David Sacks Explains How Sam Altman Will Own Most of OpenAI

Billionaire David Sacks of the All in Podcast explains how CEO Sam Altman will won most of OpenAI. Sacks says that the funding for OpenAI has been a capped return model. Capped return means that investors get returns up to some multiple say 10X or 100X. When they get their return then there shares revert …

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Apple on Pace for $120 Billion 2022 Net Income and Says Supply Chain Improving

Apple beat on its quarterly results but more importantly they say their supply chain issues are improving. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company’s supply issues were improving. He said that in terms of supply challenges, the December quarter was worse than Apple’s September quarter, but that he is projecting the March quarter to …

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Apple Has Over 85% of the Smartphone Corporate Market Value

Apple has about 13-15% of the total smartphone market in terms of unit sales but has 75% of the smartphone profits. Apple has over 85% of the corporate market value for the smartphone industry. Apple’s cellphone business is about 20 times the market value of the second-place smartphone company. The second-place smartphone market value is …

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Taiwan Semiconductors 2 Nanometer Future and Beyond

Taiwan Semiconductor is realizing its major research projects. They will have volume production of their 3 nanometer chips in 2021 and will get beyond to 2 nanometers and toward 1 nanometer chips in 2023-2025. 2020-2026, Taiwan semiconductor is working specialty on SoC (system on a chip) technology (including new NVM, MEMS, RF, analog) and transistors …

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Apple Will Privacy Improvement Will Cut Facebook Ad Revenue

The Apple iOS 14 operating system will require apps to ask users for permission to collect and share data using Apple’s device identifier. Facebook will not collect the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) on our own apps on iOS 14 devices. The identifier was critical for Facebook targeting its audience network ads. Facebook says the Apple …

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Coronoavirus Contact Tracing Smartphone App

Singapore developed a contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogther. It allow Singapore to quickly track people who have been exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases. The app can identify people who have been within 2 meters of coronavirus patients for at least 30 minutes, using wireless Bluetooth technology. The app was developed by the Singapore Government Technology …

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Samsung Has 108 Megapixels in One Mobile Image Sensor

Samsung Electronics has new 108 megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, the first mobile image sensor in the industry to go beyond 100 million pixels. With the latest addition, Samsung will expand its 0.8μm image sensor offerings from its recently announced ultra-high 64Mp to 108Mp, a resolution equivalent to that of a high-end DSLR camera. …

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Beyond Deep Learning: Investing in the Future of AI – Presented by Samsung NEXT #emtechdigital

Breakthroughs in deep learning are inspiring the evolution of AI. But will this “deep learning + X” model drive AI to its fullest potential? While problem solving with more data and deeper models has a place in AI’s evolution, not every problem can be solved by this model. Samsung NEXT not only enables “deep learning …

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