Taiwan Tech Focused Senior Analyst

Patrick Liao

Being invited, I joined Sellside, i.e. JPMorgan, Nomura and Macquarie, totally around 9-10 years. Before that, I joined International Data Corp (https://www.idc.com/) to be the Asia Semiconductor analyst for nearly 2 years, and being invited to do personal lectures in TSMC, UMC, Samsung and etc. In my working experiences, I also had the chance to join Taiwanese panel company, AUO (2409.TT) and the buyside, Chinalife (2823.TT), totally for over 1 year.
I obtained MS degree from the Tsing-Hua University. Then I worked in the Taiwan Semiconductor companies for around 11 years. I had several US patents during my stay in the Semiconductor industry.

Being worked in the sellside and buyside, I deeply dived in the Greater China Semiconductor industry and directly covered some companies, like TSMC (2330.TT, TSM.US), UMC (2303.TT, UMC.US), Vanguard (5347.TT), ASE (3711.TT, ASX.US), SPIL (merged with ASE and delisted), KYEC ( 2449.TT), JCET (600584.CH), ASMPT (522.HK), GWC (6488.TT), WinSemi (3105.TT), Mediatek (2454.TT), Silergy (6415.TT), Novatek (3034.TT), Guoxin Micro (002049.CH) etc.

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>MediaTek's 4Q23F revenue guidance falls in line with our prior expectation. The general outlook is for double-digit growth in 2024F.</li>
<li>MediaTek believes that the 3nm SoC will certainly perform differently in 2H24F.  </li>
<li>MediaTek will pay NT$24 DPS for 1H23 earnings, and the dividend will be paid on 1/31, 2024F.</li>
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MediaTek's 4Q23F revenue guidance falls in line with our prior expectation. The general outlook is for double-digit growth in 2024F.
MediaTek believes that the 3nm SoC will certainly perform differently in 2H24F.  
MediaTek will pay NT$24 DPS for 1H23 earnings, and the dividend will be paid on 1/31, 2024F.


Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) - ADR (TSM US)

MediaTek (2454.TT): 4Q23F Results in Line, 2024F Smartphone Outlook Can Grow a Double Digits.

Mediatek Inc

MediaTek (2454.TT): 4Q23F Results in Line, 2024F Smartphone Outlook Can Grow a Double Digits.