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Google and Intel – Two Stories

Google Q1 25 – Search remains untouchable Google reported good results as Search continues to contemptuously brush off the generative AI threat, giving it time to ensure that it is...

TSMC Q1 25– No Wobbles

AI freight train is still rolling.  The threat of tariffs, trade war, China restrictions and stock market volatility have been unable to dent TSMC, which reported good results and underlined...

Tech Newsround – ASML, AMD & Global Foundries

ASML Q1 25: The tariff effect. ASML reported reasonable Q1 25 results, but its order book was way adrift of expectations, which I take as a sign of weakness in...

Tech Newsround – Nvidia and Apple

Nvidia – Window dressing Nvidia is signing up to make products in the USA which is a move I suspect that it was already executing but it will have done...

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...

Artificial Intelligence – The Dynamo Effect

Dynamo is CUDA for inference. Meta’s failure to acquire FuriosaAI is a sign that the focus of AI is moving towards inference where rival chip companies have a better chance...

Nvidia & Samsung – GTC Day 2

Samsung’s fate is bound up with Nvidia GTC Update: Nvidia Dynamo – the most critical launch of 2025.  GTC 2025 is in full swing and as more details emerge about...

Nvidia GTC 2025 – Spread Betting

Nvidia is spreading its bets wide and early.   Another confident keynote from Jensen Huang where technical slip-ups were part of the show and where the best was saved for...

Intel – Anywhere to Go?

Mr Tan’s options already seem very limited.  The recruitment of Lip-Bu Tan as the new CEO of Intel should come with an expectation of a strategic shift that increases the...

Nvidia & Meta – Safe for Now

Nvidia is not close to danger yet.   The worst-kept secret in tech is that Nvidia’s customers are all trying to reduce their dependence on Nvidia by building their own...