Silicon Futures for August 2025 II – Hot Chips 2025, GlobalFoundries Technology Summit, and MIPS

by Karl Freund | Aug 31, 2025 | Video

Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this second August monthly recap episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines of the second half of August. Topics that...

Silicon Futures for August 2025: Intel Drama, Trump’s AI Export Tax, MIT NANDA’s AI Progress Report.

by Karl Freund | Aug 23, 2025 | Video

Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this special August midpoint episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines of the first couple of weeks of August while we...

Silicon Futures for May 2025 Part 1 – IBM Think, CadenceLIVE 2025 and more!

by Karl Freund | May 11, 2025 | Video

Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in...

Frank Schirrmeister on Synopsys’ Upgraded Hardware-Assisted Validation Platforms.

by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2025 | Video

Designing chips is hard, but validating them can be harder still. Synopsys has upgraded their Hardware-Assisted Validation platforms, and we spoke with Frank Schirrmeister Executive Director, Strategic Programs, System Solutions at Synopsys to understand what was...

neXt Curve: Setting The Stage For AI in 2024 (with Karl Freund)

by Karl Freund | Jan 4, 2024 | Video

Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state and future of the semiconductor industry – Silicon Futures. In this installment of the Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research talk about the...

Silicon Futures: The state of AI Computing 2023 with with Cambrian AI’s Karl Freund

by Karl Freund | Dec 20, 2023 | Video

In this installment of the Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research provide discuss the big moments and the state of AI computing that has hyper-charged the semiconductor industry and made an “AI giant” of...