USA restrictions are biting. China is making the best of a difficult situation but there is no getting around the fact that the USA is currently winning the technology war,...
Geopolitics is everywhere. After a very slow 2021, 2022 and some recovery in 2023, Mobile World Congress in 2024 is finally back in business. The halls are as busy as...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 – TikTok War II
ByteDance is back in the crosshairs. The fuss over TikTok which seemed to have died down following the change of administration in 2021 is back on but simply divesting TikTok...