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USA vs. China – Road to Nowhere

Multi-patterning is an economic dead end. Huawei and SMIC appear to be in a position to mass manufacture leading-edge semiconductors but flooding the market with cheap semiconductors will require them...

Results deluge– Meta, Apple & Amazon.

Meta pushes the open-source button. Excellent results, more fat trimming, a dividend, and a share buyback hid higher losses from the Metaverse and more capex allowing a fire to be...

China Tech – Guilt by association

Little interest at any price. The simple fact that a Chinese military-affiliated organisation was able to access a publicly available Chinese generative AI model was enough to send Baidu down...

CES 2024 – Day 1: Peaceful progress

Footfall and chaos. CES 2024 is one of the most peaceful that I have seen in recent years (I didn’t come in 2021). There is space on the Monorail, almost...

Alibaba – Nadir of fortunes.

Alibaba plumbs the depths. Alibaba has lost its crown as the biggest e-commerce company in China to PinDuoDuo, which combined with a botched restructuring and lacklustre results leads one to...

China vs. USA – Tit for tat pt. II

Reality undermines the restrict strategy. China has resumed exports of Gallium and Germanium in another sign that unless one controls the reserves, restricting access to a mineral is a poor...

China vs. USA – Capital Call

Recreation is really expensive. Deteriorating financial performance and large capital raises are the flavour of the day in the Chinese semiconductor sector as manufacturing at low yields and recreating technology...

Apple FQ4 23 – More of same

Incremental improvements and growth.  Apple reported reasonable results but concerns around its business in China and an accounting abnormality took their toll on the share price which fell by 3.6%...

USA vs. China – Head scratcher

Taiwanese politics and Apple. Long-term collaborator and colleague Alastair Newton from Alavan Independent joins Radio Free Mobile in authoring today’s commentary concerning China, Foxconn, Taiwan and Apple. China has launched...

USA vs. China – Tit for tat

The USA still has the upper hand. In the face of further restrictions on its ability to develop AI algorithms, China is threatening to restrict the export of graphite in...