The upstream components Mickai builds on.
Mickai builds a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System on top of commodity silicon, hardened operating systems, and a British manufacturing pipeline. This page credits each upstream component and partner the planned Mickai hardware line is designed around, names the trademarks involved, and is honest about which partnerships are formal and which are still pending.
Programs
Mickai is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, a programme for startups building on NVIDIA technology. Programme membership does not extend to Mickai's own products, and Mickai is not an NVIDIA Partner Network partner. © 2025 NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
Inference fabric
The planned Mickai workstation, mini-PC and laptop configurations are designed around commodity GPU silicon. No configuration is committed and nothing is available to order. © 2025 NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Used by Mickai for product reference and accreditation. Mickai is not a formal NVIDIA Partner Network partner at the time of writing.
Mickai-designed silicon, planned and not yet fabricated. Poseidon is designed to hold the hardware identity and the cryptographic root of trust, and to sit between the network interface and the GPU fabric so every action that crosses the bus can be policy-checked before commit. It is the subject of filed UK patent applications owned by Mickai LTD. None are granted. Planned as an option on every configuration once the silicon exists.
Substrate operating systems
Mickai SIOS is built to run on a hardened Linux distribution by default. Ubuntu LTS or Debian Stable underneath, locked down, with OAR signing active at boot. The Linux trademark is held by Linus Torvalds and administered by the Linux Foundation. Mickai will distribute SIOS on Linux under standard distribution licences. Should we wish to ship a product literally named with the Linux mark, we will apply for a Linux Mark sublicence from the Linux Foundation.
Planned as a premium option once Mickai is enrolled in the Microsoft OEM System Builder programme. Until then, hardened Linux is the default substrate. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
British manufacturing
The planned Mickai hardware line is designed to be assembled in Britain, with a manufacturing partner in Birmingham, England. Nothing is in production yet. Detailed manufacturing partner attribution will follow once the partnership is formalised for public release.
Open and standards-based primitives
The Open Audit Record signs every action under the FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 lattice signature scheme, published by NIST in 2024. The choice of a post-quantum primitive is deliberate; audit records produced today will need to be verifiable in twenty years.
The cryptographic identity that signs every action sits in a TPM 2.0 module physically controlled by the operator. There is no cloud key escrow and no vendor recovery mechanism that would allow an external party to countersign on the operator's behalf.
A British stack, not a British shopfront.
Upstream silicon and operating systems can come from anywhere. What makes the stack sovereign is where the assembly, the signing keys, the operating-system substrate, and the audit record actually live. The Mickai hardware line is designed to be assembled in Britain, to hold the cryptographic identity in a hardware module the operator controls, and to sign every action under a post-quantum scheme on the public record. The portfolio behind it runs to 104 filed UK patent applications, 2,340 claims, owned by Mickai LTD, named inventor Micky Irons.
© 2025 NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds, used by Mickai pursuant to standard distribution terms. Tux the Penguin was created by Larry Ewing. AMD, Threadripper, EPYC, and Ryzen are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, Xeon, and Core Ultra are trademarks of Intel Corporation. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for product reference and accreditation only.