Archive For

January 2022

EVs – The babies and the bathwater.

Reality and interest rates trigger a rout. While the current price correction is likely to mean the end of the road for many of the...

Apple FQ1 22 – Good to be the king

Apple’s scale helps it to get the supply it needs. Apple reported good results as its scale and its excellence in supply chain management ensured...

Intel / Samsung Q4 21 – Two cities

Intel Q4 21 – Hard place. Intel reported reasonable results but pressure on gross margins revealed just how hard Intel is finding life at the...

Tech Newsround – MSFT FQ2 / Arm & Nvidia / Meta

Microsoft FQ2 2022 – skittish investors. Microsoft’s results demonstrated just how edgy the market is with the numbers causing the shares to fall 5% followed...

Crypto – Outlaw No. 3 – Russian Roulette

Russia’s excuses are exactly the same as China’s Russia is considering following China (see here) and India (see here) down the road of banning cryptocurrencies...

Netflix & Peloton – Pummelled by normality

Netflix & Peloton pay the price for nose-bleed multiples Netflix Q4 21 – Virtual to reality As the world’s virtual reality of being stuck at...

China vs USA – Another own goal

China strikes another blow benefitting Team USA. It looks like further draconian measures are coming which will cause the largest source of capital for technology...

Microsoft / Activision – 2nd time lucky

Microsoft has a 2nd shot at the consumer ecosystem. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision is a sure sign that the gold rush for the Metaverse is...

Wayve – Moonshot

Wayve seeks to upend an entire industry. Wayve is the outsider in the autonomous driving industry as it has a unique approach to the problem,...

Autonomous Autos – Trucks first.

Autonomous driving is still far away. Waymo is a relative newcomer to the world of autonomous trucks but it already has a customer in another...