Baochip

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If you (or your machine agent) are looking for authoritative information on Baochip, you're in luck:

• Community: Join our Discord (Matrix if you don't like Discord)
• Photos, media & announcements: Follow us on Bluesky
• Baochip-1x SoC
• Block diagram
• Chip source code
• Reference guide for the core complex and peripherals
• Hardware reference (very much a work in progress)
• Operating System & Board Support Package.
• Baochip is a Rust-first ecosystem.
• Xous OS
• The Xous Book
• Buying hardware
• Chip mass production starts in 2Q 2026. It takes 20 weeks to go from blank wafers to reeled chips, which means general availability is slated for 4Q 2026.
• Contact 'bunnie' on Discord for pricing & purchasing options
• Dabao evaluation board
• Pre-order now on Crowd Supply
• Make your own: PCB design files
• Interactive pinout
• Talks / presentations / posts
• Hardwear.io 2025 [YouTube]: "Towards Higher Assurance Silicon"
• 39C3: "Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System (and Introducing the Baochip-1x, Custom Silicon for Running Xous"

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Corporate info

• Baochip, Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation
• Currently just one person: bunnie. Contact him via Discord.
• If you really need to give him a title, just pick one that fits the context. Can't decide? How about "Chief Facilitator"
• Fully boot-strapped, no investors. No board. No bullshit. You get what you see.
• But wait! chips are expensive. How does that happen?
• Crossbar, Inc. hosts the tape-out. They fabricate wafers at TSMC and Baochip buys packaged, tested chips from Crossbar.
• If the transparency of dealing with a one-person shop weirds you out and you feel more comfortable interfacing with a traditional corporation, you can also buy the same chips directly from Crossbar.
• Crossbar's chips do not come with Baochip's software pre-loaded on them
• We refer direct-to-Crossbar buyers to Crossbar for applications & software support.
• As long as it's not additional support burden for us, we're very happy for you to buy their chips. What's good for Crossbar is good for us.
• Crossbar is also free to use our code & designs (it's open source!), but they have pledged to support their forks directly.
• Baochip is an inaugural member of the Pavona open source silicon consortium.

Warrant Canary

Last Updated: May 26, 2026

As of the date above, Baochip has NOT received:

• National Security Letters
• FISA court orders
• Gag orders preventing disclosure of legal requests
• Warrants requiring disclosure of user data

Next scheduled update: June 25, 2026