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#91
UMS’s key customer Applied Materials released its 3Q2012 results yesterday and below is extracts from its CFO’s interview with FORBES

Applied Materials CFO Says Outlook Hit By Macro Issues

Quote: “Applied Materials CFO George Davis said in an interview with FORBES this afternoon that the company’s disappointing outlook for the fourth quarter reflects a sharp slowdown in demand for chip-making gear amid uncertain macro conditions. He also noted …. …….
Davis said the sharp projected revenue drop reflects a number of factors. In the semiconductor equipment business, the company is seeing a greater-than-seasonal decline in demand, hurt by ongoing macro weakness. The company expects sales to chip foundries to be down more than 50% sequentially in the October quarter, with a 35%-40% pullback from memory customers, and a better than 20% drop in demand from logic customers. “All customers are stepping on the brakes as they look at the economic situation,” he says. ………………………………………………
Davis adds that the company expects a rebound in FY Q1, with “a strong year overall” in FY 2013………………….”. Unquote

For full report: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2...onditions/
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Let’s look at AM’s revenue segment of semi-tools i.e. revenue of Silicon System Group (SSG)

Revenue of SSG (USD million):
FY2009 = 1,960
FY2010 = 5,304
FY2011 = 5,415
1Q2012 = 1,344
2Q2012 = 1,777
3Q2012 = 1,545 (This is 13% lower compared to 2Q, but is 15% higher than 1Q)

New Orders (USD million)
1Q2012 = 1,418
2Q2012 = 1,969
3Q2012 = 1,166 (This is 40.8% lower compared to 2Q, and 17.8% lower compared to 1Q. This is a significant drop in customer demand.)

Therefore revenue for 4Q2012 is expected to be weak, but as long as it comes in at more than 748 million USD, revenue for FY2012 could still surpass that of FY2011 (5,415 million USD), which could be considered not a bad year at all, given the current uncertain macro condition.

Implications for UMS:

Revenue and profit for 2H2012 would be down, and IMO would be lower than that of 1H2011 and 1H2012. Therefore, it would be unrealistic to expect that last year’s dividend payout of 6 cents per share could be repeated this year.

Would 2013 be a strong year overall, as anticipated by Davis? Again, it depends on the macro condition.


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#92
Outlook of semiconductor revenue for 2H2012 might not be as good as previously forecasted. However, increased demand for mobile devices, such as new smartphones, ultraportable PCs, and tablets may push semiconductor revenue higher next year, making 2013 another golden year. Hopefully this would translate into better revenue and profit for AM and UMS as well.

Front-End Fab Equipment Spending to Grow 17 Percent in 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif. — September 5, 2012 — SEMI today released an update to its World Fab Forecast database, which indicates that total fab spending for equipment needed to ramp fabs, upgrade technology nodes, and expand or change wafer size could increase 16.7 percent in 2013 to reach a new record high of $42.7 billion. The estimate includes new equipment, used equipment, or in-house equipment but excludes test assembly and packaging equipment.

The latest edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast lists over 1,150 facilities (including 300 Opto/LED facilities), with 76 facilities starting production this year and in the near future. The database tracks projected spending on equipment and construction. Since the previous fab database publication in May 2012, SEMI analysts have made over 296 updates to more than 230 facilities (including 52 Opto/LED fabs) in the database.

Semiconductor manufacturing foundries were significant drivers of fab equipment spending in 2012 with over $10 billion combined investment. Their dominance is expected to continue with approximately $10 billion additional equipment spending in 2013.

In 2012, the Americas had the largest percentage of fab construction. From 2010 to 2012, over $6 billion will be spent in the Americas on fab construction projects led by Intel, Globalfoundries, Samsung, and Micron. Most of these construction projects will be completed by the end of 2012. No immediate new fab projects in the Americas are anticipated, resulting in projected investment for 2013 construction to drop below $500 million from almost $3 billion in 2012.

In 2013, most of the fab construction in will occur in Taiwan, China, and Korea. Samsung has begun an aggressive conversion of up to four existing Memory lines to System LSI. A transition from Flash to System LSI is difficult; some drop in capacity in Memory is expected, but the company is expected to compensate by building a new fab for Memory, in Xian, China, with a massive investment of $7 billion. The fab is expected to begin construction mid-September 2012.

The SEMI World Fab Forecast provides additional detail about the phases for ramping this leading-edge Flash fab with huge potential capacity. Other increases in fab construction investment will come from SMIC’s new fab in Beijing, and TSMC and UMC fab projects in Taiwan.
http://www.semi.org/en/node/43146?id=highlights

Waiting for the Next Golden Year - 2012 Stall: Paving the Way for a Record-Breaking 2013

http://www.semi.org/en/node/43096?id=sgurow0912

Samsung breaks ground on $7 billion memory chip factory in China
By Michael Kan, IDG News

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it broke ground in China on a NAND flash memory chip factory in which it will invest a total of US$7 billion, its single largest investment in the country.

