[HN Gopher] AMD passes Intel in market cap
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       AMD passes Intel in market cap
        
       Author : latchkey
       Score  : 294 points
       Date   : 2022-08-01 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | rsp1984 wrote:
       | Call me crazy but I think long term (10 years +) the Intel
       | strategy of fabricating chips domestically is the correct choice.
       | There's a ton of geopolitical pressure in this direction. The US
       | simply doesn't want to be dependent on Taiwan for chips, for
       | obvious reasons.
       | 
       | Intel knows this and is trying to become the TSMC of the west.
       | And frankly they're the only ones that can pull it off. I'd be
       | surprised if 10 years from now the majority of their revenue
       | comes from selling processors rather than fabricating them for
       | AMD, NVIDIA, etc. Why compete when there's plenty of steak for
       | everyone?
        
         | snird wrote:
         | Are you sure they will?
         | 
         | They seem to prefer dividend payouts rather than capex on new
         | fabs[1]. Combined with them moving to FCF loss - I think that
         | what you described here may be imaginary at best.
         | 
         | Given what they said in the last earnings call, a slow IBM-like
         | death seems more likely.
         | 
         | 1: https://semianalysis.com/intel-cuts-fab-buildout-by-4b-to-
         | pa...
        
         | marricks wrote:
         | You may very well be right, but it's a bit much to say that's
         | Intel's explicit strategy. In the past 12 years the main thing
         | Intel has done is make poor long term choices: going big on
         | mobile too late, SSDs taking off but not for Intel, whatever is
         | gong on with 10nm.
         | 
         | Saying they're committed to fabricating in the US while they
         | are, for the first time, relying on other companies to make
         | chips for them over seas... right now their domestic
         | fabrication may internally be viewed as a blunder.
         | 
         | Sure it could pan out for them but it's a crap shoot. Maybe
         | those blunders were just all bad leadership which Intel has
         | recovered from, only time will tell.
        
           | zamalek wrote:
           | I am a pretty hardcore AMD fan, but fair is fair:
           | 
           | > whatever is gong on with 10nm
           | 
           | The modern 'nanometer system' is nothing more than a bizarre
           | versioning scheme (specifically its _usually_ the  'major'
           | portion of a semver), and you wouldn't be able to identify a
           | physical thing to measure to compare different fabs.
           | 
           | Intel wouldn't have been competitive if they were still on
           | their own 14nm process.
        
           | SilverBirch wrote:
           | Most of the failure you're stating there predates current
           | leadership to be fair. It's difficult to see BK as anything
           | other than a massive failure, betting the farm on alternative
           | growth engines whilst failing on the core mission.
           | 
           | Reminds me of Facebook actually - if you tell the people who
           | build your core product that they're lame, they're goign to
           | leave, and your core business will fail.
        
         | zh3 wrote:
         | It's not a bad bet, if you're losing market leadership through
         | poor execution then getting the government to prop you up as a
         | backstop to the bogeyman seems a reasonable tactic.
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | It's very hard to lose in the short term, year after year, and
         | hope that a black swan event puts you back into a winning
         | position.
        
           | spaceman_2020 wrote:
           | Unless China's clearly stated policy that recognizes Taiwan
           | as a part of China changes, it isn't really a black swan
           | event.
           | 
           | It's more like an increasingly active volcano. It might not
           | blow up tomorrow, but if you deliberately built a house on
           | its edges, it would be hard to sympathize with you when it
           | finally does go kaput.
        
             | TuringNYC wrote:
             | How does one appease quarter-to-quarter returns chasing
             | investors with that?
        
             | panick21_ wrote:
             | That assumes the only possible way the China-Taiwan issue
             | can be resolved is some kind of event that would disrupt
             | the production, ie. war or at least blockade of Taiwan.
        
               | fancifalmanima wrote:
               | Not the person you're replying to, but if I ran a chip
               | business (or a country with a lot of military/economic
               | tech dependent on chips-- IE most countries), it would
               | certainly be something you'd want to de-risk if you
               | could. Sure it's not the only possible outcome. But it's
               | a realistic outcome, and one that has a ton of downside
               | if it happens.
        
               | spaceman_2020 wrote:
               | If I'm running a country or a multibillion dollar
               | business, I'd certainly not want to leave my future
               | wellbeing to the good sense of two powers with a gigantic
               | historical axe to grind.
        
         | spaceman_2020 wrote:
         | Spot on. Any large country that's NOT desperately building up
         | fab facilities within the country right now is playing with
         | fire. This stuff is the new oil. Insane how little of our
         | modern life works without chips.
        
           | noogle wrote:
           | Is this about CPUs or all electronics?
           | 
           | Computer chips are in general a reliable hardware, and top-
           | of-the-line CPUs are in general way more powerful than
           | needed, so there is no need for cutting-edge manufacturing
           | and also an embargo won't halt existing activities.
           | 
           | Simpler/embedded processors seem to be a generic product that
           | can be manufactured by many countries, hindering embargo
           | efforts.
           | 
           | Are chips more critical for a country than e.g. food? because
           | many countries are not nutritionally self-sufficient.
        
             | spaceman_2020 wrote:
             | Both - CPUs, electronics, military gear, etc.
             | 
             | Strategic risks such as war, invasions, sanctions, etc.
             | have to be dealt with on a decadal basis.
             | 
             | You have to ask: what's the current reality, and what's the
             | trend?
             | 
             | The trend is pretty clear: our world is going to depend
             | more on computers, not less. You have to prepare for a
             | world where drones have replaced your fighter jets, where
             | every citizen has a smartphone, and where your financial
             | system will collapse without working computers and servers.
        
           | SilverBirch wrote:
           | I think this is completely wrong. Oil is compustible, at the
           | end of the day you don't need a crazy supply chain to make
           | use of it, just to make it. You couldd have 99% of a working
           | supply chian for advanced eletronics, you're still fucked.
           | It's far more fragile than oil.
        
         | stjohnswarts wrote:
         | Given that we might be on the verge of war with China over
         | Taiwan because Nancy wants to sip a frosty marg in Taipei, this
         | isn't exactly sticking your neck out too far lol
        
         | klelatti wrote:
         | Your first para is correct but this doesn't mean that Intel
         | will become the TSMC of the west.
         | 
         | Doing so needs not only huge amounts of investment but a
         | massive change in the business model and by all accounts
         | culture. Neither of these are a given at all.
        
       | SkyMarshal wrote:
       | Does AMD outsource all their fabrication now, or do they still
       | run any of their own fabs? If they outsource everything to TSMC
       | then this market cap lead could quickly reverse if hostilities
       | break out in Asia.
        
         | kinghajj wrote:
         | AMD hasn't had their own fabs since they were spun off as a
         | separate company, Global Foundries. They still use GF for some
         | things, like the I/O dies on their recent chips.
        
       | chazeon wrote:
       | Unsurprised to be honest. I have access to a few HPC resource in
       | various HPC center, all the the newer clusters (from ~2yrs) are
       | using AMD EPYC CPUs. These are traditionally the market for
       | Intel. Landscape doesn't look good for Intel.
        
       | jongjong wrote:
       | I had invested in AMD when Lisa Su took over as CEO. I had been
       | keeping tabs on the company for some time. Unfortunately I needed
       | money to cover my basic living expenses and had to sell all my
       | shares about a year later. Even at the time, it was painful
       | because I had spent a lot of time researching AMD and I was very
       | optimistic about Lisa Su based on her background and her
       | tenacity.
       | 
       | I could have made maybe 20x on my investment... Still, I don't
       | feel regret. You can only regret things if you had a choice and I
       | know that there's no way I could have avoided selling those
       | shares.
        
         | keepquestioning wrote:
         | This thread is funny, reads like a gamblers support forum
        
         | simonebrunozzi wrote:
         | Remember there's also CALL options, if you are really bullish
         | on a company. Less capital needed, and more risky, but if
         | you're right, you're richer.
        
         | running101 wrote:
         | I am still invested. I only got in like 1 or 2 years ago. Kind
         | of think I should put more in.
        
           | caycep wrote:
           | I probably missed the boat. But thinking now is the time to
           | buy INTC and hold off on buying AMD...until the roles are
           | reversed again?
        
             | mywittyname wrote:
             | A new player could step in and take on Intel. Maybe the
             | owners of ARM wise up and get into the manufacturing arena.
             | 
             | People made it big on AMD and Nvidia because they got lucky
             | by owning the players who profited from the shakeup that
             | cloud computing and ML brought to the industry. If you told
             | someone 15 years ago that companies would be buying
             | clusters of Nvidia GPUs for $100s of thousands of bucks, I
             | doubt many people would believe it.
             | 
             | Intel certainly isn't a bad buy right now. Lots of things
             | could happen and the industry will certainly look a lot
             | different in 20 years. I can see a path where they manage
             | to out-maneuver everyone else, but I think it's just as
             | likely that they go the way of other major players.
        
