The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman

The Six Five Pod | EP 270: Silicon Strategies: Intel's 14A Gambit and the Future of Chip Manufacturing

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman dive into the latest tech news and earnings reports. They discuss Intel's foundry strategy, NVIDIA's chip sales to China, and recent earnings from major tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.  Get their analysis of market trends, geopolitical factors affecting the tech sector, and the competitive landscape among industry giants. This week’s handpicked topics include:   Discussion of the EU's 40 billion Euro AI chip purchase agreement with the U.S.: A quick analysis of the practicality and implications of this deal. (The Decode) Palo Alto Networks Acquisition of CyberArk: A look at their potential $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk and the strategic importance of identity management in cybersecurity. (The Decode) NVIDIA Updates: Concerns about potential backdoors in NVIDIA’s H20 chips and an analysis of the insatiable global demand for NVIDIA’s AI chips. (The Decode) Microsoft & OpenAI’s Ongoing Relationship Challenges: Commentary on Satya Nadella & Sam Altman’s respective strategies (The Decode) The Flip - Intel's 14A Foundry Strategy: A simulated debate on Intel's approach to 14A Foundry development, including a discussion of geopolitical implications and competition in the semiconductor industry.  Bulls & Bears Tech Earnings Roundup - Analysis of recent earnings reports from major tech companies: - Amazon's impressive growth and future potential - Microsoft's strong performance, particularly in Azure - Meta's success in leveraging AI for platform stickiness - Apple's steady performance and potential AI developments - Arm's strategic shift towards chip production - Qualcomm's challenges in market perception despite solid performance Market Reactions and Future Outlook: Market responses to earnings reports and strategic moves, and speculation on future developments in AI, robotics, and data center technologies. For a deeper dive into each topic, please click on the links above. Be sure to subscribe to The Six Five Pod so you never miss an episode.  

EP 269: From D.C. to Silicon Valley: Navigating the AI Revolution

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include:   Trump aims to get rid of AI regulations in a push to win the AI race (The Decode) https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5213904/trump-ai-regulations https://www.csis.org/analysis/experts-react-unpacking-trump-administrations-plan-win-ai-race Pat speaks on Winning the AI Race Event and “Trump’s AI Roadmap” (The Decode)   https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1947644571627757683 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948044849858437209 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948045885939531813 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948063418696511930 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948057960636158019 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1948059191182045549 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948116469612527820 Pat on Yahoo Finance breaking the event down https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1948547645011525860 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/china-ai-action-plan.html US and EU clinch trade deal to avert prohibitive US tariffs, Trump says (The Decode)   https://www.reuters.com/business/us-eu-clinch-trade-deal-avert-prohibitive-us-tariffs-trump-says-2025-07-27/ https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1949535107288801287 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1949534884655145434 US, China hold new talks on tariff truce extension, easing path for Trump-Xi meeting (The Decode)   https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-china-hold-new-talks-tariff-truce-extension-easing-path-trump-xi-meeting-2025-07-28/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-us-extend-tariff-pause-sweden-talks-by-another-90-days-scmp-reports-2025-07-27/ Trump announces ‘massive trade’ agreement with Japan (Bulls and Bears) https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/business/japan-trade-agreement-us Earnings Season (Bulls and Bears) Tesla Earnings https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-misses-on-q2-earnings-but-says-more-affordable-model-planned-for-2025-production-201633342.html https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1948525488936484961 IBM Q2 Earnings https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/ibm-q2-earnings-report-2025.html Alphabet Inc. - Q2 2025 https://finance.yahoo.com/video/alphabet-posts-q2-earnings-beat-201530698.html https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1947371163526570418 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1947724737813107160 T-Mobile US - Q2 2025 Earnings https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-mobile-dials-up-big-earnings-beat-as-it-bests-verizon-att-in-new-customers-201824624.html ServiceNow Q2 2025 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/servicenow-now-q2-earnings-2025.html https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1947726458891141274 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1947712998501462422 Intel - Q2 2025 Earnings https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/intel-intc-earnings-report-q2-2025.html TSMC - Trillion Dollar Market Cap (Bulls and Bears) https://qz.com/tsmc-trillion-market-cap-ai-chips-taiwan-earnings-semiconductor

