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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Business app. Let's take a closer look at the

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Speaker 2: Broadcom story and also speak more broadly about what's happening

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Speaker 2: in the semiconductor space with Bloomberg's Kun John Sabani. He

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Speaker 2: is our senior Semiconductor analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. He joins

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Speaker 2: us from San Francisco. Cunjohn, It's always a pleasure when

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Speaker 2: I look at the guidance for the current quarter, the

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Speaker 2: company basically coming in around one hundred million dollars below

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Speaker 2: the average estimate, and still the stock gets punished in

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Speaker 2: the way that it was. Is there something more that

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Speaker 2: we need to talk about here, that this is not

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Speaker 2: just a miss on guidance, that there's something else afoot.

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Speaker 3: Really, you know, the stock reaction so far has been

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Speaker 3: surprising to us. Coming into the earnings. There were a

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Speaker 3: couple of things we and investors were keen to focus on,

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Speaker 3: namely the AI revenues, which they upsided by a billion dollars. Second,

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Speaker 3: the VMware integration and the software revenue growth, which again

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Speaker 3: came better than expected. The weakness, this very slight weakness,

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Speaker 3: Really one hundred million dollars is very small given the

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Speaker 3: magnetity of revenues they make. The weakness was really that

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Speaker 3: the non AI cyclical legacy segments did not recover or

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Speaker 3: are not recovering as fast as we had thought. Now

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Speaker 1: Can we take a bigger picture here in terms of

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Speaker 1: what is that mean when these non AI components of

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Speaker 1: the companies aren't doing as well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, you know, semiconductor is exposed to various industries

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Speaker 3: semiconductors into cyclical because inherently, historically semiconductors has been a

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Speaker 3: in different segments. AI is the new sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: But the overall thesis across our oral sentiment is the

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Speaker 2: As you know, Kunjohn a broadcome as a major chip

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Speaker 3: Well, so there implied guidance for their wireless segment, which

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Speaker 1: So obviously we see that the AI business is doing well.

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Speaker 1: How does this provide this constructive view on the AI

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I see most of the drawbacks has been acting

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Speaker 3: So from a fundamental perspective, the demand signals keep on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, Intel has been dealing with fires

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Speaker 3: So basically you're you're again fighting fire on multiple fronts.

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Speaker 2: Kun John, it's always a pleasure. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for being with us, Kun John Sabani, Senior Semiconductor analyst

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Speaker 2: or Bloomberg Intelligence. Katie Kaminski joins as she is the

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Speaker 2: chief research strategist at Alpha Simplex, joining us from Boston. Nice,

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Speaker 4: So what we're seeing in the trend falling space is

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Speaker 4: we've actually seen a massive pivot that's been a little

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Speaker 5: Is definitely making me a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Concerned going into the fall, particularly, you've seen this risk

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Speaker 4: So across different asset class themes, you're definitely seeing a

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Speaker 2: So, if you had to bet on what the Fed

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Speaker 4: So my guess is that they'll be more conservative just

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Speaker 2: I noted earlier that the swaps market is pricing in

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Speaker 4: I mean it could be, because I guess you know,

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Speaker 4: that sense, I think people are nervous about what are

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Speaker 4: the ramifications of all the policy that we have sort

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Speaker 2: about fiscal policy, and let's talk about the Is that

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's adding to a lot of volatility

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Speaker 2: He is head of research at CLSA, joining us from

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