Author

@aschilling aschilling

Technically literate hardware/semiconductor journalist reporting chips, foundries, and frontier compute

Reports and comments on semiconductor and computing hardware

trader score
-0.67
hit rate
35%
mean α
-0.32%
signals 14d
9

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 17 scored bets: 35% hit rate, -0.32% mean alpha, trader score -0.67. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved -6.2% since posting (mean over 8 mentions with price data).

Recent signals9receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-10-15TSM@aschilling+0.35Charts TSMC technology mix and reports 4.476 million wafers, up 10% year over year.-0.9%
2026-10-13TSM@aschilling+0.10Reports Bolt Graphics selected TSMC N5P for its final chip to avoid wafer-allocation competition.-6.0%
2026-10-13TSM@aschilling+0.05Details Bolt Graphics' TSMC-built test chip and says general availability remains planned for 2028.-6.0%
2026-10-12NVDA@aschilling-0.20Notes an unconfirmed RTX 5090 end-of-life rumor and criticizes its price.-6.8%
2026-10-12INTC@aschilling+0.15Lists specifications for Intel's Crescent Island D-series GPU-14.2%
2026-10-12MSFT@aschilling+0.20Details the chiplet configuration and power specifications of Microsoft's Maia 300-3.1%
2026-10-12AMD@aschilling+0.20Describes AMD Helios and Helion agentic rack configurations-13.0%
2026-10-12AMD@aschilling+0.00Points to AMD's statement regarding a Radeon RX 7000 VBIOS and firmware update.-13.0%
2026-10-08·@aschilling·GlobalFoundries and TSMC announced a U.S. silicon-interposer manufacturing agreement and Malta capacity expansion.·

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.