Processing, where the signal begins.
Thalamic builds on-implant processing units for invasive brain-computer interfaces — moving compute to the electrode, so implants can scale beyond today's bandwidth and power limits.
The brain isn't the bottleneck. The cable is.
Tens of thousands of channels of neural data can't leave the skull raw. Thalamic puts the processing on the implant — and removes the ceiling on what brain-computer interfaces can become.
Built for the people who need every signal.
For people living with paralysis and ALS, every extra channel is vocabulary, movement, independence. Thalamic builds the silicon that makes richer interfaces possible.
raw neural data — Gb/s
detect · compress · decode
Mb/s to kb/s — not Gb/s
Implants are gaining channels faster than they can move data. We build the silicon that closes the gap.
Thalamic is a semiconductor startup building the processing layer for next-generation invasive BCIs. Founded by chip designers and neural engineers, we develop dedicated processing units that sit on the implant itself — reducing raw neural signals to what the rest of the system actually needs, at the source and within the power budget the body allows.
We are currently in stealth, working with a small group of research partners. If our problem is your problem, we'd like to hear from you.
Compute at the electrode
Spike detection, feature extraction and compression happen at the source. What leaves the implant is reduced — never the raw waveform.
Every microwatt becomes heat in tissue. An event-driven architecture spends energy only when neurons do.
A modular design that grows with electrode counts — from today's arrays to the 100k-channel systems ahead.
In development
An evaluation platform for research partners is planned. Detailed specifications are available to qualified partners on request.
Where scaling matters most
Speech and typing decoding for people with ALS and paralysis improves with channel count — but only if the data can leave the implant. On-implant processing makes high-bandwidth communication practical.
Closed-loop control of cursors, prosthetics and stimulation demands low latency. Processing at the electrode removes the round trip.
Labs pushing electrode counts drown in raw data. Compression at the source turns terabytes into experiments.
We don't build implants. We make them scale.
Thalamic works alongside implant and electrode developers, academic and clinical research groups, and system integrators. Our silicon is designed to slot into your stack — not replace it.
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