CPU

also referred to as: cpus

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Peter Levine · across every show →

Everything said about CPU, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Levine: Non-autonomous luxury cars already contain about 100 CPUs
“A luxury automobile, not a self-driving car right now, has about a hundred CPUs in it today.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 4:53 The End of Cloud Computing
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Evans: Increasing CPU power enables operating systems to safely sandbox features
“The more CPU you've got, the more things you can put inside of sandbox instead of letting them run on bare metal.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:39 a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
Oct 29, 2025 positive
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Vahdat: Google TPUs are 10x to 100x more energy efficient than CPUs
“TPU, I'll use that example again because I know it best for certain computation, is somewhere between 10 and a hundred times more efficient per watt, and it's this watt that really matters than a CPU.”
Amin Vahdat Oct 29, 2025 ▶ 12:52 Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
Aug 13, 2026
Insight
Kalanick maps manufacturing, real estate, and logistics to computing infrastructure
“CPU manipulates the bits. Storage stores bits. Network moves bits from point A to point B. But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's…”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 4:54 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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