@Apple may have just made the dedicated kids phone obsolete.
AI dominated #WWDC26, but the update I keep coming back to is parental controls. #iOS27 (compatible back to #iPhone 11) delivers most of what purpose-built kids devices were designed for. ๐งต
Safety, simplicity, and trust drive the first-phone decision. Apple put all three on stage ahead of Siri AI. Thatโs a signal of how much parent trust matters to Apple.
Full Counterpoint Research #WWDC26 coverage linked below ๐
Great insights from my colleague @mobilekang on @nvidia Jensen and crew Korea tour.
๐๐ปJensenโs Korea Tour - Securing AI Coalition & Chips over ๐Chicken and ๐ปBeer (Chimaek)
Jensen Huang is traveling through Korea making much fanfare on his four day trip which started June 5th. He is holding back-to-back meetings with the heads of major conglomerates over chicken and beer, the pairing called Chi-maek in Korea. This is right after Computex, Taipei so this signals the significance of Korea to Nvidiaโs future strategy alongside Taiwan.
This trip was both a trip to secure supply and accelerate demand for the next wave of AI.
๐ฉ๏ธHyperscalers: Dinner with the heads of LG, SK and Naver.
๐ฎGaming: PC cafรฉ visit with Chairmen of NCsoft and Krafton, Koreaโs top gaming companies.
๐คIndustrial Robots & Automation: First pitch at baseball game with Doosan group chairman alongside individual sessions with Hyundai Motor Group.
โจMemory Supply & more: Separate meetings SK Hynix to Samsung Electronics
Most important priorities and drivers for this visit thus far:
๐ฏ Supply Side: Securing Memory (HBM) for Next Generation NVIDIA AI Factories Infrastructure:
โจThe keys to memory lies with Korea to break the โmemory wallโ.
โ During Computex 2026 Jensen wroteย "PLEASE MAKE MORE" on a wafer in front of SK group Chairman Chey revealing his desire to source more. Nvidia is taking this opportunity to deepen its ties with Korea.
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โ With Vera Rubin ramping, HBM4 supply from @SKhynix and @Samsung alongside growing DRAM content for the Vera CPUs in Agentic Era is going to be the key choke points for NVIDIA's revenue.
โณ๏ธ According to @CounterPointTR Memory Tracker SK Hynix controls 57% of the global HBM market and Samsung aims to take some share away with HBM4 wins at NVIDIA.
โ However, the bit and packaging remain the bottleneck. NVIDIA needs to guarantee priority allocation for upcoming HBM4 and HBM4E nodes, where design integration moves from traditional memory interfaces to advanced foundry base dies. This trip also gives Jensen, key insight into progress of Samsungโs HBM qualification status.
๐ฏ Demand Side: Physical AI & Sovereign AI are the key next markets with Korea a great case study for NVIDIA
โ Physical AI is also an important reason for Jensenโs visit to Korea. Hyundai's robotics center, Doosan's humanoids, Boston Dynamics' Atlas hint that NVIDIA is considering Korea as a manufacturing-and-robotics proving ground. Korea's combination of heavy industry, automotive scale, and robotics gives it a unique angle that the US and Taiwan lack.
โ For NVIDIA, owning the software/simulation layer (Omniverse, foundation models) of the emerging humanoid industry is a strategic land-grab beyond GPUs for AI LLMs.
โ Jensen told media that โRobotics is going to be the next major sector here in Korea โ this is a great opportunity for Korea to invest in AI.โ
โ @DoosanRobotics and NVIDIA have been expanding cooperation since declaring a strategic physical-AI partnership in October last year. Doosan is using NVIDIA's physical AI models on its construction, power, and robotics data.
โ @Hyundai_Global and NVIDIA signed an MOU to advance domestic physical AI capabilities and agreed to invest $3 billion to establish an NVIDIA AI Technology Center and a Hyundai Motor Group Physical AI Application Center in Korea.
โ Meetings with @NAVER_AI_Lab focus on securing localized LLMs optimized for East Asian enterprises. By supporting Naver, NVIDIA ensures high-margin infrastructure demand from regional enterprises that prefer domestic and sovereign cloud providers over US hyperscalers due to regulatory and data compliance mandates.
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Got to ask Jensen his thoughts on how and when Physical AI will see an inflection point - during @nvidia Analyst Q&A this week -
Question:
โPhysical AI has picking up in the factory, the autonomous vehicles.
But to cross the chasm into unstructured human spaces with humanoids like an average home or highly dynamic medical environments, what is the missing link, is it the dexterity, world models or lack of data to train the robots?
When shall we see the โUseful AIโ moment for Physical AI like we are seeing with the Agentic AI?โ
Jensen:
โWe will see rapid integration of Agentic AI into Physical AI and the agentic framework he highlighted during the keynote will start applying to spatial or physical applications from autonomous vehicles to humanoids.โ
He elaborated in detail on the importance of โreasoningโ capabilities for autonomous cars and robots. The Agentic AI is the foundation along with the world models such as Alpameyo. He nicely tied the cloud, the PC, the car, and the humanoid to one agentic blueprint.
โEvery edge device will become autonomous. We are not far away from inflection points for Physical AI.โ
โIn next two years be ready for Physical AI to reach an inflection point.โ
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@CounterPointTR team is already on the ground for #Computex2026.
