An Push-Up Contest with Pat Gelsinger (2026) ⧸⧸ Ian Interviews #49

Pat Gelsinger is now a year into his role at Playground Global, shifting from running Intel to venture capital. In this interview, we get into the technical specifics of what he's actually looking at now: sub-zero superconducting logic , free electron lasers for sub-13.5nm lithography , and why he’s calling for a 10,000x improvement in AI inference. We also discuss the "DeepSeek moment" and why Pat believes we’re about to see the "revenge of the HPC guys" as science-based models require a return to high-precision 64-bit compute. It’s a conversation about the reality of capital formation, the limits of copper, and why energy capacity has become the primary bottleneck for the industry.