chips

5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2020 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about chips, oldest first

Nov 16, 2020 positive
Insight
Evans: Apple only goes asset-heavy in retail and custom silicon
“And so they've always been very, they've always been actually been very asset light in almost all of this stuff. It's only, it's A, retail, and B, chips. Those are the places that they push deep into assets. Because that was where you could deliver something f…”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 18:36 The paradox of Apple
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Opinion
Evans: Semiconductor chips are strategically interesting to tech again beyond Apple
“You know, there's a longer conversation to have around chips, which I think have become strategically interesting to the rest of tech for the first time in a very long time like beyond, beyond just Apple.”
Benedict Evans Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 0:58 All the other things happening in tech part 1.
Dec 19, 2022 neutral
Insight
Goldberg: Computing is swinging back from general-purpose to specialized chips
“I mean, it's a pendulum, and we've swung very, very far to general purpose compute, and now we're swinging back towards more specific purpose type chips.”
Jay Goldberg Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 20:36 Why are chips interesting again?
Dec 19, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Goldberg: Cruise autonomous vehicles contain $10,000 to $20,000 in chips
“Because if you look at sort of the autonomous cars that are out there today, like I live in San Francisco and there's autonomous cruise cars driving around. They have 10, 20,000 dollars of chips in them, right?”
Jay Goldberg Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 34:42 Why are chips interesting again?
Jul 15, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Evans: AI Model Makers Lack Value Capture Due to Identical Technologies
“Because right now there isn't a path to value capture because right now you've got a lot of people doing basically the same thing with basically the same technology and the same data and the same chips.”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 14:35 Token pricing
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