Welcome to the Interconnect, a new podcast series from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Stanford Emerging Technology Review.

Each episode brings together experts from critical fields of emerging technology to explore recent groundbreaking developments, what's coming over the horizon, and how the implications for American innovation leadership

interconnect with the fast-changing geopolitical environment.

I'm Martin Giles, and I'm the managing editor of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review.

In this episode, we'll be focusing on semiconductors and computing.

There are certain classes of problems

that seem like the quantum computer could be much better,

but how broad that space is, I think is currently unknown.

What happens when you do not have access to the latest

NVIDIA hardware?

That's, I think, where Deep Sea comes in.

Joining me to talk about these key domains are Mark Horowitz, a member of the Reviews Faculty

Council and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, and

Sebastian Elbaum, the technologist in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations

and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.

Thank you both for being with us today.

Thank you very much, Martin.

Thank you, Martin.

I'd like to start by looking at what's happening with the phenomenon known as Moore's Law,

coined by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965.

Now, this law holds that roughly every couple of years, a chip that costs the same will

have double the number of transistors on it, boosting its processing power.

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