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Windows on Arm – Spit and Polish

Looking good but polish needed. For a first generation, things are looking very good, but it is clear that when one gets into the weeds there are a few loose...

Rivian & VW – Desperation Bedfellows

VW & Rivian rescue each other.  VW’s $5bn investment is precisely what Rivian needs to prevent it from suffering Fisker’s fate but at the same time, it is quite possible...

OpenAI & Microsoft – ChatCopilot

OpenAI bites the hand that feeds it.  Despite the inevitability of ending up as part of Microsoft, Open AI is determined to compete with Copilot and is making acquisitions to...

The Metaverse – Dark Horse of WWDC

A winning product with almost no sales.  While Apple Intelligence got all of the attention at WWDC, an extraordinary amount of content was provided to developers on how to develop...

Artificial Intelligence – The Asymptote

Only AGI can prevent a correction.  More companies and more models all of whom perform within a fairly close range but consume billions of dollars in investment capital point to...

Apple Intelligence – Chinese Elephants

The problem is much worse than ChatGPT.  A hyperbolic keynote and a $300bn rally later and no one has yet asked how Apple will tackle the problem of rolling out...

China vs. USA – Admission of Reality

Huawei says the quiet part out loud.   Huawei has admitted that true leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing is unlikely to be achieved in China, meaning that homegrown technologies that rely on...

Electric Vehicles – Unready for Reality pt. III

EU tariffs will weaken demand further.   The EU has announced import tariffs on Chinese EVs that are likely to trigger a retaliation and an increase in price to the...

Apple Intelligence – Bells and Whistles.

Apple replicates Copilot+ with privacy bells and whistles Apple has made its play in generative AI by picking to copy the best that its competition has to offer and rolling...

HP vs. Autonomy – Last Laugh

Court decides what I have suspected all along Mike Lynch the ex-CEO of Autonomy has the last laugh in the 12-year battle over who was really to blame for HP’s...