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Autonomous Driving – Causality Debate

I don’t think Wayve is going to make it. Wayve’s deal with Nissan is a big shot in the arm for the “brute force” approach to autonomous driving, but Nissan...

China vs. USA – Yield Debate

Yield is everything. Relative newcomer to the semiconductor game SiCarrier made a splash at Semicon China 2025 by launching a lot of new equipment and claiming that non-optical methods may...

Tech Newsround – Samsung & Microsoft

Samsung Q1 25 – Welcome relief Samsung reported good results as smartphones and legacy DRAM fared better than expected, but the key catalyst for recovery which is the qualification of...

Meta Platforms – Llama-Seek

The fightback begins. Meta is demonstrating what RFM Research and Alavan Independent have suspected which is that DeepSeek’s methods are not that hard to replicate and that we are seeing...

Autonomous Autos – Hard Economics

Economics will decide this market. WeRide thinks that it is mostly governments and regulations that will impact its path to profitability, but I suspect that it will be the market...

OpenAI – Binary decision

Another $40bn found down the back of the sofa. Another $40bn to spend on compute will ensure that OpenAI does not have to become efficient like its Chinese competitors meaning...

China vs. USA – Foundation Collapse

China will only accelerate what is already in progress. It appears that it is now Chinese government policy to flood the open-source community with AI models which to me looks...

Artificial Intelligence – The Dynamo Effect

Dynamo is CUDA for inference. Meta’s failure to acquire FuriosaAI is a sign that the focus of AI is moving towards inference where rival chip companies have a better chance...

China AI – The Efficiency Game

China plucks the low-hanging fruit Efficiency is spreading like wildfire through the Chinese AI industry indicating that the edge that the US has enjoyed is not as large as many...

GTC Day 3 – Quantum Apology Tour

Jensen was the coroner, not the murderer. After single-handedly crashing the valuations of the publicly listed quantum computing companies at CES 2025, Jensen Huang graciously hosted a session at GTC...