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Autonomous Autos – Cruise Control pt. II

Cruise gets real. Cruise has doubled down on its commitment to safety by effectively putting the whole company in a holding pattern as well as the secondment of the Head...

Nvidia – The moat

Nvidia makes the moat even bigger. Nvidia has launched an update to the H100 which offers mostly incremental improvements, but the cadence of new products combined with the power of...

China vs. USA – Capital Call

Recreation is really expensive. Deteriorating financial performance and large capital raises are the flavour of the day in the Chinese semiconductor sector as manufacturing at low yields and recreating technology...

Ouster Q3 23 – The corner.

Turns the corner but no one is listening. Ouster reported good results and strongly signalled that it has turned the corner, but the uninhabited conference call gave a strong impression...

Arm FQ2 24 – Pretty plain sailing

The next 2-3 years look pretty good. Arm reported good results but the variation in the timing of deals closing being recognised as revenue meant that guidance for the next...

OpenAI & Microsoft – Ecosystem game

OpenAI makes its play for the AI ecosystem OpenAI is seeking to capitalise on its early lead in AI and change a chatbot into a digital environment where developers go...

Artificial Intelligence – Lifecycle of a bubble pt. II

Bubble valuations but real use cases.  As more and more models are released by companies, start-ups and open source, the harder they will have to work to attract users meaning...

Apple FQ4 23 – More of same

Incremental improvements and growth.  Apple reported reasonable results but concerns around its business in China and an accounting abnormality took their toll on the share price which fell by 3.6%...

Qualcomm FQ4 23 – The Turn

Qualcomm signals the worst is over.   Qualcomm reported good results signalling that the worst is over leaving a flat short-term outlook and a longer term that is full of...

Autonomous Autos – Cruise control

Cruise is mostly punished for bad behaviour. Although there was most certainly a technology failure, Cruise is off the roads mostly because the California DMV thinks that it failed to...