Now Malaysia is hoping to make a comeback as the industry pushes to diversify production amid flaring U.S.-China tensions. In addition to Infineon's investment, Intel of the U.S. plans to pour $7 billion into Malaysia to turn the country into the company's primary production base in Asia.
Bright signs are emerging for semiconductor stocks, which had been sluggish during the July-September period. The inventory adjustment that has continued since last year had been lingering longer than market participants had expected. However, there has been a rebound in the memory market recently, leading to increasing views that the recovery trend of the semiconductor industry will become more apparent in the future.
Prices of core products such as DRAM (memory that requires retention operations for occasional writing and reading) and NAND flash memory used for smartphone data storage showed signs of bottoming out in the first half of this year. However, they had not fully recovered, weighing on semiconductor stocks. Yet, signs of a turnaround have started to appear in the past few weeks.
Global semiconductor sales have been on a recovery trend, and it is highly likely that they will turn positive year-on-year for the first time since July of last year. Looking at past cases, once sales turn positive, the increasing trend often continues, leading to significant rises in semiconductor stocks.
The earnings for the July-September period announced by South Korea's Samsung Electronics this week also indicated a smaller margin of profit decline compared to the April-June period. This further supports the view that the semiconductor industry has passed its worst phase.
TSMC expects 2024 to be a "healthy" growth year for the pure-play foundry despite uncertain macro conditions, according to company CEO CC Wei during an earnings conference call on October 18.
Two of Bank of America Corp.’s leading markets strategists struck a rare agreeable tone on Friday, each prophesying gains ahead for equities — at least in the near term.
The global semiconductor manufacturing industry is on track for recovery in the fourth quarter of 2023, setting the stage for continued growth in 2024, Semi and Techinsights predict. Q4 IC sales are expected to rise 4 percent sequentially as end demand improves and inventories normalize. Electronic sales are predicted to register a robust 22 percent quarter-over-quarter increase in Q4 2023. https://bits-chips.nl/artikel/ic-sales-start-moving-upward/
Global semiconductor industry sales for October fell 0.7% year-over-year to $46.6 billion, according to data from The Semiconductor Industry Association [SIA].
“A sustained easing in price pressures will support a shift in the (Fed’s) policy stance next year, from holding rates steady to lowering them over time,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. “”The exact timing will depend on how the labor market, inflation and growth will evolve next year. Based on our forecasts, we expect the Fed to start cutting rates by the middle of next year.”
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