ShaqWave

A hundredfold past same-node CMOS on speed and latency, using process nodes that already exist — no new fab required.


Domain

Silicon

Stage

Silicon prototype

Started

2025

Products


100×

Target past same-node CMOS

No new fab

Existing process nodes

Speed & latency

Where the gain lands

The problem

Progress got tied to the next node.

For a generation, speed came from shrinking the transistor. That path is now slower, far more expensive, and open to a shrinking number of fabs. Most of the industry cannot follow it, and even those who can wait years and spend billions for each step.

But a process node is not spent. The same node can carry far more performance than same-node CMOS extracts from it — the limit has been the circuit technique, not the silicon.


The approach

Get more from the node you have.

01

Circuit-level technique

ShaqWave targets a 100× improvement in speed and latency over same-node CMOS through the circuit design itself, on process nodes that are already in volume production.


02

No new fabrication

Because the gain is in how the circuit is built rather than in a smaller feature size, it is manufacturable on existing lines — decoupling performance from access to the leading edge.


Where it stands

On silicon, being measured.

MilestoneStatusEvidence
Circuit technique in siliconRunningTest structures
Same-node CMOS comparisonIn progressCharacterisation ongoing
Independent measurementNext
Reference blockNext

Figures on this page are targets and internal measurements at proof-of-concept stage. We share the methodology with anyone who wants to run it.


What's next

Characterise, then prove it out.

The work ahead characterises the technique against same-node CMOS, has the comparison measured by a party that did not build it, and demonstrates it in a reference block a partner can evaluate.

ShaqWave spins out of Research ByIQ once the advantage is confirmed in independent measurement.