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Shaker Sarwary's avatar

Excellent article, very well structured, detailed, and written!

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Nick E.'s avatar

Wow. Super research and writing!

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ted's avatar

Not sure if analysts and estimates already take this into account, but if not, $10 Bn in CHIPS subsidies over next 4 years would change IRR significantly. Just messing around

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/153uIFb9mPFva8Cm3cVEagt0a9fRWsu5ETKeBv_3UYzQ/edit#gid=0

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Just did a similar write up on the state of silicon

Would love your thoughts!

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewharris/p/chips?r=298d1j&utm_medium=ios

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Tech Fund's avatar

Nice work

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Appreciate it! Interesting times ahead

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ted's avatar

Thanks for correction.

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Sbs's avatar

Yes that defines the risk

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Tech Fund's avatar

The bear case would be that their foundry isn't competitive, and that they keep losing market share in their other businesses. Under that scenario, things can go really south. So size your portfolio weight accordingly, never invest more than you are willing to lose. However, overall, I do think the risk-reward is to the upside on this one. A successful foundry business would mean a multi-bagger.

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Sbs's avatar

What would be your bear case estimate?

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Tech Fund's avatar

Do you mean maximum downside?

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ted's avatar

The 70% figure for a hypothetical Nvidia and TSMC IDM's gross margin makes sense if you average their respective margins and weight by market cap. $2T * 0.75 + $500B*0.53 / ($2.5T) = 71%

Not sure if that's a fair way to calculate it though. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Tech Fund's avatar

You should weigh by revenues i.e. Revenues * gross margin = gross profit

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