Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks with host Jason Calacanis about the timeline for commercial quantum computing applications.
Assertion Partly supported
Gelsinger: Intel returned $100B to shareholders five years before his return
“In the five years five, six years before I came back, you know, Intel gave a hundred billion dollars to shareholders.”
Assertion Contradicted
Gelsinger: Intel did not build a new factory for a decade
“It hadn't built a new factory in a decade when I got there.”
Assertion Partly supported
Gelsinger: Taiwan currently has less than three weeks of energy reserves
“The island of Taiwan has less than three weeks, a big article in the Wall Street Journal two weeks ago on this, less than three weeks of energy reserves.”
Assertion Partly supported
Gelsinger: China blockaded the Taiwan Strait seven times in four years
“I think China has blockaded the Taiwan Straits seven times over the last four years.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gelsinger: AI infrastructure buildout will last a couple of decades
“I am an optimist, you know, that we're in a couple of decade build out. Right. Not a couple of years, a couple of decades.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2033
Gelsinger: Quantum computing will likely break encryption by 2032 or 2033
“You know, 20, 2020, 32, 20, 33, when we solve, you know, things like encryption, right, you know, where, you know, he'll have the fundamental Q day, you know, kind of implications.”