If you were building a chip company and you were taping out a chip, the tapeout of a chip is around $100 million, just the tapeout. Not to mention th… - Jensen Huang

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If you were building a chip company and you were taping out a chip, the tapeout of a chip is around $100 million, just the tapeout. Not to mention the tools, which are probably another $100 million, and not to mention all the engineers, all the systems you’re bringing up, things like that. In order to build one of our chips, it’s a few billion dollars. And we’re just one chip company. There’s a whole bunch of chip companies. When they tape out a chip it’s no less than $25 million. Writing, developing a large language model–taping out a chip these days, what the software industry is learning is that building these large language models is kind of like taping out a chip.

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About Jensen Huang

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese:黃仁勳) (born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire businessman, electrical engineer, and the co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia Corporation.

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Native Name: 黃仁勳
Also Known As: Jensen
Alternative Names: Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang Huáng Rénxūn Jen-Hsun Huang
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