Semi Doped
The business and technology of semiconductors. Alpha for engineers and investors alike.
Podcasting since 2026 • 10 episodes
Semi Doped
Latest Episodes
The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn
In this episode, Vik and Wayne Nelms discuss the emerging financial exchange for GPU compute, exploring its implications for the AI infrastructure market. They discuss the value of compute, pricing dynamics, hedging strategies, and the future o...
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A New Era of Context Memory with Val Bercovici from WEKA
Vik and Val Bercovici discuss the evolution of storage solutions in the context of AI, focusing on Weka's innovative approaches to context memory, high bandwidth flash, and the importance of optimizing GPU usage. Val shares insights fro...
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OpenClaw Makes AI Agents and CPUs Get Real
Austin and Vik discuss the emerging trend of AI agents, particularly focusing on Claude Code and OpenClaw, and the resulting hardware implications.Key Takeaways:2026 is expected to be a pivotal year for AI agents.
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An Interview with Microsoft's Saurabh Dighe About Maia 200
Maia 100 was a pre-GPT accelerator.Maia 200 is explicitly post-GPT for large multimodal inference.Saurabh Dighe says if Microsoft were chasing peak performance or trying to span training and inference, Maia would look very different...
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Can Pre-GPT AI Accelerators Handle Long Context Workloads?
OpenAI's partnership with Cerebras and Nvidia's announcement of context memory storage raises a fundamental question: as agentic AI demands long sessions with massive context windows, can SRAM-based accelerators designed before the LLM era keep...
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