Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028 co-packaged optics ramp.
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.
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.
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.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s exclusive guarantee of OpenAI’s Ohio data center at PORTS-Pike and why credit support is becoming the competitive weapon no rival chipmaker can match.
Futurum’s Brendan Burke on why a third of the $3 trillion AI data center buildout goes off-grid by 2030, and what launch, satellite hardware, and solar density must do before orbit competes on cost. From Above the Line with Shay Boloor.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s $500 billion financing platforms and how DSX reference designs turn AI compute into collateral that banks, insurers, and pension funds can underwrite.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA’s FMS 2026 storage push and whether openness extends NVIDIA’s platform control to the data path.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how NVIDIA and AMD are driving agentic chip design at DAC 2026 through collaborations with Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens spanning models, physics libraries, runtimes, and CPUs.