Tomasz Tunguz · 13 October 2026 · Industry Analysis

Price War in the Chip Aisle

Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Theory

Custom silicon from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI is driving a 3.8x cost spread among frontier AI models despite near-identical intelligence levels, signaling that chip efficiency advantages directly translate to pricing power and margin sustainability as token costs deflate.

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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Semiconductors

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