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Tech Newsround – ASML, AMD & Global Foundries

ASML Q1 25: The tariff effect. ASML reported reasonable Q1 25 results, but its order book was way adrift of expectations, which I take as a sign of weakness in...

China vs. USA – Art of the Deal?

The screw is given another turn. While it is not very difficult to make an argument for banning the sales of advanced chips into China, giving Nvidia no warning and...

Tech Newsround – Nvidia and Apple

Nvidia – Window dressing Nvidia is signing up to make products in the USA which is a move I suspect that it was already executing but it will have done...

Autonomous Driving – Causality Debate

I don’t think Wayve is going to make it. Wayve’s deal with Nissan is a big shot in the arm for the “brute force” approach to autonomous driving, but Nissan...

China vs. USA – Yield Debate

Yield is everything. Relative newcomer to the semiconductor game SiCarrier made a splash at Semicon China 2025 by launching a lot of new equipment and claiming that non-optical methods may...

Tech Newsround – Samsung & Microsoft

Samsung Q1 25 – Welcome relief Samsung reported good results as smartphones and legacy DRAM fared better than expected, but the key catalyst for recovery which is the qualification of...

Meta Platforms – Llama-Seek

The fightback begins. Meta is demonstrating what RFM Research and Alavan Independent have suspected which is that DeepSeek’s methods are not that hard to replicate and that we are seeing...

Autonomous Autos – Hard Economics

Economics will decide this market. WeRide thinks that it is mostly governments and regulations that will impact its path to profitability, but I suspect that it will be the market...

OpenAI – Binary decision

Another $40bn found down the back of the sofa. Another $40bn to spend on compute will ensure that OpenAI does not have to become efficient like its Chinese competitors meaning...

China vs. USA – Foundation Collapse

China will only accelerate what is already in progress. It appears that it is now Chinese government policy to flood the open-source community with AI models which to me looks...