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Speaker 2: I want to start John with the AMD. That stock.

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Speaker 3: That story really got my attentions down sixteen and a

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Speaker 3: half percent today. I mean, this was one of the

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Speaker 3: Darling tech stocks, the chip names that we're really writing

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Speaker 3: the AI wave here, and it's at its worst day

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Speaker 3: since twenty seventeen. Stocks up seventy percent over the trailing

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Speaker 3: twelve months, but taking a.

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Speaker 2: Big hit today.

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Speaker 3: So let's figure out what's going on in that part

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Speaker 3: of the world. Kun John Sabanni joins US senior analyst

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Speaker 3: covering the semiconductor companies Bloomberg Intelligency's based on our Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles OFFICEO John, is this an Norman reaction for AMD?

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Speaker 3: Is there something fundamentally problematic there?

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Speaker 4: There was nothing fundamentally wrong in this report.

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Speaker 5: There were a lot of good things to take away,

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Speaker 5: but it comes down to you know, when you become

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Speaker 5: and when you take out the China revenue, which was

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Speaker 5: not included in the guidance and the expectations, the beat

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Speaker 5: came out pretty modest, which I guess people didn't like,

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Speaker 5: and then was not at power against the really high

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Speaker 5: expectations that you have now every quarter from these companies.

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Speaker 6: Like they used to ask in the old Westerns, you know,

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Speaker 6: is there room enough for the two of us in

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Speaker 5: Is there room enough for them? And in Nvidia there

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Speaker 5: is right now. I mean, look, all the tide is

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Speaker 5: lifting all boats. There is so much demand for accelator

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Speaker 5: There's even room for other folks like Broadcommon Marvell as

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Speaker 4: So there's a plenty of demand right now. You know.

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Speaker 3: I used to work for a portfolio manager and you know,

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Speaker 3: had a day like today. He would just pop ahead

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Speaker 3: and said, do we like management? Do we still like management?

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Speaker 3: And if the answer was yes, oftentimes you'd go out

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Speaker 3: and buy more on days like today?

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Speaker 2: Do we like management?

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Speaker 4: At least?

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Speaker 3: As Sue, I think is just when I just see

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Speaker 3: your interviews, it seems super on top of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like I said, fundamentally, nothing changed from yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Right Their CPU story continues to become stronger. Nobody's paying

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Speaker 5: attention to do it right now because all the focuses

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Speaker 5: on GPU and competing with Nvidia, But people are forgetting

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Speaker 5: inherently I when you look at two years back, this

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Speaker 5: We didn't expect any fireworks coming into this earnings. We

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Speaker 5: so the market is aware of this. We really have

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Speaker 5: So there's nothing changed overnight yesterday that we saw should

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Speaker 6: How important is China in all this? I thought the

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Speaker 5: Well, so the expert restrictions are different for each chip.

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Speaker 5: Even though the White House has said that yes, these

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Speaker 3: Cou John some M and A in your space today,

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Speaker 3: Texas Instruments has reach an agreement to buy Silicon Laboratories

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Speaker 6: it's all going to be paying off investors getting a

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Speaker 6: little impatient with everything. Is it all paying off immediately

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Speaker 6: The high AI for everybody.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's the jury is not out yet, right,

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Speaker 5: We still need to see monetization. The capex spending is

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Speaker 5: lot more proof points of monetization from all of this

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Speaker 7: Let's bring in Sam Fazzelli. Bring back Sam Fazzelli. Really,

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Speaker 7: he's our Bloomberg Intelligence drug boss. That's the jacket he

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Speaker 7: wore yesterday. Actually he's the director of research for Global

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Speaker 7: drug boss.

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Speaker 2: Let's face it.

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Speaker 7: Let's talk a little bit about Eli Lilly and its

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Speaker 7: upbeat guidance in contrast to Novo Nordisk. Why is there

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Speaker 4: Right, So, Scarlett, I've always maintained, based on data and

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Speaker 4: based on factual comparisons of the drugs that they have,

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Speaker 4: that Eli Lily's drug does better the weight loss over

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Speaker 4: pessimistic to deliver. I have a tough time choosing between

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Speaker 3: Right Sam, you know, Lily Novo, they're kind of in

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Speaker 2: Where where is that right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? But that shouldn't be It should be nowhere in

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Speaker 4: the right now because that's illegal. Right at the end

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Speaker 7: bound in a multi dose pen. Why is this format important?

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Speaker 4: But I think this would be helpful to both people

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Speaker 2: Sam.

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Speaker 3: We all know that President Trump has made cutting drug

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Speaker 4: Well, if you go with Noble ICs announcement today that

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Speaker 9: So it's very clear that they're focused on Taco Bell

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Speaker 3: Well, I booked my first cruise ever for next I

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