Market CoverageAnderon Finalizes $1 Billion CHIPS Award. Who Buys Quantum Wafers Besides IBM?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Anderon's finalized $1 billion CHIPS award and whether its quantum wafer manufacturing can build a customer base beyond its parent, IBM.Brendan Burke·September 22, 2026
Market CoverageCan 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.Brendan Burke·September 14, 2026
Market CoverageRapidus’ IIM-1 Fab Construction is Completed. Will Cadence Make It the First Agentic Foundry?Rapidus’ IIM-1 fab completes construction in Chitose, leveraging Cadence Innostack AI Super Agent for its Raads platform and IBM 2nm transistor IP to compete with TSMC, Intel, and Samsung in inference accelerator production.Brendan Burke·August 31, 2026
Market CoverageIBM Links Modular Cryogenic Systems. Is the Fridge Quantum’s Real Bottleneck?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on IBM’s first connected modular cryogenic systems and why the fridge, as much as the wafer fab, decides who ships a fault-tolerant quantum computer in 2029.Brendan Burke·August 20, 2026
Market CoverageIBM and Together AI: Did IBM Cloud Just Become a Neocloud?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the $240 million IBM and Together AI agreement and why an anchor-tenant inference cluster moves IBM Cloud to the landlord side of the GPU lease.Brendan Burke·August 17, 2026