Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Zero One

Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

Independent Investment Research

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Faraday Top-Line Soars on CoWoS Chip Packaging Services Support Ramp -- 78% of MP Revenue Came from AI/HPC Applications</li>
<li>TSMC-Aligned Execution Enables Asset-Light Business Scaling for Faraday -- New Fabless OSAT Service is Highly Differentiated; Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>Outlook: Continued Very Strong Momentum into 2Q25 -- 1H25 Revenue Will Be Higher Than All of 2024</li>
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Faraday Top-Line Soars on CoWoS Chip Packaging Services Support Ramp -- 78% of MP Revenue Came from AI/HPC Applications
TSMC-Aligned Execution Enables Asset-Light Business Scaling for Faraday -- New Fabless OSAT Service is Highly Differentiated; Competitive Advantage
Outlook: Continued Very Strong Momentum into 2Q25 -- 1H25 Revenue Will Be Higher Than All of 2024


Faraday Technology’s Breakout: AI Packaging Demand Defying the Global Semiconductor Slowdown

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) - ADR / Equity Bottom-Up

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) - ADR

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<li>Top Gainers/Loser: Taiwan Tech Stocks Hit Hard Last Week By Global AI/Tech Pullback</li>
<li>Key Events This Week: Major Earnings Week Including UMC, Mediatek, Realtek, AMD, Microsoft</li>
<li>TechChain Insights: Call with Silicon Motion; QLC NAND Emerging as Key Enabler for AI Devices </li>
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Top Gainers/Loser: Taiwan Tech Stocks Hit Hard Last Week By Global AI/Tech Pullback
Key Events This Week: Major Earnings Week Including UMC, Mediatek, Realtek, AMD, Microsoft
TechChain Insights: Call with Silicon Motion; QLC NAND Emerging as Key Enabler for AI Devices 


Taiwan Tech Weekly: Hit Hard By AI/Tech Pullback; Watch UMC, Mediatek, Realtek, AMD, MSFT Earnings

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<li>This week will have some major earnings data points released. In Taiwan, UMC, Delta, Mediatek, ASE will report among other local names in our coverage.</li>
<li>Samsung &amp; SK Hynix will report this week, providing major insight into the Memory chip space for companies such as Nanya Technology and Micron.</li>
<li>TSMC &amp; ASML results last week indicate that the cycle could be bottoming in 2Q23E for these leading firms... But are we entering a two-track industry recovery?</li>
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This week will have some major earnings data points released. In Taiwan, UMC, Delta, Mediatek, ASE will report among other local names in our coverage.
Samsung &amp; SK Hynix will report this week, providing major insight into the Memory chip space for companies such as Nanya Technology and Micron.
TSMC &amp; ASML results last week indicate that the cycle could be bottoming in 2Q23E for these leading firms... But are we entering a two-track industry recovery?


Taiwan Tech Weekly: This Is a Major Earnings Week; Are We Entering a 2-Track Semiconductor Recovery?

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) / Equity Bottom-Up

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing)

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<li>There's been a major disconnect between performance of the Philly Semiconductor Index and the Taiwan market recently.</li>
<li>Semi optimism has picked up substantially in U.S. markets and institutional favor towards the Taiwan market could improve as a result.</li>
<li>We indentify US$1bn+  market cap stocks most under-held by institutions, as well as those who may be most at risk of a short squeeze.</li>
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There's been a major disconnect between performance of the Philly Semiconductor Index and the Taiwan market recently.
Semi optimism has picked up substantially in U.S. markets and institutional favor towards the Taiwan market could improve as a result.
We indentify US$1bn+  market cap stocks most under-held by institutions, as well as those who may be most at risk of a short squeeze.


Taiwan Short Squeeze Ahead? Taiwan Market Significantly Lagging Philly SOX Index

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 5th. The aggregated short interest was USD28.2bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies, PharmaEssentia, Nanya Technology, WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies, PharmaEssentia, Nanya Technology.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 5th. The aggregated short interest was USD28.2bn.
We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies, PharmaEssentia, Nanya Technology, WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies, PharmaEssentia, Nanya Technology.


TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 5th): WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies

Taiwan

Faraday Technology Corp. designs and manufactures application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and wafers.

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Faraday Technology (3035 TT)

Faraday Technology’s Breakout: AI Packaging Demand Defying the Global Semiconductor Slowdown

Faraday's top-line growth driven by CoWoS chip packaging services for AI/HPC applications, with very strong momentum expected to continue into 2Q25.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Hit Hard By AI/Tech Pullback; Watch UMC, Mediatek, Realtek, AMD, MSFT Earnings

A recap of last week's gainers and losers plus key events to watch out for this week and recently published research pieces.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: This Is a Major Earnings Week; Are We Entering a 2-Track Semiconductor Recovery?

TSMC & ASML results last week indicate that the cycle could be bottoming in 2Q23E for these leading firms... But are we entering a two-track...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Short Squeeze Ahead? Taiwan Market Significantly Lagging Philly SOX Index

We indentify US$1bn+ market cap stocks most under-held by institutions, as well as those who may be most at risk of a short squeeze.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 5th): WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in WT Microelectronics (3036 TT), Accton Technology...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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Faraday Technology’s Breakout: AI Packaging Demand Defying the Global Semiconductor Slowdown

​Faraday's top-line growth driven by CoWoS chip packaging services for AI/HPC applications, with very strong momentum expected to continue into 2Q25.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Hit Hard By AI/Tech Pullback; Watch UMC, Mediatek, Realtek, AMD, MSFT Earnings

A recap of last week's gainers and losers plus key events to watch out for this week and recently published research pieces.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: This Is a Major Earnings Week; Are We Entering a 2-Track Semiconductor Recovery?

TSMC & ASML results last week indicate that the cycle could be bottoming in 2Q23E for these leading firms... But are we entering a two-track...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Short Squeeze Ahead? Taiwan Market Significantly Lagging Philly SOX Index

We indentify US$1bn+ market cap stocks most under-held by institutions, as well as those who may be most at risk of a short squeeze.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 5th): WT Microelectronics, Accton Technology, Alchip Technologies

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in WT Microelectronics (3036 TT), Accton Technology...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Faraday's top-line growth driven by CoWoS chip packaging services for AI/HPC applications, with very strong momentum expected to continue into 2Q25.