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Computex Day 2 & Microsoft Build – Tale of 2 Conferences

Computex Day 2 – Wider and deeper. While Nvidia dominated day 1 with data centre, it was left to the rest of the industry to make the announcements that everyone...

Computex Day 1 – Nvidia Opens.

Nvidia is not standing still. Nvidia Founder Jensen Huang opened Computex 2025 with a confident session that launched new products aimed at the enterprise, but also admitted that in the...

Alibaba FQ4 25 – AI no-show.

Economic gloom shatters AI dreams. Alibaba reported a mediocre set of results, underlining that the task at hand for the Chinese state is to breathe life back into the consumer...

China vs. USA – The Isolation Game

The current game mode is isolation. On top of incentivising the Middle East to pivot West, the US Department of Commerce has warned that the use of Huawei chips is...

Artificial Intelligence – The Middle East

Plenty of space, electricity and money The visit of the US President to the Middle East has intensified the friendly competition between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both of whom...

Arm FQ4 25 – Mean Reversion

Worries have already evaporated Arm reported good results but guided weakly as a result of trade issues which already look like they will not come to pass which is why...

Google – Code Yellow

The warning lights are flashing yellow Apple claims that it has seen the first sign of generative AI impacting Google’s search traffic, meaning that Q2 25 will be a crucial...

China vs. USA– The Long Game Pt. II

The US Administration is very clever or very lucky. The reassessment of the new rule on chip exports from the USA by luck (or by design) will still have the...

China vs. USA– The Long Game

For once, Jensen is not long-term enough. Jensen has bemoaned the potential loss of the Chinese market which he thinks will be worth $50bn. Even though he is famed for...

AMD Q1 25– Party Pooper

USA / China spoils the party. AMD’s excellent results show that it is taking share from Intel in PCs as well as gaining share in the data centre as inference...