Here is a market that broke its own math. Since 2012, AI processor suppliers grew 267%, investors put more than $31 billion behind them, and new processor types kept arriving. The customer list never grew to match. Most founders admitted they would not catch Nvidia and turned toward device inference and IoT. Here is the short history of how that happened, where those bets sit today, and what it means for anyone buying or building on this silicon.
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