Finally, we'd note we see both Phison and SIMO as significant beneficiaries of such a shift, given the need to manage NAND storage, and China's less competitive positioning in the NAND controller space (and likely some reluctance from Western brands to use Chinese built controllers, even for SKUs a
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While TSMC has exited the GaN space both VIS and GF have licensed TSMC's 650 and 80V technology. We tend to see GF as more likely to realize greater benefits if GaN demand indeed grows at an accelerated pace, given GF's pre-existing efforts in the space, which TSMC's IP only builds upon. We'd also
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We would also point out that to date, China has invested over $15B in its domestic quantum ecosystem, compared to just under $8B in the US (per QED-C State of Global Quantum Industry), once again highlighting the need for additional Federal funding of the US' quantum ecosystem.Given the vested inte
After a string of multi-GW contracts and capex announcements, the attractiveness of cloud AI returns remains a hot question amongst investors. In this report, we build a simple framework to answer that question. We estimate Cloud AI returns from CSP disclosures and what we know about large real-world contracts, and benchmark them against what we know about the economics of traditional cloud.
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