Every 18 months or two years processing capacity doubles, etc. That's been happening for decades. When did we reach a point where those improvements are outstripping just the realities of like, well, you can only jam so many fans into a computer? The answer to that is multifold. It depends on the size of the device. But ultimately, the problem is ubiquitous. And it's really gotten much worse in the last five to 10 years.
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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