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Arm – Balancing Act Pt. II

Welcome rebrand and more chip questions. While the rebrand of Arm’s portfolio brings much better understanding to its offering, the real question doing the rounds is whether Arm is going...

USA vs. China – Another Brick in the Wall

The technological wall continues to grow. The ban on software design tools will hurt China in the short term, and while the domestic industry will undoubtedly find a way around...

Samsung & Google – Engineering Disease pt. V

Samsung is still not quite cured. Samsung’s deal with Perplexity will see Samsung’s in-house products become better, but I am not sure how much anyone will notice given that users...

Qualcomm vs. Apple – Another Fight Coming

Apple is itching to restart the fight but there is a limited window. While it is clear that Qualcomm’s modems are still far better than Apple’s, Apple finally has a...

MediaTek & Nvidia – Rumblings from Computex

Rumour is much worse than reality. Aside from Nvidia opening up the data centre CPU market, MediaTek was expected to enter the PC CPU market, but with nothing more than...

OpenAI – A Consultant’s Dream

The most expensive consultant in history. OpenAI will acquire Jony Ive’s hardware start-up at an eye-watering valuation, but it has filed to acquire the man himself full-time, making him the...

Apple and Amazon – AI Laggards

Apple FQ2 25 – AI not a problem yet, but tariffs bite. Apple reported good results, but then guided weakly as it warned of a $900m tariff impact that sent...

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...

Apple – AI Breakdown

AI is not needed to sell iPhones yet. Apple’s run of trouble with AI is continuing as a good proportion of the much-hyped Apple Intelligence services are being delayed again...

China vs. USA – Taiwan buys Insurance

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...