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<ul><li>Micron Technology's Fiscal Second Quarter 2024 Earnings showcased a lean towards optimism with some cautionary notes.</li><li>It was revealed that the Micron sees substantial demand for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) which has even surpassed their expectations and as such the HBM supply for 2024 is already sold out, with most of 2025's capacity also already allocated.</li><li>This is due in part to the product’s high performance specs and 30% lower power consumption.</li></ul>

Micron Technology's Fiscal Second Quarter 2024 Earnings showcased a lean towards optimism with some cautionary notes.It was revealed that the Micron sees substantial demand for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) which has even surpassed their expectations and as such the HBM supply for 2024 is already sold out, with most of 2025's capacity also already allocated.This is due in part to the product’s high performance specs and 30% lower power consumption.

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<li>U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. expects deeper cooperation with the Chinese government as Beijing ramps up efforts to boost foreign investment, its CEO said at a forum in the capital Monday.</li>
<li>Speaking at the China Development Forum, Sanjay Mehrotra hailed the recent release by the State Council of a <a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2024-03-20/china-releases-action-plan-to-attract-foreign-investment-102177094.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24-point plan</a> designed to promote high-level opening-up and attract foreign investment as the latest show of China’s determination to improve its business environment for foreign companies.</li>
<li>Micron cannot grow its business in China without government support, Mehrotra added, while reaffirming the company’s commitment to expand its business in the world’s second-largest economy, where it has a presence in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an.</li>
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U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. expects deeper cooperation with the Chinese government as Beijing ramps up efforts to boost foreign investment, its CEO said at a forum in the capital Monday.
Speaking at the China Development Forum, Sanjay Mehrotra hailed the recent release by the State Council of a 24-point plan designed to promote high-level opening-up and attract foreign investment as the latest show of China’s determination to improve its business environment for foreign companies.
Micron cannot grow its business in China without government support, Mehrotra added, while reaffirming the company’s commitment to expand its business in the world’s second-largest economy, where it has a presence in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an.


Micron Reaffirms China Expansion Plan as Government Welcomes Foreign Businesses

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<ul><li>I wrote about this in my recent post about HBM, and it seems almost everything I talked about became true. HBM is going to bail out the memory markets meaningfully.</li><li>Let’s talk about earnings, but I was hoping you could keep this post in mind while I discuss Micron.</li><li><p>These are the kinds of beats we start to see when the cycle turns. Now, the stocks have begun to anticipate this, but given the pricing dynamics of HBM, I feel very confident in Micron’s ability to hit a new cycle high in profitability.</p></li></ul>

I wrote about this in my recent post about HBM, and it seems almost everything I talked about became true. HBM is going to bail out the memory markets meaningfully.Let’s talk about earnings, but I was hoping you could keep this post in mind while I discuss Micron.These are the kinds of beats we start to see when the cycle turns. Now, the stocks have begun to anticipate this, but given the pricing dynamics of HBM, I feel very confident in Micron’s ability to hit a new cycle high in profitability.

Micron's Earnings and Broadcom's Accelerators

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Vincent Fernando, CFA

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<li>Micron shares have soared after the company reported its latest results with forward margin guidance well above consensus expectations.</li>
<li>Micron appears to be successfully leapfrogging into ther HBM memory space, and says that its production for 2024E is sold out and for 2025E is already all 'allocated'.</li>
<li>Taiwan's Nanya Tech has lagged its peers by a wide margin; Nanya lacks HBM products however HBM market demand is driving supply tightness for all DRAM.</li>
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Micron shares have soared after the company reported its latest results with forward margin guidance well above consensus expectations.
Micron appears to be successfully leapfrogging into ther HBM memory space, and says that its production for 2024E is sold out and for 2025E is already all 'allocated'.
Taiwan's Nanya Tech has lagged its peers by a wide margin; Nanya lacks HBM products however HBM market demand is driving supply tightness for all DRAM.


Memory Monitor: Micron Leapfrogging Into HBM3E for AI; Nanya Lagging Peers But Poised to Benefit

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William Keating

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Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

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<li>Q224 revenues of $5.8 billion, up 23% QoQ and up 58% YoY. It also well above the high end of the guided range of $5.5 billion.</li>
<li>Net income turned positive &amp; amounted to $476 million. This compares to a loss of $1 billion in Q124</li>
<li>Forecasting current quarter revenues of $6.6 billion &amp; gross margin of 26.5% at their respective midpoints</li>
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Q224 revenues of $5.8 billion, up 23% QoQ and up 58% YoY. It also well above the high end of the guided range of $5.5 billion.
Net income turned positive &amp; amounted to $476 million. This compares to a loss of $1 billion in Q124
Forecasting current quarter revenues of $6.6 billion &amp; gross margin of 26.5% at their respective midpoints


Micron. Back In The Black & No Going Back

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Micron Technology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs), very fast static random access memory chips (SRAMs), Flash Memory, other semiconductor components, and memory modules.

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Micron Technology's Fiscal Second Quarter 2024 Earnings showcased a lean towards optimism with some cautionary notes. It was revealed that the...

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