The Constraint That Finances the Others.
When the same balance sheets supply the silicon, fund the buildout, and buy back the capacity, supply and demand stop being independent.
By Armando Pereira | Founder, PVentures Consulting | Senior Member IEEE | Co-founder, OpenFog Consortium (IEEE 1934) | President, Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium | Former VP/GM Optical BU, Centillium Communications (CMOS PON SoC, NTT-qualified)
Current, specific, not obvious.🎯
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The Sextant™ is a recurring series of board-level briefings on the hidden constraints shaping the infrastructure in deep-tech. Each issue isolates one constraint and ends with the questions a director should carry into the next board meeting.
1️⃣ Executive Summary
Five issues walked this series down into the chip and back up to the grid: capacity, substrate selection, the qualified negotiator, the packaging and memory chokepoint, then energized power.
Today it closes on the constraint above all of them: the capital structure
that finances each in turn.
Silicon, power, and buildings now run through the same few balance sheets, increasingly those of the same parties that supply and buy back capacity. One question ties the arc together: when supply, financing, and demand run through the same hands, who bears the risk on your behalf?
