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The Next NVIDIA

NVIDIA sells most of the world's AI compute. A growing list of companies say they can do it faster, cheaper or with less power. This series takes each one apart: the architecture, the claims, and what would have to go right for it to matter.

Watch in order, or jump to the company you're curious about. New episodes are added as challengers emerge.

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Sand to Hand

Every chip starts as quartz sand and ends in a device in someone's hand. In between sit a handful of chokepoints controlled by very few companies and countries. Each episode of Sand to Hand maps one of them: who controls it, how they got there, and why they can't easily be dislodged.

01Quartz sand
02Polysilicon & wafers
03Lithography
04Fabrication
05Advanced packaging
06Memory
07The device

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