Hardware is hard. For Gorq to be successful -<p>- The boards using their chips need to fit into commodity interfaces (PCIE? DIMM? ) in Open Compute hardware<p>- Someone needs to buy hundreds of thousands of these to even minutely impact their bottom line<p>- Multiple such big volume wins need to consistently happen.<p>- Their IP needs to actually be defensible. Otherwise, an Intel/Samsung whose manufacturing prowess & channel reach is multiple times that of Gorq will undercut the pricing with <i>almost</i> the same performance/watt. Oh, and they'll happily play nice with Open Compute, other standards bodies.<p>- Most of all, their product needs to work as advertised, at scale, in a reliable fashion. This is easier said than done in semiconductors, especially for the kind of performance gains they're marketing.<p><i>If</i> they'd gotten here with ~$30M capital, and demonstrated traction in the marketplace, I'd give them a chance, but expecting Google's pay while working at an independent chip startup, with $0 in revenues portends financial doom. It's not the founder's fault though - hardware is capital intensive, not compatible with agile development & an MVP just won't cut it - it needs to be fully functional & reliable right out of the bat. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, as I'd like to see the silicon put back in silicon valley - having been in the semiconductor industry for 20 years, it just seems unlikely.