The WSJ is reporting that Intel and Apple have reached an agreement for Apple to use Intel’s Foundry business for chip making. It’s not clear yet which chips Intel will make for which Apple products. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported talks between the sides, something that had been a rumored open secret for months. The … Read more
This morning, Bloomberg reported that Apple is evaluating Intel (and Samsung) to potentially produce core processors for its devices. I’ve been hearing specific rumors about Apple’s interest in Intel Foundry since last October. The stated reason is the obvious one: Apple (and pretty much everyone in the space) wants a second source of supply besides … Read more
Quick announcement: I’ll be in Bangkok for the next few weeks. While I’m here, I’m open to a small number of in-person conversations. If you’re based locally, or know someone here you think it would be worthwhile for me to meet, feel free to reach out privately at IR@DeepKnowledgeInvesting.com. The big news of the week … Read more
Last year, there was a lot of reasonable speculation that Cisco $CSCO from a quarter-century ago was analogous to Nvidia $NVDA now. The thinking was that Cisco was selling the hardware that new internet companies needed. (That was analogous to selling the picks and shovels to gold miners more than 100 years earlier.) When the … Read more
President Trump fires the head of the BLS. We immediately get performative complaining that the integrity of the BLS and the government data collection process is being threatened and politicized. Somehow, the “integrity” crowd ignores the fact that last year, there were two 800k plus revisions and we just had a 258k revision. Firing the … Read more
Maybe we should have called this The Energy Issue. President Trump is trying to cut through decades of red tape by building nuclear reactors on military bases. If you want to electrify everything and have AI datacenters without more carbon-based energy, nuclear is the only option. Do you own enough uranium? 90% of US companies … Read more
