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Patel: Nvidia must vastly outperform rivals to overcome vertical integration
“Google, Amazon, they get to vertically integrate, integrate, and vertical integration always saves tons of money. So he has to be better than everyone. By, not just like a little bit, by a ton. To justify his margins. Otherwise, the vertical integration of his…”
Patel: Tech moats are shallower than ever due to massive capex
“I think moats are as shallow as they've ever been, right? Because how fast things are moving, the size of the numbers that are being thrown around now, right? It's hundreds of billions of dollars for each major hyperscaler. The size of the numbers are so large…”
Patel: AI chip bottlenecks lie in interconnects and memory, not matrix multiplication
“Multiplying tensors is kind of, you know, anyone can, there's a lot of people who've made good matrix multiply units, right? But it's about, like, getting good utilization out of those, and interfacing with the memory, and interfacing with other chips really e…”