AI models keep clearing hard benchmarks while US GDP prints ~1.5%. Economists are pushing back on double-digit AI-GDP fairy tales.
判断:能力曲线和 GDP 曲线本来就不同步——组织改造、电力、机器人落地才是瓶颈。交易上别把「模型又突破」直接映射成「宏观要加速」;那是两套账。
Analog Devices is buying Alif Semiconductor for $1.35B cash (plus earnout) — edge AI / on-device inference, not another GPU headline.
Thesis: training money still floods the data center; the next margin fight is sensing + local inference in power-constrained devices. ADI is buying the microcontroller layer that sits next to the sensor.