High-efficiency, on-site nitrogen generation is designed to protect high-value AI infrastructure, reduce oxidation and environmental degradation, and bring greater flexibility and resilience to semiconductor manufacturing

HOUSTON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / August 19, 2026 / Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) ("Ainos" or the "Company") today announced the global launch of Atmosphere Engine^™, a new platform that extends the Company's capabilities in AI-powered environmental sensing, Chemical Intelligence and smart manufacturing into active environmental management.

Atmosphere Engine is designed to generate high-purity nitrogen and oxygen directly from ambient air, on-site and closer to the point of use. By enabling nitrogen-rich inert environments where appropriate, the platform is designed to help reduce oxidation and environmental degradation around high-value equipment. Ainos is initially targeting AI servers, high-density computing infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing, where equipment reliability, asset utilization and operating efficiency are increasingly critical economic considerations.

Ainos Atmosphere Engine^™ generates high-purity nitrogen and oxygen from ambient air for on-site AI infrastructure and semiconductor applications.

Protecting the Growing Investment in AI Infrastructure

As generative AI and Physical AI continue to scale, the power density, value and capital intensity of AI servers, GPUs and high-performance computing infrastructure are rising rapidly. Protecting these increasingly valuable assets and extending their productive operating life are becoming important economic considerations for infrastructure operators.

Atmosphere Engine is designed to address this challenge not simply by generating nitrogen, but by using nitrogen to create controlled inert environments that can help reduce oxidation and environmental degradation around high-value computing equipment.

For AI infrastructure operators, this means the atmosphere surrounding critical equipment can become more than a passive operating condition - it can become an actively managed layer of asset protection.

Combined with lower energy requirements, on-site generation, reduced transportation and storage needs, and the ability to deploy capacity incrementally, Ainos believes Atmosphere Engine has the potential to improve equipment reliability, asset utilization and long-term total cost of ownership (TCO).

Semiconductor Manufacturing: As Fabs Get Larger, Local Control Matters More

Semiconductor manufacturing represents another key target application for Atmosphere Engine.

Modern fabs and advanced packaging facilities continue to grow in scale and complexity. Larger facilities mean longer distribution networks, more equipment clusters and increasingly diverse gas requirements across different production areas.

Centralized gas supply remains highly effective for large and predictable base-load demand. Atmosphere Engine is designed to add another layer of flexibility by bringing modular gas generation closer to specific areas and equipment where it is needed.

This allows capacity to be deployed according to local demand. Additional modules can be added as requirements grow, while individual units can be serviced or isolated independently - providing greater flexibility for expansion, maintenance and localized operations.

The concept is intentionally simple: Atmosphere Engine works like a building-block system.

Each unit can operate independently, or multiple units can be connected in series or parallel to support higher gas-flow requirements and larger applications. Customers can begin with a single unit, a specific piece of equipment or one production zone, and add capacity as demand grows.

Deploy the capacity you need, where you need it.

For large semiconductor facilities, Ainos therefore sees centralized and distributed supply as complementary rather than competing approaches:

Central Supply + Distributed Point-of-Use

Central systems can continue supporting large, stable base loads, while distributed Atmosphere Engine units can provide additional flexibility at specific equipment, zones or points of demand.

This approach extends Ainos' role in semiconductor smart manufacturing from using AI Nose to sense and understand environmental conditions toward using Atmosphere Engine to help actively manage those conditions.

Producing Gas Where It Is Needed - With Lower Energy Requirements

Atmosphere Engine is based on Ainos' electrochemical air-separation technology and is designed to generate nitrogen and oxygen directly from ambient air.

Based on the Company's current engineering calculations, under comparable gas-output and operating conditions, Atmosphere Engine is designed to require approximately one-third of the electricity used by conventional molecular sieve-based systems.

On-site generation may also reduce reliance on gas transportation, bulk storage and long-distance distribution infrastructure, potentially reducing associated logistics requirements, energy use and carbon footprint.

For customers, the business case ultimately comes down to practical questions: How much energy is required? How much infrastructure is needed? How easy is the system to maintain? Can capacity scale with demand? And can the overall cost of operation be improved?

"Atmosphere Engine started with a very simple question," said Eddy Tsai, Chairman, President and CEO of Ainos. "Why should gas always be produced far away, stored, transported or moved through extensive distribution infrastructure before it reaches the equipment that actually needs it?"

"If we can generate the required gas closer to the point of use, with lower energy requirements, we have an opportunity to simplify parts of that infrastructure and improve its economics. For AI infrastructure, our goal is to use controlled inert environments to help protect increasingly valuable computing assets. For semiconductor manufacturing, our goal is to give operators greater flexibility in how gas capacity is deployed and managed across increasingly complex facilities."

"What matters to us is not how big a story we can tell about a technology. What matters is whether it solves a real customer problem and creates measurable economic value."

Nitrogen and Oxygen Expand the Long-Term Opportunity

Because Atmosphere Engine separates ambient air into nitrogen-rich and oxygen-rich outputs, the platform has potential applications beyond a single industry.

Ainos is initially prioritizing AI infrastructure and semiconductor smart manufacturing, while planning to progressively evaluate applications across data centers, energy infrastructure and other environments where localized gas generation or controlled atmospheric conditions may provide value.

The platform's oxygen output also creates additional long-term possibilities. In healthcare and other appropriate environments, Ainos may evaluate localized oxygen generation and controlled oxygen environments based on specific market needs. Any such applications will be developed and validated in accordance with applicable technical, safety and regulatory requirements.

The modular architecture allows Atmosphere Engine to begin at the level of an individual piece of equipment or a specific operating zone and scale progressively as customer requirements grow - without requiring customers to build substantially more capacity than they initially need.

Building Physical AI from Sensing to Action

Atmosphere Engine represents another step in Ainos' broader Environmental Intelligence Physical AI architecture.

Through AI Nose, Ainos enables machines to sense and digitize odors and chemical signals in the physical world that historically have been difficult for AI systems to perceive.

Through ScentAI and Chemical Intelligence, continuously accumulated real-world data can be transformed into recognition, understanding, correlation and, over time, predictive capabilities.

Through Atmosphere Engine, Ainos is extending that intelligence back into the physical environment - creating a pathway for intelligent systems to move beyond understanding what is happening toward determining what can be done about it.

AI Nose - Sense
ScentAI - Understand
Chemical Intelligence - Predict
Atmosphere Engine - Act / Control

Together, these capabilities form the Physical AI closed loop Ainos is building: Sense → Data → Intelligence → Prediction → Action / Control → Sense Again

"AI Nose gave us a way to bring real-world chemical signals into AI," Tsai said. "As those real-world data continue to accumulate, we can build greater understanding and predictive capability. Atmosphere Engine takes the next step by creating a pathway for that intelligence to translate into action in the physical world."

"We believe the real value of Physical AI comes when sensing, data, intelligence and action form a continuous loop. We intend to build that capability methodically - guided by real industry needs, engineering data and field validation."

About Ainos, Inc.

Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) develops AI-powered sensing and environmental technologies that connect digital intelligence with the physical world. Through AI Nose, ScentAI, Chemical Intelligence and Atmosphere Engine, Ainos is building technologies designed to enable machines to sense, understand, predict and ultimately respond to chemical and environmental changes in real-world environments.

The Company is advancing these technologies across smart manufacturing, semiconductor, AI infrastructure, healthcare and other high-value applications.

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