原文: So I'm looking through $MRVL SEC filings for fun over the weekend.
For constraints they're citing:
"advanced wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, and large body substrates."
which results in increased lead times, inability to meet demand, and increased costs...
-> So $TSM is Marvell's sole source foundry for all of our advanced process-node wafers according to their filings (no surprise there).
the less obvious one is Large Body Substrates to look at:
ABF substrates are already known, but lage body substrates might be a more acute bottleneck inside ABF.
There's..
Daeduck Electronics (353200) Kinsus (3189) - "large-area high-layer-count ABF substrates" already up +496.07% YTD tho LG Innotek (011070) - Large AI substrates with "Developing large AI substrates with a NA Big Tech customer, mass production beginning H2 26" $ATS +370.12%
for the "lesser known" names outside of Ibiden, Nan Ya PCB, and Unimicron (but many have already rerated).
In May they worded it as supply challenges have occurred / may occur and large-body substrates were in a continuing tight environment.
Now it's "We are currently in a supply constrained environment."
Maybe there's more emerging players that I missed that I'll go hunting for.
But just disclosure on what acute bottleneck $MRVL is facing.
翻译: 所以我周末闲着翻看 $MRVL 的 SEC 文件。
他们提到的限制因素是:
“先进晶圆制造、先进封装和大尺寸基板。”
导致交期延长、无法满足需求、成本上升……
→ 根据文件显示,$TSM 是 Marvell 所有先进制程晶圆的唯一代工(这并不意外)。
较不明显的因素是大尺寸基板,需要关注:
ABF 基板已经为人所知,但大尺寸基板可能是 ABF 内更紧迫的瓶颈。
有……
Daeduck Electronics (353200) Kinsus (3189) - “大面积高层数 ABF 基板”,今年迄今已上涨 +496.07% LG Innotek (011070) - 大型 AI 基板,文中称“与北美大型科技客户合作开发大型 AI 基板,量产预计 26 年下半年开始” $ATS +370.12%
这些是 Ibiden、Nan Ya PCB、Unimicron 之外的“较不为人知”公司(但许多已被重新评级)。
There is a guy who eats a lot called $NVDA. Nvidia only wants to buy high-priced potatos off the farmers.
A potato farmer $MU, that was selling carrots... now shifted farmland to potatos.
Nvidia caused a great potato famine cause they can eat a lot. So everyone else who farmed carrots like SK Hynix and Samsung moved their farmland capacity to grow potato.
But... people still need to eat. And carrots are a healthy part of their everyday diet..
Now there's no more carrots aside from a player like "ESMT", the legacy carrot farmer.
So now, because everyone buys carrots off ESMT, there's a shortage and the price goes up.
So ESMT needs more carrot seeds (from PSMC). But PSMC is running low on carrot seeds to grow the carrots.
So PSMC charges ESMT more for the seeds.
But the price ESMT sells the carrots at are much higher than what PSMC hikes the carrod seed price.
now... ESMT is making enough from selling carrots that it traded 1.9x P/E off July's earnings.
Can ESMT keep selling these carrots through 2027?
All the other farmers thinks so since it's both hard + low incentive to migrate their valuable potato farms back to carrot farms.
翻译: 好吧,简化一下:
有个吃得很多的家伙叫 $NVDA。Nvidia 只想从农民手里买高价土豆。
一个原本卖胡萝卜的土豆农场主 $MU…现在把耕地转向种土豆。
Nvidia 导致了严重的土豆荒,因为它吃得太多。于是其他种胡萝卜的公司,如 SK Hynix 和 Samsung,也把耕地容量转向种土豆。
原文: Yep, ESMT (3006) has exposure to multiple legacy memory segments.
Has a portfolio of: SLC/SPI NAND, NOR Flash, DDR2/DDR3, MCP/eMCP, so all the fun legacy stuff.
If you want to look at broader industry price hikes coming up that ESMT has exposure to:
1. SLC NAND: ~120-170% for H2 2026. 2. DDR2: ~35-40% for Q3 2026. 3. DDR4: +30–40% Q3 (with DDR3 tightening) 4. NOR +60–65%+ for H2 (high density) 5. MCP/eMCP: maybe ~+15–25% QoQ for ESMT from my own estimate
For official breakdown:
DDR2 + DDR3: ~45% of revenue DDR4/other DRAM ~ 10% of revenue eMCP/MCP ≈30% Analog + other ≈15%
Regardless, duration/hikes is the key:
-> "none of the major global SLC NAND suppliers plan to add new production capacity in the near term." -> TrendForce specifically expects depleted inventories to make SLC NAND even tighter in Q4. -> Winbond withdrawing DDR2, would make inventory even tighter (and they're doing allocations into 2029-2030) -> ESMT management said the market's main problem was supply, not demand; the company's foundry allocations covered only roughly 60–70% of customer orders -> Nanya: "memory shortages could last through the end of 2027, with supply and demand still tight in 2028" ->Nanya explicitly said capacity constraints could cause shortages across DDR5, LPDDR5, DDR4, LPDDR4 and DDR3. -> ESMT included eMCP among the products receiving order-transfer benefits as mature node resources were being pulled elsewhere ______
If I had to state my thoughts again:
I think ESMT's ~1.9x July annualized run-rate P/E could compress further, despite factoring in PSMC's 45% wafer hike due to further legacy memory price hikes.
Industry commentary supports durability throughout 2027.
Cherry on top is if we start seeing LTAs and visibility into 2029-2030 (but not factored in).
I think markets either don't know about this, are mispricing duration, or overestimating PSMC's