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Physical AI.Specialized Compute.Production Silicon.

We take physical AI compute from a whiteboard architecture to a qualified, shipping chip: system design, FPGA prototyping, and production ASICs under one accountable team, not three vendors who have never met.

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ArchitectureSYSTEM DESIGN
System-level compute architecture for physical AI: workload modeling, sensor-to-actuator latency budgets, and a chip-to-system roadmap before a single transistor is committed.
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PrototypeFPGA / REFERENCE BOARD
FPGA and reference-board prototypes that put the architecture in front of real sensors, real actuators, and real duty cycles, long before it is cast into silicon.
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SiliconASIC / PRODUCTION
Production ASICs and specialized silicon carried through tape-out, packaging, and qualification with our foundry, packaging, and test partners, to volume, not to a demo.
WHAT WE BUILD

Five compute problems, one team

Every program runs through the same pipeline, architecture, prototype, silicon, tuned to the physics of where the compute actually lives.

EDGE

Edge AI

Inference compute built for power and thermal budgets a data-center chip was never designed to meet. We tune the silicon to the model, not the other way around.

CASE REFERENCE, IN PROGRESS
ROBOTICS

Robotics Compute

Perception-to-actuation stacks with deterministic, real-time control loops. Sensor fusion and motor control share a die, not a network cable.

CASE REFERENCE, IN PROGRESS
INDUSTRIAL

Industrial AI

Ruggedized compute for machine vision and predictive maintenance on the factory floor, rated for the dust, heat, and vibration a server room never sees.

CASE REFERENCE, IN PROGRESS
SILICON

Specialized Silicon

Custom ASICs and SoCs for workloads that a general-purpose chip serves inefficiently, where the economics only work once the silicon is purpose-built.

CASE REFERENCE, IN PROGRESS
ARCHITECTURE

Systems Architecture

Independent architecture advisory for teams choosing a compute topology before they commit capital to a chip program, the decision that is hardest to undo.

CASE REFERENCE, IN PROGRESS
ENGINEERING

Depth at every layer of the stack

The disciplines a chip program actually needs, in-house, so architecture decisions and silicon constraints inform each other instead of colliding at tape-out.

Architecture SYS
Compute topology, memory hierarchy, and interconnect tradeoffs modeled against real workloads before RTL exists. workload sim / perf-per-watt modeling / roadmap
FPGA RTL
RTL design and timing closure for reconfigurable prototypes that de-risk architecture decisions against real hardware. Verilog / VHDL / timing closure / HIL bring-up
ASIC P&R
Full-custom and standard-cell ASIC design from RTL through synthesis, place-and-route, and signoff for tape-out. synthesis / STA / DFT / GDSII
Verification DV
Formal and simulation-based verification built to catch silicon bugs before they are silicon bugs. UVM / formal / coverage closure
Embedded FW
Low-level firmware and board bring-up for the software that has to run correctly the first time, in the field. bare-metal / RTOS / driver bring-up
Package / Test ATE
Package selection, thermal design, and automated test development that turns a working die into a shippable part. ATE test plans / burn-in / yield analysis
SEMICONDUCTOR ECOSYSTEM

A real supply chain, not a slide

Every program we take to silicon runs through qualified foundry, packaging, test, and manufacturing partners, the part of a chip program most teams find out too late they do not have.

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Foundry

Wafer fabrication across process nodes matched to the program's performance, power, and cost targets, not the node that happened to be available.

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Packaging

Die-to-package integration, from standard packages to advanced multi-die assemblies, selected for thermal and signal-integrity requirements.

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Test

Wafer sort, package test, and burn-in with yield analysis fed back into design, so problems get fixed at the source, not patched downstream.

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Manufacturing

Volume production and supply-chain management that carries a qualified part from first article to steady-state supply.

Partner relationships are qualified and managed directly by our engineering team. The same people who designed the part are accountable for how it is built, packaged, and tested.
INSIGHTS

Published weekly, from the people building it

Teardowns, architecture reports, and supply-chain analysis written by engineers who ship silicon, not marketing summaries of someone else's silicon.

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CONTACT

Bring us your next-generation compute problem.

One conversation, thirty minutes, with an engineer, not a sales deck. Tell us who you are and where your compute problem lives, and we will get back to you directly.

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