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USA vs. China – PR Game

USA gets revenge for Raimondo’s embarrassment.   The Netherlands turned the screw on semiconductor equipment exports to China just as the US National Security Advisor was meeting with President Xi...

Nvidia FQ2 25 – Full steam ahead

Beat but no real raise. Excellent results and guidance were met with disappointment from the fickle market which wanted to see yet another beat and raise and so while the...

Artificial Intelligence – Silicon Game

Cerebras admits it can’t compete in training. Cerebras’ pivot towards inference is both an indication of where the market is going and an admission that when it comes to training,...

Artificial Intelligence – Hot Summer

Valuations are still going up. Cohere, one of the current group of white-hot AI startups has raised money at $5.5bn confirming that the market’s appetite for overvalued paper remains unabated...

TSMC Q2 24 – Still Rolling

AI party spoilt by China.    TSMC reported good results and narrowed its guidance to the top end of the range in a move that added confidence that the AI...

USA vs. China – Closing Loopholes

ASML bucks the Chinese trend.   Excellent results from ASML indicate that China is still buying as much equipment as it can get its hands on but potential further tightening...

SoftBank and Graphcore – AI Armoury

More than meets the eye. Contrary to my expectations (see here), SoftBank has acquired AI chipmaker Graphcore for around $600m which is way below its peak valuation meaning that the...

AMD – The Blueprint

AMD emulates Nvidia but has more to do. AMD is building a vertically integrated AI toolkit based on its silicon but there are two elements still missing that will still...

Samsung Q2 – Party On!

Samsung confirms the AI party is still on. Samsung has reported another set of excellent results confirming that the spending on AI is continuing apace and that it may be...

Computex 2024 Day 3 – Box and Horses

MediaTek: Dark horse of Computex Mediatek rolled out the big guns at its keynote with both Arm and Nvidia CEOs joining Rick Tsai on stage and although it did not...