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Fractile founder discusses AI chip bets against Nvidia and Broadcom

Walter Goodwin explains his startup's full-stack approach to AI inference chips in a conversation with Sarah Guo.

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This story is from October 2, 2026. For the latest, see today's news.

In this podcast interview, Walter Goodwin, founder and CEO of AI chip startup Fractile, discusses his company's strategy in a chip market dominated by major players like Nvidia, Broadcom, and AMD. He explains Fractile's full-stack approach to chip design, contrasting it with architecture-focused competitors.

Goodwin covers the technical bets his company is making, including efforts to compress the gap between chip design cycles and their payoff periods. He also discusses predictions about workload shifts and model architecture changes that could influence the future structure of the AI chip market, and what it takes to capture value at scale in AI .

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