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Vikram Sekar and Austin Lyons · 42 episodes with transcripts

The business and technology of semiconductors. Alpha for engineers and investors alike.

Spoken has transcripts of 42 Semi Doped episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from February 6, 2026.

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A New Era of Context Memory with Val Bercovici from WEKA

February 6, 2026

Val Bercovici (0:00)

100,000 tokens, one megabyte of data, translates to 50 gigabytes of KVCache working memory. And that's because you're vectorizing, you're adding 10 to 20,000 dimensions of intelligence to this 100,000 tokens, this one megabyte of data. So if one megabyte equals 50 gigabytes, and that's just at the beginning of one…

Vikram Sekar (0:28)

Welcome to the Semi Doped Podcast. I'm Vikram from VIX Newsletter on Substack, and with me is a special guest today, Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at Weka. Weka is a California based technology company that provides an AI native data platform designed to solve the massive data bottlenecks found in modern…

Val Bercovici (1:11)

Really good. Excited to be here. Very enthusiastic new fan of the newsletter.

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