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There is a joke that first-party chip efforts primarily aim to reduce buyers' payments to Nvidia.
Walter Goodwin · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“you know behaviour where really everybody who is deploying at scale is kind of trying to deploy as many separate platforms as they can I think one thing that will remain the case is that there will be a real need for kind of a diversity of supply as something like compute becomes so existential to these players there's a bit of a joke today that the sort of first party efforts their primary purpose”
“is to reduce the price that people pay Nvidia.”Play from 31:51Report a misattribution
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