Nelix designs custom semiconductor SoCs for environments where conventional silicon fails. Hardware-rooted security. Edge AI inference at sub-2W. Engineered for high heat, intermittent power, and sovereignty by design.
Silicon is the foundation, but trusted compute requires more than a chip. Nelix delivers a coordinated stack — from secure silicon primitives to inference runtimes — designed to operate as one system in environments where most infrastructure cannot.
The full stack — silicon up — engineered, owned, and deployed by African and partner teams. No black-box dependencies in critical infrastructure.
−40°C to +55°C ambient. Sub-2W inference budgets. Resilient to grid instability and intermittent connectivity. Real deployment conditions, not lab assumptions.
PUF-based root of trust, AES-256-CTR conditioning, and tamper detection at the silicon layer — security primitives a software stack alone cannot provide.
Custom dataflow accelerators, TVM/MLIR/LLVM compiler stack, and orchestration designed together — performance compounds across layers.
Each product solves a distinct infrastructure problem. Together they form a coordinated platform — from grid-edge security to distributed AI inference.
Hardware-rooted security for utility infrastructure. Designed for African grid conditions.
Sub-2W inference for IoT, agriculture, health, and finance — engineered for constrained environments.
Critical infrastructure across emerging markets — sectors where reliability, security, and sovereignty are not optional.
Anti-tamper metering, grid edge security, distributed energy management.
Field-deployed inference, low-power sensors, climate-resilient compute.
Point-of-care diagnostics, edge inference for resource-constrained clinics.
Trusted compute for critical national infrastructure. Hardware root of trust.
Secure POS, fraud detection at the edge, hardware-attested transactions.
Edge AI for industrial automation, telco infrastructure, IoT at scale.
Most silicon is benchmarked in temperature-controlled labs and grid-stable environments. Nelix architecture targets the edges most chips don't survive.
Nelix's founding team brings prior production silicon experience from across the industry. Academic partnerships extend the team's research depth.
Prior employer / academic affiliations of founding team and advisors.
Whether you're an investor, a partner, or a customer evaluating sovereign compute for your deployment — we'd like to hear from you.