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Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

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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.

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<li>Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake family of chips will include a new specific component specifically for running AI processes locally on PCs.</li>
<li>Meteor Lake will enable mass market adoption of AI PCs by providing a platform for developers to create more advanced AI PC applications than are currently possible.</li>
<li>Meteor Lake's launch could start by end-October. Intel's Innovation conference September 19-20th will likely add visibility. Intel's potential supports a Long thesis for Taiwan's PC supply chain.</li>
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Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake family of chips will include a new specific component specifically for running AI processes locally on PCs.
Meteor Lake will enable mass market adoption of AI PCs by providing a platform for developers to create more advanced AI PC applications than are currently possible.
Meteor Lake's launch could start by end-October. Intel's Innovation conference September 19-20th will likely add visibility. Intel's potential supports a Long thesis for Taiwan's PC supply chain.


Intel's Meteor Lake Chips Could Make It 'Cool' Again; Will Enable Mass Market Adoption of AI PCs

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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<li>Last week the best show in semiconductors was the Maxlinear and SIMO merger news. I will catalog the entire saga and outline my thoughts on where things go.</li>
<li>Before we talk about SIMO, let’s talk about Maxlinear’s acquisitions. MaxLinear acquired an asset in April 2020 that was almost the perfect fit.</li>
<li>As Intel shed assets, <a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/db2d9597-2061-468b-ba34-a12146ed7e62?j=eyJ1IjoiMmh6Z2Z6In0.muIDtmM5oyqUKBSSZiLNsipOMwhSsKSSacAB3JlN14Y" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/db2d9597-2061-468b-ba34-a12146ed7e62?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMmh6Z2Z6In0.muIDtmM5oyqUKBSSZiLNsipOMwhSsKSSacAB3JlN14Y&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1691025954853000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1XwVvbW4r4yPuTojiMtbQH" rel="noopener">they sold their home gateway platform</a>, which makes the semiconductors that go in-home modems and routers.</li>
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Last week the best show in semiconductors was the Maxlinear and SIMO merger news. I will catalog the entire saga and outline my thoughts on where things go.
Before we talk about SIMO, let’s talk about Maxlinear’s acquisitions. MaxLinear acquired an asset in April 2020 that was almost the perfect fit.
As Intel shed assets, they sold their home gateway platform, which makes the semiconductors that go in-home modems and routers.


Maxlinear and Silicon Motion, Vicor and Monolithic Power and New Product Launches

<ul><li>Google, Microsoft, and Facebook reported earnings.</li><li>Let’s discuss their capex plans and what that means for our new data center champion, Nvidia.</li><li>I think it’s pretty straightforward that Nvidia has revenue beats for the foreseeable future.</li></ul>

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook reported earnings.Let’s discuss their capex plans and what that means for our new data center champion, Nvidia.I think it’s pretty straightforward that Nvidia has revenue beats for the foreseeable future.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia: AI Spending Implications at the Hyperscalers

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Sumeet Singh

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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.

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<li>PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US listed China companies.</li>
<li>The Hong Kong visit was on the back of the 26th Aug 2022 announcement by PCAOB and CSRC that they had entered into an agreement with US authorities for access.</li>
<li>In this note, we'll talk about the latest developments, possible outcomes and implications.</li>
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PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US listed China companies.
The Hong Kong visit was on the back of the 26th Aug 2022 announcement by PCAOB and CSRC that they had entered into an agreement with US authorities for access.
In this note, we'll talk about the latest developments, possible outcomes and implications.


China ADRs Delisting - Friday Could Be Judgment Day for over US$800bn Mcap of Stocks

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<ul><li>Microsoft reported (1 May HKT) 3QFY25 (June year-end) results: revenue was US$70.1bn, up 13.3% YoY (2QFY25: +12.3% YoY), 2% better than both our forecast and consensus estimates, mainly driven by a 3/6% beat in Intelligent Cloud / More Personal Computing (MPC) segment.</li><li>Net profit was up 17.7% YoY to US$25.8bn, 7% better than our forecast and consensus, driven by better-than-expected operating efficiency gains across business segments.</li><li>The improved execution and acceleration in revenue growth of largest customers, combined with ongoing strong demand in AI related cloud services drove a reacceleration in overall cloud revenue growth in 3QFY25, and such growth is likely to sustain in 4QFY25. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Microsoft reported (1 May HKT) 3QFY25 (June year-end) results: revenue was US$70.1bn, up 13.3% YoY (2QFY25: +12.3% YoY), 2% better than both our forecast and consensus estimates, mainly driven by a 3/6% beat in Intelligent Cloud / More Personal Computing (MPC) segment.Net profit was up 17.7% YoY to US$25.8bn, 7% better than our forecast and consensus, driven by better-than-expected operating efficiency gains across business segments.The improved execution and acceleration in revenue growth of largest customers, combined with ongoing strong demand in AI related cloud services drove a reacceleration in overall cloud revenue growth in 3QFY25, and such growth is likely to sustain in 4QFY25. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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Intel's Meteor Lake Chips Could Make It 'Cool' Again; Will Enable Mass Market Adoption of AI PCs

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Vincent Fernando, CFA

Maxlinear and Silicon Motion, Vicor and Monolithic Power and New Product Launches

Maxlinear has a legal battle on it's hands, and what's the new product Vicor is talking about? Last week the best show in semiconductors was the...

Fabricated Knowledge

Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia: AI Spending Implications at the Hyperscalers

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook reported earnings. Let’s discuss their capex plans and what that means for our new data center champion, Nvidia. I...

Fabricated Knowledge

China ADRs Delisting - Friday Could Be Judgment Day for over US$800bn Mcap of Stocks

PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US...

Sumeet Singh

Microsoft (MSFT US) - Cloud revenue growth reaccelerated

Microsoft reported (1 May HKT) 3QFY25 (June year-end) results: revenue was US$70.1bn, up 13.3% YoY (2QFY25: +12.3% YoY), 2% better than both our...

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