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Apple & Semis – Integration game

Qualcomm helps Broadcom for once. Although Apple is intending to design Broadcom out of its iPhones in favour of an in-house solution, I suspect that its inability to design a...

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...

Qualcomm FQ4 22 – Opportunity incoming

The long-term scale tips in Qualcomm’s favour. A good set of results marred by a difficult outlook for FQ1 & FY 2023 also contained a few medium-term positives which were,...

China vs. USA – Self censorship

Semi-equipment makers remove China The US and European semiconductor capital equipment industries are self-censoring their business with China in a way that is much more draconian than I expected and...

Huawei – Window dressing pt. II

No way back. The repercussions of the latest US restrictions (see here) are likely to go both far and wide through the Chinese technology industry slowing its development and putting...

Semiconductors – Supercycle pt. VIII

Samsung and AMD join the chorus. Weak results from Samsung and a profit warning from AMD are more signs that demand is weakening which in the face of all-time highs...

Semiconductors – Politics not economics.

Geopolitics is firmly in the driving seat. Samsung has announced its intentions to triple its foundry business from 2021 as well as migrate from 5nm to 1.4nm within a 5-year...

Qualcomm – Cars-R-Us.

Picks and shovels of the digital vehicle. Qualcomm is showing signs of executing on its automotive ambitions with a 57% increase in its design win pipeline in the last 3...

Apple & YMTC – Insurance backfire

Apple likely to drop its insurance policy. Apple is demonstrating just how difficult it is to keep both the Chinese Communist Party and the US Congress happy at the same...