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Dwarkesh PatelVideo

Why Isn’t China Further Behind in AI? - Dylan Patel

Dylan Patel is one of the few analysts with real supply-chain visibility into China's chip and model ecosystem, so this is worth attention even without transcript detail. Export controls have clearly slowed but not stopped Chinese frontier labs, and the compute-versus-algorithmic-efficiency debate keeps tilting toward efficiency mattering more than raw chip access. Anyone modeling competitive timelines against Chinese labs should treat this as a data point, not a policy verdict.

Crunchbase NewsArticle

Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year

This is capital flowing to its logical place: chip companies get rich on AI inference, then hedge by backing the startups building the next layer up. It signals conviction that AI workloads will be sticky and diverse enough to sustain a venture ecosystem. For investors: if you're building agent infrastructure or enterprise AI, you now have an alternative source of capital with long time horizons and hardware integration incentives.

No PriorsVideo

Intel CEO: They All Walked Out on Me

Thin on detail without the transcript, but Intel leadership drama is worth tracking given the company's struggles to stay relevant in AI chips against Nvidia and AMD. Anyone watching the semiconductor capital landscape should find the full interview rather than the clip.

SemiAnalysisArticle

Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not), China’s FlipFET, Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs, and More

This is deep semiconductor plumbing, useful mainly for hardware investors and chip architects tracking process node economics years out. Intel 18A cost details are the most immediately actionable piece for anyone evaluating foundry alternatives to TSMC. Not a read for AI product builders, but essential for anyone underwriting compute supply risk.