Inder Singh
Analyst · Benchmark
Yes. I mean, look, we are raising our ability to meet the demand to make sure that we satisfy what the customers are looking for, of course, and we will do that. And it's not always about manufacturing, of course, David, as you know, it's also about having the deployment engineers, the people that go on site, prepare the location, deploy a machine, turn it on, show the customer, et cetera, and then stay with the customer, frankly. So we're investing in all of those. And over the last 6 months, we've invested in, I would say, all of that. As far as like when you go from Tempo in 2026 to the 256 in 2027, the chip road map allows us to then begin leveraging that semiconductor base, which is, frankly, available, fully depreciated, low cost, not so capital intensive. So to the cost question earlier also, you can benefit over time from bringing costs down by leveraging that. So we don't have to necessarily build our own factory. But the Tempo in prior generations, we manufacture them in our factory in Seattle. So we think we have enough capacity right now to be able to meet demand. I did say that demand is exceeding supply, yes, it's true. We might have to be somewhat selective. That's a good problem to have. And so if that continues, we absolutely will surge our ability to deploy, build and ensure that we service the Tempo. But importantly, the question to be asking is, once you have the chip-based system out there, now we have with -- well, SkyWater closing, of course, or even the commercial relationship we already have with SkyWater, the ability to leverage their highly secure in U.S. trusted fab, the ability to make computing solutions that we can sell to national security customers. We can sell to the most discriminating bank in the world. We can sell to any customer that says, "Yes, I know the power quantum." It is both amazingly powerful in a good way, and it could do some really dangerous things, too. Much of the AI can. So we're making sure that we deploy it in a way where it has the level of surety of supply to us so that no geopolitics enters into the ability for us to get components and then have a product that our customers can trust. So I think that it's less about capacity in terms of manufacturing this time next year. But for this year, absolutely. We began investing in the third quarter. We talked about in the third quarter call. And we've hired deployment engineers, and we feel pretty good actually right now.