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Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst

Sean Kinney
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst

Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, 6G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

  • As Databricks heads toward an IPO, Meta joins as a ‘strategic investor’ 

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 28, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 28, 2025

    Fast growth and oversubscribed funding rounds reiterate value of Databricks’ approach to “data intelligence” underlying successful AI implementations Self-billed “data and AI company” Databricks on Jan. 22 announced the completion …

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  • Dubious DeepSeek debut dings AI infrastructure drive

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 27, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 27, 2025

    Shares in ASML, NVIDIA, Softbank and others take a hit following the launch of the R1 LLM which DeepSeek said it spent $6 million to train Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

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  • Former Intel CEO invests in AI inference startup

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 24, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 24, 2025

    Fractile is focused on AI hardware that runs LLM inference in memory to reduce compute overhead and drive scale In December last year, then-CEO of Intel Pat Gelsinger abruptly retired …

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  • Agentic AI—will 2025 be a breakout year?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 22, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 22, 2025

    So you want to turn you data and abstracted business logic into use cases that carry a clear ROI? And you want to do it autonomously? Well, good news because …

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  • The three AI scaling laws and what they mean for AI infrastructure

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 20, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 20, 2025

    Model size, dataset size and compute all depend on the availability of necessary AI infrastructure In January 2020, a team of OpenAI researchers led by Jared Kaplan, who moved on …

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  • Dell Technologies expands AI infrastructure deal with CoreWeave

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 20, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 20, 2025

    CoreWeave receiving the latest in Dell liquid-cooled servers featuring NVIDIA’s GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip As the AI infrastructure arms race continues, Dell Technologies has staked out a central role in …

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  • HPE wins $1 billion deal with X for AI infrastructure

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 17, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 17, 2025

    HPE’s liquid cooling technology for AI infrastructure may have helped it secure the 10-figure deal HPE Senior Director Rupin Mohan this week on LinkedIn confirmed reports that HPE has won …

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  • Making the case for edge AI

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 13, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 13, 2025

    The laws of physics, economics and countries suggest edge AI inference—where your device is the far edge—just makes sense In the race to build-out distributed infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), …

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  • NVIDIA takes on physical AI for automotive, industrial and robotics

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 12, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 12, 2025

    At CES NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang proposes a three-computer solution to the figurative three-body problem of physical AI—using a digital twin to connect and refine physical AI training and deployment …

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  • NVIDIA charts a course from agentic AI to physical AI

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 10, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 10, 2025

    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sees agentic AI and AI-enabled robotics as a “multi-trillion dollar opportunity” LAS VEGAS—Not unexpected but, in many ways, NVIDIA pretty well stole the show at CES …

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  • John Deere sees automation as key to solving farm labor shortage

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 7, 2025
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst January 7, 2025

    Deere CTO: “Labor is a common challenge…We believe autonomy can be part of that solution.” LAS VEGAS—The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a weird one. The media days in the …

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  • How to right-size edge AI for easy enterprise consumption

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 9, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 9, 2024

    An edge AI “easy button” for enterprise digital transformation In their own effort to better (and more profitably) serve enterprise customers, CSPs are going through a number of network overhauls …

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  • Why is the edge the “Goldilocks” location for AI?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 9, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 9, 2024

    BT talks monetizing edge AI, creating a global connectivity fabric and the future of conversational networks Back in June at a telecoms industry show, BT CTO Colin Bannon referred to …

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  • Self-X vs. zero-X—Turkcell on the path to AI-native

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 6, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst December 6, 2024

    As Turkcell adopts AI, initial use cases include energy savings, customer complaint forecasting and radio link failure prediction Looking back at the technological jump from 4G to 5G, marked by …

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  • The big telco AI challenge—the right data for the right use case

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 27, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 27, 2024

    Google Cloud sees telco AI “absorption rate” as an “incredible phenomenon”  Communications service providers (CSPs) are all-in on AI; makes sense given macro issues around a lack of effective network …

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  • What does a programmable data plane mean for telco AI?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 25, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 25, 2024

    Telefonica: “I think one of the killer apps of network programmability can be ML”  Before diving into the role of a programmable data plane in supporting telco AI applications, Telefonica …

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  • How will cloud and AI define future network architectures?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 25, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 25, 2024

    Nokia sees gen AI enabling conversational networks in three to five years Nokia recently laid out its vision for a future network architecture that’s all about creating a network-cloud continuum …

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  • What’s next for 5G? 3GPP Release 18, 19 and beyond

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024

    To understand the commercial reality of cellular connectivity, in this case 5G, it’s important to understand the standardization work that set the stage for real-world deployments. So before we look …

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  • The key to private 5G?—‘Survival of the ecosystem’

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024

    Appledore Research sees private 5G pulling $232 billion in annual enterprise spend by 2027 There was maybe always a disconnect between what the telecoms set wanted out of private 5G …

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  • Did (or will) Open RAN deliver on its original promises?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 19, 2024

    Did Open RAN deliver on the technological and market-based promises it was meant to bring to? Tough question. And what were those initial promises again? We went back through the …

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  • Open RAN fronthaul testing considerations—automation is key

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 18, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 18, 2024

    End-to-end fronthaul testing, as well as isolation testing, provide the big picture and granular data needed to drive Open RAN adoption Given one of the primary goals of Open RAN—providing …

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  • RIC reality check—what’s working, what needs more work?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 18, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 18, 2024

    The RIC can support quick wins but further standardization, and a more coherent approach to AI/ML integration, is needed to foster trust Back to this idea referenced in the introduction—how …

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  • How to scale Open RAN—TCO and lifecycle management are concerns

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 6, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 6, 2024

    Open RAN technology is proven and operators are committed, but the lingering questions around integration costs and lifecycle management in a multi-vendor network remain A panel comprising a leading Open …

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  • Four drivers of Open RAN for in-building cellular

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 5, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 5, 2024

    CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly …

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  • How is Google is applying its own AI learnings to telecoms?

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 1, 2024
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst November 1, 2024

    Demand forecasting and anomaly detection are AI capabilities that Google sees as accelerating numerous additional use cases. A very material amount of all internet traffic, around 60% to 70%, runs …

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