by Karl Freund | Oct 6, 2026 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month, Leonard, Karl, and Jim unpack the hottest takes from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2026, AI Infrastructure Summit, the Bank of...
by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2025 | In the News
Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...
by Karl Freund | Sep 5, 2025 | In the News
NVLink has become a second, and perhaps deeper, moat for Nvidia, following its CUDA software tools and libraries. There’s a reason the AI community prefers NVLink for connecting multiple GPUs: it is mind-blowingly fast, more than three times the performance of...
by Karl Freund | Oct 22, 2024 | In the News
A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...
by Karl Freund | Mar 27, 2024 | In the News
The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....
