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Friday, August 15, 2008

STEC design win in Dell ultramobile

According to storage news website blocksandfiles, STEC got a design win at Dell for a million units.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Nine (NCTY) under pressure

A sell side firm is making a call that they'll lose the World of Warcraft license in 2010.

Semicaps

Buying some LRCX and KLAC long here. Nothing crazy. Just wanna be buying the weakness for now.

Charts getting me short here





Currency no longer a tailwind

A number of companies have benefited from the dollar weakness over the last several quarters. Dell, Google, IBM to name a few -- in fact, many of them would have missed revenue and earnings estimates if it hadn't been for the dollar weakness bolstering results.



Not as pretty a picture for them this quarter.

Something to think about.

Applied Materials (AMAT) 3Q:2008 results

The order outlook of up 2-10% for Q4 is better than the street anticipated. The company says it will be driven by foundry, flat panel and solar. They expect memory to trough in the October quarter and for 2009 memory spending to increase over 2008 levels.

Believe it or not, the group has had a good run already. Lam (LRCX) was $31 in late July, its $40 now. Pretty much since Novellus reported and it wasn't that terrible, the group has had a positive tone to it. I had been covering in front of the Novellus number, though I remain short Varian (VSEA).

Though the rallies seem aggressive in light of the ongoing pressures in memory, semicap investors play long ball -- they're looking a year out. Applied and Lam have both suggested the trough is here and that tends to bring out buyers. Furthermore, the peaking and subsequent downward trajectory in the commodity and cyclical markets may bring funds outside of technology into the semicaps as they seek a new cycle to ride.

I think the semicaps are closer to a near-term top than anything else but I suspect they're buys on weakness at this point.

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