Fractile CEO: smarter AI can guide chip design, but experiments are now the bottleneck
No Priors · youtube · 2026-10-14
On No Priors, Fractile CEO Walter Goodwin argues the slow part of chip design has shifted: AI now provides extreme intelligence to guide experiments, but the process is bottlenecked by the experiments themselves — physical validation and iteration, not ideation.
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