Jim Chiu is the founder and CEO of Holonomy Systems. He is nuclear-engineering trained, an ex-CTO of a software company, and a serial founder with a successful exit. Holonomy is where those threads meet.

Energy, defense, space, and fusion are converging on the same primitive: high-power light that scales. Built on Taiwan's compound-semiconductor base, Holonomy makes that light source on a wafer, thousands at a time, so power and cost ride the semiconductor learning curve. This solves the problem every laser-fusion team faces: the cost and capacity of the diodes that drive Inertial Fusion Energy.

Fusion is the long-term North Star, but the pattern is bigger. We call it Generative Hardware: AI now designs and simulates hardware faster than anyone can physically validate and build it, moving the bottleneck from bits to atoms. That bottleneck is validation and manufacturing, and Holonomy is built to own it. From there, Generative Hardware accelerates Holonomy's own iteration, because the loop runs only as fast as its slowest step. That advantage compounds.