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26 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
“Data centers, which I think is power, primarily a little bit of buildout, but primarily power and good infrastructure there.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- 26 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Wafers, racks, HBM. What else? Data centers, which I think is power, primarily a little bit of buildout, but primarily power and good infrastructure there. How do you then, as a startup that is looking to acquire all these components, elbow your way in amongst the giants of the Googles and the NVIDIAs and all these people who have long-running relationships and have been buying for much longer?…
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