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Show HN: Verified 16.7M Mac chip architecture on $60 Android phone

February 18, 2026
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Show HN: Verified 16.7M Mac chip architecture on $60 Android phone

Phoenix 4096×4096 specs:

- 16,777,216 MAC units (analog in-memory compute)

- 50,331 TOPS @ 3GHz (25× NVIDIA H100)

- 512 deterministic reasoning cores

- 2 TB/s memory bandwidth

- All verified in simulation

Hardware verified (15/15 passing):

- Half Adder → Full Adder → 8/16/64/128/256-bit ALUs

- 8-bit CPU (Fibonacci working)

- RISC-V core

- FPU (IEEE 754)

- GPU SIMD

- Complete Phoenix SoC

Also built:

- ULA compiler: Plain English → 12 languages (Python, Rust, Java, Assembly, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Go, Kotlin, Solidity, TypeScript)

- RF presence detection: 2-person tracking via WiFi signals, no cameras, 91% gesture accuracy

All code on GitHub: https://github.com/jltackett1980-cell

Built in Sikeston, MO on a $60 Android. No laptop. No cloud. No funding.

Looking for: Chip designers, semiconductor engineers, anyone interested in open silicon or analog computing. Want to tape out with Efabless or similar.

Live demo available

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