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  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Smartphones, AI, and Intel

    Thursday, September 5, 2024

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    An interview with Ben Bajarin about AI’s impact on the smartphone market, including the differing strategies between Apple and Google. Then, a long discussion about what to do about Intel.


  • Intel Honesty

    Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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    The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.


  • AMD Acquires ZT Systems, AMD’s Integration, Substack In-App Purchases

    Monday, August 19, 2024

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    AMD is acquiring ZT Systems in a bid to integrate AI system design and AI chips; then, more on Apple’s creator tax


  • An Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su About Solving Hard Problems

    Thursday, June 6, 2024

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    An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about her path to AMD, turning around the chip maker, the AI opportunity, and competing with Nvidia.


  • Nvidia Earnings, AMD Earnings, Nvidia’s Goldilocks Pitch

    Tuesday, May 28, 2024

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    Nvidia crushed earnings as expected, but management’s commentary and Nvidia’s actions highlight the extent to which the company depends on being the best, not necessarily on being integrated.


  • An Interview with Doug O’Laughlin and Dylan Patel about Semiconductors and AI

    Thursday, September 7, 2023

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    An interview with Doug O’Laughlin and Dylan Patel about Google, Nvidia, AWS, ASICS, AMD, and the current status of AI.


  • ChatGPT Enterprise, Connectors and Small Businesses, Nvidia Competitors

    Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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    ChatGPT has an enterprise offering, continuing its coopetition with Microsoft. Then, an overview of Nvidia’s competitors.


  • Intel Pay-Cuts, and Revisiting the Dividend Question; Investor Honesty; AMD’s Earnings

    Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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    Revisiting my Intel dividend take, and admitting I had it wrong. Then, AMD’s rapid capture of marketshare in the data center is a big problem for Intel.


  • More on the China Chip Ban, The AI Focus, Apple and YMTC

    Monday, October 17, 2022

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    More on the China chip ban, including the AI motivation, and how China might interpret things differently. Plus, Apple gets a reminder that there are more considerations than costs.


  • Musk Re-Commits to Twitter; Meta, AITemplate, and Nvidia; Facebook Shutters Bulletin

    Wednesday, October 5, 2022

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    Notes on Musk’s latest Twitter about-face, then Meta open-sources an AI library that is a big threat to Nvidia. Plus, another example of a failed paid product from an ad-supported company.


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    Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams
  • (Preview) New Export Controls in Multiple Sectors; Q3 GDP and the Fifth Plenum; Europe Presses Forward; OpenAI and Nvidia Chips

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