Asia and Global Semiconductor and Tech Research

Andrew Lu

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We see early signs of recovery in PC and smartphone markets, stable server market (strengths in AI server, stable in non-AI server market), but weaknesses in automotive and industrial.</li>
<li>We expect the PC semi market recovery of more than 10% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and silicon contents increase by adding AI into PC.</li>
<li>We expect the smartphone semi market recovery of 7-8% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and adopting 3nE foundry node. But, Huawei/HiSilicon will take some of the growth.</li>
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We see early signs of recovery in PC and smartphone markets, stable server market (strengths in AI server, stable in non-AI server market), but weaknesses in automotive and industrial.
We expect the PC semi market recovery of more than 10% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and silicon contents increase by adding AI into PC.
We expect the smartphone semi market recovery of 7-8% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and adopting 3nE foundry node. But, Huawei/HiSilicon will take some of the growth.


First Run of Global Semis' Guidances to Tell Early Signs of Recovery

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

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Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>Apple Inc. reported a June quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, marking a 16% year-over-year increase and setting a June quarter record despite supply constraints and sequential foreign exchange headwinds.</li><li>Growth was broad-based across geographical regions, including strong double-digit growth in emerging markets.</li><li>The iPhone segment led revenue, achieving $54.3 billion, a 22% increase, driven by the iPhone 17 family and setting records in all major markets.</li></ul>

Apple Inc. reported a June quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, marking a 16% year-over-year increase and setting a June quarter record despite supply constraints and sequential foreign exchange headwinds.Growth was broad-based across geographical regions, including strong double-digit growth in emerging markets.The iPhone segment led revenue, achieving $54.3 billion, a 22% increase, driven by the iPhone 17 family and setting records in all major markets.

Apple Inc.’s iPhone 17 Breakout — Can 22% Growth Unlock Another Upgrade Cycle?

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ORTEX Market Intel

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ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

<ul><li>Short covering dominated the week of August 10.</li><li>PYPL , UPWK , BIDU , and LAUR all shed more than 20% of their short positions in seven days.</li><li>Against that tide, ENRD , FRMI , and AADX attracted fresh bearish conviction - with ENRD's cost to borrow hitting an all-time high.</li></ul>

Short covering dominated the week of August 10.PYPL , UPWK , BIDU , and LAUR all shed more than 20% of their short positions in seven days.Against that tide, ENRD , FRMI , and AADX attracted fresh bearish conviction - with ENRD's cost to borrow hitting an all-time high.

Short Sellers in Retreat — With Pockets of New Conviction

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We focus on hedge funds with a bias towards emerging managers, specifically fundamental long-short managers. We are known for a lot of insights and exclusives on hedge fund letters, coverage of industry conferences, and interviews with investors and interesting service providers.

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<ul><li>Ken Griffin’s Citadel reported $875.01 billion in U.S. securities on its latest 13F, a figure that makes the hedge fund’s portfolio appear far larger than its actual equity holdings.</li><li>Roughly four-fifths of the filing consists of options, leaving $171.76 billion in disclosed equity positions.</li><li>The distinction matters because several different figures are used to describe Citadel’s size. </li></ul>

Ken Griffin’s Citadel reported $875.01 billion in U.S. securities on its latest 13F, a figure that makes the hedge fund’s portfolio appear far larger than its actual equity holdings.Roughly four-fifths of the filing consists of options, leaving $171.76 billion in disclosed equity positions.The distinction matters because several different figures are used to describe Citadel’s size. 

Ken Griffin Portfolio: Citadel Top Holdings (Q2 2026)

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea. </li>
<li>Total amount of overseas listed investments by Korean investors increased from $27 billion at the end of 2020 to $131.7 billion as of 22 April 2026.</li>
<li>RIA account is aiming to slow down this aggressive growth of overseas stock investments by Korean investors and rather try to repatriate these overseas investments into the Korean stock market. </li>
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Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea. 
Total amount of overseas listed investments by Korean investors increased from $27 billion at the end of 2020 to $131.7 billion as of 22 April 2026.
RIA account is aiming to slow down this aggressive growth of overseas stock investments by Korean investors and rather try to repatriate these overseas investments into the Korean stock market. 


Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) Surpasses 1 Trillion Won in One Month in Korea

United States

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables and accessories, and sells a variety of related accessories. The Company also offers payment, digital content, cloud and advertising services. Apple Inc.'s customers are primarily in consumer, small & mid-sized business, education, enterprise and government markets worldwide.

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First Run of Global Semis' Guidances to Tell Early Signs of Recovery

After the first Run of global semis' guidance, it tells early signs of recovery in PC and smartphone but weaknesses in automotive and industrial,...

Andrew Lu

Apple Inc.’s iPhone 17 Breakout — Can 22% Growth Unlock Another Upgrade Cycle?

Apple Inc. reported a June quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, marking a 16% year-over-year increase and setting a June quarter record despite...

Baptista Research

Short Sellers in Retreat — With Pockets of New Conviction

Short covering dominated the week of August 10. PYPL , UPWK , BIDU , and LAUR all shed more than 20% of their short positions in seven...

ORTEX Market Intel

Ken Griffin Portfolio: Citadel Top Holdings (Q2 2026)

Citadel reports $76 billion in investment capital, while its regulatory filing lists $570.62 billion in assets under management. Neither figure...

Hedge Fund Alpha

Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) Surpasses 1 Trillion Won in One Month in Korea

Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea.

Douglas Kim

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