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Ed Ludlow

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Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

Anthropic relies on TPUs.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

Amazon, from a software perspective, has tried to accommodate all the players on its bedrock platform, which is basically a workplace where you can either train or build on top of existing models.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

So the financials are there.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

If people are watching that are investors in those companies, phone me, explain the dilution to me, explain the post and pre-money valuation.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

But

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

OpenAI needs capital.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

It is coming from multiple places, apparently.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

And one would imagine, based on the reporting that's been done by Bloomberg and others, this is a big, large anchor round before a future IPO as well of some part of the OpenAI entity.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

So let's talk about a couple of the areas that you highlighted there.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

One is China, and another one is the sort of the concerns that people had about memory chips in this quarter and the rising prices of memory chips.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

How was Apple able to navigate this so it didn't hit its margins like people thought it would?

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

They call me Tim Apple, in fact.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

OK, do we know yet how Apple was able to beat expectations in China?

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

Once again, for the first quarter, the most recent quarter, greater China revenue came in at twenty five point five three billion dollars.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

Twenty one point eight two was the estimate.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

You said it minutes ago.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

It is back in China.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

You're holding up an iPhone right now.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

That's what they did.

Bloomberg Talks
Instant Reaction: Apple Delivers Upbeat Forecast

It was the iPhone 17 orange.