2026 Outlook with Howard Pakosh of Tekstart

Howard Pakosh, founder of TekStart Group, discusses the company's journey in developing AI-focused semiconductor products, with the upcoming launch of their latest chip, Cognitum, being a significant milestone in 2025. Despite facing various challenges including market uncertainty and new tariffs, the team's resilience and focus on engineering discipline helped navigate through the obstacles. Pakosh emphasizes the importance of Edge AI as a key growth area for 2026, highlighting the need to push intelligence closer to where data is generated for faster decision-making. TekStart's Cognitum chip is designed to address this demand for edge reasoning by enabling autonomous reasoning directly on the chip, reducing cloud inference costs and making large-scale deployments more practical. The company plans to continue active participation in conferences in 2026 to engage with customers and share insights on their technological advancements.