BrainChip Partners with MegaChips to Develop Next-Generation Edge-Based AI Solutions
22 November 2021 - 10:18AM
Business Wire
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), (OTCQX: BCHPY) a leading
provider of ultra-low power high performance artificial
intelligence technology and the world’s first commercial producer
of neuromorphic AI chips and IP, today announced that MegaChips, a
pioneer in the ASIC industry, has licensed BrainChip Akida™ IP to
enhance and grow its technology positioning for next-generation,
Edge-based AI solutions.
A multibillion-dollar global fabless semiconductor company based
in Japan, MegaChips provides chip solutions that fulfill various
requirements, including low power consumption, cost and time to
market, while achieving breakthrough functions and performance by
fusing knowledge of Large Scale Integrations and applications for
problems in device development. By partnering with BrainChip,
MegaChips is able to quickly and easily maintain its industry
innovator status by supplying solutions and applications that
leverage the Akida revolutionary technology in markets such as
automotive, IoT, cameras, gaming and industrial robotics.
“As a trusted and loyal partner to market leaders, we deliver
the technology and expertise they need to ensure products are
uniquely designed for their customers and engineered for ultimate
performance,” said Tetsuo Hikawa, President and CEO of MegaChips.
“Working with BrainChip and incorporating their Akida technology
into our ASIC solutions service, we are better able to handle the
development and support processes needed to design and manufacture
integrated circuits and systems on chips that can take advantage of
AI at the Edge.”
BrainChip’s Akida technology brings artificial intelligence to
the edge in a way that existing technologies are not capable. The
solution is high-performance, small, ultra-low power and enables a
wide array of edge capabilities. Due to its flexibility and
scalability, the Akida (NSoC) and intellectual property can be used
in applications including Smart Home, Smart Health, Smart City and
Smart Transportation. These applications include but are not
limited to home automation and remote controls, industrial IoT,
robotics, security cameras, sensors, unmanned aircraft, autonomous
vehicles, medical instruments, object detection, sound detection,
odor and taste detection, gesture control and cybersecurity.
“The MegaChips and BrainChip partnership furthers both company’s
missions to push boundaries and offer unprecedented products,” said
Rob Telson, BrainChip VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “By
providing Akida’s on-chip learning and ultra-low power Edge AI
capabilities as an integrated technology in MegaChips’ ASIC
solutions, we are able to deliver a cascading array of benefits to
cutting-edge products that not only ensure power efficiency without
compromising outcomes but can run autonomously for incremental
learning without the need to go back and forth to the cloud. This
is an exciting collaboration from both a business perspective as
well as from an industry-altering aspect.”
About MegaChips Corporation
MegaChips Corporation (1st section of the TSE (Tokyo Stock
Exchange): 6875) was established in 1990 as the first innovative
fabless semiconductor company in Japan. MegaChips exploits
expertise in analog and digital technology and globally provides
SoCs and solutions that are crucial for advancing technology
innovation. MegaChips focuses in the growth areas of automotive and
industrial equipment, such as 5G communications infrastructure and
Factory Automation. www.megachips.com
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BCHPY)
BrainChip is a global technology company that is producing a
groundbreaking neuromorphic processor that brings artificial
intelligence to the edge in a way that is beyond the capabilities
of other products. The chip is high performance, small, ultra-low
power and enables a wide array of edge capabilities that include
on-chip training, learning and inference. The event-based neural
network processor is inspired by the spiking nature of the human
brain and is implemented in an industry standard digital process.
By mimicking brain processing BrainChip has pioneered a processing
architecture, called Akida™, which is both scalable and flexible to
address the requirements in edge devices. At the edge, sensor
inputs are analyzed at the point of acquisition rather than through
transmission via the cloud to a data center. Akida is designed to
provide a complete ultra-low power and fast AI Edge Network for
vision, audio, olfactory and smart transducer applications. The
reduction in system latency provides faster response and a more
power efficient system that can reduce the large carbon footprint
of data centers.
Additional information is available at
https://www.brainchipinc.com
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