Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

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<li>Q1’23 operating profits of 0.64 trillion won, the lowest since Q1'09</li>
<li>Strong sales of flagship S23 smartphones helped avert an otherwise inevitable overall group operating loss.  </li>
<li>Outlook for the current quarter is for more of the same, albeit the bottom line will depend on the extent (if any) of memory inventory write-downs. </li>
</ul>


Q1’23 operating profits of 0.64 trillion won, the lowest since Q1'09
Strong sales of flagship S23 smartphones helped avert an otherwise inevitable overall group operating loss.  
Outlook for the current quarter is for more of the same, albeit the bottom line will depend on the extent (if any) of memory inventory write-downs. 


Samsung. When Your Cash Cow Turns Into Your Achilles Heel.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist

Objective Analysis

Objective Analysis offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs

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<li>The past three quarters have seen memory revenues collapse by 60%</li>
<li>DRAM and NAND prices have reach cost, and the business should remain profitless for an indefinite time</li>
<li>Management appears to have no idea when this situation will end</li>
</ul>


The past three quarters have seen memory revenues collapse by 60%
DRAM and NAND prices have reach cost, and the business should remain profitless for an indefinite time
Management appears to have no idea when this situation will end


<ul>
<li>SK Hynix reported a Q1'23 net loss of ~ US$1.9 billion</li>
<li>As was the case with Micron, the company pegged Q1'23 as the trough for the current downturn and now expect quarterly revenues to grow sequentially</li>
<li>Recovery may be nigh, but the macro outlook has actually worsened. The road to recovery will be a long and winding one. </li>
</ul>


SK Hynix reported a Q1'23 net loss of ~ US$1.9 billion
As was the case with Micron, the company pegged Q1'23 as the trough for the current downturn and now expect quarterly revenues to grow sequentially
Recovery may be nigh, but the macro outlook has actually worsened. The road to recovery will be a long and winding one. 


SK Hynix Calls Time On The Memory Downturn

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<li>With ~2x exposure to memory compared to its peers, LRCX is feeling the pain</li>
<li>Q1 revenues of  $3.87 billion were marginally higher than the forecasted midpoint, down 26.7% sequentially and down 4.4% YoY.</li>
<li>For the current quarter, LRCX expects revenues to decline a further ~ 20% to $3.1 billion at the midpoint.</li>
</ul>


With ~2x exposure to memory compared to its peers, LRCX is feeling the pain
Q1 revenues of  $3.87 billion were marginally higher than the forecasted midpoint, down 26.7% sequentially and down 4.4% YoY.
For the current quarter, LRCX expects revenues to decline a further ~ 20% to $3.1 billion at the midpoint.


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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Micron Technology’s results in the quarter were disastrous as the company failed to meet the revenue expectations of Wall Street and reported wider-than-expected losses.</li><li>Total fiscal revenue was down, whereas DRAM revenue represented 74% of the total revenue.</li><li>Revenue from the Mobile Business Unit was up and Embedded Business Unit revenue was down.</li></ul>

Micron Technology’s results in the quarter were disastrous as the company failed to meet the revenue expectations of Wall Street and reported wider-than-expected losses.Total fiscal revenue was down, whereas DRAM revenue represented 74% of the total revenue.Revenue from the Mobile Business Unit was up and Embedded Business Unit revenue was down.

Micron Technology: How This DRAM & NAND Leader Is Surviving In A Challenging Market – Key Drivers

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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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