BrainChip Holdings Ltd and SiFive, Inc. have combined their respective technologies to offer chip designers optimized AI/ML compute at the edge.

BrainChip’s Akida is a revolutionary advanced neural networking processor architecture that brings AI to the edge in a way that existing technologies are not capable of, with high performance, ultra-low power, and on-chip learning. SiFive Intelligence solutions with their highly configurable multi-core, multi-cluster capable design, integrate software and hardware to accelerate AI/ML applications. The integration of BrainChip’s Akida technology and SiFive’s multi-core capable RISC-V processors will provide a highly efficient solution for integrated edge AI computing.

SiFive Intelligence-based processors offer industry-leading performance and efficiency for AI and ML workloads. The highly configurable multi-core, multi-cluster capable design has been optimized for the broadest range of applications requiring high-throughput, single-thread performance while under the tightest power and area constraints.

BrainChip’s first-to-market neuromorphic processor, Akida, mimics the human brain to analyze only essential sensor inputs at the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled efficiency, precision, and economy of energy. Keeping AI/ML local to the chip, independent of the cloud, also dramatically reduces latency while improving privacy and data security.