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A flagship chip may take 12 to 18 months to ramp to volume and is expected to keep delivering customer value over time.

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

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“That is actually the flagship and this is the one we're going to ramp.”
“But then it's a 12 month,”
“18 month volume ramp and you're expecting it to have longevity. You're expecting it to actually continue to drive.”
“drive value to your customers and so i think that the the sort of subtlety here is you know i'm not a believer in the idea that we will ultimately get to a place where we are shipping a fundamentally new chip uh you know every few weeks just because we've shortened that down because i think this is a this is a physical world there is a certain amount of constraint on you know data center power there are latencies to installing these things and you need to”
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