         | CabSauce wrote:
         | I was in on AMD at $9. The hype was so real between Nvidia and
         | AMD that I got cold feet and sold (for a decent profit). Never
         | in my wildest dreams would I have thought it would be here. I'd
         | be retired.
        
       | nabla9 wrote:
       | Intel is still much bigger company.
       | 
       | Intel revenue 73.39B
       | 
       | AMD revenue 18.88B
       | 
       | TSMC revenue 58.43B
        
         | notemaker wrote:
         | Keep in mind their growth rates though. In 2019 AMD had 6.7B in
         | revenue and Intel had 71.97B.
        
           | riku_iki wrote:
           | Should cost of production be substracted from AMD revenue for
           | apple to apples comparison? Intel has in house production,
           | why AMD pays premium to TSMC.
        
             | bagacrap wrote:
             | Intel also outsources certain components to TSMC. The only
             | apples to apples comparison would be to isolate revenue for
             | chip sales.
             | 
             | Also TSMC has reportedly surpassed Intel in quarterly
             | revenue, so all these numbers are changing quickly.
        
           | kolbe wrote:
           | And Intel just cut its 2023 revenue forecast to low 60's
        
           | willmadden wrote:
           | I'm curious how the crypto crash and general recession will
           | impact AMD. When crypto prices come down, the demand for GPUs
           | also crashes. AMD makes a lot of money from graphics cards.
        
         | oumua_don17 wrote:
         | The devil is in the details, just looking at revenue won't
         | reveal the full picture.
         | 
         | - DCAI, revenue down 16%, operating income down 90% - NEX,
         | revenue up 11%, operating income down 60% - AXG and IFS are
         | operating loss - Only mobile has rev and op income up
         | 
         | And the CEO has clearly mentioned next quarter will be even
         | worse and then they expect things to improve; not sure about
         | the improve part though. CFO clearly mentions restructuring
         | charges in Q3. Add all of this up and it tells a different
         | story.
        
           | nabla9 wrote:
           | Market cap reflects those values.
           | 
           | My point is that Intel is huge company. It's going down fast,
           | but it has still time to correct.
        
         | frant-hartm wrote:
         | Thanks! Intel is only 3.8x as much. AMD used to be tiny
         | compared to Intel in both revenue and market cap.
         | 
         | Is there an easy way to get this data over time?
        
         | AnimalMuppet wrote:
         | But revenue isn't a meaningful number here. Market cap should
         | be today's value of expected future profit, not future revenue.
         | So: What's Intel's profit? What's AMD's?
        
       | elromulous wrote:
       | So I'm very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and
       | over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is
       | actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?
        
         | fallingknife wrote:
         | You should use enterprise value (mkt cap + debt - cash), not
         | market cap for that type of comparison. It takes into account
         | the fact that most other car companies are levered but not
         | Tesla. Shows Tesla still very big (overvalued IMO) but not by
         | the same ridiculous margin.
        
         | njarboe wrote:
         | The top ten automakers have huge amounts of debt and pension
         | liabilities. Tesla has neither. None of them are making
         | profitable EVs at scale. Tesla has been hitting their goal of
         | growing at 50% per year for a decade and plans to continue
         | until they are making 20 million cars a year in 2030. Their
         | gross margin on cars is the highest in the industry.
         | 
         | The next 5 years are critical for the existing players and many
         | will shrink dramatically or go bankrupt. People already know
         | this and that is why there is a bill in Congress that is a
         | stealth bailout of the domestic auto industry with a $7500 tax
         | credit on cars that have just $750 worth of batteries in them.
        
           | itsoktocry wrote:
           | > _The top ten automakers have huge amounts of debt_
           | 
           | They have huge amounts of debt because they run huge
           | financing departments and therefore also have a huge number
           | of assets on the balance sheet.
           | 
           | > _Their gross margin on cars is the highest in the
           | industry._
           | 
           | They have a completely different sales model, so it's apples
           | to oranges. Most OEMs wholesale cars to dealers, of course
           | those margins will be smaller.
           | 
           | > _Tesla has been hitting their goal of growing at 50% per
           | year for a decade and plans to continue until they are making
           | 20 million cars a year in 2030._
           | 
           | Base rate fallacy, extrapolated into infinity, sure.
           | 
           | > _The next 5 years are critical for the existing players and
           | many will shrink dramatically or go bankrupt._
           | 
           | Some will disappear or merge, of course. But the next 5 years
           | is also crucial for Tesla, since they are still a rounding
           | error in global market share.
        
             | tyree731 wrote:
             | > They have a completely different sales model, so it's
             | apples to oranges. Most OEMs wholesale cars to dealers, of
             | course those margins will be smaller.
             | 
             | Well yes, but they've been successful with this sales
             | model, and sell cars all the same, so that makes them more
             | valuable in comparison.
        
               | matthewfcarlson wrote:
               | Anecdotally, we bought a Tesla a few years ago and it was
               | awesome. Just buy it online, walk up, unlocks with your
               | phone, and drive away. My spouse (a very socially anxious
               | person who despises car dealerships) loved it and said if
               | it made sense, she would never buy a car anywhere else.
               | Granted, the same experience is rolling out for
               | traditional cars (carvana, carmax, etc).
        
               | enragedcacti wrote:
               | There are a lot of costs to operating a service center
               | and managing customer deliveries that aren't necessarily
               | considered in gross margins for Tesla whereas they are
               | considered in the case of a traditional automaker in a
               | dealership model. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla still
               | has an advantage compared to manufacturer+dealer but we
               | won't learn that from comparing vehicle margins directly.
               | 
               | There's also a lot of super weird dealer kickbacks behind
               | the scenes that can make gross margin misleading for
               | traditional autos, probably in Tesla's favor.
        
             | ajross wrote:
             | > Base rate fallacy, extrapolated into infinity, sure.
             | 
             | You only need to extrapolate Tesla's existing revenue and
             | growth out for five years to make them the biggest
             | automaker in history, though.
             | 
             | Clearly, yes, it's going to stop somewhere. But a first
             | principles argument like yours is running out of room. It
             | made sense a few years back when they were still popular-
             | but-tiny. At this point, the median expectation pretty much
             | has to be that Tesla will be the dominant vehicle
             | manufacturer globally for the next decade or three.
        
               | tsimionescu wrote:
               | Are you being serious? Based on what? They are still a
               | tiny tiny player in the auto industry, if we ignore the
               | market cap.
        
             | jjoonathan wrote:
             | > of course those margins will be smaller.
             | 
             | You know that this whole game is about profits, right? If
             | "of course" TSLA's margins are higher, "of course" their
             | market cap will be higher.
             | 
             | And yes, investors are aware that this is a function of
             | market segment. It's also a function of vertical
             | integration, manufacturing prowess, unions, and retirees.
             | 
             | > debt because they run huge financing departments
             | 
             | Debt isn't the right metric to focus on, but the
             | fundamental point is that if legacy auto perfectly executes
             | a pivot, they get to keep their cash flows, while if TSLA
             | keeps up the status quo, they expand their cash flows.
             | 
             | There will be a lot of stranded assets and failures to
             | pivot in the legacy auto sector. Investors know it and the
             | market caps got carpet bombed to reflect it. TSLA's didn't.
             | 
             | > Base rate fallacy, extrapolated into infinity
             | 
             | > Tesla, since they are still a rounding error
             | 
             | Do you not see the connection? Not only _can_ we
             | extrapolate, we can extrapolate far more precisely than
             | usual because we already know the size and shape of the
             | market they are expanding into. Usually these models take
             | the form  "TSLA grows 50% yoy until they top out at 1/3 of
             | non-China auto sales" or something, and these are the
             | models that back the current valuations. Optimistic? Sure,
             | but not nearly as optimistic as "base rate fallacy,
             | extrapolated to infinity." Lol.
        
             | r00fus wrote:
             | > >Their gross margin on cars is the highest in the
             | industry.
             | 
             | > They have a completely different sales model, so it's
             | apples to oranges. Most OEMs wholesale cars to dealers, of
             | course those margins will be smaller.
             | 
             | This is the crux of the innovator dilemma - that their
             | dealer sales model was a moat to prevent new entrants, and
             | it could be their lodestone as well, preventing them from
             | actually being able to compete with Tesla (since shifting
             | from that will likely prove to be difficult/impossible).
             | 
             | Doesn't hurt Tesla that dealers are notoriously unpopular
             | with customers.
        
