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Samsung Q1 24 – AI side effect

2024 starts with a predictable bang. Samsung reported results that beat expectations confirming that the boom in demand for AI is affecting more than just Nvidia, while a modest recovery...

Arm vs. x86 – The Gauntlet pt. II.

This time Qualcomm is serious. While the technology world continues to jump up and down over generative AI, the most consequential challenge to Intel and AMD’s dominance in laptop processors...

MWC 2024 Day 3 – The AI effect

AI disguises the also-rans and pushes ORAN to the periphery of consciousness. Start-ups – AI pollution The best part of every trade show be it CES, MWC or similar is...

Graphcore – The have nots

Sale to OpenAI makes sense. SoftBank less so. It makes far more sense for OpenAI to acquire Graphcore than SoftBank as OpenAI clearly wants to become more vertically integrated and...

Nvidia – Chat with RTX

Nvidia needs to go further. Nvidia has released an LLM-based chatbot for Nvidia graphics cards but by not using its own foundation model, it is still leaving itself open to...

Arm FQ3 24 – AI Pixie Dust

Arm silences the critics of last quarter Arm topped off a good set of earnings that silenced its critics and added a sprinkle of AI pixie dust that gave the...

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...

Qualcomm FQ1 24 – On the up

Apple remains toothless. Good results combined with further confirmation that Apple is in no position to restart its patent fight with Qualcomm, result in a company with good short and...

AI Ecosystem – Capital Bloom.

Nvidia can sleep well for now. Competing with Nvidia is currently focused on building better chips but this is ignoring Nvidia’s two key differentiators which mean that for now, no...

Intel Q4 2023 – Too risky

A series of unfortunate events. Intel reported good results but guided badly as inventory corrections and market dynamics in several of Intel’s segments added together caused weak guidance which triggered...