Dan Niles
Dan Niles
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We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent more PCs in the second half versus the first half. People are getting ready in anticipation of a much stronger second half of the year.
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Over the past two years, AMD has increased its market share against Intel from 13 percent to 21 percent. For those who thought the price war was aggressive, you haven't seen anything yet.
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Cisco's inability to reduce its inventory after the October quarter when revenues grew 14 percent quarter over quarter and inventory grew by 59 percent quarter over quarter reaffirms our view that we have not yet seen the worst of the inventory correction for semiconductor suppliers.
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Their focus on the enterprise computing and global services segment produced 51 percent of total revenue and 90 percent of total profits in the fourth quarter. A continuing improvement in the mix is expected to drive gross margins to almost 25 percent next year from 23.5 percent this year.
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It was about as good a quarter as you're going to get. They cleanly beat the numbers by about three cents.
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The supply situation will likely get worse in the first half, while demand looks sluggish at best, with large inventory levels in the supply chain.
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It doesn't get a lot better than that, especially for a company that just hasn't been doing very well for the last year. It's going to be good for them tomorrow, and that should have a positive affect on a lot of the other chip makers, especially guys that are closely related. It will have generally a positive affect on the overall market.
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The problem is how long will it take for the fundamentals to stop getting worse, and we don't see that happening any time soon.
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If the shareholders vote against this deal, it is hard to see how she will remain. In our opinion, the only beneficiaries to the current increase in uncertainty are Dell and IBM.
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When you miss your top line by $1 billion, the stock should go down. With negative year-over-year revenue growth it is really hard to get excited about the stock.
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There could be a bloodbath in pricing in the first part of next year if they don't move inventories over the holidays. The magnitude of the miss gives you an idea of what's going to happen with the PC market next year.
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There has been a huge run-up in price this quarter - unbelievable results.
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The back half of the year looks like it will be better than expected.
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It's easy for No. 2 to gain share when No. 1 can't deliver enough products. It will get more interesting in 2006 as Intel brings new capacity on line.