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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>Multiple media outlets on Tuesday have reported the US is tightening export controls for AI chips, which is expected to further limit the ability of Nvidia and other manufacturers to sell high-performance semiconductors to China.</li><li>Nvidia’s response: Nvidia’s response: “does not expect a near-term meaningful impact on financial results following US expansion of export controls to China…”, a company spokesperson says in an email to Bloomberg.</li><li>However, the Company executives have said blanket bans on exports to China would affect the long-term growth of the US chip industry.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Multiple media outlets on Tuesday have reported the US is tightening export controls for AI chips, which is expected to further limit the ability of Nvidia and other manufacturers to sell high-performance semiconductors to China.Nvidia’s response: Nvidia’s response: “does not expect a near-term meaningful impact on financial results following US expansion of export controls to China…”, a company spokesperson says in an email to Bloomberg.However, the Company executives have said blanket bans on exports to China would affect the long-term growth of the US chip industry.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Technology (Hardware/Semi): Quick note on newly announced restrictions on advanced AI chips

<ul><li>Near-term: strong demand with visibility into 2024, supply chain ramp-up in progress.</li><li>Hypercalers, AI related chip providers and supply chain channel all confirmed demands remain strong, with visibility into 2024.</li><li>Current bottlenecks are CoWoS and HBM. Suppliers are ramping up capacity to meet the demand (already observed signs of shortage easing recently). </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Near-term: strong demand with visibility into 2024, supply chain ramp-up in progress.Hypercalers, AI related chip providers and supply chain channel all confirmed demands remain strong, with visibility into 2024.Current bottlenecks are CoWoS and HBM. Suppliers are ramping up capacity to meet the demand (already observed signs of shortage easing recently). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Thematic Investment and Megatrend - Riding the AI Wave into the Next Phase

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<ul><li>The Forsyth Barr Technology Digest provides a snapshot of recent information relevant to the listed technology industries across New Zealand and around the globe.</li><li>We focus on three industry segments: Software &amp; Services, Technology hardware and Semiconductors and equipment.</li><li>We aim to showcase what NZ technology is doing, provide updates on recent news at a company and technology level, present stock performance and show relevant ratios.</li></ul>

The Forsyth Barr Technology Digest provides a snapshot of recent information relevant to the listed technology industries across New Zealand and around the globe.We focus on three industry segments: Software &amp; Services, Technology hardware and Semiconductors and equipment.We aim to showcase what NZ technology is doing, provide updates on recent news at a company and technology level, present stock performance and show relevant ratios.

Forsyth Barr Technology Digest Edition 4 — Geo-Political Tensions Intensify

<ul><li>Major global semi fabless/IDM companies (AMD/Intel/Qualcomm/TI/Infineon/ STM/MTK/OnSemi) reported in-line 2Q23 but mixed 3Q23 outlook on diversified exposure on AI applications, slower consumer electronics demand recovery, continued inventory digestion and margin pressure.</li><li>Overall, inventory digestion is below expectation in 2Q23, leading to rising DOI for most fabless players.</li><li>Demand recovery is expected to remain weak in 2H23E with planned production cut for most companies especially for those with limited exposure to AI.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Major global semi fabless/IDM companies (AMD/Intel/Qualcomm/TI/Infineon/ STM/MTK/OnSemi) reported in-line 2Q23 but mixed 3Q23 outlook on diversified exposure on AI applications, slower consumer electronics demand recovery, continued inventory digestion and margin pressure.Overall, inventory digestion is below expectation in 2Q23, leading to rising DOI for most fabless players.Demand recovery is expected to remain weak in 2H23E with planned production cut for most companies especially for those with limited exposure to AI.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Technology – Global Fabless/IDM 2Q23 Wrap

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<ul><li>The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.</li><li>Microsoft’s declaration in January 2023 that AI would emerge as the next computing platform coupled with Nvidia’s shocking earnings guide up last quarter, coupled with a weaker dollar and decline in bond yields, provided fuel in the first half of the year for the technology sector and garnered investor eyeballs to anything closely associated with AI.</li><li>However, on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call on July 25th, CFO Amy Hood stated “Even with strong demand and a leadership position, growth from our AI services will be gradual as Azure AI scales and our copilots reach general availability dates. So for FY '24, the impact will be weighted towards H2.”</li></ul>

The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.Microsoft’s declaration in January 2023 that AI would emerge as the next computing platform coupled with Nvidia’s shocking earnings guide up last quarter, coupled with a weaker dollar and decline in bond yields, provided fuel in the first half of the year for the technology sector and garnered investor eyeballs to anything closely associated with AI.However, on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call on July 25th, CFO Amy Hood stated “Even with strong demand and a leadership position, growth from our AI services will be gradual as Azure AI scales and our copilots reach general availability dates. So for FY '24, the impact will be weighted towards H2.”

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Technology (Hardware/Semi): Quick note on newly announced restrictions on advanced AI chips

Multiple media outlets on Tuesday have reported the US is tightening export controls for AI chips, which is expected to further limit the ability...

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Thematic Investment and Megatrend - Riding the AI Wave into the Next Phase

Hypercalers, AI related chip providers and supply chain channel all confirmed demands remain strong, with visibility into 2024.

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Forsyth Barr Technology Digest Edition 4 — Geo-Political Tensions Intensify

The Forsyth Barr Technology Digest provides a snapshot of recent information relevant to the listed technology industries across New Zealand and...

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China Technology – Global Fabless/IDM 2Q23 Wrap

Demand recovery is expected to remain weak in 2H23E with planned production cut for most companies especially for those with limited exposure to AI.

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The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.

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