AI chip startups are attacking Nvidia from DRAM, interconnects and new substrates
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-27
- The post summarizes a 2026 map of next-generation AI chip startups and the different ways they try to attack Nvidia’s dominance.
- The listed strategies include eliminating DRAM, removing chip-to-chip interconnects, collapsing the compute/memory split, abandoning general-purpose designs, or even sidestepping a $400M lithography machine.
- The image expands the list with companies in optical, thermodynamic, and superconducting compute, and notes roughly $18B of value now sitting on the interconnect side.
- It frames the field as a search for radically different substrates and data-movement architectures rather than incremental GPU competition.
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