Incentives
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GM Kills Cruise, Fleets Versus Autonomy, Robotaxi Outlook
GM killed Cruise’s robotaxi ambitions, which were never a good match; then, mapping out a future robotaxi world.
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Intel’s Death and Potential Revival
Intel died when mobile cost it its software differentiation; if the U.S. wants a domestic foundry, then it ought to leverage the need for AI chips to make an independent Intel foundry viable.
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An Interview with Tae Kim about Jensen Huang and The Nvidia Way
An interview with Tae Kim about his new book, The Nvidia Way, and how Jensen Huang built Nvidia to continuously invent the future.
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Gelsinger Out at Intel, What Happened, Ten Years Too Late
Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO. It seems likely that the board has cold feet about the foundry business, and a split may be forthcoming.
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An Interview with Dylan Patel and Doug O’Laughlin About the Current State of Semiconductors and SemiAnalysis
An interview with Dylan Patel and Doug O’Laughlin about the current state of the AI supply chain, and big plans for SemiAnalysis.
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Microsoft Earnings; Microsoft and OpenAI, Again; GitHub Copilot Adds Gemini and Claude
Microsoft’s latest earnings call is the clearest indication yet that the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is at best misaligned, and at worst on life support.
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TSMC Earnings, Margins and Arizona, ASML and Peak Lithography
TSMC’s earnings highlight foundry economics and the importance of AI; meanwhile ASML and TSMC both give evidence that CPUs are struggling