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Meta Platforms Q1 2023 – The phoenix

Meta continues to rise from the ashes of 2022. Meta Platforms roared back to life with an excellent set of earnings which give it a platform to resume investing and,...

Google & Microsoft – Offence & defence

Two sides of the same story in search. Google and Microsoft both reported good results but took very different lines on what AI is doing to search with Google saying...

Microsoft – Dream Team

Good luck and good timing give great results. Microsoft is backing away from bundling Teams with Office 365 which I expect will have no impact at all on its use...

Arm vs. Qualcomm – Preamble

A situation that makes little sense. The dispute between Arm and Qualcomm is one of the more bizarre that I have seen in my time, but it is descending into...

TSMC Q1 2023 – Yin and Yang.

Inventory correction offset by China. TSMC reported weak Q1 2023 results and guided down expectations, but this had been anticipated which combined with some initial positive signs on the Chinese...

Tesla Q1 23 – Normalisation.

A promise that will never come true. The promise of fantastically profitable robotaxis will never come true meaning that lower margins as Tesla falls into line with the rest of...

Artificial Intelligence – The wall.

Now the real work begins. OpenAI has admitted that the limitations of massive compute and massive data may have already been reached meaning that to make these systems useful, ways...

Google vs. ChatGPT – Scroogled again? pt. II

Bing chat is not ChatGPT. Samsung is weighing up a switch to Bing on the basis that its GPT-generated search results are better than Google’s which is a proposition that...

GM – The Fourth Estate

GM’s biggest problem is the media. GMs decision to end support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto has sparked a negative reaction from the Apple-loving technology press that seems to...

Semiconductors – Game of subsidies

No one is thinking about economics at the moment. It looks like Intel’s requests for more subsidies to build leading-edge fabs in Germany will pay off, but the subsidies are...