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> So, AI would need access to tens of millions of dollars of HW and Software in order to build and verify a chip design.

So, a seed round?

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Yes a seed round is how much A0 tape out costs. The entire seed round. Let me know how you plan to pay for A1, A2, B0, etc and then the full production run (and then do it again in 6 months when the arch changes).

Startups usually think that they don’t need A1

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