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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

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Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Loihi 2 AI HW And Lava SW

Intel Research believes that brain-like Neuromorphic computing could hold the key to AI efficiency and capabilities. Intel has announced the availability of the second generation “Loihi” chip to further research into neuromorphic computing techniques that more closely...

Xilinx Reveals More Versal Details

Xilinx held an “Innovation Day” event this week to share more details about the technologies the company hopes will forge a larger footprint in the data center. After listening to eight presentations and having intriguing discussions with the company’s leading...

AI Hardware: Harder Than It Looks

The second AI HW Summit took place in the heart of Silicon Valley on September 17-18, with nearly fifty speakers presenting to over 500 attendees (almost twice the size of last year’s inaugural audience). While I cannot possibly cover all the interesting companies on...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Qualcomm

Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter.  The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...

Synopsys Touts Smart “DesignDash” To Help Accelerate Chip Projects

Many chip design teams use internally developed tools or a mix of vendor tools to manage the development workflow. Now Synopsys is applying ML and Big Data analytics to inform a comprehensive dashboard to improve productivity and the end-to-end design process. Every...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...