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Published · transcript-backedReiner Pope: uncertainty
26 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
“I don't know. The cost of a fab is extremely expensive. I recognize that also the cost of a lab is extremely expensive, too.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- uncertainty
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- 26 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…For this super high-growth area of the market, it's interesting to me, again, there's a lot of other really complex business problems out there that competition has solved. Chip design is a… Like, why has someone not left TSMC and gone and built a new fab? I don't know. The cost of a fab is extremely expensive. I recognize that also the cost of a lab is extremely expensive, too. I don't really understand the technical details of why it's so hard. I mean, there is some amount of just a $10 billion fab versus $100 million tape-out and chip development. There's a huge difference there. But beyond that, I'm not sure. What's TSMC like to deal with?…
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