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...
by Karl Freund | Mar 23, 2026 | In the News
Donning his signature black leather jacket, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang once again wowed his fans, totaling over 30,000 in the San Jose’s SAP Arena, with dazzling technology and extreme claims, including the company’s first post-GPU product. Agentic AI took...
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 | Dec 27, 2025 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this mega-catchup recap episode, Leonard and Karl talk about some of the top headlines of December 2025. Topics that mattered in the AI and...
by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2025 | In the News
While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...
