Here’s why the BrainChip (ASX:BRN) share price jumped 15% today

The BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN) share price has been among the best performers on the ASX on Friday.

At one stage today the artificial intelligence company’s shares were up as much as 15% to 56.5 cents.

This latest gain means the BrainChip share price is up over 55% since this time last month.

Why is the BrainChip share price zooming higher?

While there hasn’t been any news out of the company this week, investors appear to be still responding to a couple of major announcements released at the end of December.

The first announcement the company released was in relation to its agreement with NASA in the United States.

According to the release, BrainChip has received an order for its Akida Early Access Evaluation Kit from…