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  • (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple

    Sharp Tech | Jun 12
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  • An Interview with Substrate CEO James Proud About Building a Disruptive Foundry in America

    Thursday, October 30, 2025

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    An interview with Substrate CEO James Proud about X-ray lithography, disrupting TSMC, and betting on American innovation.


  • An Interview with Jon Yu About YouTube and Making Semiconductors

    Monday, January 20, 2025

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    An interview with Asianometry founder Jon Yu about starting and running a successful YouTube channel, how semiconductors are made, and the past and future of Intel and TSMC.


  • An Interview with Dylan Patel and Doug O’Laughlin About the Current State of Semiconductors and SemiAnalysis

    Thursday, November 14, 2024

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    An interview with Dylan Patel and Doug O’Laughlin about the current state of the AI supply chain, and big plans for SemiAnalysis.


  • TSMC Earnings, Margins and Arizona, ASML and Peak Lithography

    Monday, October 21, 2024

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    TSMC’s earnings highlight foundry economics and the importance of AI; meanwhile ASML and TSMC both give evidence that CPUs are struggling


  • An Interview with Gregory C. Allen About China’s Chip Ban Response

    Thursday, May 4, 2023

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    An interview with Gregory C. Allen about Japan and Netherlands joining the chip ban, whether this path was avoidable, and what China is going to do next.


  • An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPhone Moment

    Thursday, March 23, 2023

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    An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the impact of ChatGPT, Nvidia’s new cloud service, and how Nvidia is adapting to new geopolitical and competitive realities.


  • An Interview with Gregory C. Allen About the Past, Present, and Future of the China Chip Ban

    Thursday, December 15, 2022

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    An interview with Gregory C. Allen about the Biden administrations China chip export controls, plus the broader historical context of U.S.-China relations, the history of Silicon Valley and the U.S. military, and the factors that drove the globalization of chips in the first place


  • An Interview with Dan Wang About the China Chip Ban

    Thursday, October 27, 2022

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    An Interview with Dan Wang about the China chip ban, the Party Congress, and China and his views of China have changed over time.


  • Chips and China

    Tuesday, October 25, 2022

    Understanding the path the semiconductor industry took to today both shows where China needs to go and also explains why the risks for geopolitical conflict are higher than ever.


  • An Interview With Jay Goldberg About the Chip Slowdown, Intel and Nvidia, and the CHIPS Act

    Thursday, August 25, 2022

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    An Interview With Jay Goldberg About the Chip Slowdown, Intel and Nvidia, and the CHIPS Act, plus Nvidia’s perfect storm, the importance of software versus chip design, and why Goldberg is so optimistic about ARM in the data center.


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  • (Preview) Xi Goes to North Korea; Inspecting Xinjiang; A $295 Billion AI Buildout; The Pentagon Alleges PLA Links for Alibaba and Others

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