Gathering micro-messages, recently announced that the Yangtze River Storage Group intends to collaborate with group companies and packaging and testing plants for silicon products, Nanmao, etc., to form a major alliance for the memory industry. The goal is to replace South Korean manufacturers and enter the Apple memory supply chain. City, there is still no cooperation plan, but it is open to any manufacturer who has invested in the industry.
NAND Flash is the main product of Yangtze River Storage. With funding from major funds, mass production has started. Currently, the global NAND industry is dominated by Samsung, Toshiba, SK Hynix, Micron and other Korean, Japanese and American manufacturers. Taiwan has DRAM in the memory area. Mainly, the NAND chip is not deeply inked, but it has been training for many years in NAND control chip, packaging and testing.
According to sources, the NAND chips produced and stored by the Yangtze River have been sent to sample chip cards and smart card companies for verification. At the same time, they have also been tested and validated by Grouplink and the Huirong chips listed in the United States.
Nanmao previously transferred its investment in Shanghai Hongmao Technology Co., Ltd. to Ziguang Group through disposal, and became the first domestic company to enter into a joint venture with Ziguang Group. It succeeded in capturing the Chinese mainland semiconductor market.
Although silicon products will soon be merged with ASE, but previously sold 30% of its Suzhou factory silicon products science and technology to Ziguang Group, establish a cooperative relationship.
The group said that the Yangtze River storage cooperation news is only speculation on the market and there is no plan at the moment. Qunlian also pointed out that any manufacturer that has invested in the flash memory industry will maintain an open attitude, and relevant needs will assess appropriate cooperation. Approaches. There is still room for imagination in the outside world for the future cooperation between the Group and the Yangtze River Storage.
2. DRAM capacity and performance increase, Micron is expected to replace SK hynix as the second largest;
In 2017, although DRAM demand remained high, prices increased, and all DRAM vendors were full of wallets. However, the competition among the three major global DRAM makers is still highly variable. Samsung ranked first in operating profit rate of DRAM up to 70%. , ranking is the operating interest rate of 50% of SK hynix, ranked third in the United States is catching up quickly, operating profit of 49.3% in 2017, almost almost the same with the SK hynix. estimated continuous efforts by the United States, the end of 2018 Previously, Micron had the chance to catch up with SK hynix and become the world's second largest memory factory.
According to the South Korean media “etnews”, the recent quarterly DRAM companies’ just announced quarterly earnings report showed that Micron Technology’s revenue reached US$7.351 billion, operating profit was US$3.36 billion, net profit was US$3.495 billion, and operating profit margin reached 49.3%. , Nearly 50%. In terms of SK hynix, the previous quarter revenue was 819,700 million won, operating profit was 4,367 billion won, net profit was 312.13 billion won, and the operating profit rate was 50%. Although the two companies’ financial accounting The time is different, but there is no significant difference in operating profit rate.
The report further pointed out that at present, in the Samsung part of the DRAM leading company, the operating profit rate is about 70% after deducting wafer foundry and large-scale semiconductor design business. Second, three of SK hynix and Micron Technology, 10 years ago In the interest rate segment, there is at least a 10% gap between the two sides. Today, there has been almost no progress. This is mainly due to the rapid increase in production capacity of Micron in recent years, as well as process improvement and advancement. It is understood that during the 2016 period, Micron Taiwan and Japan The factory's production capacity increased by 34.3% and 23.6%, respectively. During the same period, SK hynix suffered a decline in production capacity due to process conversion.
According to market estimates, even if the operating profit rate of SK hynix and Micron does not change in the DRAM market, Micron is still likely to surpass SK hynix and become the world's second-largest memory company in an effort to develop NAND flash memory. At the current NAND Flash memory market rankings, Samsung still remains the leader, followed by Toshiba, Micron ranked third, and SK Hynix fourth. TechNews
3. The number of MOSFETs mounted on servers has increased by nearly 40%, and the supply has become more severe;
Big data, cloud computing, AI, etc. boosted the demand for servers. This also made the server become a semiconductor industry. Intel and AMD continue to launch new server platforms and drive shipments of related chips. In particular, next-generation server platforms need to be equipped with The use of MOSFETs must increase by 3 to 40%, making MOSFET supply and demand even tighter. At present, there are reports that manufacturers have received orders until the end of this year. Quotations are expected to be adjusted to the end of the quarter.
The server continues to introduce new features. After the introduction of the Purley server platform by Intel last year and the launch of the EPYC server platform by AMD, there are still newer versions coming out this year. With the new server platform features and speed improvements, the number of MOSFETs onboard will increase by 3 to 40%. At present, it has been reported that manufacturers are under tight supply pressure. Dazhong (6435), Nixon (3317), Fuding (8261), and Jieli (5299) are the four major players. At present, the orders will reach the end of the third quarter. At most, it is expected that the quotation will be raised quarter by quarter, which will drive the above four major players.
