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Building Africa's First Edge AI and Security Chip Platform
The Future of Africa Runs on African Chips
Nelix Chip Design Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company designing Edge AI and security-hardened chips for Africa's critical digital infrastructure, built for the continent's unique operating conditions.
<15W
Edge Power Envelope
55°C
Ambient Operating Temp
PUF+PQC
Hardware Root of Trust
INT8/INT4
AI Inference Precision
55 oC
Ambiente operating temp
<15W
EDGE POWER ENVELOPE
01 — The Challenge
Africa's Digital Infrastructure Runs on Chips It Doesn't Design, Own, or Control
A continent of 1.4 billion people has zero indigenous semiconductor design capability. Every smart meter, data center, and connected device depends on foreign silicon with foreign trust assumptions. Africa's semiconductor import dependency. Every chip in every meter, every server, every defense system — designed elsewhere, with no visibility into what's inside.
03 — What We Build
Silicon Designed for Africa's Realities
FPGA InferEdge™ Edge
Purpose-designed AI inference accelerator for edge deployment. 64×64 systolic array with SRAM compute-in-memory, optimized for INT8/INT4 workloads at 15–25W. Energy-aware scheduling with checkpoint/resume for intermittent power environments. Built for IoT, agriculture, health, finance, and industrial edge across Africa.
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FPGA SecureGrid™
Security-hardened smart metering SoC for utility-grade grid infrastructure. PUF-based hardware root of trust with encrypted measurement, tamper detection, and over-the-air secure updates. Designed to eliminate revenue leakage from meter bypass and fraud. Purpose-built for high-heat, high-humidity deployment across African distribution networks.
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FPGA InferCloud™ Cloud
High-throughput AI inference accelerator for data center and cloud-connected deployment. Scaled compute architecture targeting rack-density inference workloads with TrustCore attestation for multi-tenant security. Optimized for inference-as-a-service across cloud platform. Powers API-dispatched AI workloads from agriculture analytics to health diagnostics.
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Designed for African conditions
Our chips are engineered for the realities of African infrastructure: extreme temperatures, unstable power, harsh environments. We provide local technical support, transparent supply chains, and partnership with utilities and governments building sovereign technology capacity.
Accra
Lagos
Nairobi
Kigali
Cairo
06 — Insights
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