Archive For

November 2022

Artificial Intelligence – The jigsaw game.

Combining disciplines is the way forward. The success of Meta’s Diplomacy algorithm is further evidence that the way to begin addressing the more difficult problems...

Crypto – Deep Freeze.

Spring will come eventually. The bankruptcy of BlockFi adds another layer to the wreckage deepening the crypto winter, but there are real use cases for...

Huawei & ZTE – No substance.

The latest ban is all noise and no substance. The USA has banned the sale of all electronics from Huawei and ZTE into the USA...

Activision / Microsoft – Buyer’s remorse.

FTC may end up doing Microsoft a favour. If Microsoft had delayed its bid for Activision, it probably would have been able to get it...

Automotive services – Backward business

Users are not going to subscribe to hardware. RFM has long predicted that automotive digital services are the solution to the problem of lower vehicle...

Zoom – Circle of life

Consumer is in trouble. Zoom reported results that show that the pandemic boom is well and truly over and while the valuation has returned to...

Faraday Future – Dilution effect

Best case valuation is almost zero. The gap between Faraday Future’s spin in its press releases and the reality of its SEC filings has never...

Artificial Intelligence – Galactic fail.

Hubris once again found wanting. The failure of Meta’s scientific language model to survive for more than three days online is just another sign that...

Alibaba FQ2 23 – Recovery in waiting

The turn depends on Covid Zero policy. Alibaba reported reasonable results where e-commerce remained flattish but an increase of share buybacks to $40bn to the...

Nvidia, Cisco & Micron – Tale of two cities

Two tech segments worlds apart. Nvidia and Cisco managed to reassure the market with reasonable results pointing to steady enterprise spending but Micron, Amazon, and...