This is the first episode of The Times' new podcast, 2023. We pick through the week's papers to try and find something funny for Giles Corrin to write about in his Saturday newspaper column. Seshu Madhvapadi has invented a way to remove heat from chips that could improve laptop performance by up to 100%. And we talk to him about why he thought he could pull it off when there have never been any breakthroughs done before.
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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