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AI labs may build chips or buy AMD chips to gain leverage for better Nvidia pricing, aggregate compute capacity, and some control.
Unresolved speaker · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“I think it is this kind of gamesmanship of, you know, can we build some of this over here, or can I buy something from AMD so that maybe I then get a better price from Nvidia and so on, and a play also for kind of aggregate capacity and a bit of control.”32:30Report a misattribution
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