Silicon Wafers for Semiconductors - Ugly Duckling Turns Golden Goose
After a decade-long period of declining ASP's, the price of silicon wafers bottomed out in mid-2016 and has been on an upward trajectory ever...
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A Brief Analysis Of The Current Semiconductor Growth Cycle
The semiconductor sector has grown at a remarkable pace for the past nine months and there’s little sign of it slowing down anytime soon. In June...
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Popular and Unpopular Names - Names Analysts Do Like / Do Not Like in Japan....
If we look at the most recent upgrades, Shiseido Co Ltd (4911 JP) and Cosmo Energy (5021 JP) both picked up 3 upgrades in the last 2 weeks. TDK...
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The Week That Was in NorthAsia@Smartkarma - THAAD Deployment, Mobile Lineage, and Activism in Japan
KoreaScott Laprise/ 乐天虎 and Prasenjit K. Basu have provided great insights regarding the political turmoil surrounding North Korea. Scott makes it...
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Japanese Semiconductor-Related Stocks - Leaders & Laggards as We Go Deep Into the IC Cycle
If you go from the peak of the 1980~82 semiconductor cycle (ie the one that gave us the Commodore 64, the IBM PC [and technically the Apple III])...
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