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 ➡️...