You seem to be pretty knowledgeable in the subject. Are you someone working in the field? IC designer?

psst, click their username: "Founder of a deep learning chip startup called Vathys.ai (YC Winter 2018)."

:)

(Edited to answer the below question: Dave Andersen - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/

I'm back at CMU full time, but was having too much fun at Google to quit entirely.)

Yup, guilty as charged :)

EDIT: Question answered :)

Yep, Vathys; W18