The neXt Curve reThink Podcast
The official podcast channel of neXt Curve, a research and advisory firm based in San Diego founded by Leonard Lee focused on the frontier markets and business opportunities forming at the intersect of transformative technologies and industry trends. This podcast channel features audio programming from our reThink podcast bringing our listeners the tech and industry insights that matter across the greater technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector.
Topics we cover include:
-> Artificial Intelligence
-> Cloud & Edge Computing
-> Semiconductor Tech & Industry Trends
-> Digital Transformation
-> Consumer Electronics
-> New Media & Communications
-> Consumer & Industrial IoT
-> Telecommunications (5G, Open RAN, 6G)
-> Security, Privacy & Trust
-> Immersive Reality & XR
-> Emerging & Advanced ICT Technologies
Check out our research at www.next-curve.com.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 172
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Silicon Futures for August 2025 - Hot Chips 2025 and GlobalFoundries Technology Summit
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter.
In this special August midpoint episode, Leonard, Karl an…
Silicon Futures for Midpoint of August 2025: More Intel Drama, Trump's AI Export Tax, MIT's AI Report
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter.
In this special August midpoint episode, Leonard, Karl an…
Will Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 Take Foldables Mainstream?
Leonard has been skeptical about the foldable category for years, but 2024-2025 has brought about devices that are starting to reach a level of technical and design maturity, he felt co…
Silicon Futures - Analyst takes on Intel 14A, TSMC blowout, America's AI Action Plan, and more!
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter.
In the month of July, Mario Morales, GVP of Semiconductor…
Analysts Insights from TM Forum DTW Ignite 2025 (with Dean Bubley and Patrick Lopez)
TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2025 is one of the leading telco tech conferencesfocused on OSS, BSS and customer experience modernization. Some call it digital trans…
The Coming of the AI Workstations Age: Lenovo P Series (with Anurag Agrawal)
neXt Curve’s ComTech Podcast series focuses on the latest and emerging trends in commercial and enterprise tech catering to IT buyers ranging from SMBs to global enterprises.
Anurag and…
Silicon Futures for June 2025: AMD Advancing AI, Cisco Live!, Sensors Converge 40th and more!
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter.
In the month of June, Leonard and Jim talk about their ke…
Sensors Converge 2025: Leaders' Roundtable - AI and Sensors: Exploring a Special Symbiosis
AI is transforming the world. From predictive maintenance to content creation, AI is set to push the world into a new era, enabling industries to maximize efficiency, productivity and p…
The State of Nokia and Mavenir, and Hot Takes from DTW Ignite 2025 (with Earl Lum)
It's been a short four months since the last episode of "From the Radio to the RIC" with Earl Lum of EJL Wireless Research and Leonard Lee of neXt Curve. The duo decided to get on the m…
Sensors Converge 2024 - A 40th Anniversary Celebration (with Prakash Sangam)
Sensors Converge celebrated its 40th year as a fixture and iconic event that has tracked the history of sensor technology in the Silicon Valley. This year was a comeback year as the eve…
Cloud and Neocloud FinOps and Economics (with Hyoun Park)
FinOps has become a thing over the past four to five years as enterprises began to grip on their cloud spending across the board from infrastructure to SaaS software. FinOps was a long …
Highlights & Analyst Takes from Cisco Live! 2025 (with Maribel Lopez)
After two extremely dense and informative days of Cisco's analyst program at Cisco Live! 2025 which too place in San Diego, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research…
Silicon Futures for May 2025 (Microsoft Build, Humain, Computex and more!
Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on …
Silicon Futures for May 2025 - IBM THINK, CadenceLIVE and more!
Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accel…
Highlights and Insights from RSAC 2025 (with Jo Peterson)
Jo Peterson, cloud and security thought leader and VP of Cloud and Security at Clarify360 joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to exchange notes on what they thought were highlights and key …
Silicon Futures for March & April 2025: Tariffs, Geopolitics, and Supply Chain Turbulence
Jim McGregor of Tirias Research joined Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to recap March and April 2025 in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt C…
2025 Cybersecurity Priorities (with Bob Carver & Debbie Reynolds)
Bob Carver, cybersecurity thought leader and CEO of Cybersecurity Boardroom, joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC on the reThink Podcast…
Leading Analyst's Recap Intel Vision 2025
Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research, Jim McGregor of Tirias Research, and Dave Altavilla of HotTech Vision and Analysis joined Leonard Lee of neXt Curve at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas…
MWC 2025: A chat with Erik Ekudden, CTO of Ericsson
This was one of the highlights of MWC 2025 for neXt Curve. Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst of neXt Curve, was invited by Ericsson to have chat with one of the industry’s tech luminaries,…
MWC 2025 Ericsson Booth Tour (with Oliver Buschmann)
neXt Curve's Leonard Lee was invited on a tour of Ericsson's booth at MWC 2025 Barcelona with VP of Strategy, Oliver Buschmann. Oliver takes Leonard on a journey from the Aduna, network…