           | outworlder wrote:
           | The P/E for Tesla suggest it is going to take decades(at the
           | peak, over a century) for that valuation to make sense.
           | 
           | Even if it grows to the point that it destroys all other
           | automakers and become a monopoly, it's still too high. You
           | can only sell so many cars.
           | 
           | The valuation seems to be taking into account that Tesla is
           | not only about cars, but also artificial intelligence, which
           | would allow it to expand to other markets(taxis, maybe even
           | military).
           | 
           | Jury is still out.
        
             | bryanlarsen wrote:
             | Huh, Tesla P/E is 107, so it'd require about a 5X growth in
             | income to reach a sane P/E. If it keeps growing at 80%
             | p.a., that'll take about 3 years. 4 years at 50% growth.
             | And a 5X increase isn't unreasable, that's still under 10%
             | market share.
        
             | njarboe wrote:
             | If Tesla does make 20 million cars that sell for an average
             | of $50k and have net margins of 20%, their annual revenue
             | would be $200 billion. If at that point they have the same
             | PE as Apple has now (~25), that would be a market cap of $5
             | trillion. That would be a 6x gain from today just on
             | regular auto sales. If the only side project that works out
             | is Full Self Driving (which is the major focus of Tesla and
             | occupies most of Musk's Tesla time) comes to pass, double
             | that revenue would not be unreasonable. There are many
             | things that could go wrong, but lots up possible upside.
        
           | RC_ITR wrote:
           | The real criticism of Tesla is that there are about 65m cars
           | sold per year now globally.
           | 
           | If every one of those cars has $10k of profit (way too high,
           | but for arguments sake), that's $650bn of profit per year.
           | 
           | When a single company with less than 1% share of sales has a
           | market cap higher than the entire theoretical annual profits
           | of an industry, that implies an _insane_ amount of
           | speculation (about things like Robo taxis and insurance, etc)
        
           | distances wrote:
           | > The top ten automakers have .. pension liabilities.
           | 
           | I don't think this part is true. I haven't heard of _company
           | pensions_ being a thing outside of US. I doubt VW, Toyota or
           | Daimler have any pension liabilities at all, barring their US
           | subsidiaries.
        
           | victor106 wrote:
           | > a stealth bailout of the domestic auto industry with a
           | $7500 tax credit on cars that have just $750 worth of
           | batteries in them.
           | 
           | As it currently stands the $7500 limit is only for the first
           | 200,000 cars. Tesla benefited a lot from it and exhausted its
           | limit back in 2018.
           | 
           | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-tax-credit/tesla-
           | hi...
        
             | ssharp wrote:
             | The bill the commenter was mentioning is currently in the
             | Senate and hasn't been voted on yet. It would bring back
             | the $7,500 credit for any EV that is built in the U.S. and
             | removes the 200,000 limit. The bill also changes the
             | mechanics of the credit so that it is applied immediately
             | off the purchase price rather than a tax credit whenever
             | you file. It also allows for up to a $4,000 credit on used
             | EV's.
        
               | victor106 wrote:
               | Got it,
               | 
               | Is there anything in the bill that excludes Tesla from
               | access to those credits?
        
               | enragedcacti wrote:
               | Here is the summarized set of rules:
               | Federal tax credit for EVs will remain at $7,500
               | Tax credit cap for automakers after they hit 200,000 EVs
               | sold is eliminated, making GM, Tesla and Toyota once
               | again eligible                  The language in the bill
               | indicates that the tax credit would be implemented at the
               | point of sale instead of on taxes at the end of the
               | fiscal year                  In order to get the full
               | credit, the EV must be assembled in North America, the
               | majority of battery components need to come from North
               | America, and contain a certain percentage of minerals
               | from countries with free trade agreements with the US
               | Includes a new federal tax credit of $4,000 for used EVs
               | Includes zero-emission vans, SUVs, and trucks with MSRPs
               | up to $80,000              Electric sedans priced up to
               | $55,000 MSRP also qualify              The full electric
               | vehicle tax credit will be available to individuals
               | reporting adjusted gross incomes of $150,000 or less, or
               | $300,000 for joint filers
               | 
               | https://electrek.co/2022/07/29/which-electric-vehicles-
               | still...
        
               | victor106 wrote:
               | Thanks you, Those rules seem fair enough.
        
               | kbenson wrote:
               | > $7,500 credit for any EV that is built in the U.S
               | 
               | > It also allows for up to a $4,000 credit on used EV's.
               | 
               | I can't wait for the eventual headline about how
               | dealerships would sell cars to themselves so they could
               | resell them and pocket an extra $4k.
               | 
               | I have no doubt that story will happen and come out, I'm
               | just wondering whether it will be during or after it's
               | common, and how widespread the abuse will be, given that
               | even if there are provisions to prevent that, some
               | enterprising fraudsters will find a way.
        
               | mywittyname wrote:
               | Dealerships are collectively, very powerful groups. This
               | would not the be first time they've convinced Congress to
               | dump money into their pockets with such schemes. CARS Act
               | comes to mind.
               | 
               | The outrage will come, but dealerships will have bled
               | every dollar they can before anything is done. And the
               | same people voting for the bill will come out next year
               | campaigning against such corruption and stupidity by the
               | government.
        
             | duped wrote:
             | I think GP is referring to the Climate Bill being debated
             | in Congress this month where the 200k limit would be lifted
             | and an additional $4k tax credit given to used EV
             | purchases.
        
           | jmyeet wrote:
           | Tesla's valuation is roughly $800,000 per car they shipped
           | last year. Compare this to Ford, which is roughly $30,000.
           | Quick googling shows Ford has $138B on total debt, a market
           | cap of $60B and produced almost 2M cars. Tesla still has $30B
           | in debt.
           | 
           | When you start looking at assets, it gets more interesting.
           | Tesla's assets are ~$68B. Ford's $257B.
           | 
           | You can't just magically produce more cars. You need more
           | people, more batteries, more factories and other significant
           | capital expenditure.
           | 
           | My point is that "growth" is used as an excuse for Tesla's
           | valuation but any look at comparative numbers should show you
           | it's _way_ out of whack compared to any auto maker. And as
           | the F150 shows, Tesla 's dominance of the EV market isn't as
           | sticky as it would need to be to justify that valuation.
           | 
           | Cybertruck anyone?
        
             | beckingz wrote:
             | That's a huge amount of working capital at Ford! Wow.
        
           | axlee wrote:
           | Tesla's only claim to profitability is government-enforced
           | carbon compensation laws. Tesla is basically a greenwashing
           | insurance that masquerades as a real automaker, don't get
           | fooled.
        
             | panick21_ wrote:
             | This is nonsense. The kind of argument uninformed people
             | who dislike Tesla pick up on twitter and then endlessly
             | regurgitate over every online forum.
             | 
             | The revenue Tesla gets from credit is very small compared
             | to the revenue of cars and gets smaller and less
             | significant with every single quarter.
        
             | Kranar wrote:
             | It's cheaper to to provide that government-enforced carbon
             | compensation than it is to provide the massive amounts of
             | subsidies and tax credits that oil companies get.
             | 
             | In other words, the government actually saves money every
             | time someone buys an electric vehicle.
        
               | asdajksah2123 wrote:
               | Both things are true though.
               | 
               | Oil companies get massive subsidies. And Tesla's survival
               | is dependent on green subsidies.
               | 
               | There's an easy (and I'd daresay, correct) solution
               | there. Not subsidizing oil and reducing green subsidies.
               | Unfortunately, it's not politically palatable.
        
           | parkingrift wrote:
           | I doubt that Tesla can continue to grow 50% YoY as soon as
           | 2023. The Model S, X, and Y are extremely expensive compared
           | to the competition.
           | 
           | I'm in the market for an electric SUV right now. The Kia EV6
           | and Hyundai Ioniq 5 both seem legitimately better than the
           | Model Y, and they are substantially less expensive.
           | 
           | The Model Y AWD Long Range is $68,000. The Ioniq 5 SEL is
           | $52,000. Tesla has historically never had to compete on
           | price, but those days are ending. Either Tesla will lower
           | their prices and their margins, or they will suffer lower
           | sales. Competing on price is the future Tesla desperately
           | wanted to avoid, but Tesla has not been able to scale fast
           | enough to avoid it.
           | 
           | Good luck to Tesla shareholders. It's a car company that the
           | market is valuing as if it were a high growth tech startup.
        
             | bryanlarsen wrote:
             | Tesla has a 20% margin and are still bringing online many
             | measures to drastically reduce their costs. The complexity
             | reduction in the upcoming Model Y's with dual gigacasts and
             | batteries is massive. If they have to compete on price,
             | they will. They know price competition is coming and are
             | planning for it. Mass market was in their long term plan
             | from day one. But they won't lower their price until
             | they're forced too. Too soon would just leave money on the
             | table like Hyundai is.
             | 
             | But for now they are competing quite well against the Ioniq
             | 5. Dealerships are now taking reservations for 2025 models
             | of the Ioniq 5. Many people would rather pay an extra
             | $16,000 than wait over 2 years.
             | 
             | I don't think Tesla is overvalued. Some (but not all) of
             | the traditional manufacturers are undervalued. Which ones,
             | though, that's the hard question.
        
