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Speaker 2: Armholding shares stumbled around eight percent after the chip designer

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Speaker 2: gave what was termed a lukewarm revenue forecast. And what

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Speaker 2: we say in our story is that this could raise

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Speaker 2: concerns that AI spending is slowing. And we're joined here

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Speaker 2: by Kunjohn Sabani, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Semiconductor analyst on the earning.

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Speaker 2: So we got a couple of things going there, the

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Speaker 2: broader market and then ARM itself. First of all, did

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Speaker 2: you read the forecast as somewhat lukewarm?

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Speaker 3: I did. And the thing is, though we don't think

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Speaker 3: the AI story for ARM had significant impact here, the

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Speaker 3: likely drivers of sort of the myths versus what the

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Speaker 3: street had. We're coming from networking and industrial IoT, which

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Speaker 3: are not the AI markets, and this weakness has been

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Speaker 3: very publicly has been visible across all other semiconductor companies

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Speaker 3: coming into this earning. So this is something you know,

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Speaker 3: market driven, not AI specific to ARM.

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Speaker 1: So when you look at their exposure to the soft

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Speaker 1: the smartphone industry, I mean, how does that look to you,

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Speaker 1: coin John, Again, the long.

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Speaker 3: Term story remains intact. Their percentage share of their V

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Speaker 3: nine architecture, which have doubled. The royalty versus the prior

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Speaker 3: gen continues to go up each quarter, growing five percent.

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Speaker 3: The total person is the royalties every quarter, which we

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Speaker 3: think they'll continue, and the biggest beneficiary that penetration coming

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Speaker 3: from actually the smartphone markets. So most of the premium

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Speaker 3: in fact, almost one hundred percent of the premium smartphones

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Speaker 3: run on our architecture, and that is the segment that

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Speaker 3: is seeing relatively robust strength over the rest of the

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Speaker 3: smartphone market. So they're really benefiting that the unit growth

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Speaker 3: is slowing, yes, but they are getting corresponding esp increases

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Speaker 3: again due to higher royalties there.

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Speaker 2: So the reason I asked you whether or not the

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Speaker 2: revenue forecast was luke warm was that it was beyond

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Speaker 2: the midpoint. It just wasn't over the high end of

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Speaker 2: the range that they gave so you know, I think

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Speaker 2: some people would say, well, it was sort of within

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Speaker 2: maybe is not the best way to read really the

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Speaker 2: health of the company, because stock was already up forty

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Speaker 2: one percent this year following eight or nine percent. You know,

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Speaker 2: is not the end of the world.

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Speaker 3: Is it. I know you exactly got it right. Look,

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Speaker 3: it was not that bad of a miss. What you

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Speaker 3: have going is a combination of two things. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: you know what we've seen this earning season, these high

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Speaker 3: flying AI stocks who have benefited and from rich multiples

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Speaker 3: because of their AI story, have just been priced for perfection,

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Speaker 3: where every quarter investors are setting up high expectations of

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Speaker 3: significant beats and rays and when that meets reality that look,

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Speaker 3: which was again not AI driven, This is what you

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Speaker 3: are seeing in terms of stock reaction, bringing them slightly

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Speaker 1: So we know that ARM is roughly ninety percent owned

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Speaker 1: by soft Bank, and we had news tonight that soft

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Speaker 1: chip startup called Graphcore. Do you know anything about graph Core?

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Speaker 1: And then kind of give me a sense, give us

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Speaker 3: I don't cover graph course I might not be the

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Speaker 3: Graphcore is an AI sort of chip or a massive

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Speaker 3: So that align with that strategy. That makes sense.

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Speaker 2: ARM has something of an unusual role in the semiconductor

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what makes this unique is it has this unique

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Speaker 3: Enjoys this really friendly sort of neutral position within the

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Speaker 3: When you think about anything not X eighty six architecture,

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there is still a little bit

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Speaker 3: I think from a fundamental perspective, most of the estimates

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Speaker 3: the market has it right. I can't speak to allusion

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Speaker 3: because here Bloomberg Intelligence, we don't give price target, so

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Speaker 3: I leave that up to it if the market has

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Speaker 2: Atkonjohn, thanks so much for joining us, Kunjohn Sabani, Bloomberg Intelligence,

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Speaker 2: Senior Semiconductor analyst. Taking a closer look at ARM earnings,

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Speaker 2: well China's trade data for April are likely to show

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Speaker 2: after being negative in the last print. Joining us now

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Speaker 2: is Eric Ju, Bloomberg economist on China and Hong Kong. Eric,

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Speaker 2: why why do we swing back to positive?

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Speaker 4: I think so far this year we have seen some

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Speaker 4: a very challenging basis fat. So we saw drop in

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Speaker 4: up slightly from March. So both factors will support a

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Speaker 1: So when you look at exports, Eric, there are two components.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, one is kind of the overall global

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Speaker 1: And in the case of China right now, as though

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Speaker 4: Right, It's some benefit, but I won't say it's a

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Speaker 4: I think that the fundamental think driving export was still

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Speaker 4: the external demand. It's not really the currency issue unless

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Speaker 4: you have very you know, a big depression in UM.

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Speaker 4: But I think it's marginally it's going to help, but

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Speaker 2: We saw a big jump in South Korea's exports, right,

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Speaker 2: is that sort of presage what's happening here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have to remember South Korea, it's kind

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Speaker 4: for health career, it's more on the chips, I think

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Speaker 4: big rebound in the chips shouldment. But I think China

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Speaker 4: I think it's more depending on the overall you know,

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Speaker 1: So when we look at Chinese imports, how is domestic

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Speaker 4: But overall we'll say we haven't seen a very good

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Speaker 4: sign of some coming point in the domestic demand. I

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Speaker 4: think that's still something is confusing departy makers. They have

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Speaker 2: We've heard a lot from the United States and from

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Speaker 2: Europe about overcapacity in various industries in China. I'm interested

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think for this question, I think there

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Speaker 4: really about overcapacity because right, it's it's just a free

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Speaker 4: not like every country producing based on your domest demand. Right,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, but I think the disflationary story. I

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Speaker 4: So I think it's still for China, it's the main

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Speaker 2: Eric Juwe Bloomberg economists covering China and Hong Kong. Joining

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Speaker 2: us now on the program is Julia Wong, executive director

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Speaker 2: and global market strategists at JP Morgan Private Bank. Julia,

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Speaker 2: thanks very much for coming into our studios. So when

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Speaker 2: in a bull market, it would take a brave person

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Speaker 2: I suppose to say, well it's over now we're going

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Speaker 2: the other direction. But I put this question to you,

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Speaker 2: are are traders at the moment are we seeing from

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Speaker 2: the caution in markets? Are they driven more by FOMO

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Speaker 2: than they are about having confidence in the fundamentals?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think that if you think about the incredible

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Speaker 5: think that it was it was it was natural, almost expected,

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Speaker 5: So if you look at bilateral trade, you know, China

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Speaker 2: All right, Julia, thanks very much for joining us. Julia Wong,

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