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Imagine being asked to deploy highly complex firmware with non obvious failure cases without any software updates. I sure hope that the models with Tensil are not fixed!

Unfortunately a big problem with ASICs is economics/operational issues for the startup cost making a chip. This isn't a traditional engineering problem to solve. I'd be concerned if the founding team doesn't have someone good at that stuff and solving hard technical problems with many years of ASIC experience. Hardware is hard!