In fact, MOSFETs have continued to be out of stock since the second half of last year. This year, the EPI wafer material in the upper reaches exceeds demand, and the production capacity of the six-inch and eight-inch wafer foundry is not sufficient. Therefore, the MOSFET supply started in the second quarter of this year. More strained, single-season quotes rose by about 5% to 10%, and cumulative quotes in the first half of this year were about 10% to 15%. As for the third quarter, there is no doubt that the above-mentioned four plants will look promising this year.
4. Listed on the first day Sun Moonlight Holdings sighed;
Sun Moonlight Holdings and Silicon Products Group's Acer & Light Holdings Limited was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on April 30. It was underperformed by technology stocks and the lawmakers' opinions were not affected as expected last week. Disappointing selling pressure came out of the market and the market opened up and down. The price fell to about 84.6 yuan, a decrease of about 5%. At the close of the trading day, Moonlight Holdings fell 8.7 yuan to close at 80.3 yuan, with 38,661 transactions.
E&M Holdings was unfavorably disadvantaged for the first time. As the global tech stocks plunged during the suspension, such as TSMC, Apple, and other semiconductor and technology stocks, the price index has returned more than 12%, while the US Apple will announce its financial report on May 1. The market has a strong wait-and-see atmosphere. Originally, it was optimistic about the short-term chips in the new-commercial listed honeymoon market. Seeing that there was no honeymoon, the last law meeting before the merger last week was announced. The net profit after tax for the first quarter was 2.096 billion yuan, which is nearly six. The single-season low for the year, net profit after tax of 0.25 yuan per share, led to disappointing selling pressure.
However, the company's second quarter operating outlook is optimistic. It is estimated that the combined revenue for the quarter will increase by 6% to 9%. The gross profit margin is expected to increase at the same time. The consumption of the three major operational projects, communications and PCs are expected to grow at the same time. , Assault Holdings Limited is listed on the market. The share capital of ASE is half of that of the ASE. It also enjoys profits from ASE and silicon products. Ziguang invests in 30% equity of silicon products in Suzhou, and it is bound to be a constituent of Taiwan 50 and MSCI. It is estimated that this year's revenue will approach RMB 410 billion. With a post-tax net profit of over RMB 28 billion, the revenue from Riyue and Moonlight itself can exceed the RMB 300 billion mark and set a record high.
In the first quarter of this year, the low operating period has passed. The legal person expects that demand will recover strongly from the second quarter to the third quarter. The main growth momentum includes vehicle use, HPC, etc. The daily capital expenditure of Sun Moonlight was 640 million US dollars, slightly lower than the 683 million yuan in 2016. The US dollar, under strong demand this year, has some tight production capacity. It is estimated that capital expenditure will increase this year compared to last year. Economic Daily
5. The price rises, silicon wafers are earning! Shin-Etsu Chemical Beneficial, Chunyi Yi hit a record high;
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., the world's largest semiconductor silicon wafer and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturer, announced the previous year after the Japanese stock market on the 27th (2017, April 2017-2018) Financial Report: Due to weak demand for silicon wafers, higher prices, coupled with strong PVC sales, boosted consolidated revenue by 16.5% to JPY 1,441.4 billion, and consolidated EPS increased by 41.2% to JPY 336.8 billion. Significant increase of 51.3% to 266.2 billion yen, profit, Chunyi set a record high record.
Shin-Etsu Chemical pointed out that the demand for all-size silicon wafers centered on 12-inch wafers continued to maintain a high level, and prices for products were increased. This boosted the revenue of semi-conductor silicon wafers business in the previous year by 22.1% to 383.8 billion yen. 66.0% increase to 92.9 billion yen.
In the previous year, Shin-Etsu Chemical’s PVC/chemical product business revenue increased by 21.8% to JPY 510.3 billion, and profit from operations increased by 75.3% to JPY 93.2 billion, including Shintech's US subsidiary Shintech's production capacity.
Electronics/functional materials business (including rare earth magnet, photoresist and synthetic quartz products, etc.) revenue growth of 10.4% to 207.4 billion yen, profit growth of 11.6% to 61.6 billion yen; sales of Silicone business growth of 15.1% To Y20.6 billion, Yoshii grew 22.1% to 51.9 billion yen.
Shin-Etsu Chemical stated that since the company’s 70% or more revenue comes from overseas, exchange rate changes will affect the company’s performance, and it is difficult to make a reasonable assessment of the performance in the next year. Therefore, it is not announced this year (2018, April 2018 – March 2019) Financial Estimate.
The Japanese stock market was closed for a holiday on the 30th today. On the basis of the offer price of the Castrol XQ Global Winner System, Shin-Etsu Chemical raised 1.34% to close at 11,005 yen on the 27th. The stock price has fallen 3.76% so far this year.
Japan's silicon wafer giant SUMCO once pointed out on February 6th that the price of 12-inch silicon wafers began to rebound from the beginning of 2017, and the cumulative price increase in 2017 was more than 20%. It is expected that the price of 12-inch silicon wafers in 2018 is expected to further increase. About 20% (Q4 price will be 40% higher than 2016 Q4 in 2018), and it is estimated that it will continue to show a rebound in 2019. The current customer focus has shifted to how to ensure the quantity after 2020.