A Rose Phone by any other name
A Rose Phone by any other name – Huawei spin-out Honor offers some clues on the future of the handset industry.
A Rose Phone by any other name – Huawei spin-out Honor offers some clues on the future of the handset industry.
The SPAC Hangover – More fun with numbers – how a SPAC creates some very weird incentives to part like it’s 1999.
Hardware is Hard – Fun with numbers – A hardware company could spend $3 million to launch their first device. A software company could get to revenue faster and still have a $1 million to market a product with recurring revenue.
Serious as a SPAC Attack – In the glow of a SPAC acquisition, companies need to spare a thought for what life will be like as a public company.
How does Amazon do it? – Amazon seems to have created a new model for building conglomerates
The Joy of SPACs – SPACs are a form of Celebrity Capital. But they can also be seen as a cry for help from the financial markets for reform of the IPO process.
Did Qualcomm Just Buy a Server CPU Company? – No. Instead it looks like a very expensive acqui-hire to help the company catch up in mobile applications processors.
Arm CPUs are Eating the World – Twitter is moving to AWS and using Arm-based CPUs, a major milestone in the advance of Arm into the data center and really bad news for Intel.
More Fun with Wireless Standards – The 3GPP has released a new timeline for updates to the 5G standard. And while it is delayed by 7-8 months, there are many signs that we are returning, or at least headed towards, some form of normalcy.
Tsinghua Unigroup Defaults Widen -but do not read too much into. China is committed to its semis policy, and Unigroup may face a change in ownership, but it isn’t going away either.