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CES 2023 Day 1 – Foot and mouth

CES 2023 – Almost normal Despite a lot of hype, the footfall at CES 2023 is below pre-pandemic levels. There are a number of mitigating factors: First, China, which is...

CES 2023 Day 0 – Cars, cars & more cars

EV, not Auto – Soggy reality. Making electric cars is not nearly as exciting as vehicles that drive themselves, but the fact that they are here now as opposed to...

RFM 2023 Top 5 – Sombre but sober

China Technology – The last shoe The worsening Covid situation in China continues to hurt sentiment towards Chinese technology but this looks to me like the other shoe dropping and...

Semiconductors – Supercycle pt. IX

Micron pays the piper. Micron is cutting its expectations and spending for 2023 in order to deal with weak demand, but the impact of supply has yet to be felt...

CES 2023 preview – Catch up

CES 2023 should be back to its usual mayhem. CES 2023 is shaping up to be a car show once again as this remains the category where there is the...

Tech Newsround – Meta & DALL-E (AI)

Meta Platforms – double down Meta is doubling down on its commitment to the Metaverse by, voicing its intention to allocate 20% of its expenses to the Metaverse in a...

Artificial Intelligence – The great sophist

Sophistry is ChatGPT’s greatest skill. ChatGPT’s great skill is in its ability to make nonsense and falsehoods sound convincing which is really the only threat that it represents and does...

The Metaverse – The trough

The enterprise is where the immediate action will be. With both device sales and gaming revenues likely to decline this year, the consumer Metaverse theme remains uninvestible, leaving only the...

China vs. USA – The Long arm of the USA

The first non-US company falls in. The USA’s mission to isolate China technologically has taken a further turn with Arm deciding that some of its chips wont get licences which...

Tesla – On the radar

Tesla’s actions speak louder than Musk’s words. Tesla is admitting that it has failed to solve the machine vision problem by returning radar to its vehicles, in a move that...