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Electric Vehicles – Silver lining

Slowdown actually helps OEMs.   The realities of electric vehicles are starting to come home as the early adopters now all have an EV while the rest of us are...

Open AI – The Stranglehold

All about Nvidia Sam Altman is once again capitalising on the intense popularity of generative AI by looking to raise money for a new chip venture which can only be...

TSMC – All about AI

50% inventory, 50% AI. TSMC has signalled better times ahead for the semiconductor industry, but I suspect that things will only be really rosy if one is selling chips that...

Samsung Unpacked – Where’s Bixby?

Lots of Google. Little of Samsung, Samsung‘s new s24 line-up looks exactly like the s23 but the hope is that the new AI features (almost all of which come from...

Autonomous Driving – Slough of Despond.

Life in autonomy remains dreadful. There is little hope for a recovery in autonomous driving anytime soon as programs are being cancelled meaning that my 2028 target looks increasingly over...

China Tech – Guilt by association

Little interest at any price. The simple fact that a Chinese military-affiliated organisation was able to access a publicly available Chinese generative AI model was enough to send Baidu down...

CES 2024 – Dark Horses of Vegas

There was very wow this year as I had already seen almost every product that was on display but critically, these products were closer to market than they were last...

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...

CES 2024 – Day 1: Peaceful progress

Footfall and chaos. CES 2024 is one of the most peaceful that I have seen in recent years (I didn’t come in 2021). There is space on the Monorail, almost...

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...