Archive For

November 2024

Pony AI IPO – A Question of Time

Timing of autonomous driving remains very uncertain. Pony AI has gone public on the back of revenues generated from engineering, but real growth will come...

Samsung Electronics – Efficient Market

Priced for a Nokia. The case for Samsung Electronics is purely based on recovery in semiconductors because if things stay the way they are, there...

USA vs. China – Build the Wall!

The first bricks go up. Huawei’s migration of its smartphone business to its home-grown Harmony OS is the first concrete sign that our long-predicted Balkanisation...

AI Ecosystem – Battle Lines

The reset will start the battle. Amazon has upped its investment in Anthropic which virtually guarantees that when the money runs out, Anthropic will be...

PDD & Baidu – Bargains for the Brave

Rotten earnings point towards a state in deep depression. Poor results from both Baidu and PDD point directly to the moribund Chinese economy underpinning the...

Nvidia FQ3 25 – Valuation Support

Reasonable multiple prevents a crash. Nvidia reported excellent results as the AI boom remains on track, but it failed to raise guidance which caused some...

Qualcomm – Confident Outing

Low-balled numbers still give good growth. Qualcomm used its 2024 investor day to focus on the areas outside of smartphones where the diversification strategy that...

Tech Newsround – Google & Xiaomi

Google: A badly thought-through remedy. The US Department of Justice is recommending that Google be forced to sell Chrome as a remedy for its illegal...

Alibaba FQ3 25 – Unhappy Hostage.

Alibaba remains captive to China’s poor economy. The performance and outlook at Alibaba are a strong indication that in reality, the Chinese economy remains moribund...

Artificial Intelligence – Edge Debate.

Inference at the edge remains a no-brainer. Now that LLMs are starting to show the limits of their performance, attention is likely to turn to...