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...
by Karl Freund | Jul 21, 2026 | In the News
Nvidia has unveiled more details about its Vera CPU, announced earlier this year and now in volume production. Vera appears differentiated in the crowded CPU market, with Nvidia claiming more efficiency and better performance especially for agentic AI workloads. The...
by Karl Freund | Jul 15, 2026 | In the News
Have you noticed a disturbing trend lately in your AI stocks? As analysts continue to increase their earnings and price projections for popular AI stocks, the prices continue to decline. All in spite of massive revenue growth projections. Yahoo Finance tallies the...
by Karl Freund | Jul 15, 2026 | In the News
Cadence has been rolling out new “Super Agents” at an impressive pace to provide chip design teams with agentic AI support across the chip design workflow. The latest iteration will cut the time needed to design the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and advanced...