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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%…

October 24, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit: Oryon Sets the Table for PCs with AI

What’s Significant Qualcomm has finally shared extensive details of their Oryon custom architecture purpose-built to take Arm-based Windows PCs to the next level. This is a result of years of work via their acquisition of Nuvia, and represents a significant moment for Qualcomm as they return to a proprietary custom Arm architecture. Overall, Qualcomm shared…

October 24, 2023 / Max Weinbach

Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit: What’s new with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Today at Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced their 2024 flagship mobile chipset: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Below is our thoughts on what is significant and a recap of the main announcements. What’s Significant: Gen AI is being a popular marketing term and also a differentiating factor for a lot of consumer and enterprise products right now.…

October 24, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Research Note: Our View on Report Nvidia and AMD Arm PC Chips

The recent report from Reuters about Nvidia looking to make a push with an Arm PC chip has been a long time coming. We have known about Nvidia’s interests in this space for several years as a part of a broader CPU roadmap on Arm moving from data center to PC.  The report also highlights…

October 20, 2023 / Ben Bajarin

Arm Embraces the Custom Silicon Trend with Arm Total Design

One of the biggest trends we have continued to reference is the move to custom silicon by numerous names in big tech. Almost every major player in technology has some aspect of custom silicon, and you would be hard-pressed to find a product or category in tech that is built purely from off-the-shelf silicon. Your…

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