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February 2025

Arm – Balancing Act

Arm will need a major charm offensive. It turns out that Arm may be looking to make its own chips after all in a move...

Artificial Intelligence – The Asymptote pt. II

There is no GPT-5. OpenAI has disclosed its medium-term roadmap and in the process, effectively admitted that scaling is coming to an end supporting RFM’s...

Alibaba & Apple – Incompatible with China

Apple’s privacy server may have to go Alibaba looks like it will be the launch partner for Apple Intelligence in China but the system that...

Google vs. DeepSeek – Trading Silver Bullets

Another set of unsubstantiated claims Google has come out swinging against DeepSeek claiming that Gemini is more efficient in both training and inference, but its...

Amazon Q4 24 – Capex, Capex & Capex.

AI is expensive or is it? Amazon reported good results but its inability to accelerate growth at AWS and its $100bn capex bill for 2025...

Qualcomm FQ1 25 and Arm FQ3 25 – Red Herrings

The red herrings of Microsoft, Google and AMD spoil good results. Both Qualcomm and Arm reported good results, but the weaknesses seen at Microsoft Google...

Google & AMD Q4 24 – AI Wobble?

Google Q4 24 – Core business still sound. Alphabet reported disappointing sales as, like Microsoft, it could not keep up with demand for its cloud...

DeepSeek – The $6m question.

The big question is why China has allowed R1 to be exported. DeepSeek is quickly becoming infamous as Western companies, institutions and governments ban the...

OpenAI – Deep Research

OpenAI tries to put RFM out of business. OpenAI’s new Deep Research offers a new functionality that takes the grunt work out of conducting research...