The FERMI Paradox - Will Project Matador AMD Build Out topple NVIDIA ? #amd #nvda #fermi
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The video explores the potential game-changer for the semiconductor industry involving Fermi and its ambitious Project Matador in Dallas, Texas, which aims to challenge NVIDIA's dominance. Initially, the project faced significant skepticism due to Fermi's substantial debt and internal turmoil, including a recent leadership crisis where the former CEO was forced out. However, the narrative shifts dramatically with the announcement of a binding lease agreement with TensorWave, a major cloud provider. This partnership secures 650 megawatts of power across three phases, with the first phase delivering 222 megawatts starting in late 2027. The deal effectively transforms Fermi into a turnkey data center operator that will supply land, buildings, cooling, and power, while likely utilizing AMD GPUs provided by their partners, thereby bypassing NVIDIA's hardware monopoly.
A critical component of this strategy is the development of an alternative software ecosystem to break NVIDIA's "moat," which relies heavily on CUDA, its proprietary coding language. The transcript highlights that TensorWave has collaborated with an ex-NVIDIA engineer to create a utility that can translate existing CUDA code into their own proprietary framework using AI assistance. This innovation addresses the primary barrier preventing companies from switching away from NVIDIA hardware: the millions of lines of custom code written in CUDA. By offering a seamless migration path, Fermi and TensorWave aim to provide customers with cheaper, more efficient, and customizable GPU solutions without forcing them to rewrite their entire software stack, directly threatening NVIDIA's market position.
Despite these promising developments, the video maintains a cautious tone regarding the financial realities of the situation. Fermi's stock remains under $10 with significant debt, and the company lacks a permanent CEO, currently being led by an interim executive who is also on the board. The speaker notes that while the physical infrastructure, including turbines and gas lines, is already in place, the execution depends heavily on securing financing to complete construction before 2027. Furthermore, the stock has seen only a modest pop despite the news, suggesting that investors remain wary until the company's valuation rises above $10 and the project proves its viability. The video concludes by advising viewers to monitor Fermi closely as a potential disruptor but explicitly refrains from giving financial advice or recommending a purchase.
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Okay. So, um
>> this is about Fermy.
>> Um that's uh Google talking in the
background. This is about Fermy, but
this is TensorWave.
This is their new tenant. And that's
what uh this video is going to start
about. I may split this up into two
parts, but this is TensorWave. Um let's
move on to more information.
Okay, this is MXUX. You know, I'm going
to just going to say this to start. I
planned on making this video two or
three weeks ago and I thought Fermy
had a chance and they were an
interesting company, but they had so
much they have so much debt I mothalled
the project. Some of the pro video
you're going to see later in this uh
this report here was made a couple
couple weeks ago. Here's the what
changed everything. Uh, Fermy landed its
first customer
and uh, you know, it's like a bar. When
there's nobody in the bar, nobody wants
to go in. You get a couple people in
there, all of a sudden people start
walking in. They got a lease agreement
with TensorWave. This is TensorWave
right here. TensorWave is a
uh,
Neocloud, a data center data. They're
going to I guess um uh project matador
is going to supply the data center. So
they're a uh an AI model company. I'm
not sure. Uh but it doesn't matter. The
point is we're going to gloss over that.
Uh
they got a uh this is the final
agreement. The partnership intensive 650
megawws over three phases. First phase
deliver turnkey data center matador
fermy will deliver 222 megawatts
beginning in the second half of 2027. I
think they got everything there to do
that. Can they get the financing to put
the buildings up and everything? I I
don't know. I I I do believe I I I'm not
certain. You got to look at this
contract yourself. I'm not an attorney.
I don't I I I I do believe they're going
to supply the whole data center and and
they're going to supply the building,
the racks, the cooling, the power, and
then I think TensorWave might be
supplying these new AMD
GPUs.
Dallas, Texas, Fermy
uh announced that it has executed its
first binding customer lease at Project
Manador
uh in Texas. TensorWave is the cloud
provider. Okay. TensorWave LL text
TensorWave one a subsidiary of AI cloud
provider TensorWave. So they're they're
a cloud provider. Uh uh you know um
Cororeweave
uh I think that's how they're
positioning themselves of that type.
Okay. And what uh Matador is really,
it's kind of a REIT. They are going to
own the land and supply all the power.
And I think they're going to build the
buildings. They own them too.
Construction at manager uh Matador is
well underway with approximately 6
gawatt of the plans 17 gigat gigawatts
already per permitted. More than 15
billion invested in the buildout to date
and the first power targeted for 2026.
They do have
they're not bluffing. They They have all
the permits. They have the water. They
have the air. They have the They got a I
think like a dozen turbines that were
ordered way in advance of even knowing
if they'd have a customer. Uh and they
got a major gas line, two of them
running right next to this place. Uh
turnkey data center lease. So, okay,
Fermy is going to do the whole thing.
They're going to throw up uh the AMD
units, the buildings, the power, the
cooling, the whole thing. Uh they're
going to do they're going to rent it
out.
Rent the capability out for I believe a
fixed fee
uh and a fixed power fee. So these guys,
I believe Tensor, you got to look at
this contract yourself. TensorWave got a
deal I think uh 220 megawws. So a um a
power plant atomic power plant is 1
gawatt terms initial term of 15 years
following commencement of final delivery
phase. So they got some benchmarks they
got to meet with two renewal options of
5 years each. So, they got a tenant
uh for 15 years and they're going to
build out for this tenant and they're
going to pay a a fixed price blah blah
blah. You got to read the contract
yourself [snorts] approximately 6.5
billion over the initial 15-year term
for phase one.
