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CES 2024 – Day 3 – Healthy and Cooking

Digital health – Even fewer sensors. Digital Health has been quieter than usual this year and with very little progress on sensors to reliably measure critical health data, it is...

Apple – Stocking filler.

Apple will find a way out. Apple has received an unwelcome Christmas present as it faces a ban on importing Apple Watch products in The USA as a result of...

The Metaverse – A year to forget

Down but not out. A rotten year for The Metaverse has one more gift to give which is the cancellation of the Pico 5 headset which is one of the...

Qualcomm vs Apple – Black Magic

Apple won’t be able to pick a fight in 2026. As I have long suspected, Apple is really struggling to make a high-quality 5G radio chip meaning that Qualcomm could...

Cisco FQ1 24 – The hangover

Cisco serves as a warning to everyone else. Cisco’s efforts to reduce revenue volatility have come unstuck as a normalisation of client activity in hardware after a period of real...

Ouster Q3 23 – The corner.

Turns the corner but no one is listening. Ouster reported good results and strongly signalled that it has turned the corner, but the uninhabited conference call gave a strong impression...

Arm FQ2 24 – Pretty plain sailing

The next 2-3 years look pretty good. Arm reported good results but the variation in the timing of deals closing being recognised as revenue meant that guidance for the next...

Apple FQ4 23 – More of same

Incremental improvements and growth.  Apple reported reasonable results but concerns around its business in China and an accounting abnormality took their toll on the share price which fell by 3.6%...

Apple – Chugging along.

M3 does not wipe the floor with Elite X. Apple launched its next series of M-chips but even though they will all be made on the new 3nm TSMC process,...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit – The Gauntlet

Qualcomm throws down the gauntlet to both Apple and Intel. Qualcomm is mounting a bold challenge to both Apple and Intel in PCs with the launch of the Snapdragon X...