               | parkingrift wrote:
               | >Tesla has a 20% margin and are still bringing online
               | many measures to drastically reduce their costs.
               | 
               | Hard to take this seriously when Tesla has raised their
               | prices multiple times over the past 18 months. Their
               | margins aren't increasing, just their prices.
        
             | asdajksah2123 wrote:
             | Tesla is still making poor quality cars. No other car I've
             | seen spends as much time in repairs as Teslas do.
        
               | beeboop wrote:
               | Source?
        
               | jml78 wrote:
               | If you are taking the model S and X sure. model 3 and Y,
               | negative.
        
               | nottorp wrote:
               | The one model 3 I've driven had the left rear door not
               | aligning with the car's body when closed. It's hard to
               | trust Tesla's manufacturing when you see that.
        
               | spullara wrote:
               | You've never owned a BMW then.
        
               | daveidol wrote:
               | Modern BMWs are actually quite reliable - just expensive
               | to repair.
        
               | samfisher83 wrote:
               | That's a pretty low bar.
        
               | spaceman_2020 wrote:
               | I did find the fit and finish of the S class decidedly
               | poorer compared to the Mercedes EQS. Tesla simply does
               | not have the craftsmanship capability to build something
               | truly luxurious like Mercedes.
        
           | Aloha wrote:
           | I dont think they can continue to grow at that rate and
           | preserve their gross margin. The high end part of the market
           | isnt large enough to sustain 20m cars a year. To give you an
           | idea, for scale, the two largest producers made 10m each in
           | 2019 roughly respectively - and those two are VW and Toyota.
           | I cannot see in any way for Tesla to displace that many units
           | and maintain their margins at the level they have them.
           | 
           | The big three domestic manufacturers largely shed their
           | pension liabilities to the UAW when they last went (or nearly
           | went in the case of Ford) bankrupt in 2008.
        
             | itsoktocry wrote:
             | > _and maintain their margins at the level they have them._
             | 
             | Tesla's margins shrunk quite a bit last earnings report, so
             | I agree. Selling high-end cars in a niche market is easier
             | than selling 20 million cars annually (which no one has
             | ever done before).
        
               | Aloha wrote:
               | I'm skeptical that anyone can make 20m cars a year. It
               | also doesnt surprise me that Teslas margins have shrank,
               | I think the price of their vehicles is rendered somewhat
               | inelastic because of the preorder-purchase contract
               | system they use. The vehicle price is more or less fixed
               | at the time of order based on my understanding, and while
               | they can retroactively increase prices, it will likely
               | result in abandonment of the order.
        
               | kbenson wrote:
               | > I'm skeptical that anyone can make 20m cars a year.
               | 
               | There's just over 30m seconds in a year, that's a car
               | every second and a half. That seems like it would take a
               | lot of assembly lines to pull off ignoring other
               | constraints.
               | 
               | On the other hand, at 184.8'' for a model 3, that's like
               | a stream of them bumper to bumper leaving a single
               | assembly line at 6.65 Mph for the entire year. Viewed in
               | that light, maybe it doesn't take that many assembly
               | lines to reach a speed at which this would be achievable,
               | ignoring other very important constraints. (Or maybe I
               | made a mistake in my math.)
        
             | mg wrote:
             | I heard the same arguments when Apple had a hit with the
             | iPhone. The high end of the market is saturated, and soon
             | the competition would bring down the prices. But the price
             | of the iPhone continued to go up. It never stopped going
             | up. Because it continued to offer more and more value.
             | 
             | People already see some value in Teslas self-driving
             | technology. And that value will continue to go up for a
             | long time.
        
               | anony999 wrote:
               | >> People already see some value in Teslas self-driving
               | technology. And that value will continue to go up for a
               | long time. Up to the point where you tell your car "Hey,
               | go get me a pizza".
               | 
               | You are aware that real self driving(L5) is not possible
               | without some AI breakthroughs, right? All the promises
               | you see from Elon are just pure BS. Your tesla has issues
               | seeing a big truck straight in front of the driver lane
               | so you can forget the "Hey, go get me a pizza" command.
               | 
               | I can't really see many reasons to buy a Tesla except its
               | propulsion technology (i.e. big batteries). I doubt
               | that's enough to compare it with the iPhone which was
               | really more about software than hardware. Tesla
               | software/user experience is not significantly better than
               | a dumb car with carplay or just an ipad fixed on board.
               | The only way for Tesla to win more market share is for
               | the competition to ignore/defy the wanna be EV consumers.
        
               | diydsp wrote:
               | > Tesla software/user experience is not significantly
               | better than a dumb car with carplay or just an ipad fixed
               | on boar
               | 
               | That's only part of it. It also includes the prestige and
               | social cache. Once upon a time, apple was the same. Me, i
               | don't care, but all the fancy ppl around me, the multi
               | generational wealthy and boomers, can't get enough
               | Teslas. That desire for luxury may wax like apple... or
               | the coming recession may sponch it.
        
               | nottorp wrote:
               | > Tesla software/user experience is not significantly
               | better than a dumb car with carplay or just an ipad fixed
               | on boar
               | 
               | I'd say it's much worse. Putting all the controls
               | including a/c on the tablet is an extremely bad idea.
        
               | Aloha wrote:
               | You can squeeze to afford a 900 dollar phone. You can't
               | squeeze someone from a 30,000 dollar car to a 90,000
               | dollar one, the math doesn't work.
        
               | asdajksah2123 wrote:
               | There are several differences. 1) Apple has massive
               | platform benefits. phoneOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS devices
               | all work really well together. If you buy into 1 part of
               | the ecosystem, the incremental value of switching another
               | device to an Apple device is really high. 2) The high end
               | in cars and phones are 2 orders of magnitude different.
               | Spending a few hundred dollars more to buy into the high
               | end for a smartphone is a stretch many consumers can
               | make. Spending a few tens of thousands of dollars more to
               | buy into the car high end is not a stretch many consumers
               | can make. Heck, you could buy a new high end smartphone
               | with the amount you pay every 2 months for a shitty car.
               | 3) Apple's devices are the best in class in nearly every
               | measure, especially build quality. Tesla is still far
               | behind its competitors in build quality.
               | 
               | This is not an argument against Tesla. It's an argument
               | cautioning against comparing Tesla to Apple. Heck, it's
               | an argument cautioning comparing any company today or in
               | the history of companies to Apple.
        
               | enragedcacti wrote:
               | > I heard the same arguments when Apple had a hit with
               | the iPhone. The high end of the market is saturated, and
               | soon the competition would bring down the prices. But the
               | price of the iPhone continued to go up. It never stopped
               | going up. Because it continued to offer more and more
               | value.
               | 
               | The most expensive iPhone kept getting more expensive but
               | for almost it's entire history there has been a <$450
               | iPhone despite inflation and the overall rising average
               | purchase price of a smartphone.
               | 
               | Apple doesn't compete in the ultra-budget space but
               | pretty much from the get-go Apple has been competing on
               | price and value with older models, the 5c, the SE line,
               | the XR, etc.
               | 
               | For reference, iPhone 1 released at $715 2022 dollars
               | compared to the $400 SE available now.
               | 
               | https://www.gsmarena.com/charts_show_the_evolution_of_iph
               | one...
        
               | nottorp wrote:
               | Problem is, Apple's competition is ... not so good.
               | Doesn't go for Tesla vs other car manufacturers.
        
               | colinmhayes wrote:
               | Huge difference between $500 extra and $20,000 extra.
               | Most working people can sacrifice and afford the 500.
               | Most literally have no way of affording a Tesla.
        
           | philsnow wrote:
           | > None of them are making profitable EVs at scale.
           | 
           | Is the f150 lightning not profitable for Ford? I looked just
           | now and can't find any information (maybe have to wait until
           | next fiscal year?). Their costs for that line are lower than
           | most other automakers because they share so many parts and
           | design elements with the ICE f150.
        
             | mywittyname wrote:
             | I don't think Ford has released this information yet, and
             | it's really too soon to judge either way, considering
             | manufacturing issues and price instability. The Mach-E went
             | from very profitable, to a losser basically overnight as
             | battery prices skyrocketed.
             | 
             | At this point, battery manufacturing is EV manufacturing.
             | Battery costs are such a large percentage of overall costs
             | that the entire margin of a vehicle can evaporate at the
             | whims of a supplier.
             | 
             | I think we need to wait and see how SKBlueOval does before
             | we can really judge Ford's EV performance.
        