The Six Five Pod | EP 268: The Fed, Inflation, and AI: Decoding Market Signals

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include:   NVIDIA & AMD get greenlight to sell & ship chips to China (The Decode) https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/business/NVIDIA-resume-h20-chip-sales-to-china-intl-hnk  https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945509802211254661  https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945089356022096361 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945049406199226857 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945049728141447261 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1944939965953011869 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945084756619571695 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945120959314141508 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945317350573519001 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945439985139691965 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945509802211254661 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945504256821457108 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945582561066877304 National-Security Concerns Tie Up Trump’s U.A.E. Chips Deal (The Decode) https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/national-security-concerns-tie-up-trumps-u-a-e-chips-deal-a0273815 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945816740987797799 DoD $200M Investment In AI Companies + Grok in the Pentagon + xAI (The Decode) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-granted-up-to-200-million-from-dod.html Trump Touts Billions in Investments to Create AI Hub in Pennsylvania https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-to-tout-billions-in-investments-to-create-ai-hub-in-pennsylvania-1e9afa89?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAi_pJAtfK0fPCCk3S5NJcha_SuAm3XOeUy0DRuI3CMWo2gZdOaIlyBtlxQUyAo%3D&gaa_ts=68781440&gaa_sig=_Yqa5IRyVzkkxPc_xhj_byTz9tIqmfU3uYprcwrEJY-8pMkq1FCK9CZsPqsyMrV7gPK26K5Gon8bw2Vp_cu5xQ%3D%3D Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI (The Decode) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musk-xai-pentagon-contract/ https://x.ai/news/government AWS New York Summit Keynote (The Decode) https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945501010824413579 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945501932270850512 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945502428100505736  https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-agentic-ai-innovations-2025  AWS KIro Announcement - Jason video https://youtube.com/shorts/Dlaxxbfc_k8?feature=share  AWS is Launching an AI Agent Marketplace With Anthropic (The Decode) https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/aws-is-launching-an-ai-agent-marketplace-next-week-with-anthropic-as-a-partner/  Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi took us inside his $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, which closes today (The Decode) https://fortune.com/2025/07/17/synopsys-ceo-sassine-ghazi-35-billion-acquisition-ansys/ Trump intensifies trade war with threat of 30% tariffs on EU, Mexico (Bulls and Bears) https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-announces-30-tariffs-eu-2025-07-12/ CPI and PPI (Bulls and Bears) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/ppi-inflation-report-june-2025.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/us-producer-prices-stagnated-on-decline-in-services-costs?embedded-checkout=true https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpi-report-june-2025-inflation-trump-tariffs/   Trump Firing Powell? (Bulls and Bears) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-indicated-republican-lawmakers-he-will-fire-feds-powell-cbs-reports-2025-07-16/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-does-the-federal-reserve-do-and-why-is-trump-mad-at-its-chair-jerome-powell/   TSMC Earnings (Bulls and Bears) TSMC profit surges 61% to record high fueled by AI chip demand https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/tsmcs-second-quarter-profit-soars-nearly-61percent-as-ai-chip-demand-stays-strong-.html https://x.com/FuturumEquities/status/1944741028952707502 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1944737452150673605 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945790790556663909  

