University of Western Australia Latest to Join the BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program

BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced that The University of Western Australia has joined the BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program, ensuring that UWA students have the tools and resources needed to help develop leading-edge technologies that will continue to usher in an era of intelligent AI solutions.

As one of the world’s elite, research-intensive universities, UWA is recognized for resolving real-world challenges that are critical to the planet and people. The university has forged and embraced connections with community, partners, and industry to ensure its impact is far reaching, both now and into the future. By joining the BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program, UWA students studying data and computer science gain access to the neuromorphic technology needed to tackle technological challenges and devise innovative solutions to transform the way we live.

BrainChip’s University AI Accelerator Program provides platforms, and guidance to students at higher education institutions with AI engineering programs. Students participating in the program will have access to real-world, event-based technologies offering unparalleled performance and efficiency to advance their learning through graduation and beyond.

“Advancements in data and computer science are influencing the way that people live and interact with one another,” said Rachel Cardell-Oliver, Associate Professor Head of Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at UWA. “We are constantly seeking ways in which we can give our students real-world experience to expand their knowledge and expertise to prepare them for a future in the technology industry. Partnering with a company like BrainChip to bring in the means for advancing our students’ education is something we know will pay dividends to our students in the years ahead.”

BrainChip’s neural processor, Akida IP is an event-based technology that is inherently lower power when compared to conventional neural network accelerators. Lower power affords greater scalability and lower operational costs. BrainChip’s Akida supports incremental learning and high-speed inference in a wide variety of use cases. Among the markets that BrainChip’s Essential AI technology will impact are the next generation of smart cars, smart homes of today and tomorrow, and industrial IoT.