         | tiahura wrote:
         | Things are worth what others are actually willing to pay, there
         | is no such thing as a metaphysical true worth.
         | 
         | So yes, Tesla is actually worth whatever the market cap is.
        
           | ido wrote:
           | The less literal reading of OPs statements is that Tesla is
           | overvalued & will at some point in the future face correction
           | down to a value more in line with their sales/profit
           | potential.
           | 
           | I have no horse in the game (no Tesla nor any other
           | automotive stocks) but we've definitely seen companies being
           | massively overvalued in the past and then face fierce
           | correction - AOL was once worth $222 billion and later (not
           | even that much later) sold for less than 1% of that.
        
             | tiahura wrote:
             | We've been hearing that for at least 4 years at this point.
             | Along with scenarios where Volkswagen or Ford is going to
             | teach Tesla how things really work. I'm not persuaded.
             | 
             | First, my understanding is that Tesla has a night and day
             | lead in battery sourcing.
             | 
             | Second, Tesla doesn't have the legacy costs that the others
             | do.
             | 
             | Also, at this point, Tesla is still selling cars faster
             | than they can build them. Even if demand weakens, they may
             | still be at max output.
        
               | tsimionescu wrote:
               | Sure, but Tesla is selling high end cars, which are a
               | rounding error in the car market.
        
               | enragedcacti wrote:
               | > First, my understanding is that Tesla has a night and
               | day lead in battery sourcing.
               | 
               | They have a factory where Panasonic employees come in and
               | make batteries for them (a little glib, but not that far
               | off), but aside from that they really don't have some
               | secret sauce that we know about. They are putting CATL
               | batteries in their cars just like everyone else and they
               | don't have any mining or refining operational unlike BYD.
               | Their battery research and production is massively behind
               | schedule and the future of the Model 3, Y, and Cybertruck
               | all depend on volume 4680 production which is behind at
               | Panasonic as well.
               | 
               | Ford has the supply for 400,000 EVs lined up between now
               | and 2024 and Volkswagen has the supply to outproduce
               | Tesla in 2024. BYD is already producing more PHEV/BEV
               | than Tesla, and if there is a solid-state breakthrough it
               | won't be happening at Tesla.
        
               | ido wrote:
               | Even aside from all of that, I was just reacting to the
               | overly simplified "well by definition they're worth what
               | the market says they are so there's nothing to discuss
               | beyond it".
               | 
               | The stock market is routinely "mistaken" and stocks get
               | overhyped and then crash down later (or vice versa). It's
               | not some omniscient deity that's never wrong (except in a
               | very literal and impractical way of looking at it).
        
               | panick21_ wrote:
               | You are making a number of mistakes.
               | 
               | First of, Tesla is buying massively from Panasonic, LG
               | and CATL. They are also doing their own batteries in
               | addition to that. The production of that is behind
               | schedule, but not that far, and I can believe how little
               | credit Tesla is getting for literally turning into a
               | battery company over just a few years. Their batteries
               | are gone give them a huge advantage in margin.
               | 
               | > depend on volume 4680 production which is behind at
               | Panasonic as well
               | 
               | Tesla 4680 have nothing to do with Panasonic. Panasonic
               | is also gone make 4680 format cells for Tesla, but those
               | are totally different and have nothing to do with the
               | cells currently shipping from Texas.
               | 
               | > Ford has the supply for 400,000 EVs lined up
               | 
               | Tesla makes that many in less then 6 month. And there is
               | a large difference between signing a supply agreement and
               | actually getting it. The lithium industry had scaling
               | problems and pretty much all expert suggest a shortage is
               | coming.
               | 
               | For Ford to get all those materials, it requires a huge
               | number of supply expedition projects to go correctly and
               | that is not at all guaranteed.
               | 
               | For until a few years ago didn't even believe that had to
               | worry about batteries or battery materials at all. And
               | since then they have done a 180 and try to tell everybody
               | how EV focused and smart they are, when in-fact they are
               | behind the curve.
               | 
               | > Volkswagen has the supply to outproduce Tesla in 2024
               | 
               | Not sure where you got this from, but its false.
               | 
               | > BYD is already producing more PHEV/BEV than Tesla
               | 
               | Nice that you snuck PHEV in-there. But yeah BYD is a
               | great company, but their cars are mostly China only.
               | 
               | > if there is a solid-state breakthrough it won't be
               | happening at Tesla.
               | 
               | Solid stage or rather what people actually mean by that,
               | lithium anodes, is not inherently superior to silicon
               | anodes. Andt Tesla has some of the most interesting
               | research in that direction.
               | 
               | Also solid state will not really be relevant in the BEV
               | space for many years to come.
        
           | FinalBriefing wrote:
           | That idea seems to be ignoring the fact that other brands
           | just haven't made EVs yet. People want Telsas now because,
           | for a long time, they were the only good EVs on the market.
           | As other companies are now rolling out their first EVs,
           | Tesla's market cap will surly go down.
           | 
           | I've also heard the argument that Tesla's network of chargers
           | brings more value, but...there will also be more competitors
           | in that space in the near future (and today).
           | 
           | So, it seems shortsighted to believe that "market cap" is
           | going to remain as high as it is today.
        
             | panick21_ wrote:
             | The idea that other companies are now rolling out their
             | first EVs is complete nonsense. The argument 'competition
             | is coming' I have been hearing since 2014.
             | 
             | There are many EV that came out that most people don't know
             | much about since they were not produced in large numbers.
             | 
             | And we should also consider that the battery space is
             | running into material shortages and Tesla had the longest
             | to prepare for that and are the largest buyer of battery
             | materials/batteries on the plant.
             | 
             | Other companies might want to sell more EV, but they will
             | literally not be able to.
        
             | tiahura wrote:
             | You moved the goalpost. What the market cap will be
             | tomorrow is a different question than what is it worth
             | right now. Shares of TSLA are trading at the market price
             | right now. Tomorrow the price and market cap may be
             | different, but it will still be the price sellers will sell
             | and buyers buy.
             | 
             | There is no true value set by Buddha, Buffet, Robinhood, or
             | ML.
        
         | mimikatz wrote:
         | Yes we do, that's literally what a marketcap is. People who are
         | sure it isn't correct can beat against it and profit in the
         | correction.
        
           | ClumsyPilot wrote:
           | > People who are sure it isn't correct can beat against it
           | and profit in the correction.
           | 
           | the market can stay crazy lobger than you can stay solvent.
           | 
           | You losses in shorting are unlimited. Every i vestor from
           | Warren Buffet to my dog strongly advises against shorting
        
             | myownpetard wrote:
             | > You losses in shorting are unlimited.
             | 
             | Buy puts.
             | 
             | > Every i vestor from Warren Buffet to my dog strongly
             | advises against shorting
             | 
             | If you are not sophisticated enough to take a short
             | position, you are probably not sophisticated enough to buy
             | a specific equity. This is true of essentially everyone who
             | does not invest professionally, including myself.
        
           | wavefunction22 wrote:
           | I think market cap is a bit misleading. Enterprise value
           | (market cap + net debt) is a more consistent valuation
           | measure.
           | 
           | The house analogy is a helpful one. Let's say I buy a million
           | dollar house but I only have $100K of equity in it so far. My
           | market cap is $100K and my debt is $900K. I'd argue that the
           | house is still worth a million dollars.
           | 
           | This is important here since Tesla has much less debt vs. the
           | rest of the auto industry.
        
             | 300bps wrote:
             | Market cap should take into consideration debt and all
             | other valuation variables of a company. It's literally what
             | people are saying the company is worth. If you subtract
             | debt from market cap to get the value of a company you'll
             | be subtracting debt twice.
             | 
             | Your house analogy and the way you explained it does not
             | make sense to me. Since market cap is what the market is
             | saying a company is worth, it isn't right to equate that to
             | the "$100k of equity" in your example house. It's more
             | correct to equate it to the $1 million value the house has.
        
               | wavefunction22 wrote:
               | Market cap isn't saying what the 'company' is worth. It's
               | a measure of the equity portion of the ownership of the
               | company. It excludes the debt portion of the ownership.
               | 
               | Right now GM has an enterprise value of $130B. That means
               | it's expected to spit out $130B of cash over its lifetime
               | (discounted to a present day value). But the market cap
               | is only $50B. Meaning $80B of that future cash will go to
               | GM's lenders.
               | 
               | It of course feels super counter-intuitive to add debt
               | (which feels like it should be a negative) to the
               | valuation. But I always felt the house analogy gives an
               | intuitive everyday example.
        
             | tsimionescu wrote:
             | But they also have far, far fewer assets, and even farther
             | fewer actual cars.
        
           | JonShartwell wrote:
           | Does the word "correction" not imply that the previous price
           | was incorrect?
        
