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USA vs. China – The Grind

Pressure is making life very hard for Chinese semiconductors. SMIC reported difficult results as the cash machine that is supposed to be lagging edge is not delivering meaning that the...

Automotive Ecosystems – GM’s Big Bet.

Good, but it needs to be better. A large proportion of the automotive industry thinks that GM has taken leave of its senses by ditching CarPlay in its electric vehicles...

Arm FQ4 24 – Volatile Visibility.

The story will remain v9 for some time. Arm reported good results where it made good on its FY24 forecasts, but the shares fell as the guidance for the coming...

Apple – Feeling the squeeze.

Apple ups its cadence as competition heats up. Apple appears to be taking a leaf out of Nvidia’s book in launching a new chip just 6 months after it launched...

Autonomous Driving – Brains not brawn

End-to-end machine learning is not the answer. SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft are pouring $1bn into a system that relies entirely on machine learning to drive vehicles in the hope that...

Lidar – Last Man Standing

The only thing that matters is cash. The weakening of EV demand and the failure of the industry to produce autonomy has slowed demand for automotive Lidar putting a lot...

Apple & Peloton – Opposites

Fat middle age versus fighting for survival. Apple FQ2 24: Bounces off the bottom. Apple reported reasonable results and predicted a better FQ3 as the stabilisation in the smartphone market...

Qualcomm FQ2 24 – Steady Sailing.

Stable quarter and guidance raised. A steady quarter devoid of fireworks but where the fundamentals are beginning to come together creates a foundation for more upside as new segments such...

Automotive Ecosystems – Play Suspended

Mercedes bails on Apple CarPlay 2.0. Mercedes Benz has confirmed that it has no plans to support the next generation of CarPlay as it has realised that letting Apple take...

Apple Vision Pro – Too Much, Too Early.

Apple loses very little with the Vision Pro. It looks like Apple is going to miss its 1m target for the Apple Vision Pro with commentary from suppliers indicating volumes...