EP 267: Get the Decode on Grok 4, Galaxy Folds, AI Ethics, and Frothy Markets

 On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include: X and xAI News https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/elon-musks-xai-launches-grok-4-alongside-a-300-monthly-subscription/ https://x.com/patrickmoorhead/status/1943342069235245421?s=46&t=YiEHo6jc4-PozRf_efr9PA https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-elon-musk.html https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1942957094811951197   Apple/META/OpenAI Talent War & Exits https://www.investopedia.com/meta-poaches-apple-ai-executive-reports-say-11768000 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942350275437813777 https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-hires-scaling/ https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942721860166353287 https://www.investopedia.com/meta-platforms-enticed-apple-ai-executive-with-200m-pay-package-report-says-11769571   Samsung Galaxy Unpacked https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942961894832152898 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942953058184437939 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942948447281455188 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942725650152055227 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942963639134375952 https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1942967272626323730   Groq EU Data Center https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942400094852222989   Capgemini $3.3B WNS Acquisition https://www.reuters.com/en/frances-capgemini-buy-business-transformation-firm-wns-33-billion-2025-07-07/ https://www.reuters.com/en/frances-capgemini-buy-business-transformation-firm-wns-33-billion-2025-07-07/ (duplicate, but good for emphasis if you want!) Tredence Agentic AI Playbook https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tredence-launches-agentic-ai-playbook-for-cdaos-to-scale-enterprise-modernization-302500398.html Apple Perplexity Deal https://thetechnologyexpress.com/apple-eyes-14b-deal-for-perplexity-ai-to-boost-search-and-challenge-google/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/apple-executives-have-held-internal-talks-about-buying-ai-startup-perplexity https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dan-ives-says-apple-aapl-102802274.html Microsoft & Replit “Vibe Coding” https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/in-a-blow-to-google-cloud-replit-partners-with-microsoft/ The Flip – NVIDIA Dominance https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942947771738104164 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942722398501101954 Bulls & Bears – Futurum Equities AI 15 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942378588948623468 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942947187278987621 https://futurumequities.com/ Bulls & Bears – NVIDIA Earnings & Trends https://x.com/YahooFinance/status/1942546161279041868 https://x.com/YahooFinance/status/1942422381894492183 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942550986570227807 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942642005127127268 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942722398501101954 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942947771738104164 https://finance.yahoo.com/video/nvidia-stock-why-investors-bullish-220000250.html?guccounter=2 Bulls & Bears – CoreWeave Updates https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/coreweave-to-acquire-core-scientific-in-9-billion-all-stock-deal.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/coreweave-dell-blackwell-ultra-nvidia.html https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1941122315263283535   Bulls & Bears – SOFI Rapid Growth https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942367641123061833 https://x.com/SoFi/status/1942569679136120996 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1942617508743368921   Bulls & Bears – LangChain Unicorn Round https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/langchain-is-about-to-become-a-unicorn-sources-say/   Bulls & Bears – S&P 500 / Other https://x.com/TheTranscript_/status/1942219645743718797 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhOwlEyJhOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_72m2LfLwM

EP 266: Tech Giants' Chess Moves - From Meta's Hiring Flex to Oracle's Cloud Surge

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include:   Amazon’s 1 million robot milestone https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-million-robots-ai-foundation-model AI job losses and economic impacts https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/as-job-losses-loom-anthropic-launches-program-to-track-ais-economic-fallout/ https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/microsoft-lay-off-many-9000-employees-seattle-times-reports-2025-07-02/ Intel Foundry Updates https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/intels-new-ceo-explores-big-shift-chip-manufacturing-business-2025-07-02/ Tesla robotaxis: Game-changing or overhyped? https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-robotaxi-uber-stock-415b1a91 "Big Beautiful Bill" and economic growth https://qz.com/online-shopping-just-saw-its-biggest-drop-in-more-than-a-decade-survey-says https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trump-announces-us-vietnam-trade-145624832.html Oracle's $30 billion cloud deal https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/oracle-orcl-stock-cloud-deal.html Robinhood and SoFi fintech success https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/robinhood-stock-record.html https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1940247427946357189 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1939795552738202064 https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/sofi-technologies-stock-hits-52week-high-at-1843-93CH-4117314 https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1939688148155412527 HPE-Juniper acquisition https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hewlett-packard-hpe-surges-11-142505725.html