I also know the founder of an AI chip company (ex-AMD), they taped out in 2022, got working chips on the first try. Miraculously, they hired a good software tea

I also know the founder of an AI chip company (ex-AMD), they taped out in 2022, got working chips on the first try. Miraculously, they hired a good software team, some even with previous compiler experience. In their brochure they write things like: > In 2022, FuriosaAI remained the only startup to submit results in MLPerf Inference... This time, through purely enhancements in the compiler, our team was able to double the performance on the exact same silicon. https://www.furiosa.ai/ https://www.furiosa.ai/ Maybe it helped they are based in South Korea. Other places to work in South Korea doing system programming is not very attractive.