Archive For

January 2024

Alphabet Q4 2023 – Corporate waffle

Google fails to blow its own trumpet. Alphabet reported good results but one tiny miss combined with vague and non-specific answers to easy questions on...

AI Ecosystem – Capital Bloom.

Nvidia can sleep well for now. Competing with Nvidia is currently focused on building better chips but this is ignoring Nvidia’s two key differentiators which...

Digital Automotive – Radio wars

A very American dispute. The issue of AM radio in vehicles sold in the USA has been debated for many years, but electrical vehicles (EVs)bring...

Intel Q4 2023 – Too risky

A series of unfortunate events. Intel reported good results but guided badly as inventory corrections and market dynamics in several of Intel’s segments added together...

Apple AI – Back of the pack

There is a little activity behind the curtain. It would be foolish to think that Apple is not trying to do something about AI but...

Mobileye – No go

Inventory correction is in full swing. Weak numbers from Texas Instruments echo what Mobileye highlighted a few weeks ago underlining that industrial semiconductors are now...

Electric Vehicles – Silver lining

Slowdown actually helps OEMs.   The realities of electric vehicles are starting to come home as the early adopters now all have an EV while...

Open AI – The Stranglehold

All about Nvidia Sam Altman is once again capitalising on the intense popularity of generative AI by looking to raise money for a new chip...

TSMC – All about AI

50% inventory, 50% AI. TSMC has signalled better times ahead for the semiconductor industry, but I suspect that things will only be really rosy if...

Samsung Unpacked – Where’s Bixby?

Lots of Google. Little of Samsung, Samsung‘s new s24 line-up looks exactly like the s23 but the hope is that the new AI features (almost...