We didn’t improve the architecture.
We replaced the assumptions.
Brain-CA Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company building Teleomorphic computing — a foundational alternative to neural network-based AI.
Founded in 2023 by two veteran technologists who met at Hewlett-Packard, Brain-CA started from a simple question: what if we approached AI as systems engineers instead of neuroscientists? The answer became three granted patents, eight peer-reviewed ISCA papers, and a proof-of-concept chip in fabrication at TSMC.
Our Story
Two HP veterans. One question that wouldn’t go away.
Jerry Felix and Steve Brunker met at Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s — an era when computing was being reinvented from first principles. They spent decades in enterprise technology, watching AI evolve from a research curiosity into the defining infrastructure challenge of the century.
The question that led to Brain-CA wasn’t “how do we make neural networks better?” It was more fundamental: why are we modeling intelligence on biology at all? Biological neurons are the product of millions of years of evolutionary compromise. They are not optimized for computation. They are optimized for survival.
Teleomorphic computing starts from function rather than biology. What does intelligence actually need to do? Identify relationships. Update predictions. Act. Brain-CA’s architecture is designed entirely around those functions — with no inherited costs from biological structure.
Brain-CA Technologies was incorporated in 2023. Since then the team has secured three granted US patents, published eight peer-reviewed papers at ISCA workshops — the International Symposium on Computer Architecture — and moved from software simulation to physical chip fabrication at TSMC in Taiwan.
What We Believe
Three principles behind the architecture.
Brain-CA’s architecture isn’t a product of incremental optimization. It’s the result of starting over from first principles — and holding three beliefs that the incumbent paradigm doesn’t share.
The Name
CA isn’t one thing.
It’s everything we’re building.
The CA in Brain-CA was chosen deliberately — because it captures every dimension of what this architecture is and what it makes possible. Six meanings. One architecture.
We approached intelligence as systems engineers.
Not as neuroscientists.
That one shift in perspective is what makes the energy wall solvable — not as an engineering challenge
to optimize around, but as an architectural assumption to replace.
The Team
Built by people who’ve been here before.
Brain-CA was founded by technologists with decades of experience building, scaling, and commercializing enterprise technology — and the patience to start from first principles.
Where we are
Cincinnati, Ohio & Sarasota, Florida.
Brain-CA Technologies operates across two locations — both rooted in the Midwest and Gulf Coast technology communities that shaped the founders’ careers.