These are some of the expectations from the team in some key areas.
Computex 2026: Agentic AI & Physical AI Reshaping the Computing Landscape
https://t.co/jHYDuEkMuV
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๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐ง๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐โ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ?
Several major shifts are underway across the global OEM and manufacturing landscape for AI glasses, AR, and VR devices, according to our latest XR & Smart Glasses Manufacturing Ecosystem Report:
โขย @Metaโs key assembly partner for AI glasses, Luxottica, led the global smart glasses manufacturing market with more than 70% share in 2025. However, we expect Luxotticaโs share to decline in 2026 despite continuous volume growth, as Meta diversifies its manufacturing partners and other smart-glasses OEMs gain momentum.
โขย We expect Goertekโs share of the smart glasses manufacturing market to nearly double in 2026, up from only 11% in 2025, driven by design wins with leading customers across both China and international markets. At the same time, Luxshare is emerging as a strong challenger to GoerTek Inc., supported by its growing partnerships with leading US tech companies.
โขย The competition between Goertek and Luxshare is also extending into the AR glasses manufacturing market. While Goertekโs share in AR glasses remained relatively limited in 2025, we expect it to more than double in 2026. The technical barriers to assembling waveguide-based AR glasses are significantly higher than those for display-less smart glasses, which we believe places Goertek in a leading global position, given its strong vertical integration capabilities.
โขย Mainland China still holds a dominant position in global XR and smart glasses manufacturing. However, its share has started to decline since H2 2025 as Vietnam and Taiwan gain traction amid ongoing supply chain diversification efforts from major OEM customers seeking greater production resilience.
Check out our full report for detailed market-share forecasts, supply-chain mapping, manufacturing trends and competitive analysis across the XR and AI glasses manufacturing ecosystem:
https://t.co/FcRoxMWJxp
#AIGlasses #XR #VR #ARVR #Meta #Goertek #Luxshare #Luxottica #CounterpointResearch $META
๐๐&๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ฌ
๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ
โขย The carrier is leaning into its convergence strategy, with the Lumen Technologies acquisition to provide more cross-selling opportunities.
โขย Total mobility revenue increased 3.5% YoY as mobility service revenues rose 1.7% and equipment revenues increased 9.4% YoY.
โขย Postpaid phone net adds decreased 9% YoY, but overall phone subscriber growth continues to grow at 2% YoY pace for the last three quarters.
โขย Prepaid remains a weak spot as prepaid phone subscribers decreased by 72,000 in Q1.
๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ:
https://t.co/7TI8jqpLdY
#ATTEarnings #Postpaid #Prepaid #Broadband #Lumen #ATT @ATT
Some thoughts on Apple's new CEO John Ternus appointment
As I posted last month (Apple at 50: https://t.co/UzqXRkUEYO) that the fundamentals of company creating "highly valuable" lifestyle products is super strong and also master at capturing "higher value" from them. This value creation fundamentals were sown by Steve Jobs and Tim Cook since he took reigns in 2011 transformed this into one of the most valuable companies with disciplined value capture as well.
๐ง๐ถ๐บ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ: ๐จ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ถ๐บ - ๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ & ๐จ๐ป๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
โช๏ธApple has generated more than $4 Trillion in revenue and the market cap grew 1000% from $350 Billion to $4 Trillion.
โช๏ธApple has become one of the world's leading and possibly only semi, hardware, software and services company with best in class vertically integrated supply chain
โช๏ธ Beyond the products, Cook leaves a legacy defined by excellence in supply chain management, manufacturing, and policy, alongside a rare, personal bond with Appleโs global user base.
โช๏ธ John Ternus contributions from Apple Silicon and Vision Pro to the current iPhone and Mac lineups has set a strong full stack hardware ethos for Apple.
โช๏ธ Definitely big shoes to fill but a solid platform to build upon and I believe John is nicely groomed for this day.
๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฏ.๐ฌ: ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฒ๐บ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ "๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ"?
โฝ๏ธI believe Apple is officially entering its โ3.0โ era as the industry transitions from the Jobs-Cook eras to one which is increasingly defined by the โJensen eraโ of technical leadership.
โซ๏ธAll eyes on Ternus if he can translate this strong engineering focus into the same market-shaping value as his predecessors and peers (Satya and Sundar at Microsoft & Google respectively with a massive turnaround).
โซ๏ธThis is especially critical as the focus has shifted to AI data models and agents where hardware design while fundamental but slides into the background.
๐๐ฒ๐ ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ผ๐ฐ๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐: ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐
๐ฏFirst, the real test for Apple and John is building a robust AI stack and experiences which still preserves Apple's "privacy-led" ethos which becomes elusive in AI era
๐ฏSecond, navigating headwinds such as geopolitics, pandemics, supply chain gluts will be a great test of leadership though Tim Cook as Exec Chairman will be the guiding light.
๐ฏThird, maintain mindshare for Apple and hardware engineering as the industry shifts towards the AI behemoths such as Anthropic , OpenAI , SpaceX , NVIDIA , and Alphabet Inc. of the worlds. As these companies are well-positioned and perceived to create more value than what likes of Apple, Amazon or Meta created in the cloud and smartphone era.
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