           | googlryas wrote:
           | Not exactly, because you need to look at depth of market as
           | well. If I find one idiot to buy 1 share of my stock (out of
           | a trillion) for $1, that doesn't mean I really have a $1T
           | market cap.
        
           | nicoburns wrote:
           | > Yes we do, that's literally what a marketcap is.
           | 
           | I mean in theory. In practice:
           | 
           | - You have to use a very specialised definition of "we".
           | Specifically, it's what people think, _weighted by how much
           | money they control_. So wealthy people have an outsized say
           | in market cap. Controllers of hedge funds, pension funds, etc
           | an even more outsized say.
           | 
           | - People's pricing can be based on how they expect other
           | people to price the stock in the future rather than how much
           | they think it is truly worth based on the fundamentals of the
           | business. If someone's price is based on this, then it is no
           | longer a reflection of how much they think it's worth.
        
           | The_Colonel wrote:
           | Shorting is much more risky than buying stocks. Compare:
           | 
           | 1) I'm confident that in the long term, company X will grow
           | in value. I invest $1000 and will wait however long it will
           | take, 10 or more years. I risk these $1000 only, but can earn
           | multiple of it.
           | 
           | 2) I'm confident that in the long term, company Y will
           | decrease in value. I can short it with $1000, however either
           | I risk much more than $1000 or I can't set the timeframe
           | (because of forced liquidation). I also can't earn more than
           | $1000. In the long term, I'm also exposed to inflation.
           | Effectively, it's possible to short only in a short
           | timescale, which is super risky.
           | 
           | The two betting options are very asymmetric, which IMHO
           | favors overvaluation of certain hyped stocks, since there's
           | no reasonable (not extremely risky) way to bet against them.
        
             | game-of-throws wrote:
             | There are ways to bet against stocks that don't expose you
             | to unlimited downside.
        
               | The_Colonel wrote:
               | Do you have more information? I'm interested.
        
               | game-of-throws wrote:
               | Options. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/put.asp
        
               | ericd wrote:
               | The timing aspect is still brutal, though. Market can
               | stay irrational for a very long time, and prove you
               | totally right but totally broke if it waits until after
               | your puts expire.
        
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         | theropost wrote:
         | Yes, people think Tesla is more valuable than the other car
         | markets combined. I honestly don't see the ICE manufacturers
         | really having an edge when it comes to the future of
         | transportation. If anything, I see them having a huge liability
         | - that is a large workforce to reskill, pensions to pay,
         | antiquitated plants to upgrade/maintain, old supply chains to
         | wind down, new supply chains to wind up - if anything, newer
         | entrants into the electric vehicle racket have an advantage.
        
           | Aloha wrote:
           | I think they still have a significant lead in actual
           | production manufacturing engineering. It's one of the primary
           | things they do, and have some of the best minds in the world
           | for it. I think Tesla can catch up, but right now Tesla has a
           | very outmoded plant itself, its a former GM plant built in
           | the 60's and rebuilt for NUMI in the 80's. While they're
           | building new ones, a majority of the big three's plants date
           | from 1980-2005, and are newer in structure.
           | 
           | If you talk about _how_ cars are built, all auto manufactures
           | seem to follow the same basic model to build cars, robotic
           | welded bodies, a mix of manual and robotic paint and a moving
           | assembly line to put the rest on - everyone does it the same
           | way with some minor variations. Similarly Toyotas JIT supply
           | system is used the world over by all auto manufacturers
           | because it improves the balance sheet.
        
           | UncleOxidant wrote:
           | > I honestly don't see the ICE manufacturers really having an
           | edge when it comes to the future of transportation.
           | 
           | I honestly don't see that it's difficult for ICE
           | manufacturers to compete in the EV space. We're seeing most
           | ICE companies at least dipping their toes into the EV space,
           | and in some cases they're going all in (Hyundai/Kia, VW, for
           | example) and offering strong alternatives to Tesla.
        
             | sorry_outta_gas wrote:
             | If anything EV seems easier than ICE
        
           | 988747 wrote:
           | > antiquitated plants to upgrade/maintain
           | 
           | LOL, it's Tesla that is way behind in manufacturing. They had
           | trouble hitting their production targets, and they still have
           | quality problems. Toyota/Volkswagen etc will have zero
           | trouble switching their production lines to electric cars,
           | and when they do they will manufacture cheaper, faster, and
           | better.
           | 
           | > old supply chains to wind down, new supply chains to wind
           | up
           | 
           | Again, advantage at putting together supply chains is with
           | traditional manufacturers, because of their experience.
           | 
           | EDIT: Tesla seems to have problems even hiring workers for
           | their factory in Berlin, never heard of any German
           | manufacturer having similar problem.
        
           | Xixi wrote:
           | Unless Tesla figures out how to manufacture cars with much
           | lower carbon emissions (I mean, the manufacturing of the cars
           | themselves), Tesla is not going to fare _that_ much better
           | than the legacies.
           | 
           | I hope they do figure it out...
        
           | itsoktocry wrote:
           | > _antiquitated plants to upgrade /maintain_
           | 
           | Compare a state-of-the-art BMW plant to _any_ Tesla plant.
           | Modern auto OEMs have been full automation for a long time.
        
           | svara wrote:
           | Maybe some people think that, but sometimes people are
           | deluded or simply are investing based on the greater fool
           | theory.
           | 
           | The latter reason means that even the market as a whole might
           | not actually believe in the current market cap, in the long
           | term.
           | 
           | I'm personally super skeptical of this market cap. I've been
           | renting a Tesla Model 3 the last couple weeks. It's an
           | awesome car that I would recommend to anyone. When you first
           | drive it you can appreciate what a good job Tesla have done
           | to make it feel like a car from the future. But at the end of
           | the day it's a car. It's got lots of small flaws too, and the
           | self-driving features have scared the shit out of me due to
           | errors they made more than a few times already.
           | 
           | Based on this experience it seems completely implausible that
           | Tesla will be able to keep up this "car from the future"
           | experience for very long. How? They're not a leader in self
           | driving, and even if they were, why would they remain so
           | indefinitely? What other innovations would justify this
           | image? People will get used to electric vehicles very
           | quickly, that won't feel new anymore before long.
        
             | 7952 wrote:
             | I think you are overestimating the rationality of car
             | customers. Legacy car companies have been pulling a slight
             | of hand for years. Build an aspirational dynamic brand that
             | delivers compromised products that hurt the customer.
             | People will become financially and emotionally invested and
             | then you have them. The long lasting metal seal can be
             | replaced with plastic. Safe emissions can be replaced with
             | a defeat device. And practical small cars can be replaced
             | with city cars that are too small for a stroller/pram.
             | Brilliant!
        
         | EduardoBautista wrote:
         | The other automakers are not in the energy business like Tesla
         | is.
        
         | acchow wrote:
         | The reason the other automakers are valued so low is because
         | their long-term growth prospects are negative. The market does
         | not think Ford and GM will be dominant players in 20 years when
         | cars are half software
        
         | elromulous wrote:
         | To reply to some of the comments:
         | 
         | * Yes, something is worth what someone is willing to pay. But
         | we know Mr market is temperamental and irrational, so really
         | what I'm saying is, in the long term / low pass filtered
         | version, do we really think Tesla is worth more than the next
         | 10.
         | 
         | * Re anecdotes in which market cap is correct - this doesn't
         | prove anything. E.g. a random number would be correct some of
         | the time also.
        
         | sbf501 wrote:
         | This is implicit when understanding market cap. Market cap
         | means yes, a certain number of people willing to buy Tesla
         | believe it is worth the combined cap of the next 10 auto
         | makers. It doesn't matter if that is right or wrong, all that
         | matters is that stock traders believe it. If they didn't, the
         | stock wouldn't be that price. That is literally how the stock
         | market / market cap works: if someone will buy it at that
         | price, that is what it is worth.
         | 
         | We can all offer our armchair theories about Tesla's actual
         | worth, but until traders start to move en masse, that is what
         | it is worth right now.
         | 
         | I think you are asking a different question: will Tesla be more
         | _profitable_ than the other 10 manufacturers in the long run?
         | Because right now they are not. Personally. I don 't think they
         | will ever scale to a commodity car as long as Elon is at the
         | helm. I don't think he has the attention span to make a mass
         | produced car, his ego likes doing something novel and he likes
         | luxury. To make profit like the top 10, Tesla has to become a
         | commoner car. I don't think he can pull off an iPhone move,
         | Tesla may always just be a Mac.
        
           | namecheapTA wrote:
           | I know several people that bought Tesla stock in the last 3
           | years, and I know for sure that none of them think about it
           | in terms of being worth more than most of the other companies
           | or combined. They bought the stock because they like the
           | cars, see the cars often, and most importantly, they think
           | the stock will rise and make them money.
           | 
           | They don't know how many outstanding shares there are, what
           | the market cap is relative to others, or even care about
           | profit ratio is. They just think it's going up.
        
