With tech shake-ups, automotive layoffs, and healthcare funding cuts all recent themes, the R&D World Index dipped nearly 4% last week. Specifically, the R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending March 14, 2025, closed at 3,951.90 for the 25 companies in the RDWI. The Index was down -3.76% (or -154.52 basis points). Five RDWI…
iPhone 16e: Apple takes another step toward vertical integration with new in-house modem
Editor’s Note (February 19, 2025): Apple has officially announced the iPhone 16e as the “affordable” member of the iPhone 16 family, rather than an “iPhone SE 4.” Before its official reveal, Apple’s newest “budget” phone was widely expected to launch under the name “iPhone SE 4.” Multiple industry reports suggested that Apple would debut its…
Amazon, Apple and NVIDIA compete for GPU talent with salaries of $300k or more
Tech giants are assembling AI supercomputers of unprecedented scale. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Elon Musk’s xAI are building clusters boasting 100,000 or more H100 GPUs, with xAI planning to double its Colossus system to 200,000 GPUs — including the upcoming H200 model. To put this in perspective, OpenAI reportedly trained GPT-4 using roughly 25,000 A100…