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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...

OpenAI – Implosion Incoming

The chances of collapse have increased materially. The abandonment of the plan to become a public benefit corporation means that the current unstable and conflicted corporate structure will persist, greatly...

China vs. USA – Build the Wall! Pt. II

Balkanisation gathers pace. China’s efforts to become self-sufficient for technology are gathering pace exactly as we predicted, but this will come at the expense of efficiency as Chinese standards will...

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...

Qualcomm, Meta & Microsoft – 2 out of 3

Qualcomm FQ2 25 – Unreasonable punishment Qualcomm reported good results, but a slightly weaker-than-expected revenue forecast caused the market, already nervous about tariffs, to send the shares down 6%, creating...

Meta Platforms – LlamaCon I.

F8 is resurrected to shoot at OpenAI & Co. Meta Platform’s cancelled F8 developer conference has been resurrected as LlamaCon where Meta spent most of its time shooting at OpenAI,...

Alibaba AI – The Edge Game

Inference at the edge moves forward. Alibaba has added to the ever-increasing deluge of AI models with the release of Qwen3 which it claims is better, faster and more efficient...

Huawei vs. Nvidia – Huawei Ascending?

Chinese models will be more expensive It looks like Huawei will produce 2 versions of its data centre chip this year, but this sudden acceleration of product cadence will not...

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...

Artificial Intelligence – Argument to Authority

A deeply misleading industry practice. Open AI’s latest model has been demonstrated falling short once again, highlighting that the practice of dressing up product launch press releases as scientific papers...