Everything I write about artificial intelligence lands here. Less of the demo-day theater, more of what sits underneath it: the compute, the real economics, and the distance between what gets announced and what actually ships.
The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is turning a shuttered South Side steel site into North America's largest quantum hub. The plan, the money,…
The post details the rapid advancement of AI from 2023 to 2026, highlighting significant investments, partnerships, and innovations in infrastructure, robotics, and consumer devices,…
Renesas, Microchip and Ceva are pushing AI inference onto microcontrollers at milliwatt budgets. Inside the TinyML architecture war for the volume edge.
All LoRa chips are produced by Semtech, which acquired Cycleo's technology and established the LoRaWAN protocol. This ecosystem, primarily driven by utilities and smart…
Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2026 unveiled the Galaxy S26 Ultra at a steady price of $1,299, featuring significant hardware advancements including a 60W charging option…
The evolution of edge AI processing from the Myriad 2's 100 gigaflops to the Dragonwing Q-8750's 77 TOPS illustrates a shift towards powerful, local…
Chicago's data center market hit 1.9% vacancy with $11 billion in new builds, as hyperscaler spillover from Northern Virginia turns the Third Coast into…
Databricks has raised 5 billion dollars at a valuation of 134 billion dollars. Sit with that number for a moment. A company valued at…
The AI revolution began in 2015 with foundational developments like TensorFlow and the transformer model. By 2022, ChatGPT brought widespread attention to AI, leading…
SMIC EUV does not exist and under current rules never will, and that single absence is the wall that decides whether China's foundry can…
Chicago AI startups have a new engine: UChicago's AI Research Commons with Microsoft and Nvidia, plus the Transform accelerator. Why homegrown AI may finally…
How Qualcomm's Foundries.io, Edge Impulse, Arduino and Augentix buys add up to a full-stack edge AI platform, and where the strategy could break.
CES 2026 is the physical AI year: AMD's Lisa Su keynote, the Snapdragon X2 Plus, Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 robotics push, and Afeela in production.
Data center deals hit a record $61 billion in 2025, fueled by nearly $182 billion in debt issuance. A genuine supercycle, or a debt-heavy…
NVIDIA stands as a pivotal force in the data and AI landscape, dominating the semiconductor industry with its GPUs essential for training AI models.…