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5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Datacenter Energy Issue
IBM pays $11B for Confluent and brings its real-time data streaming in-house. They’re aiming to integrate the AI cloud ecosystem across devices. Nvidia thinks it has a way to turn AI datacenters from something that stresses the grid to something that stabilizes it. This is the solution we’ve seen from many Bitcoin miners. Let’s hope … Read more
5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Many Ayatollahs Issue
The US and Israel are knocking out Ayatollahs as fast as Iran can appoint them. Did they kill the entire 88-member council that appoints the next one? We don’t know which explains why DKI didn’t make changes to the portfolio this week despite high market volatility. Our long-term thesis explaining why we own Bitcoin, gold, … Read more
5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Another AI Cap-X Issue
It was a big week for the tech industry. Nvidia and Meta signed a deal for GPUs and CPUs that caused (valid) concerns about Intel and AMD. Google is making a bid for a share of the AI chip business with its TPUs. And if the future trend for compute goes from training to inference, … Read more
Intel and Nvidia and Meta
Yesterday, Nvidia $NVDA announced it would develop chips for Meta $META datacenters based on $ARM technology. Some analysts think this is a threat to Intel $INTC and $AMD. That concern is valid. There are a lot of moving parts so let’s go through the details. 1) Intel and AMD produce chips based on the … Read more
Looking at the Downside
It’s been a volatile few days. Let’s recap: The Federal Reserve: I continue to believe the market is overestimating the impact Fed Chair nominee, Warsh, could have on the economy and the markets. Last week, there was reasonable fear that Warsh would be hawkish (favoring higher interest rates). I’m skeptical of that take, despite … Read more
5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Made in the USA Issue
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