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(LinkedIn) Blind recipient of retinal implant from Chinese company Nanochap Electronics identifies letters on second day of testing, 2 weeks after surgery, after 15 years of blindness from RP (retinitis pigmentosa) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/retinitispigmentosa-rp-retinalimplant-ugcPost-7469592814364905472-jOFK/ Is this form vision or does it require extensive (slow) scanning to identify the letters? #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #RP
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Cf. YouTube, June 2011 (15 years ago): "Seeing" the words CAT, HAT and HOT via The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8NYX-N-EGk

What could the blind lady have done with The vOICe vision BCI if she had started practicing upon going blind 15 years ago?

"Seeing" the words CAT, HAT and HOT via The vOICe sensory substitution

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Business coverage by VCBeat at https://www.vcbeathealth.com/article/36815 and in 财通集团军丨财通资本已投企业暖芯迦：我国首例高分辨率视觉脑机 GCP 临床试验取得成功 https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-06-09/doc-iniavmyr1717436.shtml
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More on the 320-channel retinal implant of Nanochap Electronics at https://www.nanochap.com/brain-machine-interface/HighResolutionRetinalProsthesis-Implant.html Epiretinal (like Argus II) or subretinal (like PRIMA)? Should be subretinal for half-decent visual resolution no matter the high channel count, or else...
High-resolution visual brain-computer interface

High-resolution visual brain-computer interface

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Quite possibly, the blind Chinese recipient of the Nanochap Electronics retinal implant can identify the large letters faster and better with The vOICe web app? No surgery, zero cost, globally available, platform independent, replaceable hardware https://www.artificialvision.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?hl=cn
The vOICe web app

Platform-independent progressive web app version of The vOICe vision BCI.

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The 2nd-generation Nanochap Electronics BCI will directly compete with Neuralink BlindSight and have a stimulation threshold <10μA https://www.vbdata.cn/1519034921 "二代视觉脑机则直接对标Neuralink旗下获得FDA突破性医疗设备认定的产品BlindSight。", "大幅降低刺激阈值至10μA电流以下的水平"
七部门联合发文剑指脑机接口！杭州发布新一代1280通道视皮层视觉脑机接口-动脉网

近日，包括国家卫健委、药监局在内的七部门联合发布了《工业和信息化部 国家发展改革委 教育部 国家卫生健康委 国务院国资委 中国科学院 国家药监局关于推动脑机接口产业创新发展的实施意见》（下文简称《实施意见》），标志着我国首次将脑机接口从一个...

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Tencent takes a minority stake in Hangzhou brain-chip developer Nanochap Electronics https://insidebci.com/market/2026-05-29-tencent-takes-stake-nanochap-bci-chip-hangzhou/ Strategic "investment in the supply-chain layer".
Tencent takes a minority stake in Hangzhou brain-chip developer Nanochap Electronics

Tencent Holdings has acquired a minority equity stake in Nanochap Electronics, a Hangzhou-based fabless semiconductor company specialising in neural interface and biosensing SoCs for brain-computer interface and medical device applications. The investment was disclosed through a 28 May 2026 business registration filing showing Shanghai Qishan Investment, a Tencent subsidiary, added as a new shareholder. Nanochap's registered capital increased to RMB 16.8853 million. Exact stake size and investment amount have not been publicly disclosed. The move follows the April 2026 StairMed funding round in which Alibaba led and Tencent joined, and signals a sustained pattern of Chinese big-tech equity participation in the country's BCI silicon supply chain.

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