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>Micron's earnings call gives a good advanced warning of similar companies' reports</li>
<li>The company's downturn is the worst in the past 13 years</li>
<li>Not all chip companies will suffer this downturn, and few will do as badly as commodity memory makers.  Tool makers will feel the impact next year.</li>
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Micron's earnings call gives a good advanced warning of similar companies' reports
The company's downturn is the worst in the past 13 years
Not all chip companies will suffer this downturn, and few will do as badly as commodity memory makers.  Tool makers will feel the impact next year.


Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>ASML and Lam Research beat estimates last week and provided some relief to the semiconductor space.</li>
<li>Major global industry earnings coming this week include -- Samsung, SK Hynix, Texas Instruments, KLA Tencor, Apple, and Intel.</li>
<li>Major Taiwan earnings this week -- AUO, UMC, ASE, Realtek, Delta Electronics, Mediatek.</li>
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ASML and Lam Research beat estimates last week and provided some relief to the semiconductor space.
Major global industry earnings coming this week include -- Samsung, SK Hynix, Texas Instruments, KLA Tencor, Apple, and Intel.
Major Taiwan earnings this week -- AUO, UMC, ASE, Realtek, Delta Electronics, Mediatek.


Taiwan Tech Weekly: ASML & Lam Provide Industry Optimism, Wave of Earnings This Week

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

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News from Caixin

<ul><li>The U.S government’s escalated chip export restrictions has triggered a sell-off of onshore Chinese semiconductor stocks as they are expected to prevent domestic chip manufacturers and designers from accessing key components.</li><li><p>The Biden administration issued a series of policies last week aimed at slowing Beijing’s push to develop its own chip industry, adding more companies to a trade blacklist and imposing new restrictions on related technologies.</p></li><li><p>The action is expected to dent production at China’s domestic semiconductor foundries, which rely on U.S. companies for some components, industry insiders said.</p></li></ul>

The U.S government’s escalated chip export restrictions has triggered a sell-off of onshore Chinese semiconductor stocks as they are expected to prevent domestic chip manufacturers and designers from accessing key components.The Biden administration issued a series of policies last week aimed at slowing Beijing’s push to develop its own chip industry, adding more companies to a trade blacklist and imposing new restrictions on related technologies.The action is expected to dent production at China’s domestic semiconductor foundries, which rely on U.S. companies for some components, industry insiders said.

Chinese Semiconductor Stocks Nosedive as U.S. Tightens Chip Export Controls

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

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

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>This is our first report on KLA Corporation, a well-known provider of process control and yield management solutions to the semiconductors industry and other electronics businesses.</li><li>Strong customer demand across key product categories, macroeconomic uncertainties, and the effects of consumer demand are factors driving this performance.</li><li>Despite macroeconomic and supply chain headwinds, KLA continues to focus on addressing the most pressing process control concerns.</li></ul>

This is our first report on KLA Corporation, a well-known provider of process control and yield management solutions to the semiconductors industry and other electronics businesses.Strong customer demand across key product categories, macroeconomic uncertainties, and the effects of consumer demand are factors driving this performance.Despite macroeconomic and supply chain headwinds, KLA continues to focus on addressing the most pressing process control concerns.

KLA Corporation: Initiation of Coverage – Business Strategy & Key Drivers

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

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) - ADR

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<li>The US Commerce Department is likely to expand China restrictions for the sale of chips and chip manufacturing equipment.</li>
<li>Impact for major Taiwan-listed suppliers appears minimal so far; Inventec is one name with potential exposure.</li>
<li>Not Made in China: More signs of shift as Tata is preparing a JV with Wistron to produce iPhones and Taiwanese companies look to Southeast Asia and the USA.</li>
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The US Commerce Department is likely to expand China restrictions for the sale of chips and chip manufacturing equipment.
Impact for major Taiwan-listed suppliers appears minimal so far; Inventec is one name with potential exposure.
Not Made in China: More signs of shift as Tata is preparing a JV with Wistron to produce iPhones and Taiwanese companies look to Southeast Asia and the USA.


Taiwan Tech Weekly: US Restrictions on Tech Sales to China to Expand

United States

KLA-Tencor Corporation manufactures yield management and process monitoring systems for the semiconductor industry.  The Company's systems are used to analyze product and process quality at critical steps in the manufacture of circuits and provide feedback so that fabrication problems can be identified. KLA-Tencor operates sales, service, and application centers worldwide.

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Micron Earnings Give Semi Market Outlook

Micron's just-announced revenues indicate trouble today for its peers and trouble next year for tool makers, but other sectors should fare much...

Jim Handy

Taiwan Tech Weekly: ASML & Lam Provide Industry Optimism, Wave of Earnings This Week

Earnings season is now in full swing with a wave of results to be released this week for both the global industry and within Taiwan.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Chinese Semiconductor Stocks Nosedive as U.S. Tightens Chip Export Controls

The U.S government’s escalated chip export restrictions has triggered a sell-off of onshore Chinese semiconductor stocks

Caixin Global

KLA Corporation: Initiation of Coverage – Business Strategy & Key Drivers

This is our first report on KLA Corporation, a well-known provider of process control and yield management solutions to the semiconductors...

Baptista Research

Taiwan Tech Weekly: US Restrictions on Tech Sales to China to Expand

Also more signs of shift as Tata is preparing a JV with Wistron to produce iPhones and Taiwanese companies look to Southeast Asia and the USA.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

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