Futurum Advisory Analyst
Brendan Burke
Research Director, Semiconductors
Leads Futurum's Semiconductors Practice covering edge AI, generative AI, and hyperscale silicon architectures.
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24 articles
Intel Pours €5 Billion into Ireland to Feed the Xeon Surge
Intel Xeon expansion gets €5 billion boost as Intel invests heavily in Ireland fab capacity for next-generation CPUs with EUV-compatible capacity.
Brendan Burke · Jul 15, 2026 · 7 min
Will SK Hynix’s Record $26.5bn ADR Issuance Help Close Its Capex Intensity Gap?
SK Hynix’s $26.5bn ADR raise targets a capex intensity gap. Can the memory leader spend fast enough to take technical leadership across memory and storage?
Brendan Burke · Jul 13, 2026 · 7 min
Micron’s $250B U.S. Investment Finds Its Edge on Korea’s Memory Juggernaut
Micron’s $250B U.S. investment out-positions Korea’s bigger memory bet, securing critical AI chip supply chains and aligning with customer needs.
Brendan Burke · Jul 13, 2026 · 8 min
NVIDIA DSX Promises More Revenue per Gigawatt. Who Actually Captures It?
NVIDIA DSX promises more revenue per gigawatt through efficiency gains with a new revenue sharing model that expands NVIDIA’s role in the AI buildout.
Brendan Burke · Jul 7, 2026 · 7 min
Infineon’s €5 Billion Dresden Fab Reshapes the Global Power Semiconductor Supply Chain
Infineon’s Dresden Fab reshapes global power semiconductor supply chain with €5 billion investment.
Brendan Burke · Jul 7, 2026 · 8 min
NVIDIA Jetson in Lunar Orbit Signals Commercial GPUs Are Ready for Spaceflight
Commercial GPUs are ready for spaceflight as NVIDIA Jetson readies for lunar orbit on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2.
Brendan Burke · Jul 2, 2026 · 6 min
Applied Materials’ Master Class Schools Memory Makers on Logic-Class Fabrication
Advanced packaging systems from Applied Materials enable AI-scale logic-memory convergence with laser process control.
Brendan Burke · Jul 1, 2026 · 8 min
Qualcomm’s Investor Day 2026: Agentic and AI Inference To Drive 2x Revenue Growth by 2030
Qualcomm’s strategy to combine its expanding agentic edge ecosystem with its data center inference opportunity could double its revenue by 2030.
Brendan Burke · Jun 30, 2026 · 9 min
Look Past IBM’s 0.7nm Label: Nanostack Architecture Is the Real Breakthrough
IBM’s nanostack architecture represents the real breakthrough in chip technology, delivering 50% more performance and 70% greater energy efficiency.
Brendan Burke · Jun 29, 2026 · 10 min
Will Intel 18A-P Risk Production Bring External Foundry Customers Through the Door?
Intel 18A-P enters risk production with 9% performance boost and new Power Boost transistor, positioning Intel Foundry to attract external customers.
Brendan Burke · Jun 29, 2026 · 6 min
Jalapeño in Nine Months: Did AI Just Break Chip Design Timelines?
OpenAI and Broadcom shattered chip design timelines with Jalapeño, completing a nine-month tape-out using AI acceleration.
Brendan Burke · Jun 29, 2026 · 7 min
AWS Summit NY 2026: Is AI Infrastructure AWS’s Real Agentic Moat?
At AWS Summit New York 2026, AWS AI infrastructure — G7 Blackwell GPUs, QuEra quantum, AMD Outposts, and RGN networking — anchors its agentic push.
Brendan Burke · Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min
Will a U.S. Quantum Foundry Leverage $4.6 Billion in New Capital to Become the Next TSMC?
With $4.6B in new capital, is a U.S. Quantum Foundry set to become the next TSMC? Learn how recent investments are reshaping quantum manufacturing.
Brendan Burke · Jun 24, 2026 · 10 min
Can AMD and Rackspace Scale Sovereign AI Inference?
AMD and Rackspace’s partnership deploys 30 MW AI compute capacity for regulated enterprise environments starting late 2026.
Brendan Burke · Jun 23, 2026 · 5 min
Will the First Wave of Synopsys Multiphysics Fusion Start the Next Wave of AI Chip Designs?
Synopsys Multiphysics Fusion solutions embed Ansys signoff analysis into design workflows, accelerating AI chip design with up to 10x faster closure.
Brendan Burke · Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min
How Desktop AI Hubs Could Deflect Over 56.23 TWh of Industrial Data Center Load by 2035
Desktop AI Hubs could potentially deflect over 56.23 TWh of industrial data center load by 2035, and make physical AI (robots) economically viable.
Brendan Burke · Jun 18, 2026 · 22 min
Can AMD EPYC Extend Its Lead Over Vera and Xeon in the Agentic Data Center?
AMD responds to competing CPU announcements for agentic data centers with core density leadership on standard x86 platforms for enterprises.
Brendan Burke · Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min
Cadence and Synopsys Accelerate Agentic EDA Race at Computex
Cadence pushes Level 5 autonomy with approval from Jensen Huang while Synopsys extends multi-physics in the agentic EDA race at Computex 2026.
Brendan Burke · Jun 12, 2026 · 6 min
COMPUTEX 2026: Are Agentic CPUs Rivals or Complements?
Intel and NVIDIA diverged on the ideal agentic CPU at COMPUTEX 2026, but their designs may prove complementary across inference and RL training.
Brendan Burke · Jun 10, 2026 · 6 min
NXP’s Neural Axis Architecture: A Blueprint to Own the Robotic Nervous System
Can NXP’s Neural Axis architecture make it the NVIDIA of the edge? A full-stack bid to own physical AI and the real-world robotics flywheel.
Brendan Burke · Jun 10, 2026 · 6 min
IBM Maps a $10 Billion Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
IBM invests $10 billion in fault-tolerant quantum computing, targeting delivery of Quantum Starling by 2029 for large-scale commercial applications.
Brendan Burke · Jun 9, 2026 · 5 min
Intel’s COMPUTEX Keynote Reframes an Iconic Company as a Silicon-to-Systems AI Lab
Intel agentic AI took center stage at Computex 2026 as Xeon 6+ and rackscale systems reframe the CPU for the inference-era data center.
Brendan Burke · Jun 5, 2026 · 7 min
Can ADI Hot Swap Controllers De-Risk NVIDIA’s 800 VDC Transition?
800 VDC power architecture is becoming a key enabler of AI factory scale as NVIDIA and Analog Devices address power delivery constraints.
Brendan Burke · Jun 4, 2026 · 6 min
Intel Xeon 6+ Targets Agentic AI Density With 288 E-Cores on Intel 18A
Intel Xeon 6+ on Intel 18A with Foveros Direct 3D delivers 288 cores for agentic AI, leveraging captive fabs as a structural supply advantage.
Brendan Burke · Jun 2, 2026 · 9 min