MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—Groq CEO Jonathan Ross is adamant his company no longer sells hardware—the data center AI chip startup is now an AI cloud services provider. “Long term, we always wanted to go there, but the realization was, you cannot sell chips as a startup, it’s just too hard,” Ross told EE Times in a recent in-person interview. “The reason is the minimum quantity of purchase for it to make sense is high, the expense is high, and no-one wants to take the risk of buying a whole bunch of h...