Hooding and Notes from Work

Parents in town for hooding and travel—notes from my first real break after work on why shipping silicon is largely a management problem, slow feedback loops in hardware, the mindset behind heavy AI use, and why we need a better AI computer, not a faster niche accelerator.

April 29, 2026 · 5 min · Shibo Chen

Semiconductor Development Cycles Will Shrink Faster Than Expected

As prototyping, validation, and silicon feedback loops shrink from months to days, chip development will start to move at a cadence much closer to software.

March 21, 2026 · 2 min · Shibo Chen