FROM MATERIAL TO COMPUTE

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HELIOS / HOLYCORES AI SILICON

Designed in-house,
from silicon up.

An in-house foundation spanning compute cores, on-chip memory, dataflow, fabric and software interfaces for datacenter and edge AI.

WHY OWN SILICON

A chip is not isolated. It is where the platform begins.

HOLYCORES starts with real models and deployment constraints, co-designing compute cores, memory hierarchy, data movement, package fabric, compiler and runtime into one evolvable foundation. The objective is useful compute, programmability, efficiency and system scale—not unverified peak numbers.

PLANNED SILICON PORTFOLIO

One architecture, three silicon boundaries.

These are planning codenames and engineering directions. Specifications will follow silicon, package, board and workload validation.
HELIOS HCX C1 chiplet interconnect concept
CHIPLET

HCX C1

Composable chiplet compute

Modular dies, advanced packaging and unified fabric for configurable compute.

  • Decoupled compute and I/O dies
  • High-bandwidth in-package fabric
  • Composable designs across system scales
HELIOS HCX E1 edge AI SoC bare-die concept
EDGE SOC

HCX E1

Edge AI SoC

Inference, control and high-speed I/O for robotics, vision and field intelligence.

  • Efficient local inference
  • Sensor and media data paths
  • Secure boot, isolation and device management
HELIOS HCX D1 datacenter AI bare-die concept
DATACENTER

HCX D1

Datacenter AI compute silicon

Scalable compute for model inference, fine-tuning and dense server platforms.

  • Cooperative tensor, vector and scalar execution
  • Hierarchical on-chip storage and memory interfaces
  • High-speed die-to-die and scale-out fabric

COMPUTE ARCHITECTURE

Organize every operation around dataflow.

Keep compute close to data while programmable execution supports rapidly changing models.
01

Programmable compute array

Tensor, vector and scalar resources support mainstream operators and custom kernels.

02

Layered on-chip memory

Local stores, shared cache and external memory paths reduce unnecessary movement.

03

Dataflow fabric

Low-latency movement reflects operator dependencies, parallelism and scale-out patterns.

04

Hardware virtualization

Isolation, scheduling and telemetry support multi-model and multi-tenant operation.

MEMORY / FABRIC / PACKAGE

Performance comes from the full data path.

Silicon definition considers on-chip SRAM, external memory, host interfaces, die-to-die links and advanced packaging together. Bandwidth, capacity, latency, power and manufacturability must be validated within one system boundary.

ON-CHIPLocality first

Keep highly reused data close to execution.

MEMORYCapacity and bandwidth

Plan for weights, KV cache and intermediate activations.

FABRICDie to cluster

Connect in-package, board-level and system-level movement.

HARDWARE / SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN

Software enters at the start of silicon definition.

HOLYFLOW connects model import, graph optimization, compilation, operators, runtime, profiling and deployment.
  1. Workload characterizationAnalyze operators, shapes, precision, bandwidth and communication.
  2. Architecture modelingEvaluate compute, memory and fabric choices with performance models.
  3. Compiler mappingMap graphs into executable dataflow and kernels.
  4. System feedbackUse real workloads to refine hardware and software.

ENGINEERING EVIDENCE

Build evidence from models through post-silicon.

Unvalidated targets are not presented as production specifications.
Pre-architecture

Workload characterization, performance modeling and power estimation.

RTL & implementation

Functional and formal verification, timing, power and testability.

Post-silicon

Characterization, packaging, board, stability and reliability validation.

Systems & models

Accuracy, performance, scaling, compatibility and endurance testing.

FAQ

About HOLYCORES AI silicon

Are these chips in production?+

This page describes in-house R&D directions and planning boundaries. Tape-out, production, availability and final specifications will be announced as engineering matures.

How do the chips relate to NOVA and SPARK?+

Silicon is the compute foundation. NOVA and SPARK package that capability into datacenter accelerators and edge products.

How can a team join validation?+

Bring target models, baselines, deployment conditions and success criteria to define an evaluation path together.

START WITH A REAL WORKLOAD

Help define the next AI chip that matters.

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