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The speaker attributes about 1.8x annual compute growth to AI absorbing wafer capacity previously allocated to smartphones and PCs.

Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026

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“And 1.8x comes from the fact that AI is absorbing a lot of wafer allocation that was previously going to smartphones and PCs.”
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