@Meta is putting AI glasses where it believes demand will be.
AI wearables are one of the few categories with room to create the next billion-dollar hardware business. @ray_ban@oakley@EssiLux
Launching new hardware is one step. Putting it in front of consumers through names like @KylieJenner may matter just as much.
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If TSMC raises prices Customers will look for alternatives like Intel and Samsung.
This is similar to CXMT gaining share in the memory market from Samsung and Micron when prices started to rise last year.
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Great timing for Intel and Samsung Foundry to benefit from the tailwinds.
After Apple shifted M7 to Intel and some âcustomersâ diversifying to Samsung. I believe this has begun.
The only thing that now matters is how Intel & Samsung maintain TSMC-esque yield rates.
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The humanoid race is increasingly becoming a US-China competition. China is leading. @UnitreeRobotics, is one of the leaders. It is betting on scale. You got to deploy as many robots into the real world to gain the know how.
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In the race to IPOs.
One to watch out for is @UnitreeRobotics
đ¤Our team did a deep dive on the world's second largest Humanoid supplier's prospects.
âŤď¸Most people still frame the humanoid robot race through the lens of US players like @Figure_robot , @Tesla and @BostonDynamics â focusing on cinematic demos, frontier AI, and the question of âwho has the smartest robotâ.
âŤď¸However, Chinaâs Unitree forces a different question: what if the first real advantage in humanoids starts from manufacturing cadence, cost structure, fast iteration, and deployment volume?
âŤď¸Unitree is Chinaâs leading robotics company and the clearest expression of a humanoid strategy that prizes scale before intelligence excellence.
âŤď¸As Unitree prepares for its IPO, this report argues that China may not need to win the first round of this race by building the most intelligent robot.
âŤď¸ It can also win by building enough robots at low cost to create the real-world data and field-learning loop that gradually hardens the intelligence layer.
âŤď¸Unitree fast-tracking its IPO and the plan to build 75,000 humanoids per year (June 1, 2026)
âŤď¸Unitreeâs humanoid robot H2+ partnering with @NVIDIARobotics Isaac GR00T (June 1, 2026)
âŤď¸The 81-hour full-autonomy live demo from Unitreeâs biggest US rival, Figure AI (Mid-May, 2026)
âŤď¸The proposed GUARD Act from the US that could put the Unitree-NVIDIA collaboration under pressure (June 3, 2026)
âŤď¸Together, these signals reveal a much larger story â humanoid robotics is becoming a new front in the US-China AI race.
âŤď¸The US path is centered on frontier autonomy, onboard intelligence and world-model-driven planning. Chinaâs path is built around scale, supply chain integration, cost-down execution and faster deployment.
âŤď¸Through this lens, @CounterPointTR latest insight offers a clearer view of where humanoid robots are actually advancing, how the US and China are taking different routes, where Unitreeâs opportunities and bottlenecks sit, and what the next phase of the race may look like.
đ¤The deep dive report combines public IPO and production data with a founder-level, close-to-company perspective. It connects the key signals emerging in the same time window
#PhysicalAI #Robots #Humanoids
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The HBM race is entering its most competitive phase, @SKhynix the leader in HBM with 56% share announces its 12 layer HBM 4E. But this is 3 weeks later than Samsung. Can SK Hynix maintain its lead this year? How significant is a 3 week lead?
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The HBM market leader @SKhynix with revenue share of more than half of the market has started shipping samples for its latest 12-layer HBM 4E.
The competition is going to be super intense as Samsung and Micron has begun ramping up.
- 16 Gbps per pin (+20% vs prev gen)
- 48GB capacity in 12-Hi stack
- Advanced MR-MUF lowering beta resistance
Remains to be seen the performance of 12-Hi as there were general industry concerns around power efficiency and hence the growing preference for 8-Hi
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The AI debate is shifting from "Will AI affect jobs?" to "How many?" Every technology wave created new jobs. With AI, the goal is to drive down cost 10x and increase productivity 10x. Some jobs will disappear. Tom thinks that will be 10-20%. #AI#FutureofWork
Will AI steal human jobs? If so how many? It looks like Sam Altman and Dario are back pedaling their previous take on AI vs jobs. Our take is that it will be 10-20% of jobs disappearing to robots and AI. https://t.co/Q5PVnc4NMa
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The memory crunch is pushing smartphone OEMs in the US to build inventory faster in H1 2026 than in H1 2025, when fears of looming tariffs shifted demand.
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â˘Â @Samsung inventory has climbed YoY as it pushes Galaxy A16 and Galaxy A17 volumes, despite weakness in the prepaid channel in the US.
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. @Apple trialling its M7 on @intel's 18A-P will be a turnaround moment for Intel's foundry ambitions. But yield matters more than nodes. Matching TSMC's manufacturing consistency will be the make-or-break factor.
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@Intel_Foundry new 18A-P brings in necessary enhancement to performance and power efficiency and likely to attract Apple which is potentially trialling to get in Apple Silicon M7 likely as reported by @CNBC@KatieTarasov
This could be a good start for $INTC and Apple instead of moving the high volume and critical iPhone A19 series which requires âDay 1â critical $TSM level âhero yieldsâ.
As we discussed, TSMC is the benchmark here and matching those yield rates is going to make or break the deal.
Further, this could be one of the first Arm based major SoCs Intel will attempt to fab, so all eyes on.
I believe Intel will get there putting the âyield ghostsâ in the rear view mirror if it can keep those up with healthy UTRs.
Interesting times.