Earnings
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Apple Earnings, Supply Chain Speculation, China and Industrial Design
Apple’s earnings could have been higher but the company couldn’t get enough chips; then, once again a new design meant higher sales in China.
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Intel Earnings, The Agentic Opportunity, Intel’s Mistaken Pessimism
Intel’s earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity.
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TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition
TSMC admitted that it has invested too little in the face of overwhelming demand for AI; that’s why the industry needs to facilitate competition for the foundry leader.
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Nvidia Earnings; Power, Scarcity, and Marginal Costs; OpenAI Hand-wringing
Nvidia earnings are the wrong place to look for evidence of an AI bubble; the company’s margins should be safe if power is the limiting factor.
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Microsoft Earnings, CoreAI/MantleAI, Additional Notes
Microsoft declares independence from OpenAI and sketches out its future role building scaffolding for AI. Plus, Windows is tiny now.
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Apple Earnings, Siri White-Labels Gemini, Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Risk
Apple is already benefitting from AI via the App Store. Meanwhile, Siri will white-label Gemini; the long-term implications are significant.
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Amazon Earnings, AWS and OpenAI, Did Amazon Solve Groceries?
Amazon says the constraint right now is power, not chips; it’s giving plenty of the latter to OpenAI. Then, Amazon solves groceries by getting faster tat delivering everything else.