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Author: Brendan Burke

NVIDIA GTC 2026 Day 1 - Can NVIDIA’s Ecosystem Accelerate the Inference Inflection
March 18, 2026

NVIDIA GTC 2026 Day 1 – Can NVIDIA’s Ecosystem Accelerate the Inference Inflection?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, breaks down NVIDIA GTC 2026 Day 1, highlighting the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, the $27B Nebius-Meta deal, and how partners like HPE and Micron...
AWS Rises to the Agentic AI Moment With Cerebras Integration for Fast Inference
March 17, 2026

AWS Rises to the Agentic AI Moment With Cerebras Integration for Fast Inference

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how the AWS-Cerebras partnership deploys disaggregated inference architecture through Amazon Bedrock, pairing Trainium prefill with Cerebras decode to target industry-leading speed....
Nebius Designs the Agentic Era of AI Cloud Platforms with NVIDIA Investment
March 13, 2026

Nebius Designs the Agentic Era of AI Cloud Platforms with NVIDIA Investment

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA’s $2 billion investment in Nebius and its implications for AI cloud infrastructure, including the push toward AI factories, inference platforms, and large-scale...
Synopsys Converge – Is the New Synopsys Ready to Own Multi-Physics Design
March 13, 2026

Synopsys Converge – Is the New Synopsys Ready to Own Multi-Physics Design?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Synopsys Converge 2026, where the "New Synopsys" unveiled Multiphysics-Fusion, AgentEngineer, and Ansys 2026 R1, among other announcements aimed at the...
SkyWater's CEO Letter Redefines the US Foundry Model
March 12, 2026

SkyWater’s CEO Letter Redefines the US Foundry Model

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines SkyWater’s CEO letter and how it reframes mature nodes and advanced packaging as strategic infrastructure for quantum-era manufacturing....
AI Grid Constraints Will Push Over 33% of Data Centers Off-Grid by 2030
March 12, 2026

AI Grid Constraints Will Push Over 33% of Data Centers Off-Grid by 2030

Brendan Burke, Nick Patience, and Olivier Blanchard, Analysts at Futurum, share their insights on how the power generation gap for AI data centers is forcing a permanent shift to off-grid...
Broadcom's DSP Launch Intensifies the AI Optics Race with Marvell
March 12, 2026

Broadcom’s DSP Launch Intensifies the AI Optics Race with Marvell

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his analysis of Broadcom's 3nm Taurus BCM83640 400G/lane optical DSP and what it means for the intensifying competition with Marvell over 1.6T AI...
Can Applied Materials and Micron Crack the Materials Barrier Holding Back HBM?
March 11, 2026

Can Applied Materials and Micron Crack the Materials Barrier Holding Back HBM?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on the Applied Materials and Micron partnership to co-develop advanced materials engineering for next-generation memory scaling, and what it means for the...
Broadcom Q1 FY 2026 Earnings Driven by XPU Momentum
March 5, 2026

Broadcom Q1 FY 2026 Earnings Driven by XPU Momentum

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Broadcom’s Q1 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on AI accelerator and networking momentum, expanding custom XPU programs, and VMware’s role in AI-era private cloud...
Can Micron’s Modular Memory Upgrade Help NVIDIA’s CPUs Outperform
March 4, 2026

Can Micron’s Modular Memory Upgrade Help NVIDIA’s CPUs Outperform?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum Research, analyzes Micron's 256GB SOCAMM2 module and its role in NVIDIA's Vera Rubin AI platform, as AMD and Qualcomm explore SOCAMM adoption for agentic...
NVIDIA's $4B Optics Bet Signals Photonics as AI's Next Bottleneck
March 3, 2026

NVIDIA’s $4B Optics Bet Signals Photonics as AI’s Next Bottleneck

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on NVIDIA's $4 billion investment in Coherent and Lumentum to address the emerging optical interconnect bottleneck constraining AI data center scaling amid...
Synopsys Q1 FY 2026 Earnings Highlight EDA and Ansys Momentum
February 27, 2026

Synopsys Q1 FY 2026 Earnings Highlight EDA and Ansys Momentum

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Synopsys’ Q1 FY 2026 earnings, highlighting AI-driven design automation momentum, strong Ansys contribution, and implications for silicon-to-system engineering workflows....

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