"I allocate, you know, 5 AM to 6am every day to think about that," he says. "The speed at which you charge a battery is entirely determined by how you manage the heat" The chip will have an application in all kinds of different markets but it's going to morph and adapt into different SKUs over the coming years. It has definitely taken a little longer than I had hoped; 4 years is not that long.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Seshu Madhavapeddy co-founder and chief executive of Frore Systems, to talk about why our devices underperform and we don;t know it (4:20), the problem with fans (8:00), inventing a new chip (13:00), how it works (17:30), why he started the company (20:30), getting into an IIT in India (21:40), leaving Nortel at the peak of the dotcom boom (26:00), startup lessons (28:10), raising $116 million (33:00), getting Frore’s chips into computers (34:50), the recruiting challenge (41:40), and his worst day (44:00).
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