Kevin Xu

1 week ago | interconnected.blog | Kevin Xu

Today’s post is a translation and transcreation of an article published by Jiemian News, a Chinese language tech outlet, that profiled Xiaomi’s homegrown chip-making backstory. While I rarely do translations, this article was sufficiently interesting and included some fascinating insights and anecdotes behind the overnight success of Xring O1, Xiaomi’s recently released flagship chip, that was a decade in the making.

1 week ago | interconnect.substack.com | Kevin Xu

Today’s post is a translation and transcreation of an article published by Jiemian News, a Chinese language tech outlet, that profiled Xiaomi’s homegrown chip-making backstory. While I rarely do translations, this article was sufficiently interesting and included some fascinating insights and anecdotes behind the overnight success of Xring O1, Xiaomi’s recently released flagship chip, that was a decade in the making.

2 weeks ago | interconnected.blog | Kevin Xu

Topics: AI • ($) Is 2025 the Year of the AI RIF? AI RIF is the best, if not only, form of walking the walk to show what AI can really do Kevin Xu Author and founder of Interconnected. See "About Interconnected" for more information. More posts by Kevin Xu. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

2 weeks ago | interconnect.substack.com | Kevin Xu

This post is for our premium members only. If you are reading this in full, thank you for being an Interconnected Premium member! If you aren’t, I hope you become one by scrolling down and tear down that paywall!RIF, or Reduction in Force, is one of these euphemisms in corporate tech culture that gets used to soften the narrative blow every time layoffs happen.

2 weeks ago | interconnected.blog | Kevin Xu

About a year ago, I wrote a post calling the Middle East – specifically Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates – the “swing vote” of the global AI competition between the US and China. Last week, it looks like this swing vote has swung decidedly towards the US, at least for now. Trump’s four-day swing through the three countries – the first major foreign trip of his 2nd term – had all the relevant CEOs of leading AI companies in tow, ready to take purchase orders.