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Semi Doped

by Vikram Sekar and Austin Lyons
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About the show

The business and technology of semiconductors. Alpha for engineers and investors alike.

Latest episodes

  • Every Muse User Gets 2 CPUs and 8GB in Meta's Cloud. Your Phone Already Has That

    October 1, 2026 · 51 min

    The push to run AI agents on edge devices will not be driven by model labs or hardware vendors, but by service providers like Meta whose ad-based business models create a powerful financial incentive to offload massive cloud compute costs…

  • Flash Hit Its Physical Limit. ReRAM Is the Replacement: WeeBit Nano's Ilan Sever

    September 29, 2026 · 57 min

    As embedded flash hits a physical and economic scaling wall below 22nm, a new on-chip memory is needed. Ilan Sever of WeeBit Nano joins to explain how Resistive RAM (ReRAM) is positioned to become the new standard by offering a low-cost…

  • Qualcomm's Durga Malladi: HBC vs HBM, Dragonfly AI 250, and Winning on TCO

    September 24, 2026 · 21 min

    Qualcomm re-entered the data center inference market late — competitive GPUs, XPUs, and custom accelerators are already out there. Durga Malladi (EVP/GM, Technology Planning, Edge & Data Center) explains why they didn't build another…

  • Pacing AI Means More Compute, Not Less

    September 18, 2026 · 37 min

    The debate over "pacing" AI for safety is a red herring, as the practical outcome of more safety work is not a slowdown but a net increase in demand for compute hardware. Austin Lyons and Vik Sekar unpack Dario Amodei's call to slow down…

  • TSMC Will Buy High NA After All: ASML's New 6x12-Inch Mask

    September 14, 2026 · 50 min

    The emergence of user-friendly AI agents is creating massive new hardware demand, which in turn is forcing the semiconductor industry into a complex, multi-year transition to High NA EUV lithography and an entirely new 12-inch photomask…

  • OpenAI’s Jalapeño! Feeling Hot Hot Hot!

    August 27, 2026 · 55 min

    Austin and Vik react to OpenAI's Jalapeño announcement at Hot Chips. Plus extra spicy questions like should OpenAI sell it, how much of this was AI-written RTL, and where is Anthropic's chip? Key Takeaways: - The chip's core design…

  • Grok Bots and How CPUs are used in Agentic AI

    August 24, 2026 · 45 min

    The rise of user-friendly agentic AI platforms will create a massive new demand category for dedicated, high-core-count "agentic CPUs" to execute tasks in parallel, fundamentally reshaping the server CPU market beyond just feeding…

  • Tensordyne's R K Anand: HPE Juniper Fabric, Logarithmic Math, MoE Inference, Air Cooling, 3nm

    August 18, 2026 · 56 min

    Tensordyne co-founder and CPO R K Anand joins Austin to discuss the company's strategy for disrupting AI inference. RK explains how Tensordyne combines power-efficient logarithmic math with a battle-hardened networking fabric from partner…