Neuromorphic chip designer BrainChip has unveiled the second generation of its Akida platform. Taking inspiration from the human brain, these chips promise to slash the compute costs burdening enterprises and operators, by moving those workloads into bespoke edgy silicon, and out of expensive centralized cloud environments. Nandan Nayampally, Chief Marketing Officer at BrainChip and formerly a VP at Arm, pointed to the scale of this pricing problem, in conversation with Faultline this week. “It took $6 million to train one model, with ChatGPT. There is something like $50 billion in productivity losses from unplanned downtime in manufacturing alone, and $1.1 trillion in losses from people missing work due to preventable chronic illness in the US. With 1 TB of data…