Intel further broadens its position in digital transportation. Determined not to miss out on digital transportation the way it missed out on mobile, Intel is moving again to build a...
NXP hints at mobile, industrial and automotive outlook. NXP reported reasonable results but guided as weakly as expected showing both the well-documented weakness in automotive but also another hint of...
SoftBank is in urgent need of cash. Now is the worst time to try and sell anything and this move by SoftBank shows just how desperately it needs cash to...
Didi is a play on the whim of the state. The Coronavirus may lead the Chinese state to give Didi a bit of breathing space while the economy gets back...
The field tightens a long way away from commercial offerings. Disengagement data from the California DMV (see here) shows that Waymo has lost its lead in autonomous driving to Baidu...
Toyota comes to its senses (sort of). After its inexplicable investment in Uber’s self-driving unit (see here) at a valuation of $7.25bn and its madcap plan to build an entire...
Ford is starting to understand digital. I may have issues with Ford’s view on vehicle demand (see here) but there are signs that Ford is one of the very few...
Robotaxis will not be appearing anytime soon. McAfee has exposed a corner case that triggered dangerous behaviour by a Tesla vehicle in another example of how deep learning is not...
Robotaxis are autonomous driving v0.5. Since the revelation that autonomous driving was not going to live up to the hype, the focus has moved to robotaxis but these too, face...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Automotive Industry – Silver lining
The notion of a recovery is not as leftfield as I thought. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have entertained the idea that automobile demand may be a late-stage...