Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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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, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Marvell’s Google warrant, what the deal does to Marvell’s XPU outlook, and why the TPU stack now has contracted sockets for a second custom silicon partner alongside Broadcom.
Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, share their insights on why NXP’s MCX A5, the first MCU to combine a 10BASE-T1S digital PHY, topology discovery, and post-quantum cryptography, gives industrial defenders a head start on agentic attacks.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Applied Materials’ Q3 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on AI-driven chip equipment demand, DRAM strength, advanced packaging, and capacity visibility.
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 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, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Coherent’s Q4 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on AI datacenter optics, indium phosphide capacity, CPO, NPO, and optical circuit switching.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reviews Microchip’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings, its data center exposure nearing $1 billion, and margin gains above its long-term model.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Silicon Labs’ Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on sequential margin gains, the 22nm Series 3 up-market pivot, multi-protocol strategy, edge AI, and the pending Texas Instruments acquisition.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on 100 days that put Blaize, CoreWeave, NVIDIA, Nokia, Firmus, and Indosat on Indonesia’s sovereign AI map, and the generation-plus-distribution model that can expand globally.
NXP’s 500,000-square-foot Malaysia expansion doubles internal test capacity, enabling DDR memory validation that differentiates i.MX processors and protects margins in the competitive edge AI market.
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, shares his insights on why Intel’s upsized $20 billion stock offering matches the cost of tooling one 14A fab shell, and which WFE suppliers capture the orders.
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, shares his insights on Samsung zHBM, the FMS 2026 concept that stacks memory directly on AI accelerators, and on whether V10 BV-NAND and HBM4E keep Samsung ahead in AI memory.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD’s Taalas acquisition and why the two-month model-to-silicon design flow, arriving alongside agentic EDA, is the asset that matters.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes IonQ’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on quantum platform growth, SkyWater integration, security demand, and raised FY 2026 guidance.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Lattice Semiconductor’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on AI server demand, FPGA attach, AMI, and guidance.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes AMD’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on Data Center growth, EPYC demand, Helios momentum, and the next phase of AI infrastructure execution.
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.