Team tapes out physical-compute chip in 5 months, generates images for under 900 nJ each
NaveenGRao · x · 2026-09-17
A founder shared chip progress: from no team in January to tape-out in 5 months, with hardware now back. The chip is billed as the first large-scale demonstration of a causal physical dynamical system doing real compute, running the Un-0 model released in June—the images in the post come from the actual hardware.
Key number: generating an image costs <900 nJ, orders of magnitude less energy than conventional machines. The author credits AI for dramatically tightening research loops and enabling the speed.
Related event: Naveen Rao's Chip Startup Tapes Out in 5 Months, Runs AI at Under 900nJ(5 posts)→
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