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DeepSeek: Good for Nvidia, Great for America

January 29, 2025

Reports that Chinese start-up DeepSeek can train ChatGPT-like AI models for 5% of the costs incurred by OpenAI —$5 million versus $100 million— cratered U.S. tech stocks, and most of all Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA), which lost $600 billion in market cap in one trading session, a global record. Even more dramatic, DeepSeek’s cost to […]

Irrational Exuberance for Not Quite Emerging Technologies

January 27, 2025

In the wake of the U.S. election, the tech market is abuzz. The hypsters are hyperventilating. SoftBank is headed for a Stargate. One more time we are promised machines that really think (really, truly this time). The mystagogy of “quantum computing” bedazzles as ever. And unwary investors are impaled on the spikes. To the Stars […]

Tech Winners and Losers from Trump 2.0

January 22, 2025

In the tech world, who wins and who loses from Donald Trump’s return? That’s the subject of a forthcoming Exclusive Report for subscribers to the Gilder Technology Report. In the meantime, here are some thoughts. We have not been fans of the sanctions against China. We don’t like to see U.S. semiconductor companies losing revenue […]

A Sideways Market, A Huge Opportunity for Tech Investors

January 20, 2025

Despite the Fed’s best efforts to stifle the economy—which it bizarrely believes is the way to conquer inflation—we are not going to have a recession. That’s the conclusion of our Eagle colleague and favorite living economist, Mark Skousen, editor of Forecasts and Strategies. Mark will go down in history for founding FreedomFest and, among other […]

A Great Time to Be Alive

January 15, 2025

As 2025 opens with Los Angeles aflame and the world fraught with a crisis of the old political order, emerging is a future of supreme promise in new technology. From the physics and finance of microchips to the launch of hyperscale computers and the exa-fabric of the “Internet of Things,” the new year portends a […]

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George Gilder is the most knowledgeable man in America when it comes to the future of technology and its impact on our lives. For three decades, his monthly service, Gilder’s Technology Report, has helped individual investors make money from the newest and most important technological trends and companies in the world. Each month, George details the evolving paradigms in technology and provides a roadmap to the best investments available.  Click here to learn more.

Extra! Extra! Nvidia Buys Intel!!!!! Next Stop $5 Trillion!!!!! Well… We Can Dream Can’t We?

January 13, 2025

    By George Gilder and Dr. Robert Castellano   With Lina Khan finally out of the Federal Trade Commission, maybe we can have a Commission that actually favors trade.   Crucial to a trade policy that advances American competitiveness is to be strategic about size. In a global market, America will often be better […]

How to Make Money in the Coming Nuclear Counterstrike!

January 8, 2025

The data center energy crisis is not new. Already 20 years ago, as I recounted in “Life After Google,”  the search engine titan invested some $2 billion to create its first owned data center by the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River. The dam, with its 1.8 gigawatt power station, provided cheap subsidized power even […]

Tit-for-Tat: Apple vs. Nvidia 

January 6, 2025

This past summer, Apple (AAPL) announced it would no longer use Nvidia (NVDA) GPUs (graphic processor units) to train its AI models. Instead, it would turn to Google’s (GOOG) tensor processing units (TPUs) for now until it could shift to its own “Baltra” processor still in development. The move did not surprise us. The two […]

Happy New Year, ‘Cause We’re All Going to Get Really Rich

January 1, 2025

In 2015, the global semiconductor industry pulled in $335 billion in revenue. In 2025, it will more than double that to nearly $690 billion. We’ve become so accustomed to exceptional growth in this industry that those numbers may not seem remarkable. They are. Not since the infancy of the industry have semiconductor revenues grown so […]

Biden’s Commerce Secretary:  Sanctioning China Was a ‘Fool’s Errand’

December 30, 2024

Our Oxford English Dictionary informs us that a “Fool’s Errand” is “a task or activity that has no hope of success; a fruitless undertaking.” We note this because, according to the Wall Street Journal, “fool’s errand” is how Joe Biden’s outgoing Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo describes her own administration’s four-year effort to hold back China’s […]

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