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Felix Ejeckam

Co-Founder and CEO, Akash Systems · 1 appearance on the record.

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Felix Ejeckam is the co-founder and CEO of Akash Systems, where he pioneered gallium nitride-on-diamond cooling technology for computing and satellite communications. A Cornell-trained materials science and electrical engineering PhD, he previously founded other venture-backed hardware startups.

9statements → 7claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.56/5average certainty → 2.11/5average debate potential →

2 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Felix argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ejeckam: Akash cut semiconductor temperatures in space by 80 to 90 degrees
“In space, we already reduced temperatures there, 80 to 90 degrees.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 9:37 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ejeckam: Akash expects 20 to 40 degree chip cooling within 12 months
“We're looking at further reductions, 2030, 40 degrees down the line over the next 12 months.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 9:31 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Felix Ejeckam on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Felix Ejeckam said on No Priors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ejeckam: AI data center demand will crash the grid without novel cooling
“We believe that a consciousness that if a material science and more specifically a physics or chemistry approach to solving the heat problem is not used today, that the needs of AI data centers around the world is based on projections today will crash the grid…”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 14:01 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ejeckam: Diamond cooling will deliver six years of chip performance gains in two
“We think that with our diamond technology, that we will be able to hyper accelerate Moore's law so that You know, in, in, in two years, we will be achieving what previously folks had to wait six, seven years in the past to get to in terms of performance”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 21:31 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Assertion Supported
Ejeckam: Akash cut semiconductor temperatures in space by 80 to 90 degrees
“In space, we already reduced temperatures there, 80 to 90 degrees.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 9:37 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ejeckam: AI will 10x to 100x manufacturing, beating China without wage cuts
“I do think that AI will play a role in manufacturing and sort of 10 exiting or even a hundred exiting manufacturing so that we can actually outperform humans in other countries. I think that's the way it's going to look. Okay. So we will not have to reduce lab…”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 34:44 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ejeckam: A 10-degree chip temperature drop is worth millions to data centers
“Initially, we're starting off with 10 degrees, which is already worth millions for any data center who has a small number of servers.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 9:23 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ejeckam: Akash expects 20 to 40 degree chip cooling within 12 months
“We're looking at further reductions, 2030, 40 degrees down the line over the next 12 months.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 9:31 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Disclosure
Ejeckam: Akash ships diamond- and liquid-cooled Nvidia H200 servers
“The servers that we ship today, the H 200 from Nvidia, for example is both liquid cooled and diamond cooled.”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 13:42 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Assertion Supported
Ejeckam: Space cooling power densities are 10x higher than AI servers
“The power densities that we call in space are at the level of 10 to the three watts per square centimeters, so four to 5000 watts per square centimeter. The chips that we call in on grounds and AI in a typical server is a full order of magnitude less than that…”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 7:13 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Disclosure
Ejeckam: Akash is entering market as a server maker, not chipmaker
“We are buying chips. We're not making GPUs. We're taking the hottest chips in the world and we're cooling them down so that you can, we can open the envelope of performance for the system architect. Okay. And so we fit in, we're coming into the world as a serv…”
Felix Ejeckam Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 20:50 No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell Dec 12, 2024 19m
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