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An Interview with MatX CEO Reiner Pope About LLM Chips
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An Interview with MatX CEO Reiner Pope About LLM Chips Hybrid SRAM + HBM, MoE interconnect, why frontier labs consider AI ASIC startups, and more Austin Lyons Apr 09, 2026 22 2 Share This interview is with Reiner Pope, co-founder and CEO of MatX. Pope and his co-founder Mike Gunter left Google — Pope from the Brain team, Gunter from the TPU team — one week before ChatGPT launched to build what they believe will be the best chips for LLMs that physics allows. The company has raised ~$600 million to date. In this interview we discuss why Pope left Google to start a chip company, how to overcome
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