Author: Brendan Burke

Quantum Chip Foundry
May 22, 2026

$2 Billion CHIPS Act Investment in Quantum Bets on IBM’s 300mm Superconducting Silicon

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how a $2 billion CHIPS Act investment positions IBM's Anderson foundry as central to American quantum industrial policy while supporting competing quantum technologies....
AMD Venice
May 22, 2026

AMD’s Venice Ramping on 2nm: Can AMD Reset the AI Data Center Power Balance?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares how AMD's 6th Generation EPYC Venice processor on TSMC's 2nm technology addresses critical data center power and efficiency demands in agentic AI workloads....
SpaceX S-1
May 21, 2026

SpaceX S-1: Is Elon Musk Building the Ultimate AI Foundation?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how SpaceX's S-1 filing reveals a strategic pivot toward orbital data infrastructure....
Analog Devices' Empower Deal
May 20, 2026

Will Analog Devices’ Empower Deal Reshape Power Delivery for AI Data Centers?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Analog Devices' $1.5 billion Empower Semiconductor acquisition addresses critical power delivery constraints in AI data centers....
Broadcom Partners With Applied Materials
May 20, 2026

Applied Materials’ EPIC Advanced Packaging Ecosystem Adds Broadcom to TSMC

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Applied Materials' partnership with Broadcom signals a fundamental shift in semiconductor ecosystem collaboration....
52% of Compute Decision Makers Use Reasoning Models as Primary AI Model Type
May 18, 2026

52% of Compute Decision Makers Use Reasoning Models as Primary AI Model Type

Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 data center semiconductor survey of 824 enterprise decision makers finds 52.3% of model-serving compute now goes to reasoning models, 54.0% describe their AI workload as balanced...
Applied Materials Q2 FY 2026 AI Capacity Expansion Fuels Equipment Demand
May 18, 2026

Applied Materials Q2 FY 2026: AI Capacity Expansion Fuels Equipment Demand

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reviews Applied Materials Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on AI-driven mix shift into leading-edge logic, DRAM, and advanced packaging, plus services growth tied to...
Cerebras IPO
May 15, 2026

Cerebras’ $95B First Day Valuation Sizes Up the 2028 XPU Opportunity

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reviews how Cerebras' $95B valuation reflects investor confidence in XPU market growth through 2030, backed by $24.6B in contracted backlog....
SiFive's P570 Gen 3 Tests Whether RISC-V Can Challenge Arm in Consumer Silicon
May 13, 2026

SiFive’s P570 Gen 3 Tests Whether RISC-V Can Challenge Arm in Consumer Silicon

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how SiFive's P570 Gen 3 brings fully out-of-order vector execution and RVA23 compliance to consumer and edge markets, challenging Arm's decade-old midrange dominance....
Silicon Labs Q1 FY 2026: Industrial Demand and Design Wins Support Recovery
May 12, 2026

Silicon Labs Q1 FY 2026: Industrial Demand and Design Wins Support Recovery

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reviews Silicon Labs’ Q1 FY 2026 results, focusing on improving industrial demand signals, design win momentum, and how the pending acquisition affects guidance and...
Applied Materials
May 11, 2026

Applied Materials and TSMC Partner to Drive Semiconductor R&D Roadmap

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how Applied Materials and TSMC's collaborative R&D program can compress the semiconductor materials commercialization timeline by 2x....
MRC Protocol
May 11, 2026

Can OpenAI’s MRC Networking Protocol Redefine the Economics of AI Training?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how OpenAI's MRC Networking Protocol addresses supercomputer bottlenecks and could redefine large-scale AI training economics through improved efficiency....

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