Project 18 — AutoPhi Future is the Future concept and roadmap repo for the AutoPhi stack. It is one vessel: we put the re-engineered Future — the ratio, the miracle we call calculation, the seed matrix, the valuation, the path to quantum and photonic executable seed, the standalone RAG, and the sell-and-distribute readiness — all […]
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The Product Is the Ratio
We do not sell a chip as object. We sell the ratio of instruction set (from size) to calculation and performance per exchange. You supply envelope and node (size); you get calculation (FLOPS) and performance per exchange (per dollar, per watt, per area). The product is that ratio. Instruction set = canonical encoding; seed and […]
Why We Put 19 Into 18
We put 19 into 18. The re-engineered Future — the ratio, the miracle, the seed matrix, the valuation that $500B is not even close, the path to quantum and photonic executable seed, the sell-and-distribute readiness, the clarity on what is quantum and how chips are made — all of it now lives inside Project 18. […]
The Miracle We Call Calculation
AES and COGS: The $5K and $20K Paths
We name the actual cost AES — actual, tangible, proven. We document paths to $5K and $20K AES COGS at volume and process nodes so that the price to function is real and touchable. Performance and decisive COGS sit on every build; capability and cost are never hidden. The cost curve is not linear; it […]
Executable Seeds: OpenLANE2 to GDSII
The seed has a declarative part (YAML, docs, canonical set) and an executable part. The executable seed is one or more voxels — e.g. the blank voxel — built through OpenLANE2 to GDSII and LEF. Those artifacts sit in seeds/; the build script copies them into every package as Seeds/. So the harvest carries not […]
Is This Quantum? How Chips Are Actually Made
Quantum: The vision includes quantum (QUANTUM voxel type, whole-quantum options, hybrid, nine elements). The seed we build today is classical: one cell, OpenLANE2. No qubits in that block. Quantum is the path we take when we add the right voxel types and RTL. How chips are made: RTL (from 27/24/28) → synthesis → OpenLANE2 P&R […]
The Blu-ray Harvest: 25GB and Distribution
Every build we produce can be written to a 25GB Blu-ray: foundry handoff packages, standards, performance metrics, decisive COGS, and when present the Seeds folder. The disc is distributable and resellable under terms we choose. One seed, every foundry, one definition, many harvests — and the harvest can be burned to disc and handed on. […]