Rorze Q1 beats; semi-related orders surge +1.9x y/y to record Y42bn
Rorze reported Q1 sales of Y37.2bn (in line) and OP of Y10.2bn (vs JEFe Y9.0bn), with semi-related orders of Y42.0bn (+1.9x y/y), well above the prior peak of Y34bn, as China and US demand rose while Taiwan declined QoQ. 2Q guidance is sales Y77.6bn/OP Y19.1bn, with FY OP conservatively unchanged at Y38.1bn; key risks are higher parts/materials and memory prices. Analyst Nakanomyo maintains a TP of Y6,000.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
SK Hynix prices US ADR listing at $149, a 3% premium
SK Hynix priced its US-listed American depositary receipts at $149 each, a 3% premium to Thursday's Korean closing price. The ADR listing (x7 oversubscribed) drove heavy foreigner net-selling in the Korean ordinary shares — the largest daily foreign net-selling since end-June (-W1.7tn / -$1.1bn) — likely on flow rotation and hedging, while foreigners net-bought Samsung Electronics (+W191bn).
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Micron raises US investment to >$250bn through 2035; $3bn supply-chain plan
Micron (MU) raised its planned US investment to more than $250bn through 2035, and announced plans to invest up to $3bn to strengthen the US semiconductor supply-chain ecosystem. The latter includes $500mn in strategic financing support and a 10-year supply agreement with GlobalWafers.
GigaDevice guides 1H26 net profit up ~1,099% on tight memory supply
GigaDevice expects 1H26 net profit of around RMB6.9bn, up ~1,099% YoY, driven by tight memory-chip supply and higher memory ASPs/shipments, with resilient MCU demand across industrial, consumer and automotive markets. Q2 net profit is estimated at RMB5.44bn, implying a 272% QoQ increase. The stock fell -7.8% on the day.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
China AI capex raised 23% to US$1tn; power demand up 31% to 34GW
Jefferies' Edison Lee lifted 2026E-30E cumulative China AI capex by 23% to US$1tn and power demand by 31% to 34GW, assuming China buys 300K H200 in 2026 and 100K in 2027 as a stop-gap for surging inference (China has approved 400K vs US-licensed 200K). China AI chip output is seen rising 18% as Huawei's Ascend 950 shrinks die size to 400 sqmm (chips/wafer up from 74 to 137) while lifting clock rate (power 500W→600W, compute 375→1,000 TFLOPs). AMEC and SMIC are top picks alongside VNET; long-term constraints include 7nm yield (max ~35%) and wafer capacity (43kwpm by 2030).
Conor O'Mara / William Beavington - Jefferies
Fubon expects TSMC to beat again at 2Q26 results (16 July)
Ahead of TSMC's 2Q26 results on July 16, Fubon's Sherman Shang expects another guidance beat, with stronger AI demand, resilient CPU orders and FX tailwinds driving USD/TWD revenue upside and gross margin expanding to 67.1% from 66.2%. He sees 3Q revenue growth guidance of 10-12% QoQ (above Street's high-single-digit) and Arizona Phase 1 GM already near 50% with yields approaching 90%, potentially lifting full-year revenue growth guidance to 30-35% YoY. Investors are watching C.C. Wei's tone as the key read on whether the AI capex cycle is peaking.
William Beavington - Jefferies ·
🔗 fonte Chris Wood's GREED & FEAR flags amber warnings on AI trade, prefers memory
Chris Wood acknowledges the recent AI pullback as healthy but keeps a preference for 'picks and shovels,' favoring DRAM/memory names as the way to play the AI cycle since they are paid for the buildout rather than funding it. He flags amber warning signs from rising hyperscaler debt issuance, off-balance-sheet commitments, 'circular financing,' and political resistance to US data centers, and is increasingly cautious on the hyperscalers themselves as weakening FCF and greater external-financing reliance could challenge the AI narrative.
