Pradeep Sindhu, CEO & Co-Founder at Fungible talks with John Furrier at Mayfield People First Network, Menlo Park California. Pradeep gives insight into his new stealth startup looking to change the game on silicon and chips for cloud and IoT. #Mayfield50 #theCUBE #Fungible @SiliconANGLE theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/30/junipers-founder-turns-to-custom-silicon-for-handling-the-data-tsunami-mayfield50/ To handle the data tsunami, Juniper’s founder turns to custom silicon The world is awash in a sea of data, and it’s time for new technology to step up to the challenge and deal with it. That’s the fundamental proposition behind Fungible Inc., a startup company led by Pradeep Sindhu (pictured), who founded Juniper Networks Inc. in 1996. Sindhu has made a career out of dealing with hard, complex problems. This may well be his greatest challenge yet. If data is the new “oil,” then data centers are the oil rigs, pumping out and processing information at a rate previously unimaginable 10 years ago. Yet, unlike an oil well, which inevitably runs dry, data pipelines just keep expanding as connected technologies, such as autonomous cars and internet of things devices, continue to multiply. The result is that compute has been outpaced by communications and new engines need to be built for data centers to handle the increased demand for processing and storage. This will require a whole different look at silicon, the processing engine that drives the modern computing industry. “So many people have worked on the problem of building general purpose processors, faster and faster, better and better,” Sindhu said. “There’s not a lot left in that tank; the architecture has now played out. It’s the pursuit of what’s next is what led me to start my second company.” Sindhu spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Mayfield People First event in Menlo Park, California. They discussed the impact of Moore’s Law on processor development, Fungible’s custom silicon solution, a critical focus on hardware/software integration, the competitive landscape for investment and Silicon Valley’s spirit of entrepreneurship. (* Disclosure below.) Here’s the first of the two-part interview with Pradeep Sindhu: