by Karl Freund | May 4, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month shall be dubbed the month of specialization as the tide of AI compute make a hard turn toward inference and agentic AI. What is all this...
by Karl Freund | Apr 20, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this special Silicon Futures podcast episode, Karl and Jim provide a master class on the modalities of quantum computing and the state of their...
by Karl Freund | Mar 28, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. Oddly, all three of us agree, March has turned out to be a pivotal month set by MWC and NVIDIA’s GTC. The AI silicon and systems script is being...
by Karl Freund | Mar 23, 2026 | In the News
Donning his signature black leather jacket, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang once again wowed his fans, totaling over 30,000 in the San Jose’s SAP Arena, with dazzling technology and extreme claims, including the company’s first post-GPU product. Agentic AI took...
by Karl Freund | Mar 21, 2026 | Video
Leonard, Karl, and Jim attended the AI event of the year, NVIDIA’s GTC 2026. This year, the agentic AI theme went into overdrive with its DeepSeek moment, OpenClaw. Or was it a ChatGPT moment? The trio unpacks a deluge of announcements from NVIDIA’s technology stack...
by Karl Freund | Feb 26, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines from February of 2026. ➡️ NVIDIA’s earnings results for Q4 FY26...
by Karl Freund | Feb 24, 2026 | In the News
The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...
by Karl Freund | Feb 10, 2026 | In the News
The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...
by Karl Freund | Feb 7, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines from January of 2026. ➡️ Silicon highlights from CES 2026 ➡️...
by Karl Freund | Jan 26, 2026 | In the News
Many analysts like to say that AI will become pervasive, applied to just about every aspect of computing to improve product quality, increase productivity, increase revenues, and lower costs. While investors remain alert for any signs that the bubble is about to...
