
BritAIn - AI from a UK Perspective
The Silicon Trap: Can Britain Build Its Way Out of Chip Dependency?
<p>A 25-year-old founder just raised $312 million to build a British AI chip that deliberately avoids the one component — high-bandwidth memory — that constrains every rival, including Nvidia. Meanwhile the EU opens a 10-billion-euro sovereign compute programme built openly on American processors, Washington's export controls turn out to have a hole big enough for Chinese tech giants to rent Nvidia's banned chips through data centres in Thailand, and China's own chipmakers close in on 90% of its domestic market. Last episode ended on an asterisk — sovereign, except for the silicon. This episode asks whether that asterisk can ever actually be removed, or whethe...

