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Even with a shorter design cycle, chip designers must make careful architectural bets because the resulting chip needs a useful lifespan exceeding three years.
Unidentified speaker · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“um and so there's these sort of two things that are intention and which i i guess i believe two slightly conflicting things at the same time one is there is a huge value in being able to take the overall chip design cycle and compress that and compress that uh there is also i think what we don't lose is the need to place really thoughtful and subtle bets architecturally because the chip you actually”
“you actually end up making does still need to have a three-year plus,”
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