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           | avmich wrote:
           | > and he likes luxury
           | 
           | I would argue otherwise, his movement in the recent past
           | showing.
        
             | sbf501 wrote:
             | I'll bite: what is your argument?
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | > _market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of
         | bogus_
         | 
         | how do you know when a competitor with a high market is
         | failing? when its market cap... er, goes down. i.e. market cap
         | is the best measure we have of a company's future prospects.
         | What you are seeing over and over is that the future is
         | unpredictable.
        
         | rjsw wrote:
         | I'm not sure this is bogus, Xilinx > Altera.
        
       | api wrote:
       | One of the most destructive things you can do to a company is
       | give them a near market monopoly for a while.
        
         | rapsey wrote:
         | And put bean counters in charge.
        
           | iasay wrote:
           | Ah yes HP 1999 calling there...
        
           | BeetleB wrote:
           | This trope needs to be put to rest. Brian Krzanich was a tech
           | insider and Intel fared poorly under him. The current CEO is
           | as much of an insider, and it's still doing poorly under him.
        
         | fuzzieozzie wrote:
         | I hate to say it, but a leader who lives in fear of this is
         | what Intel needed to stay ahead. Andy Grove believed and lived
         | in fear of monopoly power ... since then CEOs at Intel have
         | lacked that conviction.
        
           | pietroq wrote:
           | "Only the paranoid survives" - Andy Grove
        
         | bloodyplonker22 wrote:
         | While also putting an MBA in charge.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | papito wrote:
         | Fighting complacency is not easy.
        
       | compumike wrote:
       | Longer term (1980-present), it's been a very rough ride for
       | public equity holders of either INTC or AMD:
       | https://totalrealreturns.com/s/INTC,AMD
       | 
       | Intel is still below its year-2000 peak (even in inflation-
       | adjusted, dividend-reinvested terms).
       | 
       | AMD's growth since ~2015 all-time lows is incredibly impressive:
       | https://totalrealreturns.com/s/INTC,AMD?start=2016-01-01 Ryzen
       | was launched in late 2016 -- was that the catalyst?
        
       | duped wrote:
       | > AMD reports fiscal second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, when
       | investors will be watching to see if it is facing the same
       | macroeconomic challenges as Intel as PC sales drop around the
       | world.
       | 
       | Intel revenue fell 7% (YOY) in Q1 and 22% in Q2. AMD revenue grew
       | 71% in Q1. Something tells me they aren't facing the same
       | macroeconomic challenges.
        
         | greggyb wrote:
         | They are facing the same macroeconomic challenges (pretty much
         | tautologically). AMD is and has been taking market share from
         | Intel.
        
           | duped wrote:
           | Sarcasm doesn't translate well online, I meant that Intel's
           | problems don't seem to be macroeconomic when AMD is seeing
           | high growth (it's not just grabbing Intel's marketshare, they
           | also saw big growth in custom silicon and embedded).
        
             | hedora wrote:
             | Sure it is. Intel's failure to deliver much in the last
             | decade has become a macroeconomic drag, since demand has
             | shifted to competitors with limited manufacturing capacity
             | -- look at the impact on chip shortages on cars, for
             | example.
             | 
             | It's creating different challenges for AMD and Intel
             | though.
        
       | bluSCALE4 wrote:
       | Much deserved. Let's see Airbus take over Boeing next.
        
       | adamsmith143 wrote:
       | For comparison: AMD Q1 2022 Revenue: $5.89B, YoY Change +70.89%
       | Intel Q1 2022 Revenue: $18.35B, YoY Change -6.71%
        
       | smugma wrote:
       | "The original headline to this story mistakenly stated that it
       | was the first time AMD had passed Intel in market cap. In fact,
       | it happened before in Feb. 2022."
       | 
       | So not really newsworthy?
        
       | bhouston wrote:
       | I think this may be the top out for AMD at least in terms of
       | market share and revenue. The next gen of ARM and RISC-V is the
       | future, especially if they as well can apply chipsets to their
       | CPUs as well.
        
       | DethNinja wrote:
       | Does anyone think that all that backlash about Intel IME had an
       | impact on this?
       | 
       | I think Intel lost lots of confidence from domestic users due to
       | accusations against IME.
       | 
       | Not that AMD is any different but they somehow managed to not
       | draw public attention to PSP.
        
         | twblalock wrote:
         | I don't think the IME had anything to do with it. The people
         | who complain about it online in tech forums are a small but
         | vocal minority.
         | 
         | Intel's poor performance last quarter was mostly self-
         | inflicted.
        
         | philistine wrote:
         | It is inconceivable to think that one criticized aspect of
         | Intel's design that AMD has as well somehow tanked Intel.
         | 
         | AMD's just got a much brighter future.
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | This could give Intel room to maneuver.
       | 
       | I suspect they were going to have a quarterly loss, or close to,
       | no matter what so jammed as much future/high potential loss into
       | that single quarter as they could as well.
       | 
       | Now that they appear not to have a dominant position (Samsung
       | sells more chips! AMD is worth more!) this will blunt some
       | opposition to the juicy handouts just passed by the US Congress
       | and may cause some opposition to any attention the newly awake
       | antitrust division might direct to them.
       | 
       | Intel isn't in a near death position like Apple was, they are
       | rather in a more extreme version of Microsoft's directionless
       | drift and sag in the second half of the Balmer era. And like
       | Microsoft, Intel has a lot of resources available to use to get
       | back to the top of the dogpile. Like Microsoft they've been
       | squandering those resources for years, but perhaps this symbolic
       | milestone will cause them to finally feel the tang of fear.
       | 
       | Otherwise they'll continue to float around on residual habits,
       | like GE.
        
         | georgeburdell wrote:
         | I wouldn't ascribe this quarter's woes to some grand
         | machinations. Intel's situation really does seem that bad and
         | they're years from recovering (if they do)
        
           | gumby wrote:
           | Standard practice in a turnaround is that if a loss is
           | unavoidable anyway, you might as well make it as bad as
           | possible (i.e. jam future bad news into it).
           | 
           | But as you point out I am not privy to Intel's actual
           | practice here and haven't bothered to read the 10-Q.
        
         | oumua_don17 wrote:
         | >> as much future/high potential loss into that single quarter
         | as they could as well
         | 
         | But Pat mentioned in the earnings call that they expect the
         | next quarter to be even worse and are expecting (but in reality
         | `hoping`) that they see turnaround in the final quarter. So by
         | this account, they need more than one quarter to jam the
         | potential losses.
        
       | NotZachari wrote:
       | While I'll admit that Intel's made several missteps recently and
       | AMD has closed in, the reality is that they pad their numbers
       | using pipeline and microarchitecture tricks to get higher raw
       | stats that don't translate to real-world performance. Intel's
       | tends to be a bit more expensive for the same "tier" with lower
       | listed performance numbers but better performance. That's because
       | AMD has consistently done shit like using shorter pipelines and
       | rampant pipeline flushing. They have used sacrificing cycles to
       | get the raw benchmark numbers to justify someone "saving money
       | for more power". Intel's made a lot of mistakes recently, but I
       | trust their chips to perform at the price point they're sold at.
       | A quality AMD processor or GPU performance-wise is equal in price
       | to their counterparts in Intel and Nvidia.
       | 
       | I'm not anti-AMD at all. I want competition in the marketplace,
       | but their historical approach to this where they cut costs and
       | use tricks to generate raw numbers makes it really hard to
       | support them. "Consoles and gaming computers featuring them are
       | selling like hotcakes!" Yeah because companies are looking to
       | sell units at the highest profit margin.
       | 
       | I think the elite tier of this competition is a solid one, and
       | I'm constantly watching to see what each company's pushing out.
       | That being said, I think it's widely known that Intel's products
       | in their low to mid-tier offerings are superior.
        
         | dralley wrote:
         | I'm not a hardware engineer so I have to ask, how is using
         | "shorter pipelines" supposed to be illegitimate? Just because
         | Intel may do better at the workloads you have in mind, that
         | doesn't mean that AMD's approach doesn't do better in other
         | (legitimate) workloads.
         | 
         | Pentium 4 and Bulldozer both had (very) long pipelines and look
         | how they turned out. Long pipelines certainly doesn't
         | fundamentally equal better real-world performance, short
         | pipelines != better benchmarks. It depends on the combination
         | of architectural decisions considered together, right?
         | 
         | You're going to have to expand on this concept a bit to
         | convince people that these design decisions are a deliberate
         | attempt to cheat the benchmarks, throwing out lingo doesn't
         | quite suffice.
        
