BrainChip Achieves Full Commercialization of Its AKD1000 AIoT Chip With Availability of Mini PCIe Boards in High Volume

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BrainChip Holdings Ltd has begun taking orders for its first commercially available Mini PCIe board powered by the Akida™ processor. This board is designed for various edge AI applications, including Smart City, Smart Health, Smart Home, and Smart Transportation. Available for pre-order at $499, the Mini PCIe board offers significant performance and low power requirements, enabling on-device AI training and learning without cloud dependency. BrainChip aims to leverage its decade-long development of Akida to enhance AI capabilities across industries.

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• Launch of Mini PCIe board offers immediate availability for edge AI applications.
• Low power requirements paired with high performance for on-device AI processing.
• Production-ready chips enable high-speed neuromorphic processing at a low cost.

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Company welcomes enterprises to the Edge with AIoT PCIe board and board design layout

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: 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 it has begun taking orders for the first commercially available Mini PCIe board leveraging its Akida™ advanced neural networking processor, rounding out its suite of AKD1000 offerings.

The AKD1000-powered Mini PCIe boards can be plugged into a developer’s existing system to unlock capabilities for a wide array of edge AI applications, including Smart City, Smart Health, Smart Home and Smart Transportation. BrainChip will also offer the full PCIe design layout files and the bill of materials (BOM) to system integrators and developers to enable them to build their own boards and implement AKD1000 chips in volume as a stand-alone embedded accelerator or as a co-processor.

The new boards help usher in a new era of AI at the edge due to their performance, security, low power requirements, and the ability to perform AI training and learning on the device itself, without dependency on the cloud. The production-ready chips provide high-speed neuromorphic processing of sensor data at a low cost, high speed and very low power consumption. The PCIe boards are immediately available for pre-order on the BrainChip website. Pricing starts at $499.

“I am excited that people will finally be able to enjoy a world where AI meets the Internet of Things,” said Sean Hehir, BrainChip CEO. “We have been working on developing our Akida technology for more than a decade and with the full commercial availability of our AKD1000, we are ready to fully execute on our vision. Other technologies are simply not capable of the autonomous, incremental learning at ultra-low power consumption that BrainChip’s solutions can provide. Getting these chips into as many hands as possible is how the next generation of AI becomes reality.”

The launch of BrainChip’s new PCIe board closely follows the company's development kit offerings introduced in October. The two development kits – an x86 Shuttle PC development kit, as well as an ARM-based Raspberry Pi development kit – both include the AKD1000 chip on a Mini PCIe board and are available to partners, large enterprises and OEMs. BrainChip’s AKD1000 chips and PCIe board can be purchased at shop.brainchipinc.com or via the Buy Now button at www.brainchip.com/.

About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: 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.

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FAQ

What are the main features of BrainChip's Mini PCIe board?

The Mini PCIe board features low power requirements, high performance for edge AI applications, and the ability to perform AI training and learning on-device.

How much does BrainChip's Mini PCIe board cost?

The Mini PCIe board is available for pre-order starting at $499.

When did BrainChip announce the availability of its Mini PCIe board?

BrainChip announced the availability of its Mini PCIe board in the press release dated January 17, 2022.

What applications can the Mini PCIe board be used for?

The Mini PCIe board can be used for various edge AI applications including Smart City, Smart Health, Smart Home, and Smart Transportation.

Where can I purchase BrainChip's Mini PCIe board?

The Mini PCIe board can be purchased on BrainChip's official website.