Dylan Patel

Is it better?

Is it not?

Is it better or not?

Kind of a thing like that.

I remember, like, someone told me this when I was speaking.

Like, how did America lose the ability to do this sort of thing, like etch and hydrofluoric and acid, all of that?

I told them, like—he told me, basically, it was like, it's very apprentice, master-apprentice.

Like, you know in Star Wars, Sith, there's only one, right?

Master-apprentice, master-apprentice.

It used to be that there is a master, there's an apprentice, and they pass on this secret knowledge.

This guy knows nothing but etch, nothing but etch.

Over time, the apprentices stopped coming.

And then in the end, the apprentices moved to Taiwan.

And that's the same way it's still run.

Like you have the NTU and NTHU, Tsinghua University, National Tsinghua University.

There's a bunch of masters.

They teach apprentices and they just pass this secret knowledge down.

Well, you can argue that like the more you centralize it, the more you start building this monstrous thing within the industry, you start getting attention to it.

And then suddenly, you know, lo and behold, you have a little bit of a little worm in there suddenly where you're doing your big training run.

Oh, there's GPU.