       | bekantan wrote:
       | Intel was once known for its memory. Then it became known for its
       | CPUs. I expect that they will pivot at least once more, this time
       | to something which will supersede GPUs for ML workloads. This is,
       | of course, very uncertain which is reflected in the size of my
       | long position
        
         | scrlk wrote:
         | >Intel was once known for its memory. Then it became known for
         | its CPUs
         | 
         | As Andy Grove once succinctly put it: "Only the paranoid
         | survive"
        
         | oumua_don17 wrote:
         | >> they will pivot at least once more,
         | 
         | They most likely won't be a third time lucky. They had to pivot
         | after their first 10nm delay but their monopoly in server CPU
         | allowed them to keep pumping money despite manufacturing
         | delays. Meanwhile, that gave AMD a chance to catch up which
         | they not only did but outperformed them. One can claim that
         | it's easy to say in hindsight, but that's the hallmark of great
         | leadership which they haven't had since Grove's retirement.
         | 
         | Now Intel have lost that money making division so much so that
         | all the fanfare of regaining manufacturing leadership has been
         | defused with the announcement of reduction of 4bn in capex and
         | still a focus on shareholder dividend. Intel will need some
         | financial engineering and a split of manufacturing and design
         | shouldn't be surprising. And this won't be some smart timely
         | pivot, but a forced split.
        
       | huangc10 wrote:
       | Remember the days when AMD was like $3/share and Intel was like
       | crushing it. The world really has changed in the last decade.
        
         | Smartcom5 wrote:
         | It was $1.86/share Oct/Nov 2012, quite a rally if you ask me. I
         | think it was still $1.66/share sometimes in '15.
         | 
         | From Nov 2012 (that was after Bulldozer), it run to $153/share
         | on 19th Nov '21 - that's 8255,38%!
         | 
         | I remember vividly back in 2002 studying the newly established
         | 'FT Deutschland' (FT's German Edition) when being in Germany,
         | that FT Deutschland brought an profound article talking about
         | AMD's imminent impact of success (and how it's going to hit
         | INTC hard) with the then-new Thoroughbred-Athlons - I should've
         | invested as I felt something was up.
        
         | unethical_ban wrote:
         | I bought at $5 and sold at 15 thinking I was so clever.
         | 
         | Then I bought at 80 and held through 160, now it's at 96.
         | 
         | I'm a long term bull on AMD, but I think the rocket left the
         | atmosphere already. To me it's a blue chip. Intel nor AMD will
         | ever go out of business, unless and until x86 itself dies and
         | neither can pivot. AMD has a lock on consoles, it is the only
         | competitor to Intel in x86, it basically _can 't_ go out of
         | business.
        
           | manquer wrote:
           | With increasing ARM both on servers and laptops(Macs) x86
           | itself may wane in marketshare .
        
             | lelanthran wrote:
             | > With increasing ARM both on servers and laptops(Macs) x86
             | itself may wane in marketshare .
             | 
             | Not a problem - they both (Intel and AMD) make ARM chips
             | too, don't they?
        
           | adam_arthur wrote:
           | Cloud vendors have been increasingly pushing their own chips.
           | It's hard to see AMD having any pricing power in the long
           | run, unless their chips are significantly better than what
           | big tech can create on their own
        
             | unethical_ban wrote:
             | The Gigacorps have done this, some of them. I have more
             | interest in the ARM argument than in the "custom chip"
             | argument, unless Amazon and co. decide to retail their
             | processors.
             | 
             | Consoles, most OEMs, and all non-gigacorps will be buying
             | off-the-shelf processors.
        
               | adam_arthur wrote:
               | I'm pretty sure cloud and enterprise sales make up the
               | bulk of their revenue and growth. Not consumer.
               | 
               | That being said there's likely still a few years of
               | runway left for their growth. Even if cloud vendors don't
               | push their own chips aggressively, they can use it as
               | leverage to cut into AMD margins.
               | 
               | I don't see how ARM is an argument. AMD will easily be
               | able to create competitive arm processors, there just
               | wasn't a strong financial incentive to do it before
        
       | StevePerkins wrote:
       | I remember the first computer that I ever built (it was cheaper
       | to do it yourself back at the dawn of globalization). I used an
       | AMD 386 rather than an Intel 386. Simply for the youthful reasons
       | that I liked AMD's logo better, and I've always tended to root
       | for the underdog.
       | 
       | I'm not much of a PC gamer, and so I haven't built a machine from
       | scratch or thought much about individual components in decades.
       | But there's a small flicker of my teenage self way down in there,
       | pumping his fist and giving a cheer.
        
         | jhenkens wrote:
         | Different generation - my first build was an Athlon 64, and my
         | only AMD build to date (of maybe 5 or 6 machines over 20
         | years). Loved the struggle of being x64 when it was still so
         | new to consumers.
        
         | neogodless wrote:
         | > root for the underdog
         | 
         | This has been a lot of it for me.
         | 
         | I didn't switch to AMD until the Athlon XP 1700+ came out. I've
         | stuck with them for desktop builds, mostly, except a few budget
         | "Intel Gxxx" cpus, while I stuck with Intel for laptop
         | purchases until the Ryzen 4xxx chips came out.
         | 
         | I've switched between Nvidia and ATI/AMD a lot over the years.
         | 
         | If Intel becomes the underdog (against the AMD and Apple
         | titans), I guess I'll have to hope they put out good products
         | :)
        
         | the8472 wrote:
         | > I'm not much of a PC gamer, and so I haven't built a machine
         | from scratch or thought much about individual components in
         | decades.
         | 
         | There's a grown-up version: build/videoediting/whatever-machine
         | with a Threadripper ;)
        
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         | nickserv wrote:
         | I have a bit of that root for the underdog mentality too, but
         | my support of AMD in the last few years has been due in large
         | part for their Linux support.
         | 
         | Not having to worry about 3D drivers working on a kernel update
         | is such a nice thing.
         | 
         | Of course, when I started, Linux was very much the underdog,
         | and not on billions of devices.
        
           | toast0 wrote:
           | > my support of AMD in the last few years has been due in
           | large part for their Linux support.
           | 
           | > Not having to worry about 3D drivers working on a kernel
           | update is such a nice thing.
           | 
           | Intel does a pretty good job of kernel GPU drivers too, I
           | thought? Their network card drivers aren't bad either. And
           | they usually support FreeBSD as well as Linux, although
           | sometimes Linux support comes much earlier than FreeBSD.
        
         | dragontamer wrote:
         | > I've always tended to root for the underdog.
         | 
         | Time to start rooting for Intel now, lol.
         | 
         | ------
         | 
         | I've been rooting for Intel's AVX512 instruction set for some
         | time, because I really think its a great technology. But with
         | Zen3/4 on the way with rumored AVX512, and with Intel's most
         | recent decisions to cut AVX512 from 12th gen Core-i7
         | processors, its hard to find an advantage for Intel right now.
         | 
         | Intel supports DDR5 a few months earlier than AMD, and Intel is
         | doing some smart things with CXL and I/O space rather than CPU
         | space. The new big.LITTLE design is interesting, but the loss
         | of AVX512 is pretty big (and Intel really should fix that IMO).
        
           | neogodless wrote:
           | Just to clarify, Zen 3 has been out since November 2020. (Zen
           | 3+ earlier this year.)
           | 
           | Zen 4 is not yet formally announced (at least not the full
           | technical details), so presumably that's what you mean.
           | 
           | Intel's biggest remaining advantage is if you want a laptop
           | with Thunderbolt. It should theoretically be available on AMD
           | laptops, but I don't know if _any_ have become available yet.
           | 
           | EDIT: See below, Zen 4 is _announced_ but not yet available,
           | so performance and final details are pending (including
           | models, performance, etc.)
        
             | willis936 wrote:
             | Zen 4 has been formally announced. Do you mean it has not
             | launched?
             | 
             | https://www.anandtech.com/show/17399/amd-
             | ryzen-7000-announce...
        
               | neogodless wrote:
               | Yes, thanks for clarifying.
        
         | briffle wrote:
         | Mine was a cyrix "pentium compatible". I miss having 3 players
         | in the game. I believe they got bought by Transmeta, back when
         | Linus Torvalds was employed by them.
        
           | deaddodo wrote:
           | Cyrix was bought by Via (via National Semiconductor) and
           | rolled into their Isaiah architecture along with Centaur's
           | architecture. That was then used in Nano[1]. It is now being
           | used in Chinese co-developed and fabbed x86 options[2].
           | 
           | The rest of their technology was bought by AMD and used in
           | it's MediaGX/Geode chips[3].
           | 
           | 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Nano
           | 
           | 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin
           | 
           | 3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)#AMD_Geode
        
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