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> Custom state-of-the-art silicon is ridiculously expensive.

Think about the amount of money being dumped into "AI" at this point. If you've got the technology and people to make stuff faster/better/cheaper, finding investors to dump money into your chip making business is probably not as hard as it was 2 years ago.

Groq is making this change for other reasons than the expense of tapping out chips.