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China vs. USA – Insurance Policy

Higher costs are a necessary insurance policy.   The announcement of $11.6bn in government assistance for TSMC is not really new news but it does further highlight that higher-priced chips...

Xiaomi – Silver lining

Xiaomi’s love of low margins makes an EV viable. Xiaomi can succeed where Apple failed because its hardware is already very unprofitable meaning that adding an EV into the product...

Samsung Q1 24 – AI side effect

2024 starts with a predictable bang. Samsung reported results that beat expectations confirming that the boom in demand for AI is affecting more than just Nvidia, while a modest recovery...

Google AI – Penny Pincher

Gen AI is clearly very expensive to operate. Google is toying with the idea of putting new features of its flagship search service behind a paywall which indicates that the...

Electric Vehicles – Unready for Reality

EVs have run out of well-heeled early adopters. While the long-term proposition of electrical vehicles remains unchanged, the realities of delivering on that proposition are really starting to tell as...

Artificial Intelligence – The business

Pressure is mounting to generate revenue. The early signs of pressure are appearing in the AI industry which looks like a precursor to price erosion which RFM has predicted will...

Artificial Intelligence – Magic Money Tree

Money grows on trees until it doesn’t. Capital continues to pour into the AI sector with very little attention being paid to company fundamentals in a sure sign that when...

Apple AI – From Zero

Almost anything will be an improvement. The scene is set for WWDC to be the launchpad for Apple’s ambitions in AI and given its history in this area, almost anything...

Electric Vehicles – Last man Standing

Lucid likely to be the survivor. The combination of economic pressure on consumers and brutal competition from China makes it very clear that the EV shakeout will continue, and I...

China vs. USA – Economics is Everything

China blocks the USA with no viable alternative. China has moved to remove Intel and AMD from its data centres but with Huawei and the rest of the semiconductor struggling...