Technical Snapshot

  • Architecture: F18-ISLP
  • Cores: 144 x 18-bit F18A processing nodes
  • Peak compute: Up to 96 billion ops/s
  • Energy is used only when necessary
  • Power per F18A: 90 nW idle leakage to 6.8 mW active
  • Power range per chip: 13 uW to 972 mW
  • Start and stop: One-gate delay (100 ps)
  • Per-instruction energy: ~7 pJ
  • No OS to waste available time with unnecessary housekeeping
  • Say goodbye to garbage collection!
  • Prosper after the Age of AI
SPI flash update graphic for Volatco hardware
Hardware update: SPI flash capacity has been increased in the latest board revision.

Built for control and adaptation

Volatco is intended for machine-intelligent cybernetic systems where deterministic behavior, low latency, and graceful degradation are more valuable than cloud-scale dependency.

Each F18A core can move between active and inactive states in a single gate delay, so systems can allocate compute only when needed instead of burning power continuously.

Service mesh to grow your code

Each GA144 chip on Volatco is a 144-machine node capable of rich interconnection using polyForth Ganglia and Snorkel to create ambient phasic state meshes for contemplative decision-making programs.

This approach lets you scale behavior as cooperating local services instead of forcing everything through a single centralized runtime path.