Philip Johnston
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376 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Philip Johnston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the most interesting one was this NVIDIA H100.
We did some crazy things.
For example, you have to put it through thermal cycling.
Um, and we didn't have time to, we like book the, the vacuum chamber, the thermal and vacuum chamber.
And, but we needed to know, okay, if we heat up this phase change material and cool it down and heat it up and cool it down, is it going to crack anything?
And so at like 5am, the day we had to ship it down, we were working through the night, Adi and Ezra, like dunking this thing in an ice bath, um,
to cool it down.
And then we pull it out of the ice bath.
And I'm like, are you sure it's going to be fine with electronics?
They're like, don't worry about it yet.
It's totally fine.
They pulled it out of the ice bath.
Then we had these like, like hair dries to heat it up and melt all the wax.
Like, or like hot air guns.
And then we're dunking it back in the ice bath.
It is a miracle that it works, to be honest.
You can just do things.
You can just do things.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing you can do as a startup.
Because we actually had a quote from one of the primes on what it would cost to do StarCloud 1, and they said $75 million to $100 million.
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