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Conviction
Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile
35 minutes Posted Oct 2, 2026 at 10:00 am.
– Walter Goodwin and Fractile Introduction 
– The Chip Landscape Now
– Common Handoffs From Architecture-Focused Players
– Full Stack Approach and Team Setup
– Fractile’s Most Important Technical Bets 
– Workload Predictions and Compressing the Chip Design Cycle
– Architect Intent to Output Bottlenecks and Accelerating Trials
– Workload Bets on Model Architectural Shifts
– The Future of AI Chip Players and Market Structure  
– Conclusion
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Founder and CEO of full-stack AI chip company Fractile, Walter Goodwin, joins Sarah Guo to discuss the bets he’s made on the future of the chip market as other major players like Broadcom, NVIDIA, and AMD try to accelerate their workloads. They discuss the difference in Fractile’s newer approach on model architecture with a full-stack team in the current chip landscape and the technical bets they’re making in that direction. Walter also talks about compressing the gap between the chip design cycle and its payoff period, and making a generational leap in AI inference to realize the bet in volume against the value to be captured. 
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