Silicon Futures for December 2024 (with Karl Freund and Jim McGregor)

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Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research joined me to recap December 2024, another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt Curve reThink Podcast series, Silicon Futures. The trio also shares their highlights from 2024 in a retrospective of the things matter this year.
We parse through the key announcements semiconductor industry and AI headlines of December 2024 and their year-end thoughts:
➡️ We share our thoughts on Pat Gelsinger's departure from Intel (2:18)
➡️ Marvell, AWS and the other GenAI supercomputing market (14.40)
➡️ The impact of the hyperscaler custom chip game on AI (16:35)
➡️ The objective of economical GenAI (19:07)
➡️ The end market red flags of GenAI and the adoption/diffusion dilemma (22:50)
➡️ Jim gives his report on the Arm vs. Qualcomm trial (27:30)
➡️ Does the CPU matter in GenAI supercomputing? (36:50)
➡️ What does the trio expect in the industry and AI in 2025? (38:11)
➡️ Jim throws a monkey wrench into the works at the last minute (45:04)
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1. Silicon Futures for December 2024 (with Karl Freund and Jim McGregor) (00:00:00)

2. We share our thoughts on Pat Gelsinger's departure from Intel (00:02:18)

3. Marvell, AWS and the other GenAI supercomputing market (00:14:40)

4. The impact of the hyperscaler custom chip game on AI (00:16:35)

5. The objective of economical GenAI (00:19:07)

6. The end market red flags of GenAI and the adoption/diffusion dilemma (00:22:50)

7. Jim gives his report on the Arm vs. Qualcomm trial (00:27:30)

8. Does the CPU matter in GenAI supercomputing? (00:36:50)

9. What does the trio expect in the industry and AI in 2025? (00:38:11)

10. Jim throws a monkey wrench into the works at the last minute (00:45:04)