Hardware-level secure compute for African infrastructure

Africa is racing to adopt AI — but every data center, every edge device, every inference engine depends on chips designed elsewhere, with supply chains that can't be verified and security that can't be audited.

Beyond sovereignty concerns, critical AI infrastructure — cloud compute, smart cities, financial systems, defense networks — relies on foreign silicon with no transparency into hardware-level vulnerabilities or backdoors.

The stakes are rising: As AI becomes embedded in Africa's banking, healthcare, agriculture, and national security systems, the continent faces a choice: remain dependent on imported compute, or build trusted, locally designed silicon for the AI era.

Nelix is building a different path: security-hardened silicon designed in Africa, for African AI infrastructure, with full transparency from architecture to deployment. new