Category: Intelligent Devices

Cadence AuraStack
October 23, 2026

Nokia Designs Network Hardware 5x Faster on Cadence's Agentic Supercomputer

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Nokia deploying Cadence's AuraStack AI Super Agent on the Millennium M2000, why the on-premises system sale answers Synopsys Autopilot, and...
HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Run the First HPC Benchmarks on the Moon
October 21, 2026

HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Run the First HPC Benchmarks on the Moon

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 lunar mission and whether commercial edge silicon can run LLMs and the first HPC benchmarks on the Moon....
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB’s Low Price-Point Aims To Accelerate Local AI Inference
October 20, 2026

NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB’s Low Price-Point Aims To Accelerate Local AI Inference

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on DGX Spark 64GB, its pricing and memory trade-offs, and the role of software and clustering in local AI development....
Alexa Tablets Reset Part Of Amazon’s Device Strategy
October 20, 2026

Alexa Tablets Reset Part Of Amazon’s Device Strategy

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Amazon Alexa Tablets, their Google Play integration, higher prices, and expanded Alexa+ capabilities....
How Apple Could Break Amazon and Google’s Hold On The Smart Home Segment
October 20, 2026

How Apple Could Break Amazon and Google’s Hold On The Smart Home Segment

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Apple HomeView’s personalized smart-home strategy, privacy controls, and adoption hurdles....
TI Debuts Nanosecond Power Telemetry at OCP to Cut AI Data Center Downtime
October 14, 2026

TI Debuts Nanosecond Power Telemetry at OCP to Cut AI Data Center Downtime

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes TI's OCP Summit debut of nanosecond power telemetry, 800V hot-swap control, and BAW timing, and whether analog platforms become the reliability layer of...
Lattice Sentry 5.0 Turns Post-Quantum Silicon Into a Full Platform Security Stack
October 13, 2026

Lattice Sentry 5.0 Turns Post-Quantum Silicon Into a Full Platform Security Stack

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why Lattice Sentry 5.0's PQC-enabled platform firmware resilience stack is the first product proof of the AMI acquisition thesis....
Can Meta’s Muse Charm Create Enough Value To Survive Its Own Initial Hype Cycle?
October 13, 2026

Can Meta’s Muse Charm Create Enough Value To Survive Its Own Initial Hype Cycle?

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Muse Charm, Meta’s pocket-sized 5G AI agent device: who it’s for, and whether it can avoid the fate of Humane...
Meta’s New VR Glasses Challenge Apple Designers To A Spatial Computing Adoption Race
October 13, 2026

Meta’s New VR Glasses Challenge Apple Designers To A Spatial Computing Adoption Race

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram, $1,299 headset aimed squarely at Apple Vision Pro, and whether its trade-offs will win over...
AMD's Class Y Versal Package Extends AI Silicon to 15 Year Space Missions
October 9, 2026

AMD's Class Y Versal Package Extends AI Silicon to 15 Year Space Missions

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines AMD's sampling of the Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 in a Class Y space-grade package, bringing AI compute density to 15-year human-rated and deep...
Synopsys Investor Day 2026 Turns EDA Into a Royalty and AI Model Revenue Share Business
October 2, 2026

Synopsys Investor Day 2026 Turns EDA Into a Royalty and AI Model Revenue Share Business

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on the Synopsys Investor Day 2026, where a $1 billion Amazon royalty deal and GPT-Synopsys with OpenAI reprice EDA around customer volumes...
AMD Acquires World Labs for $8.2 Billion to Design Silicon Around World Models
September 30, 2026

AMD Acquires World Labs for $8.2 Billion to Design Silicon Around World Models

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on AMD's $8.2 billion World Labs acquisition and why verified video generation leadership makes world models the workload AMD's next silicon generations...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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