I think Elon Musk is getting
hourly rates for his
GPUs.
This is not an hourly rate kind of
thing. Delivered phase beginning the
second half of 2027.
And I do believe you know I I you know
the lease contains customary conditions
blah blah blah. Power is the critical
constraint now and the vision and scope
of Fermy with our own they have their
own
uh
Fermy is they're big on supplying power
and that's this is the bottleneck that
everybody's facing and it's I think it's
going to shut down construction next
year uh for other people
hundred uh our customers need hundreds
of thousands of next generation AMD
Instinct GPUs in aggregate on timeline
lines they can count on. Firmeny has
assembled the powered land and permits
to deliver that price and we are proud
to be the first customer at a campus
built for the decades ahead. So,
um it's all execution now. Um
this is all here tense. Here's the
thing.
Uh, no CEO at Fermy. They're being run
by a guy who was exchilan
struggles can get him to stay. I think
he's retired. He's on the board. I think
he might be chairman of the board. what
a fantastic candidate he would be for
CEO.
Um, but he's running he's a interim CEO.
They don't they don't even have a CEO
yet, right? They're in debt. Okay. But
they got the gas, they got the land,
they got the permits, they got the
turbines, they got the contract. Now
they can borrow against this rent due.
This is
the
uh let's just go back here. This guy is
uh talks too much on [laughter] he's
really he's really something though.
This is the se this is one of the
co-founders of TensorWave and TensorWave
is in uh venture funding. I don't know
what round they're in, but they've been
working with AMD either as TensorWave or
with other companies for, you know, I
don't I forget what the guy said, a long
time, 10 20 years. Uh so they're all AMD
all the way. Uh their rub is what they
have done at TensorWave is
uh they're working very uh very closely
with AMD to to field test these GPUs and
do all this other stuff. what they have
at TensorWave which uh is their mcguffin
is they have a ex Nvidia guy there who
has written with the help of AI coding a
utility as we all know you got Nvidia
GPUs and then you have CUDA which is the
real moat for Nvidia it is the coding
language that's behind everything and
you write in CUDA and that's how they
program the CPU chips chip That's what
makes everything works. And what happens
is [snorts] the racks of course are
proprietary for Nvidia and the power and
everything else. But the CUDA language
is the is the problem because people get
millions of lines of code or whatever
and CUDA and then they can't leave
Nvidia. These guys have an ex Nvidia guy
with the help of AI wrote a utility to
transfer that CUDA code over to their
own proprietary kind of CUDA code copy.
So no more mode for Nvidia. Uh and this
guy says it works already and they and
the AI coding is making it better and
better and better. So if you want to
switch and you're working with uh
somebody else that's that's all Nvidia
um you can say hey I you can come over
here we'll just uh run you through our
utility and you'll be fine. So that's
their rup now. Um I think that's really
something. These guys seem very very
well they're all the all these this cat
is inside. This is the cube. This is a
very good YouTube channel. Um,
they really seem to know the market and
they really seem to know what they're
doing. This is uh AMD Helios. You see
this Helios here? This is the rack. It
weighs uh three tons, three and a half
tons. Okay, it's gigantic.
I'm just going to let this play in the
background. This is their they've been
working on this for
years in the background and they finally
got it up and running and this Matador
installation
which is going to happen next year is I
think going to be their first full scale
run at this thing. So you see here
they're they're testing this is a
testing facility
and this is the same old story with the
GPU 7 5 million Iraq. Okay, which is a
lot. However,
how much you know I think that's that's
beating uh what does a rack of uh Nvidia
GPUs go for? I don't know. They're
30,000.
Uh I think got 16
at 30,000.
I don't know. Anyway, the point is this
is a way as you can see here. There you
go. Blackwell Vera Rubin and
his debut system better, more
efficiently, and customizable. So, uh,
the point is I think they're going for
cheaper, better, faster,
and
um,
you know, project manager Fermy is going
to be their,
you know, their Halo site, their their
first big site, I I believe. But anyway,
this is all happened while I was
planning this while I mothball the other
video. So, let me [snorts] um bring up
some of that old footage and I'll just
give you some background so you know
what's going on here. But I'll tell you,
very interesting. Uh, of course, uh,
Google and, um, Amazon and Meta, they're
all coming up with their own inference
chips. And, uh, I I believe this is an
inference and training chip. I'm not
sure. Um but uh this is a thirdparty
competitor to uh Nvidia. Very exciting,
very interesting. And of course uh
single digits firmy stock. Got about a
25% pop on this. It's still sub $10. So
it's not getting any real coverage. It
won't get any coverage from any players
until it's over $10,
but I'm not recommending anybody buy
this stock. This is not a not a
financial advisor, but I would say put
it on your watch list. Take a close look
at it. All right, let's go into these
next sections.
Okay, just to close out here, this is
the Fermy website and um
their last CEO got
got in a argument with
uh Letic
dragged away by security. He resigned.
They wanted to take it private. There's
a big scrap going on. A lot of insiders
have sold this stock, a lot of debt. But
they got this tensor wave firmy deal
going here.
And uh I think it's uh I think it's
worth a