companies fear that global chip scarcities will hold backproduction and threaten bottom lines.
Dell’s annual orders of about $70bnworth of semiconductors make it one of the biggest customers in the sector.
SIX:
BRAINCHIP PODCAST WITH DELL
Rob Lincourt DELL Technologies during an interview with Rob Telson in a Brainchip podcast admitted that DELL Technologies were testing AKIDA technology and had a plethora of edge use cases in its product line up.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
(20min delay)