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The analyst comments "What Happened? On Friday, NYT, Ben Thompson, and Vital Knowledge all wrote about DeepSeek (a Chinese AI startup) posing a threat to OpenAI. Earlier last week, the Chinese company published the full version of a model that allegedly surpasses GPT-o1 costing only 3- 5% of the latter, triggering the above mentioned articles/opinions. As a result, we received a wave of questions on Friday afternoon and during the weekend, leading us to write this note. Our View. The semiconductor industry is highly technical and given the mounting recent bearishness from non-tech/macro investors, we wouldn't rule out a sell-off/rotation out of AI semis due to a lack of expertise in this area and considering the YTD gains. Taking a contrarian approach, we would patiently add to our positions if such weakness occurs. Regarding NVDA, we believe that USD 100 (20x USD 5 EPS) and USD 80 (20x USD 4 EPS) appear to be the main entry points."
The analyst commented, "NVDA has essentially tread water since last earnings, in part due to supply chain noise and concerns around the ramp of Blackwell server racks. We remain confident that NVDA will deliver strong FQ4 (Jan) results and FQ1 (Apr) guidance and investor concerns around a near term "air-pocket" are overblown. First, we believe Blackwell chipset/ compute board yields have inflected higher, and mix in both FQ4 (Jan) and FQ1 (Apr) is shifting very rapidly to Blackwell and away from Hopper. Second, as indicated in our CES note, NVDA recognizes revenue when ODMs/OEMs take title of compute boards and we believe that in many cases end customers like the big hyperscalers are using a buy and sell model to leverage ODMs or their suppliers’ working capital, and in some instances may be providing bridge financing for this inventory. Third, we believe the primary hardware issue (connector cartridges (Amphenol primary supplier)) has seen significant recent improvement, though UBS Asia team still believes more improvement on other hardware components is still necessary. We believe the way this plays out is that NVDA continues to ship B200/GB200 on-plan to OEMs/ODMs, there could be some inventory build at these partners over the next couple of months while component suppliers continue to improve yield rates, and OEM/ODMs quickly ramp rack assemblies and ship to end customers once rack deployment challenges are remedied. We believe rack shipments are already underway with Hon Hai (~40% share of GB200 rack-scale systems, per UBSe) confirming volume shipments of GB200 rack systems commencing in 2H of January - earlier than originally expected (link) though the majority of shipments really look to be coming in March in our view. The other server rack supplier – Quanta (40% of share of GB200 rack shipments) – reiterated volume production of GB200 racks would start in late Feb/March. As a result, we now see Blackwell revenue at ~$9B in Jan Q (vs. ~$5B previously and supply chain capacity able to support as much as $14B) but we believe Hopper is down in Jan. Net, we remain at ~$42B for FQ4 (Jan) (Data Center ~$38B) with FQ1 (April) still ~$47B. Net, our estimates are largely unchanged and our PT remains $185."
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