Following 2Q results, momentum seems most favorable for the companies below:META (Outperform) - While sentiment was already elevated ahead of the print, 2Q results were strong and guidance for 3Q was encouraging, with expectations for revenue growth ahead of initial St. estimates by ~700bps. Additi
TSMC: Exiting 6" manufacturing and consolidating 8" linesView: This statement from TSMC in our view both 1) highlights the difficult economics of mature manufacturing in areas where China is more effectively competing with Western supply while at the same time 2) potentially creates some opportunit
Trump, Lip-Bu Tan: Calls Lip-Bu Tan rise to success "amazing story"; soap opera continuesView: President Trump said he met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Monday, days after seeking his resignation, praising Tan and characterizing the meeting "a very interesting one". While an amicable resolution and
Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Megan Gray to discuss and preview the Google vs DOJ Search remedies ruling, which is expected later this month. Megan shared updated probabilities for different remedies and the expected timeline from here, among other things.
Finally, we would note, conceptually, we view this decision by the US government to levy a charge for certain foreign companies to procure US technology as worrisome, given it opens the door for the US to selectively tax a variety of companies/products that enjoy technology leadership positions. Bl
While the latest update from the Trump administration now points to 50% total tariffs (up from 25% initially), we still expect negotiations between the two countries will continue to unfold over the coming days and weeks, and we would not exclude the possibility a trade deal (containing lower tarif
Quick update following yesterday’s report on Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering OpenAI’s new gpt-oss open weight models, in which we noted that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) did not yet offer them. That changed this morning, and we have the new details in today’s report.
FMS: August 5th-7th in San JoseView: The Future of Memory and Storage Conference (formerly the Flash Memory Summit) takes place in Santa Clara Aug 5th - 7th. We will be hosting in person investor meetings (centered around a full day of meetings on the 6th) both at FMS and at company HQs close to th
With a healthy debate going on regarding forward supply/demand fundamentals for memory (and with Samsung's commentary unlikely to shift opinions on this front in our view), we believe investor focus likely gravitates towards Samsung's pessimistic comments on downward pressure on HBM pricing. And wh
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