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Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: belief
25 Aug 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
“When I interviewed you a few months ago, you said that in order to make a gigawatt of, I think, Vera Rubins, you need 55,000 N3 wafers, 6K N5 wafers, and 170K DRAM wafers.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- belief
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- 25 Aug 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…That’s the upper bound, by the way. That’s the like, “I’m so fucking bullish.” Okay, let’s do some chain of thought here. When I interviewed you a few months ago, you said that in order to make a gigawatt of, I think, Vera Rubins, you need 55,000 N3 wafers, 6K N5 wafers, and 170K DRAM wafers. I know if those numbers might have changed. I’m going to troll you, but the way you said wafers was so fucking Indian. Vafers.…
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