Semiconductors, Supply Chain, & Emerging Tech

Powering Innovation: Semiconductors, Supply Chain Strategy, and Emerging Tech Trends

Semiconductors have created a technology super-cycle powering the AI revolution. The industry is on pace to approach  $1 trillion in revenue in 2026, marking a third consecutive year of elevated growth driven by AI training, inference, and new  classes of intelligent systems. The semiconductor industry now spans a deeply interdependent global supply chain where  constraints at any layer shape overall performance and economics. Beyond traditional data center compute, emerging  technologies are expanding the market through new computing form factors that depend on breakthrough semiconductor  innovation and frontier AI models, including intelligent robotics, domain-specific XPUs, and early hybrid classical-quantum  platforms. Together, these forces are shifting the industry from a focus on standalone chips toward tightly integrated,  system-level platforms that define the next phase of AI-driven growth. 

When working on strategy, product, marketing, and sales initiatives, consider intelligence from our expert analysts – planned deliverables for 2026 include:
  • Analyst Insight Report – a report on critical issues in the industry  
  • State of the Market Report – a report on technology, markets, products, and vendors
  • Futurum Signal Report Access – any Signal Report published in the relevant practice area

The Latest Insights on Semiconductors, Supply Chain, & Emerging Tech

Jalapeño in Nine Months: Did AI Just Break Chip Design Timelines?

Jalapeño in Nine Months: Did AI Just Break Chip Design Timelines?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño accelerator achieved record nine-month tape-out using AI-assisted design [...]
Will Intel 18A-P Risk Production Bring External Foundry Customers Through the Door?

Will Intel 18A-P Risk Production Bring External Foundry Customers Through the Door?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how Intel 18A-P's new Power Boost transistor and 9% performance gain could drive [...]
Look Past IBM’s 0.7nm Label: Nanostack Architecture Is the Real Breakthrough

Look Past IBM’s 0.7nm Label: Nanostack Architecture Is the Real Breakthrough

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes IBM's groundbreaking nanostack architecture that moves semiconductor scaling into the Z dimension for [...]

AWS Summit NY 2026: Is AI Infrastructure AWS’s Real Agentic Moat?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, recaps AWS Summit New York 2026, examining whether AI infrastructure—G7 Blackwell GPUs, QuEra quantum, [...]
Will a U.S. Quantum Foundry Leverage $4.6 Billion in New Capital to Become the Next TSMC?

Will a U.S. Quantum Foundry Leverage $4.6 Billion in New Capital to Become the Next TSMC?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how $4.6B in new capital is fueling U.S. quantum foundries [...]
AMD and Rackspace

Can AMD and Rackspace Scale Sovereign AI Inference?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines AMD and Rackspace's agreement to deploy 30 MW of AI compute capacity that [...]

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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...
Chip Supply Is the Greatest Barrier to Scaling AI Compute for 26% of Decision-Makers
April 24, 2026

Chip Supply Is the Greatest Barrier to Scaling AI Compute for 26% of Decision-Makers

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reveals chip supply and power constraints are the dominant barriers to scaling data center compute, with nearly half of organizations citing these as their...
Orbital Computing Can Reach $1 Trillion Addressable Market by 2030
April 22, 2026

Orbital Computing Can Reach $1 Trillion Addressable Market by 2030

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, explores how declining launch costs and rising terrestrial power bottlenecks could make orbital data centers a $1 trillion market by 2030....
Futurum Survey Finds That 65% of Compute Decision Makers Plan to Adopt Optical Computing
March 24, 2026

Futurum Survey Finds That 65% of Compute Decision Makers Plan to Adopt Optical Computing

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reveals that ~65% of semiconductor decision-makers plan to adopt optical computing, with quantum accelerators and neuromorphic chips also gaining traction....
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...
AI Workload Priorities Diversify as Enterprises Push Compute Beyond Training
February 25, 2026

AI Workload Priorities Diversify as Enterprises Push Compute Beyond Training

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reveals that no single AI workload is primary for most enterprises, with inference leading at just 34.6%. The balanced distribution demands workload-optimized processors and...

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