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The interviewer recalls the guest previously estimating that producing one gigawatt of compute requires 55,000 N3 wafers, 6,000 N5 wafers, and 170,000 DRAM wafers, while noting the figures may have changed.
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“You said in order to make a gigawatt of, I think, Vera Rubens, you need, one sec,”
“you need 55,000 N3 wafers, 6k N5 wafers, and 170k DRAM wafers.”
“I don't know those I'm numbers might have going changed.”7:19Report a misattribution
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