BrainChip receives first batch of Akida chips

摘要

BrainChip, a provider of ultra-low power high performance Al technology, has received the first batch of Akida chips from its manufacturing run from Socionext America (SNA). Avoiding the shipment challenges currently impacting the wider industry the chips were manufactured by TSMC from a production mask set provided back in May 2021. This set follows on from the successful production of engineering samples from the company's Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and the subsequent delivery of evaluation boards. The Akida devices will be used to support BrainChip's Early Access Program (EAP) customers, future customers with whom the company has engaged using the BrainChip software development environment MetaTF and others which have existing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and are looking for performance improvements in terms of power consumption, design flexibility, and true learning at the edge.