Yesterday, GOOGL formally announced an expanded compute and cloud services deal with Anthropic that provides access to “up to 1 million” TPUs and is worth “tens of billions” of dollars. This follows a Bloomberg report earlier this week citing potential for “high tens of billions” of revenue to GCP. We estimate that GOOGL will have 2.7M TPUs in service by the end of 2025 so the utilization of “up to 1 million” represents a significant source of demand for GOOGL’s custom chips.
Ahead of earnings next Wednesday, we review the top controversies for the stock – starting with AI Search vs ChatGPT -- and how investor sentiment is evolving post DOJ Search remedies, including how Cloud and TPUs are increasingly supporting GOOGL’s “AI winner” narrative. On the back of yesterday’s confirmation of an expanded relationship with Anthropic (and another Quantum breakthrough), we are raising our target to $295 from $275 on higher target multiples as we see Cloud increasingly support...
TSLA, Samsung, TSMC: Tesla AI5 production to be split between Samsung, TSMCView: Elon Musk during TSLA's earnings call indicated that Samsung and TSMC will now share production of the AI5 chip. TSMC had previously been identified as the supplier of AI5 silicon.We can visualize a setup where AI5 pro
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic and GOOGL are in discussions about a deal for additional computing power for the AI startup. The term of the deal is not mentioned, but “high tens of billions of dollars” are cited as the potential scale. Both GOOGL and AMZN are, of course, investors and existing cloud services providers for Anthropic.
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HBM, Samsung, AMD: Samsung reportedly to reveal HBM4 during October Tech FairView: With NVDA having qualified 12-layer HBM3e, Samsung is ramping up its push into the HBM4 race. Shortly after revealing impressive HBM4e specs with per-pin speeds exceeding 13 Gbps, Samsung is reportedly set to unveil
Memory: Spot prices move higherView: While TrendForce focuses primarily on DDR4 shortages in its midweek update (and a suspension of quotes), we believe DDR5 availability has tightened further to the point where it's difficult for spot market participants to get pricing for those parts as well. And
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