Prototype evidence
Measured awareness
A chip that models itself can prove it. Here is what the V5 prototype recovers, and the cost of running without it.
Unaware hardware pays the Stability Tax.
Four costs, paid on every chip that cannot feel itself drift.
- Embedded tuning hardware
Control ASICs, DACs, heaters, taps, and monitor photodetectors: silicon spent holding the optics in place.
- Power and thermal overhead
Continuous tuning power that gets harder as density rises.
- Calibration and drift labor
Long bring-up, expert intervention, and re-tuning that never ends.
- The evidence gap
Tuned states that can't be proven, transferred, or audited, so every chip and every team starts over.
The V5 prototype runs a causal residual-observer flow with strict train, validation, and stream separation.
Brassboard results on an emulator platform, reported as prototype evidence, not production hardware claims.
Customer pilots are designed to test this transfer to real hardware.
Pilot goals are proposals we validate against measured baselines before claiming them.
[CLIENT TO CONFIRM: pilot partners, timeline, and what a pilot includes.]
The full picture: three measured, three factual.
Brassboard results on an emulator platform, reported as prototype evidence, not production hardware claims.