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

Equity Bottom-Up

SK hynix management has explained a plan to increase the company's NAND flash business and to improve its profitability.  Both goals are within reach, and both appear to be close to coming to fruition.

SK hynix management has explained a plan to increase the company's NAND flash business and to improve its profitability.  Both goals are within reach, and both appear to be close to coming to fruition.

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Thomas Coughlin

Coughlin Associates

Recent Kioxia developments, and in particular, the development of its Ethernet native SSDs for a EBOF and the KumoScale block, file and object storage container storage are innovations that could drive additional value for the company and help in getting a better price in a future IPO, when the overall NAND flash industry is in a more profitable part of its cycle.

Recent Kioxia developments, and in particular, the development of its Ethernet native SSDs for a EBOF and the KumoScale block, file and object storage container storage are innovations that could drive additional value for the company and help in getting a better price in a future IPO, when the overall NAND flash industry is in a more profitable part of its cycle.

Kioxia Announcements Enhance Company Value

In SK hynix' most recent earnings call the CEO shared his vision to grow the company to annual revenues of ₩100 trillion.  While the Intel flash acquisition helps in that direction, it is hard to see how management hopes to achieve its goal to build revenues to this level.

In SK hynix' most recent earnings call the CEO shared his vision to grow the company to annual revenues of ₩100 trillion.  While the Intel flash acquisition helps in that direction, it is hard to see how management hopes to achieve its goal to build revenues to this level.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/micron-technology-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13382:1" rel="noopener">Micron</a> last week made the surprise announcement that the company had begun volume shipments of the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips. Separately, the company this week made some very interesting and frank disclosures at the Sanford C Bernstein Operational Decisions Broker Conference. Here's our thoughts on both of these recent developments.

Micron last week made the surprise announcement that the company had begun volume shipments of the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips. Separately, the company this week made some very interesting and frank disclosures at the Sanford C Bernstein Operational Decisions Broker Conference. Here's our thoughts on both of these recent developments. 

Micron. Leapfrogging Competitors With A Surprise 176-Layer NAND Flash Chip Announcement.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

The two quarter-long recovery in both DRAM and NAND prices reversed course during Q3 with ASPs down 2-9% in the case of the former and 9-10% for the latter. Paradoxically, bit shipments were particularly robust during the quarter, indicating strong market demand. In the face of such strong demand, why did memory ASPs decline so much? Here's our thoughts on the matter.

The two quarter-long recovery in both DRAM and NAND prices reversed course during Q3 with ASPs down 2-9% in the case of the former and 9-10% for the latter. Paradoxically, bit shipments were particularly robust during the quarter, indicating strong market demand. In the face of such strong demand, why did memory ASPs decline so much? Here's our thoughts on the matter. 

Memory Recovery Reverses Course As Prices Fall Across The Board

South Korea

SK Hynix Inc. provides products and services for the electronic components industry. The Company manufactures semiconductors, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, and static random access memory (SRAM) chips.

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SK Hynix (000660 KS)

SK Hynix Nears Reaching Its NAND Goals

SK hynix has disappointed investors in its NAND flash performance, but it appears that this will soon change as management pursues new goals.

Jim Handy

Kioxia Announcements Enhance Company Value

Kioxia announcements, particularly ethernet native SSDs and KumoScale block, file and object container storage support enhance future value.

Thomas Coughlin

SK Hynix: Big Plans for The Future

SK hynix shared its long-term growth targets, and a little math indicates that the only likely way that this can be achieved is through a lot of...

Jim Handy

Micron. Leapfrogging Competitors With A Surprise 176-Layer NAND Flash Chip Announcement.

Micron made a surprise announcement last week that they were in volume production of an industry-leading, 176 Layer NAND Flash product. What does...

William Keating

Memory Recovery Reverses Course As Prices Fall Across The Board

Normally, robust demand for memory products results in stable or rising prices. The opposite happened in Q3 2020. Here's why.

William Keating

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