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Financing silicon requires the chip to have a sufficient payoff period.

Walter Goodwin · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026

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“finance the actual underlying silicon so it needs to have that payoff period but i think what you can get to is a world where the shorter you can make that latency that gap between an observation and realizing that bet in volume that is where there's an you know an enormous amount of value to be captured um and i think it's also an area where you know fractal is a”
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Financing silicon requires the chip to have a sufficient payoff period. · Savlar