Attested Infrastructure Inference for systems that cannot depend on the cloud
Nelix Chip Design Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Accra, Ghana. We engineer InferEdge JBIA accelerators, TrustCore-secured processors, and SecureGrid infrastructure silicon that deliver Proof-Carrying Inference — completion transactions with cryptographic proof — for power-constrained, connectivity-limited, and mission-critical deployment.
Advanced package
Three lines of work, one company
Products for the long term, services that fund the roadmap, and capacity building for Africa's semiconductor ecosystem.
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In development
Compute platforms and products
AI accelerators in long-term development for constrained power, connectivity, trust and harsh environments. Pre-silicon: architecture and RTL, not a shipping part.
Platforms -
Active
Design and validation services
Architecture, FPGA, RTL, verification and system validation for customer programmes. This work funds the product roadmap today.
Design services -
Programme
Semiconductor capacity building
University partnerships for curriculum, FPGA laboratories, faculty collaboration and internships that feed Africa's engineer pipeline.
Capacity building
- Signed quote outward
- Challenge inward
- Everything else stops at the band
Attested Infrastructure Inference, <span>engineered in Accra</span>
We specify compute where identity, measured boot and attestation sit on the execution path. The operator verifies the evidence; the device never asserts its own trustworthiness.
One trust path, from die identity to fleet admission
Every layer is specified against the same attestation boundary.
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Die identity
A root of trust that can be named and checked.
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Measured boot
Evidence collected on the execution path, not asserted by the device.
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Attestation
Signed payloads an operator can verify independently.
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Fleet admission
Only work whose evidence matches is admitted.
Nelix began with a field observation: critical infrastructure AI is moving to the edge, but most inference still runs on general-purpose compute or imported accelerators never designed for unstable power, high ambient heat, or networks that spend part of their life offline.
Our founding team set out to build Attested Infrastructure Inference in Accra — a shared TrustCore trust plane, InferEdge JBIA completion transactions, SecureGrid measurement integrity, and Proof-Carrying Inference export before any model executes.
Today our platform runs on FPGA validation platforms while we work with foundry and ecosystem partners toward first tape-out. We publish progress honestly — we are pre-silicon, and we intend to earn trust the way attestation does: by being verified.
The people building it
Names and roles from the company roster. Photos and the full leadership page live under Leadership — this band stays a directory, not a second hero.
- Dr. Michael Ayiania Founder & CEO
- Dr. Felix Njeh President & CSO
- Harshil Patel Head of Business Development (Strategic Role)
- Isaac Danso IC Design Engineer
Nothing has been fabricated yet
There is no Nelix part in the field and no benchmark to quote. The commercial activity today is semiconductor design services and engineering training, which is what funds the silicon programme.
Programme stage
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Architecture
Defined for the research gap and the trust path.
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RTL
In progress. Blocks under review, not frozen.
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FPGA validation
Next. Programmable bring-up before any mask set.
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First silicon
Not before 2029. No fabricated Nelix part exists today.
Facts on record
- Silicon fabricated
- None
- Shipping product
- None
- Revenue today
- Design services and training
- Validation route
- FPGA before ASIC
- First silicon
- Not before 2029
Build this with us
The specification can still change. That stops being true after tape-out.