The fightback begins. Meta is demonstrating what RFM Research and Alavan Independent have suspected which is that DeepSeek’s methods are not that hard to replicate and that we are seeing...
China will only accelerate what is already in progress. It appears that it is now Chinese government policy to flood the open-source community with AI models which to me looks...
China plucks the low-hanging fruit Efficiency is spreading like wildfire through the Chinese AI industry indicating that the edge that the US has enjoyed is not as large as many...
Baidu joins the efficiency game. Keen to catch up in the China AI game, Baidu has launched two newer and cheaper models, but it is not clear whether Baidu is...
Monica demonstrates an advance in orchestration, not AGI. Manus AI is the latest AI story out of China but once the hype has died down, I suspect the real story...
More questions than answers. Alibaba has produced a model that performs pretty well, but it is so small that China is once again challenging the Western “bigger is better” philosophy....
A $165bn insurance policy The more TSMC invests in the USA, the more secure Taiwan becomes because if Taiwan, for some reason, goes offline then the TSMC fabs in the...
Tencent has to become the agent of choice on Chinese smartphones Tencent has passed a crucial milestone in ensuring the durability of the ecosystem it built in China by becoming...
4th March 2025: RFM and Alavan Independent update their long running coverage of the USA-China technology war with the publication of Reality Bytes – Clash of the Titans Vol. VIII...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
China vs. USA – Yield Debate
Yield is everything. Relative newcomer to the semiconductor game SiCarrier made a splash at Semicon China 2025 by launching a lot of new equipment and claiming that non-optical methods may...