by Karl Freund | Jun 24, 2026 | In the News
At the Qualcomm 2026 Investor Day, the company disclosed it’s data center roadmap and, perhaps more importantly, announced that Meta has entered into a multi-year, multi-generation agreement with Qualcomm to deploy its data center technologies. This is a strong...
by Karl Freund | Jun 17, 2026 | In the News
Many have heard a lot about Agentic AI, and how it will impact our lives, our businesses, and even our relationships with computing devices. This article lays out the basic landscape for agentic AI infrastructure, spanning personal devices, edge computing, and...
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 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 | Apr 6, 2026 | In the News
AMD, Nvidia and Intel participated in the most recent round of MLPerf inference benchmarks. While I was surprised that Google didn’t participate with their new Ironwood TPU, there is still plenty to talk about. This particular round of MLPerf benchmarks makes it...
