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TSMC – All about AI

50% inventory, 50% AI. TSMC has signalled better times ahead for the semiconductor industry, but I suspect that things will only be really rosy if one is selling chips that...

Samsung Unpacked – Where’s Bixby?

Lots of Google. Little of Samsung, Samsung‘s new s24 line-up looks exactly like the s23 but the hope is that the new AI features (almost all of which come from...

Autonomous Driving – Slough of Despond.

Life in autonomy remains dreadful. There is little hope for a recovery in autonomous driving anytime soon as programs are being cancelled meaning that my 2028 target looks increasingly over...

China Tech – Guilt by association

Little interest at any price. The simple fact that a Chinese military-affiliated organisation was able to access a publicly available Chinese generative AI model was enough to send Baidu down...

CES 2024 – Day 3 – Healthy and Cooking

Digital health – Even fewer sensors. Digital Health has been quieter than usual this year and with very little progress on sensors to reliably measure critical health data, it is...

CES 2024 – Day 2– Less Peaceful Progress

CES comes to life. After a quiet start on Tuesday, CES 2024 came back to life on Wednesday with a substantial increase in footfall, crowds and queues. This is an...

CES 2024 – Day 1: Peaceful progress

Footfall and chaos. CES 2024 is one of the most peaceful that I have seen in recent years (I didn’t come in 2021). There is space on the Monorail, almost...

Apple – Stocking filler.

Apple will find a way out. Apple has received an unwelcome Christmas present as it faces a ban on importing Apple Watch products in The USA as a result of...

The Metaverse – A year to forget

Down but not out. A rotten year for The Metaverse has one more gift to give which is the cancellation of the Pico 5 headset which is one of the...

Autonomous driving – Nadir of fortunes

Autonomous driving plumbs new depths Tesla’s recall takes autonomous driving to a new level of doubt and depression, but it is precisely at the point at which everyone is about...