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...
Apple – Bottom of the Barrel.
Apple looks like it has run out of ideas. It looks like growth is becoming a real problem at Apple as it is considering entering...
Amazon & AI – A Question of Time
No one is going to dislodge Nvidia yet. Amazon is readying the next version of its in-house AI training and inference chips but until CUDA...
Artificial Intelligence – Scaling Debate
Scaling laws appear to be dying. There are more signs that the “scaling laws” that have underpinned the AI explosion (and all of the hype...
China & Semis – No Score Draw
China and semiconductors are unlikely to change much. A change of administration is likely to mean that there is more noise and bluster but no...
Qualcomm FQ4 & ARM FQ2 – Story of Two Halves
Qualcomm FQ4 24 – Top Gear. Qualcomm reported good results that beat expectations as a result of a strong performance in automotive, providing the first...
Google vs. OpenAI – The Hits Keep Coming
Google on the back foot. Open AI has launched a competitor to Google which performs reasonably well in a strong indication that the barriers to...
Palantir Q3 24– Icarus Ascending
There is no fundamental support here. Another set of good results drove Palantir shares to new highs, but this was not the sort of blow-out...
Tech Newsround – Google & Xiaomi