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Published · transcript-backedReiner Pope: evaluation
22 May 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
“It hurts your throughput, in fact, because the throughput of your chip is the product of how much you get done per clock cycle—which is based on area efficiency—times how many clocks you get per second.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- 22 May 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Interesting. So you’re hinting at a dynamic where you can have a really fast clock speed but you’re not getting that much work done. You can have low latency but low throughput. It hurts your throughput, in fact, because the throughput of your chip is the product of how much you get done per clock cycle—which is based on area efficiency—times how many clocks you get per second. This is actually so similar to the thing we were discussing last time about batch size, where if you have a low batch size, any one user can receive their next token really fast, but the total number of tokens processed in, say, an hour will be lower than it could otherwise be.…
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