Jill Mueller, Allied ASID

CMO & Creative Director @boltgraphicsinc & Interior Designer

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

https://t.co/CNK7swsOb2

Thanks Steve for taking the time at #Computex to talk with us about our Zeus GPU and how we’re approaching the rendering, HPC, and (eventually) gaming markets!

@GamersNexus 💛

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

@darwesh_singh @boltgraphics Congratulations!!! Can’t wait to test Zeus 🎉

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

*We taped out our TSMC 12 nm test chip!!!*

I’m really proud of the @boltgraphics team - we are announcing the successful tapeout of our TSMC 12 nm test chip, which includes key parts of the Zeus GPU we are building!

We are on track to achieve our performance and efficiency targets, as well as our customer target to reduce TCO by up to 17x. We’ve been working with large enterprises, startups, research institutions, individual developers and end users for years now, and they’ve been providing positive feedback on our hardware and software!

We aim to enter mass production in Q4 2027, right in time for the holidays! If you’re not already a part of this amazing journey, sign up on our website to get early access to Zeus or apply for a job!

https://t.co/0TVYMzKRxd

[ACM SIGGRAPH @siggraph]

🚀 A new way of thinking about GPUs takes the SIGGRAPH 2026 mainstage.

Bolt Graphics presents “Building a GPU for the Future of Computer Graphics,” exploring a shift in how we approach path tracing and simulation.

At the center is Zeus, a next-gen architecture designed for real-time path tracing, large-scale simulation, and compute-heavy workloads.

Register now to join Darwesh Singh and see what this means for creators, researchers, and engineers: https://t.co/J8BynNbUli

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

We love Blender 💛

[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

Welcome @boltgraphics to the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a Corporate Patron!

This will enable general Blender development, with the goal of continuously improving content creation tools that will benefit the entire community. https://t.co/Tf18irBnrE #b3d #DevFund

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

Video Editor, Graphic Designer / Motion Graphics, and 3D Artist job descriptions will also be posted soon!

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

We're Hiring! Come work with a band of rebels working furiously to change the world! We are looking for the best:
- Hardware Engineers ($90-$500k)
- Software Engineers ($90-$500k)
- PMs ($90-$250k)
- HR Manager ($90-$250k)
- SRE/IT ($90-$250k)

We're hiring in San Diego, San Jose, Denver, and Minneapolis! Equity, health insurance, WFH hardware, and much, much more!

(postings should be live on X soon!)
https://t.co/ZF6NexknkH

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

We're Hiring! Come work with a band of rebels working furiously to change the world! We are looking for the best:
- Hardware Engineers ($90-$500k)
- Software Engineers ($90-$500k)
- PMs ($90-$250k)
- HR Manager ($90-$250k)
- SRE/IT ($90-$250k)

We're hiring in San Diego, San Jose, Denver, and Minneapolis! Equity, health insurance, WFH hardware, and much, much more!

(postings should be live on X soon!)
https://t.co/ZF6NexknkH

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

We even made a video about it on YouTube.

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

Getting a lot of questions about memory bandwidth. The charts below show bandwidth and cache per FP32 core (I.e. cuda core)

2x memory bandwidth per core vs 5090
11x sram cache per core vs 5090

amd is less cache/BW anemic

Zeus scales out well, and keeps data on chip more

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

Initially we are focused on quality, reliability, performance, and volume. As our volume grows into the millions of units (2027) we will be able to reduce our BOM costs and hit sub-$1000 price points

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

Rendering interiors about to be a whole lot faster.

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

Bring your ideas to life with Zeus, a new type of GPU:
- Expandable memory: 32/64/128 GB soldered + 2x/4x SO-DIMM slots for up to 384 GB memory!
- Massive improvements to path tracing performance!
- 400 GbE QSFP-DD port!
- Built-in high-performance RISC-V CPU cores capable of running Linux!
- DevKits 2026, Mass Production 2027

And we used the good old 8-pin PCIe power connector that is known to not melt!

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

I hate waiting for renders.

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

I wrote a report on the GPU market, covering rendering, gaming, and HPC industries. Some interesting takeaways:
- 3+ billion active gamers worldwide
- 1+ billion GPUs shipped every year (the majority being smartphones)
- 66% of the discrete GPU market has ASPs over $970
- 25-50% of time and money is spent waiting for GPUs to render or perform simulations. Over $1B/yr is spent waiting for your GPU to finish its work. Faster GPUs save time/money.

https://t.co/WRc3SK0sNd

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

We shipped out our first merch orders for @boltgraphics today! 📦

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

Yeah, we’re building GPUs, but we also make art to test our software. This time, @mcurt09 cooked 🎨🧑‍🍳🖼️

(Yes, this is a render and not a picture) This is part of our Zeus / Greek mythology theme. A lot more to come creative content-wise!

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

I got to style and photograph the merch for this launch! 🍻

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

Bolt merch (t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, beer steins, and more) are now available on our store! Purchase directly from our X store on our profile, or on our website: https://t.co/6FTc17Fqg1

We source high-quality products from USA-based vendors when possible 🇺🇸

[Jill Mueller, Allied ASID @JillbeanMueller]

I created this laundry room corner and rendered it on an alpha build of Glowstick from @boltgraphics

#glowstick #sketchup #3drender #pathtracing

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

We had demo day today and showed off multiple ground breaking features for our hardware and software. We keep encountering things no one has done before, and we just make it happen

Over and over again

We’ll put up videos soon

I think we have room to improve, but we have higher velocity than 90% of startups

[Darwesh Singh @darwesh_singh]

Electromagnetic waves! 🌊

We built the fastest electromagnetic simulator to push our defense and electronic warfare capabilities a decade ahead of our adversaries

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

We are proud to announce our partnership with @Center_Grid, a premier cloud provider with comprehensive offerings around rendering, virtual workstations, and a lot more. Together, we’re bringing real-time path tracing to creatives around the world! 🤝 🚀

📍 We’re joining them at Siggraph next month, stop by booth #511 to learn more!

https://t.co/s3ZMVNTX49

[Bolt Graphics @boltgraphics]

CenterGrid CEO Chris Beard has been outspoken about the rising costs and limitations of traditional GPU infrastructure, and this partnership marks a decisive step toward a new solution.

“Our clients don’t need another incremental upgrade — they need a clean break,” said Chris Beard, CEO of CenterGrid. “Massive 3D scenes, complex simulations, virtual production workflows — existing hardware simply isn’t built for what today’s creative cloud pipelines demand. Bolt’s Zeus GPU rewrites the rulebook. This partnership gives us a disruptive, future-proof path forward, and we’re proud to be part of what comes next for Virtual Studio Cloud Workstations.”

[Matt Curtis @mcurt09]

Viewport vs Render 👀