The investment frenzy in AI chip startups – Hardware Club

I spent 12 years in the microchip business, specifically from 2000 to 2012. My friends and I built our own chip startup in 2004 and sold the company in 2008, before the Lehman shock. By the time of the exit of my startup, semiconductor startups were disappearing, due to the departure of VC investments. I remember the last massive wave of VC semiconductor investments, into a now largely forgotten standard called UWB (Ultra-wideband). That means all founders got burnt too.