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AI ENTERS THE PHYSICAL WORLD

As AI moves from the digital world into the physical world, edge autonomy faces sharper requirements. Performance is not enough. Compute must be predictable, resilient, and built for safe operation. It's not just about AI hallucinations, it's ensuring systems keep operating safely through real-world glitches.

Today's processors are optimized for data centers and consumer devices, not for safety-critical deployment in robotics, automotive, and aerospace.

The next era of AI requires a new class of silicon built specifically for mission-critical autonomy, where control and efficiency are foundational, not patched after the fact with complex software workarounds or costly brute-force redundancy.

DESIGNED FOR SAFE AUTONOMY

Building that new class of silicon starts with a different design center. Athos flips the model. Fundamentally safe autonomy comes first, while optimizing power and cost.

Safety is embedded in our silicon with hardware scheduling and voting that enforce deterministic behavior and fault containment before issues cascade. The payoff is reduced software complexity, shorter certification timelines, and lower power. This lowers overall deployment burden and makes safety achievable at scale.

This approach turns fail-operational autonomy, maintaining safe control when things go wrong, into a repeatable foundation that can scale cleanly across systems and product lines.

CHIPTILE: A SCALABLE SAFE AI PLATFORM

Chiptile™ is the Athos-designed foundational compute chiplet, the building block of our Multiple Systems on Chip (mSoC™) architecture for safety-critical autonomy across robotics, automotive, and aerospace.

Each tile is a complete system on a chip, integrating CPU, GPU, NPU, and I/O for real-world autonomy workloads. This core compute die boots as a standard ARM-based system, supporting Linux, Android, and QNX. Bring your own autonomy and middleware software stack. Bring your preferred tooling and workflows.

Polaris is the Athos chip family built from Chiptile. A single tape-out spans physical AI domains by packaging the tile into different variants, preserving Athos' core safety design principles at every scale.

SCALE WITHOUT SCALING COMPLEXITY

Classic redundancy via board-level duplication multiplies energy use, cost, and communication overhead. Athos' mSoC™ scales by reuse, not reintegration.

This avoids two pitfalls: monolithic scaling, where larger dies hit yield and cost walls, and highly disaggregated chiplets, where many chiplet types drive higher development spend, multiple tape-outs, integration burden, longer time to market, and validation complexity.

With Chiptile™, scaling is replication, not disaggregation or redesign. The same verified building block carries safety and validation evidence across variants, and expands capability without multiplying system complexity. Add more tiles, and system behavior stays consistent by design.

Polaris Chiptile 6x variant.
From 1x edge nodes to 6x, 8x, and beyond for ultra-scale autonomy.

VALIDATED, NOT THEORIZED

Athos Silicon is built on a de-risked technical foundation originating in multi-year internal R&D and systems engineering at Mercedes-Benz for safety-critical autonomy. Requirements and safety targets were locked in early, and the architecture was designed to meet them.

That work produced an mSoC™ redundancy architecture with feasibility proven, plus a defined safety methodology and engineering framework. System models and the mSoC emulator were completed to support real evaluation and early integration before production silicon.

Athos is carrying that work forward with a growing IP base and industrialization readiness, advancing a validated architecture into a repeatable compute platform for safety-critical autonomy.