by Karl Freund | Sep 19, 2026 | In the News
The AI Infra Summit (formerly AI HW Summit) this year was huge, with over 9,000 registered on-site attendees over three packed days of sessions in Santa Clara stretching over six large stages and a show floor that seemed to span miles. Next year will be even bigger,...
by Karl Freund | Sep 14, 2026 | In the News
As I described in a recent article, several chip design startups are working to revolutionize chip design with AI, just as Anthropic’s Claude Code has revolutionized software development. Could we be approaching the day when AI can design a finished chip just from the...
by Karl Freund | Sep 10, 2026 | In the News
Nvidia has done something unexpected: the AI leader is partnering with its (previous?) competitor d-Matrix to build an alternative disaggregated inference solution. Why not wait for the Groq LPU3, which essentially solves the same problem using fast SRAM for...
by Karl Freund | Aug 3, 2026 | In the News
A few months ago I wrote an article on Forbes about Cadence Design SuperAgents that front-end the company’s chip design tools to speed elements of the design workflow by up to 10X, according to the company. Now, several EDA AI startups have entered the game with...
by Karl Freund | Jul 29, 2026 | In the News
For most of the AI boom, the industry has talked about inference as if it were one problem, solved with one accelerator architecture. The problem was treated almost as a lookup table: what is the question, then look up the answer by traversing through the neural...
by Karl Freund | Jul 22, 2026 | In the News
In A Nutshell: Infleqtion to deliver neutral-atom quantum computing platform to Illinois in 2027, one of the first contracts for a fault-tolerant, Nvidia NVQLink-integrated, neutral-atom quantum system, according to the company. Chicago, Illinois is laying the...
