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December 7, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

AMD Advancing AI Event: All Eyes on MI300X

Yesterday, AMD held an event launching a range of new products focused on AI as the event was themed Advancing AI. Key Takeaways increased its AI Accelerator TAM outlook to $400B+ in 2027 (up from $150B) driven by a faster pace of AI infrastructure buildout MI300X Official Launch with detailed specs and customer testimonials Advancements…

November 28, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

AWS re:Invent – Custom Silicon Continues to Mature

At Amazon’s yearly event, highlighting all the ways AWS is continuing to innovate around cloud platforms and infrastructure, they unveiled updates to two key parts of their custom silicon stack. Graviton 4 and Tranium 2. Key Takeaways On it’s fourth generation, Graviton continues to offer increased value in performance and price efficiency Graviton 4 moves…

November 22, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Nvidia Q4 2023 Earnings: Sustainable and Defendable Growth In Sight

As expected, Nvidia had a beat and raise. Below are key takeaways from the quarter and the call. Key Takeaways Nvidia’s guide and commentary should quell any concerns about growth into 2024 A key question from investors was on fending off competitors, CEO Jensen Huang articulated compelling cases for Nvidia’s competitive advantage. AI Factories and…

November 20, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Microsoft the Now AI Powerhouse

With the news that Microsoft has hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, after the absolute debacle that has been Open AI over the past few days, Microsoft has now emerged as the most powerful force in AI.   Key Takeaways Microsoft is now in position to not be depending on an outside source for a…

November 13, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Arm’s Latest Earnings: Things Learned and What’s Significant

What’s Significant Despite a beat, Arm’s stock was down after hours. One of the main challenges we feel facing investors is Arm is better evaluated on a yearly basis and not a quarterly one. Investors were negative due to a lower-guide for the next quarter which hinges solely on the timing of a customer deal.…

October 31, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Apple Mac Scary Fast Recap and Insights

What Was Significant Our view has consistently been that Apple’s ambition with the Mac business is to continue to grow to take share from Windows in the higher-end>$1000 segment of the laptop market. Apple, in the last few years, has hovered around 10% of WW PC sales, and while they have never been at 10%…

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