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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Semiconductor collapses like today's are led by memory chips, which are a commodity</li>
<li>The leading memory manufacturers: Samsung, SK hynix, Micron, and WDC, have announced their 3Q22 earnings, with only Kioxia remaining.  All have suffered substantial revenue declines.</li>
<li>Memory prices are dropping to cost, and should remain at cost until demand catches back up with supply in late 2023</li>
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Semiconductor collapses like today's are led by memory chips, which are a commodity
The leading memory manufacturers: Samsung, SK hynix, Micron, and WDC, have announced their 3Q22 earnings, with only Kioxia remaining.  All have suffered substantial revenue declines.
Memory prices are dropping to cost, and should remain at cost until demand catches back up with supply in late 2023


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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Micron delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter, missing out on the revenue expectations of Wall Street but managing an earnings beat.</li><li>As a result, demand is being reduced for the other parts of the supply chain, which already have more than enough inventory, because the servers cannot be built.</li><li>Therefore, although the overall demand for clouds is generally healthy, this is one factor that is having an impact on it.</li></ul>

Micron delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter, missing out on the revenue expectations of Wall Street but managing an earnings beat.As a result, demand is being reduced for the other parts of the supply chain, which already have more than enough inventory, because the servers cannot be built.Therefore, although the overall demand for clouds is generally healthy, this is one factor that is having an impact on it.

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Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Major milestones for Hon Hai's EV platform could be unveiled at today's Hon Hai Tech Day.</li>
<li>Apple's dropping of a key China supplier shows how international players may want to just avoid even non-restricted products from China.</li>
<li>Senior semiconductor executives across the industry are halting work for China-based firms, including some leading Chinese execs.</li>
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Major milestones for Hon Hai's EV platform could be unveiled at today's Hon Hai Tech Day.
Apple's dropping of a key China supplier shows how international players may want to just avoid even non-restricted products from China.
Senior semiconductor executives across the industry are halting work for China-based firms, including some leading Chinese execs.


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<li>Nanya Technology recently reported 3Q22 results and its gross margin fell substantially, but this appears mostly digested into consensus estimates.</li>
<li>The company also announced a major reduction in capex, which highlights the latest industry trend whereby supply/demand imbalances are being addressed by reduced capacity expansion.</li>
<li>Nanya Technology has outperformed the TAIEX Semi Index by ~27% in less than three weeks.</li>
</ul>


Nanya Technology recently reported 3Q22 results and its gross margin fell substantially, but this appears mostly digested into consensus estimates.
The company also announced a major reduction in capex, which highlights the latest industry trend whereby supply/demand imbalances are being addressed by reduced capacity expansion.
Nanya Technology has outperformed the TAIEX Semi Index by ~27% in less than three weeks.


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TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) / Equity Bottom-Up

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing)

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<li>TSMC says limited impact from U.S. China restrictions -- We crosscheck the comments.</li>
<li>TSMC guidance was strong and gives hope for 1H23 industry improvement. Looks cheap on a cycle-adjusted PE.</li>
<li>Intel has outperformed TSMC shares despite the recent TSMC rebound.</li>
</ul>


TSMC says limited impact from U.S. China restrictions -- We crosscheck the comments.
TSMC guidance was strong and gives hope for 1H23 industry improvement. Looks cheap on a cycle-adjusted PE.
Intel has outperformed TSMC shares despite the recent TSMC rebound.


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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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