Category: Semiconductors, Supply Chain, & Emerging Tech

Ricoh's Atsugi Bet: Can Supply Scale Unlock Channel Growth?
September 18, 2026

Ricoh's Atsugi Bet: Can Supply Scale Unlock Channel Growth?

Ricoh's $39,000 per square meter Atsugi facility investment doubles inkjet head production by 2028, positioning channel partners to capitalize on industrial printing's 36% CAGR growth....
SiFive Demos AMD ROCm on RISC-V. Is BigSky Now the Neutral Head Node?
September 16, 2026

SiFive Demos AMD ROCm on RISC-V. Is BigSky Now the Neutral Head Node?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines the SiFive and AMD ROCm demonstration on BigSky, why both GPU software ecosystems reached the RISC-V server within three weeks, and what Instinct-scale...
Micron Hires a 37-Year EDA Veteran to Run Its $10 Billion Memory Lab. What Does That Say About Where Memory Scaling Goes Next?
September 16, 2026

Micron Hires a 37-Year EDA Veteran to Run Its $10 Billion Memory Lab. What Does That Say About Where Memory Scaling Goes Next?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Micron appointment of Deirdre Hanford to lead Micron Research Labs, signaling a strategic pivot toward design tools, base dies, and co-design as the...
AMD MLPerf Inference 6.1 Results Show ROCm Gaining 38% on the Same MI355X Hardware
September 16, 2026

AMD MLPerf Inference 6.1 Results Show ROCm Gaining 38% on the Same MI355X Hardware

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD's MLPerf Inference 6.1 results and why ROCm's measured rate of improvement under a six-week release cadence is now AMD's...
The Off Ramp From Per-Token Pricing
September 16, 2026

The Off Ramp From Per-Token Pricing

In our latest report, The Off Ramp From Per-Token Pricing, completed in partnership with QumulusAI, Futurum Research examines how organizations progress from token-metered experimentation to reserved, hybrid AI infrastructure as...
EY: Supply Chain AI Has a Deployment Problem
September 16, 2026

EY: Supply Chain AI Has a Deployment Problem

EY's 2026 report reveals a critical gap: 94% of supply chain executives are transforming with AI, yet only 9% have embedded changes operationally, and just 37% report measurable impact despite...
Arm's Agentic Moat Widens With CSS for Mobile 2, CSS N4, and Physical AI
September 15, 2026

Arm's Agentic Moat Widens With CSS for Mobile 2, CSS N4, and Physical AI

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Arm's Agentic AI strategy is expanding by launching CSS for Mobile 2, Neoverse CSS N4, and Arm Total Design for robotics....
What Qualcomm’s Focus at IFA Berlin Signals About the Company’s Intelligent Edge Strategy
September 15, 2026

What Qualcomm’s Focus at IFA Berlin Signals About the Company’s Intelligent Edge Strategy

Olivier Blanchard, research Director at Futurum, breaks down Qualcomm's Dragonwing Q-2390 and IQ-2390 edge AI chips, which debuted at IFA Berlin, and what they signal about Qualcomm's push beyond smartphones....
d-Matrix Joins NVLink Fusion. Is It NVIDIA's Hedge on Groq?
September 14, 2026

d-Matrix Joins NVLink Fusion. Is It NVIDIA’s Hedge on Groq?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines d-Matrix's integration of Raptor inference XPUs into NVIDIA MGX racks via NVLink Fusion, testing if 3D-DRAM architecture outperforms Groq's SRAM-based LPX....
Can the IBMArm Dual Architecture Processor Align the Mainframe With the Agentic CPU Market
September 14, 2026

Can the IBM/Arm Dual Architecture Processor Align the Mainframe With the Agentic CPU Market?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on IBM’s native Arm mainframe design and the execution tests that remain before deployment....
NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX’s Promise of World’s Fastest Inference Enters Full Production
September 14, 2026

NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX’s Promise of World’s Fastest Inference Enters Full Production

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX strengthens Vera Rubin and what cloud providers must prove before faster tokens support premium pricing....
NVIDIA and SpaceXAI Link Grok Expansion With Orbital Computing
September 14, 2026

NVIDIA and SpaceXAI Link Grok Expansion With Orbital Computing

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on NVIDIA Vera CPU adoption across Grok and Starmind and the evidence required to validate orbital AI computing....

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