Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more
Reiner Pope is the co-founder and CEO of MatX, designing specialized chips for Large Language Models.
We're building an LLM chip that delivers much higher throughput than any other chip while also achieving the lowest latency. We call it the MatX One. The MatX One chip is based on a splittable systolic array, which has the energy and area efficiency that large systolic arrays
Reiner Pope (@MatXComputing) just raised a $500m round led by @leopoldasch and Jane Street to build faster AI chips. I enjoyed having him on Cheeky Pint so I could ask all my questions about how chip design actually works, where the speed-up comes from, and how the industry will …