Theme
Memory has always been the cyclical end of semiconductors. HBM changed who the customer is and how much they care about price. This theme follows the memory makers and the equipment they depend on.
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Attach on the adjacent silicon has risen for four consecutive quarters off a much smaller base. Mix alone carries the gross margin without a single extra unit shipped.
Contract pricing held firm while the commodity tier rolled over. There is no second source at the required specification, which makes this structural rather than cyclical.
Lead times have started extending again at the component level. That has preceded every upturn in this industry and it has never once been priced early.
Wafer supply stopped being the binding constraint two quarters ago. Substation interconnect and advanced packaging now set the delivery schedule, and neither is modelled.
Large buyers are writing second-source clauses into every accelerator contract. In a supply-constrained market the alternative prices far closer to the incumbent than the model assumes.
Revenue is being recognised into a channel that is not clearing it. The correction lands in the quarter after the one currently guided.