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1. Taiwan Dual-Listings Monitor: TSMC Premium Compresses; ASE and UMC Flip to Discount
- TSMC ADR premium compressed to +14.5%, nearly 6pts below its 2-year median of +20.4%, signalling a potential trade in the ADR relative to the local.
- ASE and UMC both trade at discounts to local shares (-3.0% and -2.0%), with ASE ADR short interest dropping 20% even as Taiwan short interest climbs.
- ChipMOS ADR short interest surged 141% to 37,452 shares, though on thin volume.
2. TechChain Insights Q&A: Legacy DRAM Squeeze — How AI’s Capacity Grab Is Reshaping the Memory Market
- Legacy DRAM has shifted to a truly sellers’ market, with buyers unable to secure full order quantities as lead times extend to months.
- HBM and DDR5 capacity reallocation by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron is squeezing legacy supply, creating openings for Taiwanese specialty producers.
- IoT demand is accelerating, while large buyers actively dual-source amid geopolitical uncertainty and Chinese capacity expansion.
3. TSMC: Arm’s Foundry Exclusivity Reinforces Advanced Node Dominance & Margins Stronger for Longer
- Arm’s AGI CPU deepens TSMC’s advanced-node monopoly; every leading chip architecture now manufactures exclusively at TSMC.
- We forecast TSMC gross margins 200-400bps above consensus through FY2029E, implying 10-12% EPS upside not priced in.
- Accumulate on weakness: ~20x FY2026E earnings after a 14% pullback; we rate TSMC a Structural Long.
4. Fujitsu (6702 JP): Targeting AI Inference at 1.4nm
- With its stock price down 30% from its January peak, Fujitsu deserves another look.
- Management is setting long-term target with development of a Neural Processing Unit for AI inferencing to be produced by Rapidus at 1.4-nm.
- Sales and profits are now threatened by the economic disruption caused by the war on Iran, but restructuring and demand for AI-driven corporate service solutions should support long-term margin expansion.
