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Foxconn’s Nvidia business is surging while its Apple business shrinks

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, said in its second-quarter earnings report that it expects its AI server revenue to more than double in the current quarter, thanks in part to hefty demand from partners like Nvidia. Meanwhile, it expects its consumer electronic business, which includes manufacturing Apple’s iPhones, to shrink.

Behold, the company’s 2025 outlook in slide form:

Hon Hai 2025 business outlook
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Back in March, Hon Hai Chairman Young Liu warned of an imminent changing of the guard, with server products poised to assume the top slot as a driver of sales. And in Q2, the company’s server products made up the largest portion of its revenue — 41% — for the first time, while consumer electronics declined to 35%.

Apple has seen sales of its iPhones lose steam, while companies that manufacture AI products can’t keep up with demand.

“Major cloud service providers are raising their spending, and governments around the world are rolling out sovereign AI projects. This shows overall AI demand still outstrips supplies,” Hon Hai rotating CEO Kathy Yang said on the earnings call. “Our group is aggressively expanding our capacity to meet the swiftly growing demand.”

Tariffs remain a concern for the company, which is expanding production in the US in hopes of being exempted.

Overall, Foxconns net income rose 27% last quarter, better than analysts expected, and revenue grew 16%, which was in line with expectations.

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Amazon closes at all-time high

Fresh off strong earnings Thursday, Amazon saw its stock price end the week at a record closing high of $244.22.

The stock is up 10% so far this year.

The e-commerce and cloud giant beat analysts’ revenue and earnings, and its massive gain was responsible for more than all of the positive return delivered by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF on Friday.

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Google uses an AI-generated ad to sell AI search

Google is using AI video to tell consumers about its AI search tools, with a Veo 3-generated advertisement that will begin airing on TV today. In it, a cartoonish turkey uses Google’s AI Mode to plan a vacation from its farm before it’s eaten for Thanksgiving.

Like other AI ad campaigns that have opted to depict yetis or famous artworks rather than humans, Google chose a turkey as its protagonist to avoid the uncanny valley pitfall that happens when AI is used to generate human likenesses.

Google’s in-house marketing group, Google Creative Lab, developed the idea for the ad — not Google’s AI — but chose not to prominently label the ad as AI, telling The Wall Street Journal that consumers don’t actually care how the ad was made.

Google’s in-house marketing group, Google Creative Lab, developed the idea for the ad — not Google’s AI — but chose not to prominently label the ad as AI, telling The Wall Street Journal that consumers don’t actually care how the ad was made.

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Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft combined spent nearly $100 billion on capex last quarter

The numbers are in and tech giants Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft spent a whopping $97 billion last quarter on purchases of property and equipment. That’s nearly double what it was a year earlier as AI infrastructure costs continue to balloon and show no sign of stopping. Amazon, which reported earnings and capital expenditure spending that beat analysts’ expectations yesterday, continued to lead the pack, spending more than $35 billion on capex in the quarter that ended in September.

Note that the data we’re using here is from FactSet, which strips out finance leases when calculating capital expenditures. If those expenses were included the total would be well over $100 billion last quarter.

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