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...
Qualcomm FQ1 24 – On the up