Silicon Futures for April 2026 - The AI CPU craze, Qualcomm's custom AI, Google TPU 8 explained

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The episode discusses the trends in AI compute and semiconductor technology as of April 2026.

Send us Fan Mail Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month shall be dubbed the month of specialization as the tide of AI compute make a hard turn toward inference and agentic AI. What is all this all this madness about CPUs about? The Silicon Futures Trio unpacks the mystery of the month. In this episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines from April of 2026. ➡️ Wha...

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Host: Leonard

Topics covered

• AI
• semiconductor tech
• CPUs
• inference
• agentic AI
• specialization

Keywords

• AI CPU
• Qualcomm
• Google TPU 8
• inference
• agentic AI
• semiconductors
• specialization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Qualcomm, Google

Products: TPU 8

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