China vs. USA – Yield Debate
Yield is everything. Relative newcomer to the semiconductor game SiCarrier made a splash at Semicon China 2025 by launching a lot of new equipment and...
Tech Newsround – MediaTek & OpenAI
MediaTek – PC next? Mediatek’s new chip for Chromebooks sets a new standard for the high end of the Chromebook market and looks to me...
Tech Newsround – Samsung & Microsoft
Samsung Q1 25 – Welcome relief Samsung reported good results as smartphones and legacy DRAM fared better than expected, but the key catalyst for recovery...
Meta Platforms – Llama-Seek
The fightback begins. Meta is demonstrating what RFM Research and Alavan Independent have suspected which is that DeepSeek’s methods are not that hard to replicate...
Gone Camel Racing – Back April 7th
RFM has taken a short break for the end of the camel racing season and will return on April 7th.
Autonomous Autos – Hard Economics
Economics will decide this market. WeRide thinks that it is mostly governments and regulations that will impact its path to profitability, but I suspect that...
OpenAI – Binary decision
Another $40bn found down the back of the sofa. Another $40bn to spend on compute will ensure that OpenAI does not have to become efficient...
China vs. USA – Foundation Collapse
China will only accelerate what is already in progress. It appears that it is now Chinese government policy to flood the open-source community with AI...
Artificial Intelligence – The Dynamo Effect
Dynamo is CUDA for inference. Meta’s failure to acquire FuriosaAI is a sign that the focus of AI is moving towards inference where rival chip...
Autonomous Driving – Causality Debate