Archive For

November 2021

Epic Games & the Metaverse – The biggest hurdle

Technology is the least of the problems. Epic Games remains the largest advocate for interoperability across platforms in gaming, but its stance will be sorely...

Xiaomi – Cars, cars and cars.

Xiaomi could become a car company. Xiaomi appears to be planning to make at least 300,000 EVs per year which if successful could see EV...

China vs. USA – The first cracks pt. II

China and US regulators further damage Chinese technology. Both the US and Chinese regulators have been busy this week and although they are on opposite...

Crypto – Another outlaw

India forgoes a great opportunity. The Indian state’s desire to control its currency is so great that it is willing to forgo the huge opportunity...

Zoom Q2 2021 – No prisoners

Zoom gets punished for a tiny slip again. Zoom again demonstrates that when the multiples are very high, any tiny slip compared to expectations will...

Alibaba FQ2 2022– Zero COVID.

Macro and competition temper outlook Alibaba reported disappointing results and cut full-year guidance as China’s restrictive Zero COVID strategy is slowing demand and its competitors...

Alibaba & Nvidia – Government hassles.

Alibaba: a bail-out to win favour? The fact that news of an Alibaba-led consortium being the lead contender to bail out failed chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup...

Qualcomm & Semis – Barmy army.

Qualcomm answers the M-series challenge. Qualcomm has worked out how to challenge Apple’s current advantage in Arm-based CPUs but the fact that it will be...

Microsoft & Meta – Low hanging fruit

Interoperability between these two is the easy bit. Interoperability between Microsoft and Meta Platforms is an important step to ensuring the success of the Metaverse,...

Nvidia & Arm – The unthinkable pt. X

A deeper investigation was always expected. It looks like the UK Government is going to order a phase II investigation into Nvidia’s purchase of Arm...