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Intel’s Big Raise, Apple’s iPhone Roadmap | Bloomberg Tech 8/11/2026

2026-08-11 · 14 company · 12 thematic
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soren

Soren is the founder and CEO of Neuron, a defense technology company building the Bandit Interceptor and Archer AI drones. He leads a team scaling to a million drones per year from a 250,000 sq ft vertically integrated facility in the South Bay.

carol

Market strategist analyzing macro regime changes, semiconductor cycles, and inflation dynamics from infrastructure investment.

chris pavlovski

Leads Rumble's pivot from video platform to AI compute provider via Northern Data acquisition, operating 22,000 GPUs and 250MW of power infrastructure.

sean mcguire

Sean McGuire leads Sequoia's defense technology investments, including SpaceX and Neros, applying a vertical integration thesis modeled on SpaceX's trajectory.

sean maguire

Sequoia partner with PhD in physics; led $1B Series B investment in nuclear startup Valor; former physicist who applies first-principles thinking to hard tech investing.

ian king

Ian King covers semiconductors for Bloomberg, reporting on Intel's foundry turnaround and earnings.

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“THE PITCH FROM JENSEN HUANG AND NVIDIA IS COMPUTE BECOMES INVESTABLE ASSET CLASS OF ITS OWN. WOULD YOU REGARD IT AS AN ASSET CLASS? CAROL: POSSIBLY, IT WOULD DEFINITELY TAKE SOME LOOKING AT IT.”
—carol
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