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Eco-systems

Samsung Electronics – Efficient Market

Priced for a Nokia. The case for Samsung Electronics is purely based on recovery in semiconductors because if things stay the way they are, there is little to no upside...

USA vs. China – Build the Wall!

The first bricks go up. Huawei’s migration of its smartphone business to its home-grown Harmony OS is the first concrete sign that our long-predicted Balkanisation of the Internet has begun...

AI Ecosystem – Battle Lines

The reset will start the battle. Amazon has upped its investment in Anthropic which virtually guarantees that when the money runs out, Anthropic will be acquired and become the AI...

PDD & Baidu – Bargains for the Brave

Rotten earnings point towards a state in deep depression. Poor results from both Baidu and PDD point directly to the moribund Chinese economy underpinning the view that nothing will improve...

Qualcomm – Confident Outing

Low-balled numbers still give good growth. Qualcomm used its 2024 investor day to focus on the areas outside of smartphones where the diversification strategy that was laid out in 2021...

Tech Newsround – Google & Xiaomi

Google: A badly thought-through remedy. The US Department of Justice is recommending that Google be forced to sell Chrome as a remedy for its illegal monopolisation of the search market...

Alibaba FQ3 25 – Unhappy Hostage.

Alibaba remains captive to China’s poor economy. The performance and outlook at Alibaba are a strong indication that in reality, the Chinese economy remains moribund and that a lot more...

Artificial Intelligence – Edge Debate.

Inference at the edge remains a no-brainer. Now that LLMs are starting to show the limits of their performance, attention is likely to turn to use cases where RFM research...

Apple – Bottom of the Barrel.

Apple looks like it has run out of ideas. It looks like growth is becoming a real problem at Apple as it is considering entering segments where its competitors have...

Amazon & AI – A Question of Time

No one is going to dislodge Nvidia yet. Amazon is readying the next version of its in-house AI training and inference chips but until CUDA is no longer the control...