Daily BriefsThematic (Sector/Industry)

Daily Brief Thematic (Sector/Industry): Micron and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Micron, Oracle Database Spending, GPU Restrictions, MLPerf, Amkor, and Vicor
  • China Property Developers In Distress – Weekly News & Announcements Tracker | 30 June 2023
  • Blue Lotus Entertainment Sector Update: Tencent, NetEase and Kingsoft Have Strong Pipeline


Micron, Oracle Database Spending, GPU Restrictions, MLPerf, Amkor, and Vicor

By Douglas O’Laughlin

  • Micron said we bottomed, wrung their hands a ton about gross margins and comparability, and said oh, inventory accounting has helped us out
  • Oracle had a huge announcement that majorly snubbed Intel.
  • There’s another rumored AI winner. Amkor was rumored (heavy emphasis, Digitimes can be untrustworthy) to be helping Nvidia with packaging.

China Property Developers In Distress – Weekly News & Announcements Tracker | 30 June 2023

By Robert Ciemniak

  • A weekly curated selection of Chinese news articles and company announcements, focused on developers in distress
  • We look for their deals, updates, specific project progress news (‘local signals’), as well as relevant local research commentaries about the market
  • We do not verify the underlying data or provide any opinion, we only select and summarize the information; see direct links to sources

Blue Lotus Entertainment Sector Update: Tencent, NetEase and Kingsoft Have Strong Pipeline

By Shawn Yang

  • We suggest that both Tencent and NetEase will launch blockbuster new games in their pipelines during this year’s summer vacation, with NetEase slightly surpassing Tencent.  
  • Although iQIYI, Kuaishou, and BILI each have new games, their contributions are relatively small, so we maintain a SELL rating for these three companies;
  • Investors can also pay attention to Nexon and Netmarble, two Korean game companies that are expected to benefit from the launch of new games;  

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