Frore's Seshu Madhavapeddy: "Centuries-old tech and the tyranny of heat"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Frore's Seshu Madhavapeddy: "Centuries-old tech and the tyranny of heat"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:48:28
• Published: 2023-01-06 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Seshu Madhavapeddy co-founder and chief executive of Frore Systems, to talk about why our devices underperform and we don;t know it (4:20), the problem with fans (8:00), inventing a new chip (13:00), how it works (17:30), why he started the company (20:30), getting into an IIT in India (21:40), leaving Nortel at the peak of the dotcom boom (26:00), startup lessons (28:10), raising $116 million (33:00), getting Frore’s chips into computers (34:50), the recruiting challenge (41:40), and his worst day (44:00).

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