Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tracking developments across tech supply chains

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<ul><li>Geopolitical shifts are impacting Taiwanese businesses in China, leading to strategic adjustments and shifts in orders to specialty IC foundries.</li><li>CHPT anticipates a surge in probe card orders in the second half of 2024, while SK Hynix expects high demand for HBM in 2025 with production nearly sold out.</li><li>Meredot's technology allows for micromobility vehicles and robots to charge wirelessly simultaneously, while Taiwan's Compal will have its first foreign CEO in the electronics industry.</li></ul>

Geopolitical shifts are impacting Taiwanese businesses in China, leading to strategic adjustments and shifts in orders to specialty IC foundries.CHPT anticipates a surge in probe card orders in the second half of 2024, while SK Hynix expects high demand for HBM in 2025 with production nearly sold out.Meredot's technology allows for micromobility vehicles and robots to charge wirelessly simultaneously, while Taiwan's Compal will have its first foreign CEO in the electronics industry.

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Senior Credit Analyst, Lucror Analytics

Leonard Law, CFA

Senior Credit Analyst

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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

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<li>SK hynix earnings were announced, with a 10% Q/Q revenue increase driving a 734% increase in operating profit</li>
<li>Although the company cited AI demand as the basis for this, its DRAM revenues, which are very AI dependent, increase very little</li>
<li>NAND SSD demand increased significantly, with a 30% increase in revenues, largely attributable to price increases</li>
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SK hynix earnings were announced, with a 10% Q/Q revenue increase driving a 734% increase in operating profit
Although the company cited AI demand as the basis for this, its DRAM revenues, which are very AI dependent, increase very little
NAND SSD demand increased significantly, with a 30% increase in revenues, largely attributable to price increases


Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

Fabricated Knowledge

Learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

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Investing in semiconductors can be pretty simple if you let it be.
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At a high level, I believe you want to invest in the secular at a decent price or invest in places where there are unwarranted dislocations.
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Sometimes the entire ecosystem says one thing and the stocks say another. Usually, the ecosystem is right.

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Investing in semiconductors can be pretty simple if you let it be.


At a high level, I believe you want to invest in the secular at a decent price or invest in places where there are unwarranted dislocations.


Sometimes the entire ecosystem says one thing and the stocks say another. Usually, the ecosystem is right.




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

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<li>SK Hynix reported Q423 revenues of 11.31 trillion won, up 25% QoQ and up 47% YoY</li>
<li>Operating profit of 346 billion won, marking the first quarter of profit following four straight quarters of losses.</li>
<li>SK Hynix is investing heavily in custom memory solutions driven by AI-related demand. It's a far better and more profitable business model than the mainstream commodity one.</li>
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SK Hynix reported Q423 revenues of 11.31 trillion won, up 25% QoQ and up 47% YoY
Operating profit of 346 billion won, marking the first quarter of profit following four straight quarters of losses.
SK Hynix is investing heavily in custom memory solutions driven by AI-related demand. It's a far better and more profitable business model than the mainstream commodity one.


SK Hynix & The Dawn Of Custom Memory Solutions

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.

SK Hynix (000660 KS)

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SK Hynix: AI Is Still the Main Driver

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Why HBM is the Hottest Thing in Memory

Micron's earnings is just a rehash of what I already talked about. Memory pricing increase is driven by HBM shifting the mix of investment there,...

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SK Hynix & The Dawn Of Custom Memory Solutions

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