EP 287: The AI Cloud Shake-Up: AWS’s New Silicon, NVIDIA’s Strategy & Apple’s Innovation Question
Release Date: 12/05/2025
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and cover Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8 billion TerraFab chip factory, Samsung's zHBM debut at FMS 2026, a week of frontier model launches, and a simulated debate for “The Flip” over whether custom silicon will capture the majority of AI workload dollars by 2028. The episode closes with earnings from SpaceX, Palantir, AMD, Astera Labs, IonQ, and Lattice Semiconductor. The handpicked topics for this week are: 1. TerraFab Breaks Ground in Grimes County, Texas: Moorhead and Newman dig into Tesla and SpaceX's approved $16.8 billion TerraFab chip factory near Texas A&M, where Intel is...
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and cover Tim Cook's final WWDC as CEO and Apple's Gemini-powered Siri strategy, the $35 billion Apollo and Blackstone deal backing Anthropic's capacity expansion, Intel's packaging wins with Google and NVIDIA, SpaceX's IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 launch across every major cloud, and earnings reactions from Oracle, Micron, and Adobe. The handpicked topics for this week are: Apple's Siri AI Will Run on Gemini, Closing Out Tim Cook's Final WWDC as CEO: At WWDC, Apple confirmed Siri AI will run on Gemini through a new billion-dollar per year,...
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THE DECODE
AWS re:Invent - Recap
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995522287374848501
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995887913088024903
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995892836135567462
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995894725002609067
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995899055176909140
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995891537520341282
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995526650596032958
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995886428111466567
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995886972917956992
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995890114850160839
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995890899575050436
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995891581241754056
https://x.com/FuturumEquities/status/1995889087304401066
AWS & Google Collaboration on Multicloud Networking
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995490114013987115
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995495191374131705
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995495197141295182
AWS announces new capabilities for its AI agent builder
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/aws-announces-new-capabilities-for-its-ai-agent-builder/?
Amazon previews 3 AI agents including “Kiro” that can code on its own for days
Amazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap
Amazon to let cloud clients customize AI models midway through training for $100,000 a year
Nvidia News
NVIDIA and Synopsys Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Engineering and Design
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1995485878186308079
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks chip restrictions with Trump, blasts state-by-state AI regulations
Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1996331399926988944?s=20
Microsoft denies report of lowering targets for AI software sales growth
Original The Information article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quotas-customers-resist-newer-products?utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=Exclusive&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=twitter
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1996268011041472937?s=20
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1996286385695981617?s=20
Marvell to acquire Celestial AI for as much as $5.5 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/mrvl-earnings-q3-2026-acquires-celestial-ai.html
Why Intel’s Onshore Chip Production Is So Important for U.S. Industrial Policy
MIS & TFG analysts at HPE Discover in Barcelona (Dave, Will Townsend, Ryan Shrout)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7402028871396790272/
THE FLIP
The Flip: Is the Trump Administration’s Pivot to Robotics a Smart Next Move After AI?
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1996221671028777041?s=20
BULLS AND BEARS
November private payrolls unexpectedly fell by 32,000, led by steep small business job cuts, ADP reports https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/adp-jobs-report-november-2025-private-payrolls-unexpectedly-fell-by-32000-.html
Marvell Earnings
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1995989717943537943?s=20
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1996616081000087747?s=20
Salesforce Earnings
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/salesforce-crm-q3-earnings-report-2026.html
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1996328491659542667?s=20
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1996620195062837565?s=20
HPE Earnings
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hpe-forecasts-weak-quarterly-revenue-211059252.html
Dell Earnings
Pure Storage Earnings
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pstg-q3-earnings-lag-despite-solid-revenues-stock-upbeat-view
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1996623201607020695?s=20
Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1996044632871010316?s=20