The factory will be located in Xi'an, China and will use a 10-nanometer manufacturing process to produce the NAND flash memory chips, which are often used to store data in smartphones, laptops and cameras.

The factory is slated to be fully operational in 2014, according to a Samsung statement. The company will initially invest $2.3 billion in the factory.

Samsung said the new factory will help balance its global production network, a year after it started operations at a NAND flash memory chip factory in Hwaseong, Korea.

While a major vendor of smartphones, The Korean company is also a producer of mobile components including processors and memory, with customers that include Apple. The iPhone and iPad maker however, reportedly reduced its memory chips orders from the company in order to diversify its supply lines

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/ar...china.html
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#93
Thanks for the article Boon. UMS share price is currently trading at 41.0 cents which is a far cry from the 34 - 37 cents range a few months ago. It seems a week 2H 12 performance has been priced in. I sense the expectation of quarterly dividends is the main pillar at the moment.

Applied Materials Forecasts An Ugly 2013 :

http://seekingalpha.com/article/856191-a...-ugly-2013 [Another perspective on AM prospect]

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#94
Just be wary of semicon sector now...

My company forecast is not good at the moment..
Soitec reducing 10% of headcount in Pasir Ris..
GF fab 7 2nd wave retrenchment just happened..

Note that Samsung fab in XiAn is a good news but equipment PO only comes after the fab is built.. So the capex spending will only come in earliest 1 yr later...

Basically, the whole industry is looking to see if iPhone 5 can cushion the slowdown..

Take heed..
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#95
I am pleasantly surprised to see the current trading price at 44.5 cents with over 11 million shares traded today despite the relatively gloomy outlook in 2H 2012. Assuming the quarterly 1.0 cents dividends is maintained, the current yield is approx 9.0%.

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#96
I suppose with the astonishing sales of iphone 5, apple will probably start another round of inventory replenishment soon.
Microsoft Surface, Nokia Lumia 920, Amazon Kindle HD and more importantly, ipad mini, will be launching before Christmas.
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#97
Apparently Statchipac is up 15.5% today by noon, maybe thats why lifted the sector. Wonder whats the news...
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#98
(19-09-2012, 02:15 PM)l0nEr Wrote: Apparently Statchipac is up 15.5% today by noon, maybe thats why lifted the sector. Wonder whats the news...

Statchipac has released an announcement this evening - http://info.sgx.com/webcoranncatth.nsf/V...E0036FF2D/$file/CorpRel_19Sep12.pdf?openelement [Updated 3Q Outlook]

Quote:In its third quarter 2012 outlook published in the Company’s second quarter 2012 results release dated 26 July 2012, the Company had expected net revenues to be flat compared to prior quarter, with adjusted EBITDA1 in the range of 21% to 23% of revenue, and had expected capital expenditure2 in the third quarter of 2012 to be approximately $170 million to $190 million.

STATS ChipPAC now expects that its net revenues in the third quarter 2012 to be 3% to 5% decrease from prior quarter due to weakness in the PC end market and delay in supply of advanced silicon node wafers for high end smartphones. STATS ChipPAC expects to maintain adjusted EBITDA1 in the range of 21% to 23% of revenue and expects lower capital expenditure2 in the range of $160 million to $170 million in the third quarter of 2012.
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(19-09-2012, 09:57 PM)Nick Wrote:
(19-09-2012, 02:15 PM)l0nEr Wrote: Apparently Statchipac is up 15.5% today by noon, maybe thats why lifted the sector. Wonder whats the news...

Statchipac has released an announcement this evening - http://info.sgx.com/webcoranncatth.nsf/V...E0036FF2D/$file/CorpRel_19Sep12.pdf?openelement [Updated 3Q Outlook]

Quote:In its third quarter 2012 outlook published in the Company’s second quarter 2012 results release dated 26 July 2012, the Company had expected net revenues to be flat compared to prior quarter, with adjusted EBITDA1 in the range of 21% to 23% of revenue, and had expected capital expenditure2 in the third quarter of 2012 to be approximately $170 million to $190 million.

STATS ChipPAC now expects that its net revenues in the third quarter 2012 to be 3% to 5% decrease from prior quarter due to weakness in the PC end market and delay in supply of advanced silicon node wafers for high end smartphones. STATS ChipPAC expects to maintain adjusted EBITDA1 in the range of 21% to 23% of revenue and expects lower capital expenditure2 in the range of $160 million to $170 million in the third quarter of 2012.

Dont sound very positive for UMS.. Sad
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Gartner Says Worldwide Wafer Fab Equipment Spending to Decline 13.3 Percent in 2012

WFE Market Will Not Return To Positive Growth Until 2014

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2182316
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