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Tech Newsround – Report week

Semis should fare the best this week. Most of the big tech names will report their results over the next four days and while I expect most to have had...

EVs – The babies and the bathwater.

Reality and interest rates trigger a rout. While the current price correction is likely to mean the end of the road for many of the EV upstarts and the supply...

Apple FQ1 22 – Good to be the king

Apple’s scale helps it to get the supply it needs. Apple reported good results as its scale and its excellence in supply chain management ensured that it was able to...

Intel / Samsung Q4 21 – Two cities

Intel Q4 21 – Hard place. Intel reported reasonable results but pressure on gross margins revealed just how hard Intel is finding life at the moment as in a shortage,...

Tech Newsround – MSFT FQ2 / Arm & Nvidia / Meta

Microsoft FQ2 2022 – skittish investors. Microsoft’s results demonstrated just how edgy the market is with the numbers causing the shares to fall 5% followed by reassuring comments on the...

Netflix & Peloton – Pummelled by normality

Netflix & Peloton pay the price for nose-bleed multiples Netflix Q4 21 – Virtual to reality As the world’s virtual reality of being stuck at home begins to end, people...

China vs USA – Another own goal

China strikes another blow benefitting Team USA. It looks like further draconian measures are coming which will cause the largest source of capital for technology start-ups to dry up in...

Microsoft / Activision – 2nd time lucky

Microsoft has a 2nd shot at the consumer ecosystem. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision is a sure sign that the gold rush for the Metaverse is now in full swing which...

Wayve – Moonshot

Wayve seeks to upend an entire industry. Wayve is the outsider in the autonomous driving industry as it has a unique approach to the problem, but it is one I...

TSMC / Semiconductors– Supercycle pt. III

TSMC’s commentary has all the hallmarks of peak cycle. With $38bn in cash, $40bn in operating cash flow (before Capex), TSMC can afford to take some risk, but the sheer...