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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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By the time they got back in line to buy chips, that line was nearly a year long, and it was time to panic again. SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too. What's more, you can now link up to 192 of these computers together.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

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Furthermore, while the "trade-offs of economics and performance are all going the same direction, where it is now feasible to build an EV for the middle class," Paredis observes, there is little consensus over the best way to design smart, affordable EVs over the next decade. Additional vehicle elements are also simplified.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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The primary driver of this was an increase in inventory from a mismatch between builds and deliveries as discussed before, and an elevated spend on CapEx across various initiatives including AI compute. And if the company generates a lot of positive cash flow, we could obviously buy back shares. We had negative free cash flow of $2.5

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