Why spatial reconfigurability was dropped

From Is NVIDIA’s Moat a Psyop? 28x More Efficient AI Chips on Deeptech Decoded, with Elias Almqvist.

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Elias Almqvist
Elias Almqvist· Zettascale

Like, I don't, giving up is cringe. I don't know why people do that. Like, it's fundamentally like, don't get it. Why would you do that?

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

In context it changes, right? Like for some people, when they give up, they find the next thing that is the right match for them. Some they don't give up and then they persist on the thing. I always say like sometimes you don't know what you do, but you at least know what you don't want and then you start experiment. And if you drop one experiment for a better experiment,

Elias Almqvist
Elias Almqvist· Zettascale

Yeah.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Actually, it's still not really quite giving up, but it's a definition of giving up, right? Like how would you define giving up?

Elias Almqvist
Elias Almqvist· Zettascale

It's- if you're pivoting, then it's like you're pivoting for a reason to find something better. ⁓ But, like, for me at least, like, I have this vision of the future, like, this is something I really need to work on. It's not like, I have this my own personal mission that I want to fulfill. Like, I know my own purpose. I know I need to do this. This is why I exist. So, like, for me, like, giving up is not an option. I don't see why I would do that. Or anymo-

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Yeah.

Elias Almqvist
Elias Almqvist· Zettascale

And that's also me being like kinda failing to see other people's perspective because I've always been like this. I've always had this mission in my head that I want to improve the world in the way I think it, in a way that I think is good. But the semantics between of getting from A to B doesn't matter. So if you start, like with our chips, we started doing spatial reconfigurability.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Mm.

Elias Almqvist
Elias Almqvist· Zettascale

Over time, you sort of realize that that was not a good approach to what we're trying to do. We then realize that that makes two be of a chip. You can't make many of them and you end up as like three person something. Make one chip a year and then you can sell them. So it's not about like the definitions of giving up. It's like you give up. I'm not gonna do this anymore, et cetera, et cetera. But what you really should be aiming for is like, okay, if something's not working. figure out what's not working and then basically evolve from there, like build on top of it, like remove the things that's not working and then build. That's like the core thing of how you keep going forward. And like pivoting for like SaaS companies, guess, it's like, ⁓ we have a million ARR and we were sort of stuck in this growth, like we're plateauing. Who am I to tell you to pivot? But if you're not reached... 10 million, 100 million, you gotta do something,

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