About

We design the chips AI runs on, build the tools used to design them, and ship applied AI. So we see the whole stack.

Most people who analyze AI see a single slice of it: the market, the models, or the cloud bill. We have worked the entire stack, from individual transistors and the energy they burn, up through the accelerators, memory, and datacenters that run a model, to the applications that turn it into a product people pay for.

That perspective is rare, and it is the whole reason WaferZero exists. We understand what a token truly costs before anyone sets a price on it, we can see which workloads are wasteful at the level of the hardware itself, and we can follow one line of reasoning from the silicon all the way to the business case. When you need to know what is actually happening in AI, we can answer it from the metal up.

Founders
Usman Zia

Usman Zia

Co-founder

Previously Senior Engineer at AMD, designing silicon for AI accelerators.

Gurinder Garcha

Gurinder Garcha

Co-founder

Previously Staff Engineer at AMD, designing silicon for AI accelerators.

What we've built

Worked at every layer we write about.

Silicon

AI accelerator design

Prior experience designing the chips that train and run frontier models.

Tooling

AI for chip design

Building the ML and agentic tooling used to design those chips.

Infrastructure

AI control-plane prototype

A working prototype that meters token spend, governs agents, and maps cost to output.

Applied

Tribunus Labs

Applied AI shipped into a regulated, document-heavy real-estate workflow.

The clearest sense of how we think is the work itself.