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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where X86 comes up on the a16z Podcast, Acquired, No Priors, Another Podcast, TBPN
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 6:55 Pat Gelsinger You know, so Steve will help you port the operating system to the x-eighty six. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Pat Gelsinger And, you know, I had a project at Intel Larrabee, right, where we were trying to take the x-eighty-six and essentially do the same thing, right, you know, for it.
FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race
- ▶ 13:25 unnamed speaker They're competing in many ways to break the x-eighty-six monopoly, uh, because they both are selling ARM CPUs, but then they're also competing, uh,
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 47:11 Simon Eskildsen It's been, there's numerous of examples of that, like at Turbo Puffer, but that's like really bending the software and x-eighty-six to your will.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 24:19 Amin Vahdat So in other words, we actually had a fairly massive migration from x-a-t-six to ARM, making our,
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 2:03 Dylan Patel And so an x-ay six laptop with NVIDIA graphics fully integrated would be probably the best product in the market.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:12 Amjad Masad It's x-eighty-six computers.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:14:45 Ben Thompson RISC is generally more efficient, and actually even Intel processors today, even though x-eighty-six is CISC, 3 times in the scene
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 27:50 Chris Lattner Like you have people that are really good at writing parsers, people that are really good at writing optimizers, people that are really good at writing a code generator for XA six or something like that.
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:56 Ben Gilbert If Intel and the x-eighty-six architecture had maintained its dominance, you wouldn't have had this window, this opportunity for the value chain to sort of rearrange itself.
- ▶ 2:25:15 Ben Gilbert This architecture that became dominant in phones, and then computers, and then servers, and, you know, now is coupled on, with all these AI chips, you open the door to have a dedicated foundry for ARM chips in a way where if it had stayed…
- ▶ 2:25:35 Ben Gilbert For the longest time, Intel was the only x-age company, and then AMD, of course, is the, the second source, and AMD is a,
- ▶ 2:25:44 Ben Gilbert It's like, well, there is AMD that designs x-eighty-six chips that TSMC manufacturers, but that's not like the common case of the way it would have gone for an, in an x-eighty-six dominated world.
- ▶ 2:26:26 David Rosenthal Macs were running on x-eighty-six Intel chips.
- ▶ 2:26:42 Ben Gilbert Uh, all the baggage from x-A-D-E-S actually prevented them from structurally doing that.
- ▶ 2:26:48 Ben Gilbert It was like a, it never could have happened that x-A-D-E-S could run on phones.
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 33:11 Raja Manickam Intel was focused on the microprocessors, you know, the x-eighty-six, uh, thing, right? 2 times in the scene
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 41:36 David Rosenthal Well, then the architecture standardizes on x 86 and boom, there goes the whole next generation of computing away from TI over to Intel.
- ▶ 1:04:12 Ben Gilbert Brand new, unconventional instruction set architecture that's totally different than the x-eighty-six stuff that the whole industry and world seems to have standardized on at this point.
- ▶ 1:12:53 Ben Gilbert Right, like they're the x-eighty-six.
- ▶ 1:34:18 David Rosenthal It was x-eighty-six.
- ▶ 1:37:03 David Rosenthal Like, the Tesla Dojo stuff, that's not x-eighty-six.
No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024
- ▶ 1:59 Jensen Huang And then we, for every single thing, every combination, uh, air-cooled, x-eighty-six, liquid-cooled, grace,
Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 3:08 Satya Nadella Um, and x-eighty-six.
No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
- ▶ 11:56 Jensen Huang Now, we build a whole thing like that, and then we, for every single thing, every combination, uh, air-cooled, x-eighty-six, liquid-cooled, Grace, Ethernet, InfiniBand, NVLink, no NVLink, you know what I'm saying?
Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 13:20 Jensen Huang Uh, in, in the x-a-t-six architecture, uh, and building faster and faster x-a-t-six chips. 2 times in the scene
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 50:45 Suhail Doshi Uh, and so, you know, it has lock-in in the sense that there's like a huge developer community around it, just like x-eighty-six or something like that.
No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
- ▶ 3:12 Mark Papermaster And it, uh, it started out really being, you know, a second source company, really bringing, uh, you know, second source on key components and x-eighty-six microprocessors. 3 times in the scene
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 24:50 Amjad Masad The classical example is the x-a-t-six microcomputer PC architecture killing the mainframe, uh, and becoming the, the, the standard way of doing computing.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 52:21 David Rosenthal The data center, a GPU accelerated computing platform to, in their minds, replace the old CPU led Intel dominated x-eighty six architecture in the data center.
Why are chips interesting again?
- ▶ 39:01 Benedict Evans Part of the, obviously, part of the things we kind of touched on a bleakly, but didn't mention kind of explicitly was that part of the shift away from Intel was on the one side of the manufacturing, but on the other hand, the shift away… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Can This Quantum Compute Startup Get 11 LOI's To Convert to $100k+ ACV's?
- ▶ 4:29 Dirk Sakil So they have invented this Rosetta platform, the virtual machine, so that you could put in x-eighty-six code and run it on M one chip, which is a totally different architecture. 2 times in the scene
CI/CD for Machine Learning & AI // Dillon Erb, Paperspace (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 7:26 Dillon Erb It all runs on Intel, or x-a-t-e-s architecture.
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 23:12 James Waters Like it was actually late to x-eighty-six.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 0:39 Sonal Chokshi Benedict and Steven first talk about the announcements and then talk more broadly about what it all means in terms of S-curves and innovation, covering everything from the x-eighty-six to ARM processor shift, to ecosystem fragmentation, to…
- ▶ 15:40 Steven Sinofsky Like graphics was completely different than it was on the x-a-t-six and working with memory and working with storage and the kind of peripherals and sensors, none of that existed. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 9:13 Martin Casado You have like the x-eighty-six for networking so that you can program a single switch.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 17:46 Benedict Evans You know, that's kind of where, um, something like a Surface Pro is next to the iPad Pro, in that, you know, the first sailing ship, the first steam ships needed masts, and they had, they kept breaking down, and, you know, people weren't…
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 3:54 unnamed speaker What we understand is, you know, if you look at cell phone technologies, and a lot of them kind of modern technologies around I, I, T, uh, there are a lot of industry standard or well-known industry mechanisms, an x-a-t-e-six processor or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 Ramana Jonnala There was this belief, right, going back to JR's point, which is, what has happened is, DB-II is just better on a Linux platform, on an x-a-d-six hardware, and that sort of a commoditization of the core, you know, platform is, is what is…
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 9:50 Peter Levine So, x-eighty-six chips 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Rise of Full Stack Startups
- ▶ 4:01 Balaji Srinivasan Um, the third is that, uh, after, um, kind of a decade in which every layer of the, um, stack, uh, the computing stack was sort of split off, and so you have Cloudflare, and you have AWS, and you have all of these services which, um, kind…