KYEC board approves up to $1.4bn US factory investment
King Yuan Electronics' (KYEC) board approved a plan authorizing the chairman to handle all matters related to a proposed US factory investment of up to $1.4bn. The stock rose +1.0% on the day.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Quanta 2Q sales NT$1,036.6bn; positive on AI and general servers into 2H26
Quanta reported 2Q sales of NT$1,036.6bn; Jefferies' Titan estimates ~6.3k AI racks, GM of 5.6% (vs cons 5.1%), OpM 3.6% (vs 3.1%) and EPS of NT$8.08 (vs cons NT$5.95). For 3Q26 revenue is seen up slightly QoQ as AI server volumes are already high, with VR200 mass production starting October (higher ASP than GB300) and ASIC/MI455 Helios racks contributing from 4Q26; Quanta maintains guidance to more than double AI server growth in FY26. On potential Kyber delays, Titan sees no ODM impact (CSPs would keep buying Oberon racks) and stays conservative on Kyber given networking, power and thermal challenges as GPU TDP rises (one Feynman GPU may reach 6kW).
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Lite-On June sales +37% YoY on AI/cloud power demand
Lite-On reported June 2026 sales of NT$18.7bn (US$580mn), up 8% QoQ and 37% YoY, bringing 2Q revenue to NT$52.74bn (+21.5% QoQ, +30.5% YoY). The Cloud and IoT division contributed 56% of June revenue with +80% YoY growth, driven by power management systems for AI, cloud, high-end servers and networking; Optoelectronics (15% of revenue) and Information Consumer Electronics (29%) both grew over 10%.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Early buy-side positioning: memory favored, semicap valuation the key fear
Jefferies Sales Trading (Jeff Favuzza) notes a bifurcation between Internet and Semi investors on hyperscaler capex, with Semi folks expecting META/GOOGL to tweak guides higher (likely blamed on memory/component pricing) while Internet folks expect them unchanged; '27 capex is penciled at ~$240-250B for META and ~$350B for GOOGL. In semicaps the biggest fear is valuation with beats-and-raises priced in (~$250B WFE in '28, KLAC seen as funding short); memory positioning stays crowded long with NAND preferred over DRAM, and analog longs skew toward TXN over ADI.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Foxconn (601138) guides 1H26 net profit up 93-101% on AI infrastructure
Foxconn Industrial Internet (601138) expects 1H26 net profit of RMB23.4-24.4bn, up 93-101% YoY, driven by strong AI infrastructure demand with 800G+ data center switch shipments surging 1.4x YoY. Q2 profit is estimated at RMB12.8-13.8bn, up 86-101% YoY.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
📄 Publicações e eventos
China AI Capex Update: Raising 5-Yr Cumulative by 23% (Equity Research, July 9, 2026)
Jefferies equity research note raising 2026E-30E cumulative China AI capex by 23% to US$1tn and power demand by 31% to 34GW, with top picks AMEC, SMIC and VNET. Includes charts on China chip supply forecasts, SMIC 7nm GPU yield assumptions, AI capex ex-IDC, IDC capex, and total AI power demand. Authored by Edison Lee, Nick Cheng, Jacky He, Matt Ma and Annie Ping (Jefferies Hong Kong).
Edison Lee - Jefferies
Rorze President call — July 16 @8AM HKT / July 15 @8PM ET
Analyst Nakanomyo is hosting a call with the Rorze President on July 16 at 8AM HKT (July 15 at 8PM ET). Investors interested in joining are asked to ping the Jefferies TMT sales team.
Conor O'Mara - Jefferies
Jefferies Q3/Q4 2026 Techknowledge Tech Trips (Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Kyoto)
Upcoming Jefferies TMT conferences and trips: Q3 2026 Techknowledge Tech Trip on Sept 7-14 (Tokyo, Seoul KB Conference, Taipei) and Q4 2026 Techknowledge Tech Trip in early December (Seoul, Taipei, Kyoto, Tokyo).