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 | May 4, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month shall be dubbed the month of specialization as the tide of AI compute make a hard turn toward inference and agentic AI. What is all this...
by Karl Freund | Apr 20, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this special Silicon Futures podcast episode, Karl and Jim provide a master class on the modalities of quantum computing and the state of their...
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 28, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. Oddly, all three of us agree, March has turned out to be a pivotal month set by MWC and NVIDIA’s GTC. The AI silicon and systems script is being...
