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1. Intel @ BOFA Global Tech Conference 2026. Executive Summary & Full Transcript
- We had 12 layers of management; he collapsed it into six. We had over 400 vice presidents; he collapsed that to 200. We had >100,000 employees; he collapsed that <80,000.
- If you just stamped something and called it a CPU right now, it would sell. In the near term, it’s all about supply, we are ramping supply as we speak
- Our ramp in general has been quite good, mainly because 18A is making really good progress on yields month-to-month. And we’re ramping in two facilities now, Oregon and Arizona
2. NVIDIA Keynote Computex 2026. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript
- In 2023, the number of Github commits was 300 million. 2024, 400 million. 2025, 500 million. In the first few months of 2026, it has nearly tripled.”
- It used to take two hours to assemble one Grace Blackwell rack, Vera Rubin now only takes five minutes. VR supply chain twice the size of Grace Blackwell
- Launched RTX Spark, a Microsoft-NVIDIA reimagined PC, built on the N1X SoC in partnership with MediaTek. Three SKUs: laptop (RTX Spark), desktop, and the DGX Station
3. Intel Computex 2026 Keynote. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript
- It has been a year since I stepped into the role of Intel CEO. To be more precise, 14 months. I may be the first CEO who can speak Mandarin.
- We support an ample number of ports for all of your connectivity needs, unlike some of our competitors who only have one USB-C interface…
- We are excited to have Intel Xeon 6 Plus introduced at Computex. It has 288 E-cores, massive 576 megabytes of L3 cache, and is built with our Intel 18A technology
4. AMD @ BOFA Global Tech Conference 2026. Executive Summary & Full Transcript
- AMD’s data-center CPU business grew >50% YoY in Q1, and management guided Q2 CPU revenue up >70% YoY, with roughly two-thirds coming from unit expansion rather than ASP.
- TSMC supply remains tight (notably 3nm), but Ramsey suggested AMD secured more allocation from TSMC earlier than investors appreciate, while warning the “starting point” of investor expectations was too low
- On x86 versus ARM, management emphasised TCO, platform breadth (5 generations from 8-core to 256-core), the entrenched x86 code base, and a decade of RAS and security validation with hyperscalers
5. Marvell Computex 2026 Keynote. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript
- Marvell Vision: build a best-in-class, world-class, pure-play company focused on semiconductor solutions for data infrastructure that is required to move, store, process, and secure the world’s data.
- The next major wave of innovation and scale will come from the underlying connectivity of systems. As those connections move from copper to optical, they will unlock new architectural possibilities.
- Over the last decade Marvell invested roughly $22.5 billion through acquisitions. They spent $18 billion organically inside the company to develop the platform. They divested ~$4.5 billion worth of assets.
6. Qualcomm Computex 2026. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript
- AI agents becoming the true center of the digital experience. Diverse devices, including 6 billion phones, 2 billion wearables, 2 billion PCs and 500 million vehicles, will act as endpoints
- Demonstrations proved that routing tasks dynamically between the device and the cloud via a hybrid orchestrator saves up to 30%–60% in tokens and cuts costs by 4x.
- Because agents operate independently and continuously carry context forward, they demand entirely new hardware architectures. This puts a heavy premium on high-efficiency CPUs for system orchestration
7. Broadcom Q2 FY2026. The $100 Billion AI Trajectory Remains On Track.
- Massive AI Revenue Growth: Total revenue reached a record $22.2 billion, up 48% year-on-year, driven by insatiable demand for AI semiconductors which hit a record $10.8 billion.
- Long-Term Customer Commitments: Broadcom secured major AI compute and XPU partnerships with Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, firmly underpinning their guidance of over $100 billion AI revenue for fiscal 2027.
- The AI XPU Platform Launch: Broadcom is partnering with Apollo and Blackstone to deploy a 20-gigawatt AI platform through 2028, with Apollo currently launching the first $35 billion tranche.
8. KLAC @ JPM 54th Annual TMC 2026. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript
- We talked about an environment of spending for wafer fab equipment that was roughly $140 billion plus for this year. Now it feels like there’s additional momentum there.
- Advanced packaging feels like it’s accelerating. Initially we thought the packaging market might have been somewhere in the plus 20% overall. Now I think it’s in excess of 30%.
- 2027 visibility is very good. I’ve been CFO here since 2013. I can’t recall this level of visibility into the next year in the early May timeframe.
9. Salesforce @ BOFA Global Tech Conference 2026. Executive Summary & Full Transcript
- Upgrading existing seats to our higher-end SKUs, which we call Agentforce — Agentforce for Sales, Agentforce for Service. Every time we do that upgrade, we see on average 60–80% uplift.
- Contrary to the fear that AI shrinks seat counts, seven of the top 10 deals last quarter involved customers adding new human users, i.e. licenses are increasing, not contracting
- Agentforce wins against ~10,000 competing agentic platforms because it has native access to customers’ codified workflows, CRM context, governance/permissioning built over 27 years, human handoff, and a model-agnostic backend
10. Microsoft Build 2026. Satya Nadella Keynote Executive Summary & Full Transcript
- Surface RTX Spark DevBox: A “dream machine” for local development boasting one petaflop of AI compute and 128 gigabytes of unified memory.
- The MAI Model Family: Microsoft’s new internally developed frontier models, highlighted by the 35-billion-parameter reasoning model MAI Thinking 1.
- Majorana 2 Qubit: A massive quantum computing leap delivering a qubit mean lifetime of 20 seconds to a minute—1,000 times higher than Majorana 1.
