MCKINSEY INTERVIEW WITH ATHOS CEO CHARNJIV BANGAR AT CES 2026
LAS VEGAS, NV — CES was stop #1 for Athos in 2026, where we met with dozens of industry partners and investors. One moment we loved was a quick show-floor interview with Marc de Jong from McKinsey on the theme that vehicles are rapidly becoming “chips on wheels” and that the next wave of compute innovation will be defined by power, safety, and redundancy, not just peak performance.
In the interview, Athos CEO Charnjiv Bangar and Marc de Jong highlighted what is changing in automotive compute and the rising demand profile of PhysicalAI. As OEMs lean deeper into the silicon stack, power efficiency and functional safety are becoming first-order design constraints for real-world AI systems operating around people in vehicles, humanoid robots, and beyond.
The signal is getting louder: autonomy systems are driving a step-change in semiconductor requirements, and industry collaboration is accelerating the path forward.
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Athos Silicon builds safety-critical AI compute for the physical world. Its Multiple Systems on Chip (mSoC™) architecture is built around Chiptile™, a foundational compute chiplet, enabling in-package tiling to deliver deterministic autonomy across robotics, automotive, and aerospace. With Chiptile, scaling is replication, not reintegration, expanding capability without multiplying system complexity.