Podcast
7.10.2026
Originally published on Built This Week by Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner
Built This Week hosts Vinci co-founder and CEO Hardik Kabaria for a conversation about bringing physics reasoning to hardware engineering the same way language models brought language reasoning to everyone. The episode includes a live demo of manufacturing-resolution warpage analysis and a discussion of how faster physics changes the hardware design loop.
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Kabaria walks through Vinci’s mission to make physics analysis accessible to anyone building hardware, at compute capacity rather than at the capacity of the small number of specialists who can run traditional simulation tools. He describes the existing workflow — a designer hands off to a physical performance engineer, who hands off to manufacturability review — as a cycle that runs in weeks rather than days, largely because those roles often sit on different teams or at different companies.
The episode also features a demo of Vinci’s thermo-mechanical model running warpage analysis on a native semiconductor package design: 3-micron resolution, 225°C bonding temperature, 1.2 billion degrees of freedom, solved in under four minutes. Kabaria explains that the magnitude of the predicted warpage matters less than the shape, which follows the real layout, metal distribution, and residual stress in ways simplified models cannot reproduce.
"Our mission is to make physics accessible for everybody building hardware."
The conversation lands on the same thesis behind the platform: physics should be continuously computable inside the design loop rather than an episodic gate at the end of it. When a thermal or mechanical answer arrives in seconds instead of days, and without requiring a specialist to set it up, physics stops being a checkpoint and starts being infrastructure.
For hardware organizations, the practical outcome is a shorter path between a design change and its physical consequence — power, cooling, stress, and warpage assessed while the design is still moving, at full manufacturing resolution and with deterministic, repeatable results.
Vinci is a frontier lab building the foundation model for the physical world. Its deterministic, solver-grounded systems make physics continuously computable inside production engineering workflows and are already running on flagship programs, shifting physics from an episodic simulation bottleneck to continuous infrastructure for design, manufacturing, and reliability decisions.
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