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SoftBank & Boston Dynamics – Homecoming.

Boston Dynamics finds a credible home. Boston Dynamics may have finally found a credible owner spelling the end of click-bait robots that lose money and instead focusing on bringing its...

Epic vs. Apple – A right Battle Royale pt. V.

A workaround that goes nowhere. The idea that Fortnite will be able to return to the iPhone through GeForce Now is technically possible but the experience is unlikely to be...

Peloton – The inexorable erosion.

Peloton postpones the inevitable. Peloton reported excellent FQ1 2020 results as new lockdowns have triggered another surge in buying but this company is still mostly driven by hardware, and as...

Arm and NVIDIA – The unthinkable pt. II.

RISC-V has a second lease of life. While there is no sign that NVIDIA will be unable to maintain Arm’s crucial independence, just the mere fact of the possibility has...

Qualcomm FQ4 2020 – Happy wave.

Finally, a wave to be pleased about. Qualcomm reported excellent results as the combination of Apple and China is driving a rapid roll-out of 5G enabled devices which is a...

Ant Group – Whoops apocalypse.

Jack Ma has made someone very cross. The Chinese regulator has forced both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to suspend the Ant Financial IPO at...

Tesla – Sleight of hand.

Tesla is still bad at autonomous driving. Tesla’s latest pronouncement on the performance of Autopilot suggests that Autopilot is safer than humans, but the reality remains that Tesla is very...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. XXIV.

Re-inventing the silicon wheel makes no sense. Huawei appears to be planning on building its own semiconductor fab that is independent of US technology in a move that looks certain...

Big Tech Q3 2020 – Pandemic powered.

Big tech is being driven by deficit spending. Big Tech continued to benefit from the huge increases in government spending during Q3 2020 but the fact that bail-outs can’t go...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt XXIII.

Another reprieve in name only. Allowing Huawei to buy non-5G components offers very little reprieve for either the infrastructure business or the handset business and from a security perspective makes...