Research Archive
The Z Fold8 Widens Samsung’s Foldable Range
Samsung expands its portfolio by adding a new form factor to the Galaxy Z family. The original Z Fold becomes the Z Fold8 Ultra, the Flip remains as the Z Flip8, and the new Z Fold8 slots in between. The lineup now offers three distinct experiences, positioned around productivity, content discovery, and self-expression. A skeptic…
China’s AI Arms Race Runs Through Its Chips
As one would expect a nation state to do, China is treating AI as a matter of national power. The recent model releases are an obvious part of the strategy. Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 and Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Both are built for broad use and for work that can run/reason for a long time. In…
Gigawattonomics
Power Sets the Deployment Schedule If you have followed our research, we have tried to maintain as close a view as possible on returns on invested watts. Power availability determines when capacity can be deployed, while revenue per watt determines whether that capacity earns an adequate return. We have consistently framed infrastructure decisions through…
Meta Is an Ads Company Building a Token Factory
Start With the Business Model Business model dictates strategy. That has always been one of the more useful observations in technology analysis, and it provides the way to interpret Meta’s AI buildout. Meta is an advertising company. It distributes its products to billions of people at no direct cost, monetizes their attention, and uses technology…
GPT-5.6, the Diligence Stack Agent Bench, and Why Practical Agent Benchmarks Need to Get Real
Most AI benchmarks still do a mediocre job of explaining how useful models are in the kinds of agentic workflows businesses actually care about. That is not because benchmarks are useless. They are useful. But many of them are still optimized around narrow tasks, coding-heavy environments, academic-style reasoning problems, or synthetic prompts that do not…
The GPU Tsunami: TSMC, Intel, and Samsung Foundry
We continue our series on the GPU Tsunami within the framing that the GPU (thanks to AI) was the spark that set the entire industry on fire. Our first report in this series looked at how power semiconductors and analog control are benefiting from this dynamic. Higher rack density turns electricity delivery into a larger…