by Karl Freund | Jun 15, 2026 | In the News
Remember in high school when your math teacher tried to teach (logarithmic) log math? Yeah, me either. But now Tensordyne, a startup based in Germany and California, has launched an AI accelerator that operates in the logarithmic domain, claiming a 17-fold improvement...
by Karl Freund | Jun 1, 2026 | In the News
AI silicon complexity is outpacing engineering scale—even at NVIDIA’s headcount. Autonomy is becoming existential, not a nice-to-have. And EDA vendors are rusing in to fill that need. In February, Cadence Design rocked the chip world by announcing they had developed...
by Karl Freund | May 31, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month, the AI narrative has rediscovered its mojo with hyperscalers continuing to double down on their CapExc on AI infrastructure, while...
by Karl Freund | May 14, 2026 | In the News
Late last year, I wrote a Forbes piece about IBM, the leader in quantum computing using superconducting circuits, and promised an update on other modalities. This is the first follow-on piece and explores neutral-atom (NA) quantum, which operates at room temperature,...
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...
