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Arm FQ3 24 – AI Pixie Dust

Arm silences the critics of last quarter Arm topped off a good set of earnings that silenced its critics and added a sprinkle of AI pixie dust that gave the...

USA vs. China – Road to Nowhere

Multi-patterning is an economic dead end. Huawei and SMIC appear to be in a position to mass manufacture leading-edge semiconductors but flooding the market with cheap semiconductors will require them...

AI Ecosystem – The race begins

Foundation model is to AI what OS is to smartphone. While everyone is going to be focused on inference in 2024, the real action is going to be in the...

Results deluge– Meta, Apple & Amazon.

Meta pushes the open-source button. Excellent results, more fat trimming, a dividend, and a share buyback hid higher losses from the Metaverse and more capex allowing a fire to be...

Qualcomm FQ1 24 – On the up

Apple remains toothless. Good results combined with further confirmation that Apple is in no position to restart its patent fight with Qualcomm, result in a company with good short and...

Alphabet Q4 2023 – Corporate waffle

Google fails to blow its own trumpet. Alphabet reported good results but one tiny miss combined with vague and non-specific answers to easy questions on the conference call gave the...

AI Ecosystem – Capital Bloom.

Nvidia can sleep well for now. Competing with Nvidia is currently focused on building better chips but this is ignoring Nvidia’s two key differentiators which mean that for now, no...

Digital Automotive – Radio wars

A very American dispute. The issue of AM radio in vehicles sold in the USA has been debated for many years, but electrical vehicles (EVs)bring this issue to a head...

Intel Q4 2023 – Too risky

A series of unfortunate events. Intel reported good results but guided badly as inventory corrections and market dynamics in several of Intel’s segments added together caused weak guidance which triggered...

Apple AI – Back of the pack

There is a little activity behind the curtain. It would be foolish to think that Apple is not trying to do something about AI but I suspect that it has...