Rob Wachen
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529 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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Like we shipped racks to customer data centers without our chips in them with all the networking, all the CPUs, all the storage all set up so we could bring all that data center software up before the chips came back.
It meant that we took over 700 FPGAs and put the entire full reticle chip on an FPGA cluster and ran a dozen different models with our full inference stack on them before the chips came back.
It means that we built a thermal chip to mock the thermal profile of our chip and built cold plates based on that before the chip came back.
It means we had the entire production line ready.
It means we did many revs of the circuit board.
It means the entire product was ready to go before the chips came back.
And this is what it gives you.
There was another very famous AI chip company that took 10 months to go from getting their silicon back to having them running inference in a rack.
And this was publicly announced to their investors, and it was a really big deal.
We were able to do it in 40 days.
And it's because by the time the chip came back, everything was boring.
The software was already written.
The rack was already there.
The production line was already set up.
We were just go, go, go, go, go, get everything together.
You don't always catch everything.
You make some tweaks on the fly, and then off you go.
In that particular case, too, that was a big part of it.
I mean, over half the company lives next to the office, so it makes it easier to do that type of thing.
You pay them to do that, right?
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