I joined David Goldman on
@CelestaCapital's TechSurge podcast to talk about the race to build the next trillion-dollar AI chip company.
The main idea we dig into is that no one has yet brought a chip to market designed specifically for LLMs. Blackwell is a GPU that morphed toward the workload. Nobody has yet stood up a gigawatt of clean-sheet LLM silicon, and that gap is where the next trillion-dollar chip company comes from.
We cover:
• Why AI infrastructure now sells as full systems, and how Nvidia got to rack scale first
• Prefill vs. decode, and why the SRAM bets Groq and Cerebras made years ago suddenly paid off
• How neoclouds built $125B+ of public-market value while most investors missed them
• Circular financing, and why I land on the demand being real
• My four conditions for the next trillion-dollar chip company
• Clean-sheet architectures:
@OpenAI's Jalapeno,
@TensordyneInc's log math,
@Etched's low-voltage inference
• Why enterprise and on-prem inference could end up bigger than the cloud
Full episode: