Memory: Spot prices move higherView: While TrendForce focuses primarily on DDR4 shortages in its midweek update (and a suspension of quotes), we believe DDR5 availability has tightened further to the point where it's difficult for spot market participants to get pricing for those parts as well. And
Last week we attended the 2025 edition of the Semicon West conference, the key event for investors focused on the semiconductor equipment market. Over two days we hosted more than a dozen meetings with companies across the semiconductor value chain. Here are our key takeaways.
Samsung, Memory: Samsung expects CQ3 profit to grow 158% to ~12 Tr Won ($8.5B)View: Samsung yesterday announced its 3Q operating profit is expected to grow ~32% Y/Y to 12.1 trillion won ($8.5B), marking its highest levels since 2Q22 and far exceeding consensus of ~10 trillion won. Although detailed
Advantest Announces Call for Papers for VOICE 2026 Developer Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. TOKYO, Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) today announced a global call for papers for its VOICE 2026 Developer Conference, focusing on leading-edge technologies and future trends. The conference will be held in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess on May 18-20, 2026. VOICE is the leading conference for the growing global community of users and strategic partners involved with Advantest’s V93000 and ...
NVIDIA DGX Spark Arrives for World’s AI Developers News Summary: NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers DGX Spark to Elon Musk at SpaceX.This week, NVIDIA and its partners are shipping DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, delivering NVIDIA’s AI stack in a compact desktop form factor.Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPI, Lenovo and MSI debut DGX Spark systems, expanding access to powerful AI computing.Built on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture, DGX Spark integrates NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, networking, CUDA libraries and NVIDIA AI software, accelerating agentic and...
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Switches Speed Up Networks for Meta and Oracle Hyperscalers Broaden Adoption of NVIDIA Networking Solutions to Drive Giga-Scale AI Data Center Performance News Summary: Meta to introduce switches built on NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet for its Facebook Open Switching System platform. Oracle to build giga-scale AI supercomputers with Spectrum-X Ethernet switches. SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that Meta and Oracle will boost their AI data center networks with ™ Ethernet networking switches. Meta and Oracle are standa...
A director at NVIDIA Corp sold 225,000 shares at 190.601USD and the significance rating of the trade was 67/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two years clearly s...
Higher Memory CostsNTAP historically has been somewhat less adept than its peers during periods when memory costs fluctuate.We would not expect any impact on current quarter dynamics or even potentially FQ3 economics given our belief that NTAP pulled some storage purchases forward into CQ2.However,
Samsung, NVDA: Jensen Huang reportedly confirms Samsung’s HBM3e qualView: Per News1 Korea, Jensen has personally informed Samsung that its HBM3e has passed NVIDIA’s quality qualification tests and that NVDA intends to place orders. The two companies, in turn, are now reportedly fine-tuning details
We published earlier this week our updated view on the Semicap rally, looking at the implication of AI spending tripling by 2030 for WFE spending. Today, we publish a follow-up looking at the implications of the $3tn AI bull case for Semicap on a single slide.
The Information reported yesterday that Oracle’s AI cloud margins are in the high teens. Accounting for typical start-up costs, this aligns well with our analysis of the $300bn OpenAI contract. Please see the link for our analysis of Oracle's AI cloud economics over the next 10 years and the implications for overall gross margins.
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