Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Equity Bottom-Up

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>Last week saw a wave of major tech companies report earnings with significance toward the semiconductor and technology space in Taiwan.</li>
<li>Memory chip takeaways - SK Hynix, Samsung see better supply/demand in 2023E. PC market -- Recent results discuss slight decline, potential stabilization in 2023E.</li>
<li>Mobile phones -- Relative strength in high-end vs. low-end. Auto &amp; Industrial -- Relative strength seen continuing. AMD, Qualcom, Elan, CHIPMos, Acer, Globalwafers results ahead.</li>
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Last week saw a wave of major tech companies report earnings with significance toward the semiconductor and technology space in Taiwan.
Memory chip takeaways - SK Hynix, Samsung see better supply/demand in 2023E. PC market -- Recent results discuss slight decline, potential stabilization in 2023E.
Mobile phones -- Relative strength in high-end vs. low-end. Auto &amp; Industrial -- Relative strength seen continuing. AMD, Qualcom, Elan, CHIPMos, Acer, Globalwafers results ahead.


Taiwan Tech Weekly: Earnings Insights Emerging for Memory, Mobiles, PCs, and Autos

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>System-On-Chip designer and IP purveyor <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/socionext-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36351:1" rel="noopener">Socionext (6526 JP)</a> is a recent IPO in Japan, born from a spinout of Fujitsu and Panasonic system LSI operations 7+ years ago.</li>
<li>Having listed on TSE Prime from the outset, that means it gets TOPIX inclusion at the close of trading 29 November. </li>
<li>Inclusion Float is a bit nebulous. There is a chance we get official company data prior to the TSE announcement, in which case we know more by cob 31 October.</li>
</ul>


System-On-Chip designer and IP purveyor Socionext (6526 JP) is a recent IPO in Japan, born from a spinout of Fujitsu and Panasonic system LSI operations 7+ years ago.
Having listed on TSE Prime from the outset, that means it gets TOPIX inclusion at the close of trading 29 November. 
Inclusion Float is a bit nebulous. There is a chance we get official company data prior to the TSE announcement, in which case we know more by cob 31 October.


Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>Mobileye Global (MBLY US) is getting ready to complete its IPO next week. The IPO price range is between $18 and $20 per share.</li>
<li>Our base case valuation of Mobileye is implied market cap of $15.2 billion or $19 per share, which is within the IPO price range. </li>
<li>Given the low upside in our target price relative to the IPO price range, we have a Negative view of this IPO.</li>
</ul>


Mobileye Global (MBLY US) is getting ready to complete its IPO next week. The IPO price range is between $18 and $20 per share.
Our base case valuation of Mobileye is implied market cap of $15.2 billion or $19 per share, which is within the IPO price range. 
Given the low upside in our target price relative to the IPO price range, we have a Negative view of this IPO.


APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/socionext-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36351:1" rel="noopener">Socionext (6526 JP)</a> is looking to raise up to US$463m in its Japan IPO. </li>
<li>Socionext is a fabless semiconductor provider which commenced operations after integrating the system on a chip (SoC) businesses of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited and Panasonic Holding Corporation.</li>
<li>In this note, we will look at the updated deal dynamics, our earlier assumptions, and share our thoughts on valuation.</li>
</ul>



Socionext (6526 JP) is looking to raise up to US$463m in its Japan IPO. 
Socionext is a fabless semiconductor provider which commenced operations after integrating the system on a chip (SoC) businesses of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited and Panasonic Holding Corporation.
In this note, we will look at the updated deal dynamics, our earlier assumptions, and share our thoughts on valuation.


Socionext IPO - Ample Upside Even After Discount

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist

Objective Analysis

Objective Analysis offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>Semiconductor revenues continue to fall. which appears to be a repeat of the collapse in 2019</li>
<li>Spot market prices, a leading indicator, are soft for both DRAM and NAND flash</li>
<li>It is likely that semiconductor revenues will end the year by returning to the trendline of their historical growth of 3.9%</li>
</ul>


Semiconductor revenues continue to fall. which appears to be a repeat of the collapse in 2019
Spot market prices, a leading indicator, are soft for both DRAM and NAND flash
It is likely that semiconductor revenues will end the year by returning to the trendline of their historical growth of 3.9%


Semiconductors Just Beginning a Long Slide

United States

QUALCOMM, Inc . manufactures digital wireless communications equipment.  The Company licenses its code division multiple access (CDMA) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access intellectual property to other companies, and produces CDMA-based integrated circuits; and produces equipment and software used to track workers and assets; and software for wireless content enablement.

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Qualcomm Inc (QCOM US)

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Earnings Insights Emerging for Memory, Mobiles, PCs, and Autos

Last week saw a wave of major tech companies report earnings with significance toward the semiconductor and technology space in Taiwan.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Socionext (6526) TOPIX Inclusion

Socionext is Japan's top SoC designer. After years of slow growth/low OPMs, both turned higher pre-IPO and will grow bigly this year. Peers trade...

Travis Lundy

Mobileye Global IPO Valuation Analysis

Our base case valuation of Mobileye is implied market cap of $15.2 billion or $19 per share, which is within the IPO price range. We have a...

Douglas Kim

Socionext IPO - Ample Upside Even After Discount

Socionext (6526 JP) is looking to raise up to US$463m in its Japan IPO. In this note, we will look at the updated deal dynamics, our earlier...

Clarence Chu

Semiconductors Just Beginning a Long Slide

The semiconductor market is falling and is likely to continue to drop through the end of the year. This presents an opportunity for shorts.

Jim Handy

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