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Andrew Lu

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<li>We see early signs of recovery in PC and smartphone markets, stable server market (strengths in AI server, stable in non-AI server market), but weaknesses in automotive and industrial.</li>
<li>We expect the PC semi market recovery of more than 10% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and silicon contents increase by adding AI into PC.</li>
<li>We expect the smartphone semi market recovery of 7-8% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and adopting 3nE foundry node. But, Huawei/HiSilicon will take some of the growth.</li>
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We see early signs of recovery in PC and smartphone markets, stable server market (strengths in AI server, stable in non-AI server market), but weaknesses in automotive and industrial.
We expect the PC semi market recovery of more than 10% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and silicon contents increase by adding AI into PC.
We expect the smartphone semi market recovery of 7-8% y/y in 2024/2025, driven by inventory rebuild and adopting 3nE foundry node. But, Huawei/HiSilicon will take some of the growth.


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Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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<ul>
<li>ARM prices this Wednesday and trades on Thursday.</li>
<li>I have a lot of thoughts. This will be a great post if you want to learn about ARM. </li>
<li><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">So, without further adieu, let’s dive into the most important IP company in the world.</span></li>
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ARM prices this Wednesday and trades on Thursday.
I have a lot of thoughts. This will be a great post if you want to learn about ARM. 
So, without further adieu, let’s dive into the most important IP company in the world.


Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

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<ul><li>Qualcomm Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024, demonstrating significant achievements and facing certain market challenges.</li><li>The company's non-GAAP revenue reached $9.4 billion, with earnings per share (EPS) of $2.33, surpassing the midpoint of their guidance.</li><li>The core driver of this performance was their chipset business, generating revenues of $8.1 billion, underscored by sequential growth in the automotive and IoT sectors and consistent demand for Snapdragon mobile platforms across leading smartphones.</li></ul>

Qualcomm Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024, demonstrating significant achievements and facing certain market challenges.The company's non-GAAP revenue reached $9.4 billion, with earnings per share (EPS) of $2.33, surpassing the midpoint of their guidance.The core driver of this performance was their chipset business, generating revenues of $8.1 billion, underscored by sequential growth in the automotive and IoT sectors and consistent demand for Snapdragon mobile platforms across leading smartphones.

Qualcomm Incorporated: Achieving Growth Through Internet of Things (IoT) & Diversification Strategy! - Major Drivers

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<ul><li>The company’s annual revenue was $35,820 million in 2023 compared to $44,200 million in 2022, seeing a decrease of 18.96%.</li><li>We estimate that for FY2024 the annual revenue will range at around $37,671 million and for 2025 at around $39,934 million.</li><li>Gross profit for FY2023 was $19,951 million, decreased by 21.96% compared to $25,565 million for the corresponding period of 2022. </li></ul>

The company’s annual revenue was $35,820 million in 2023 compared to $44,200 million in 2022, seeing a decrease of 18.96%.We estimate that for FY2024 the annual revenue will range at around $37,671 million and for 2025 at around $39,934 million.Gross profit for FY2023 was $19,951 million, decreased by 21.96% compared to $25,565 million for the corresponding period of 2022. 

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William Keating

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Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

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<li>Automotive revenues for Q1CY24 amounted to $603 million, up 35% YoY. This compares to MobilEye's revenue of $239 million, down 48% YoY</li>
<li>Automotive design-win pipeline is now $45 billion, up from $30 billion less than two years ago</li>
<li>CEO Amon said "Every time we enter a new market, we end up building a very strong position". That's a shot across the bows for Intel and AMD...</li>
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Automotive revenues for Q1CY24 amounted to $603 million, up 35% YoY. This compares to MobilEye's revenue of $239 million, down 48% YoY
Automotive design-win pipeline is now $45 billion, up from $30 billion less than two years ago
CEO Amon said "Every time we enter a new market, we end up building a very strong position". That's a shot across the bows for Intel and AMD...


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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. Watch This Space...

Automotive revenues for Q1CY24 of 603 million, +35% YoY. Automotive design-win pipeline is now $45 billion, up from $30 billion less than two years...

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