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AI giants are racing to secure shrinking memory. It’s creating opportunities for startups

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The AI race is usually framed as a scramble to secure as much compute capacity as fast as possible in the form of graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips specialised for AI produced by US tech giant Nvidia.

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