At the time of the conversation, Fractile had about 150 employees and relatively small teams in each of its in-house chip-design functions.

“have front-end designers we have our own physical design team we have our own kind of back-end implementation team you know we do our own work on advanced packaging for example um and that's not an enormous head count right i mean fractal today is about 150 people uh we're sort of skinny in in every single one of those uh sectors but what it allows us to do is have this kind of much more agile closed loop um”