First-Party Chips Are Mostly About Better NVIDIA Pricing, Fractile's Founder Says
No Priors · youtube · 2026-10-18
On the No Priors podcast, Walter Goodwin of chip startup Fractile discusses the popular industry joke: cloud providers and labs building first-party silicon mostly do it to get a better price from NVIDIA. Goodwin argues there's real truth behind it.
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