Category: Semiconductors, Supply Chain, & Emerging Tech

On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including Marvell buys Innovium, NVIDIA Advances Instant AI, Intel Provides Its Multi-Year Roadmap and more topics you won't want to miss.
Who tried to take down Qualcomm? What were they after? Why didn’t they prevail? What does Qualcomm’s resilience mean for the future? These are the questions that Futurum Senior Analyst, Olivier Blanchard dives into in the second episode of this 3-part series, in which Apple weaponized the courts in an attempt to weaken the value of Qualcomm’s technology portfolio, and Broadcom took advantage of a moment of perceived vulnerability to try and acquire Qualcomm outright. Both Apple and Broadcom would ultimately fail.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss all things earnings related from Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, Google, Amazon and Poly.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on an interesting week in the mainframe space. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) looks to get support for the Grace Hopper Code for Us Act in the House to fund higher ed training for IT jobs and addressing the shortage of professionals with a background in older coding languages needed to maintain and modernize critical government IT systems. Micro Focus plays a significant role in that initiative, and Broadcom looks to transform the mainframe landscape through Open Source with The Linux Foundation, Open Mainframe Project. Very interesting times ahead for the mainframe industry.
AMD has released its Q2 2021 financial results, solidly beating consensus estimates with revenue of $3.85 billion (versus $3.62 billion expected) and earnings of $0.63 (versus $0.54 expected). This is the fourth consecutive quarter of record revenues including a 99 percent Y/Y increase from Q2 2020.
A deal to purchase SAS would diversify Broadcom’s prospects as a real player in software, which it has struggled to achieve.
Tech names AMD, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all saw their results significantly outperform guidance and expectations this week.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has charted a path to expand Intel’s leadership in both semiconductor design and fabrication, including the new RibbonFET transistor architecture, the PowerVia power delivery system, and a revamped node framework that sets the stage for a shift from Nanometer to Angstrom terminology. Our Futurum analysts break it down and explain why this, and the new Intel Foundry Services (IFS), are key to Intel achieving process performance parity by 2024 and leadership by 2025.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Steven Dickens and Daniel Newman discuss the latest earnings reports from SUSE and IBM, Intel and Temenos, Zoom’s acquisition of Five9, and other technology news you won't want to miss.

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