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Thank you for joining me for another edition of the Weekly Pulse Readout.

In Semiconductors, Intel's weak fourth quarter outlook overshadowed solid third quarter results.

Expectations for prolonged PC weaknesses, persistent foundry losses, and disruption at its Israel plant put pressure on the recovery story.

Meanwhile, SanDisk's sharply higher revenue and strong guidance pointed to a very different demand environment.

Now, the last point I want to call out here is Visa's recent strong earnings.

Now, while everyone has been hypnotized by AI this, NeoCloud that, Semiconductor this, it's important to remember you should have blue chip single stocks that are not AI related in your portfolio.

And a lot of the time, those single stocks pay a good dividend.

Now, Visa reported $6 billion in profit for the recent quarter, up from $5 billion last year.

That is incredibly impressive, but it's also how efficient they're making this money through this revenue.

Semiconductor, sorry, Semiconductor, SemiAnalysis had this really great take where they described them as the most capital efficient company in history.

What is it, 6.6 million

per employee? Yeah.

Hello, my name is Daniel Nenny, founder of SemiWiki, the open forum for semiconductor professionals.

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My guest today is Dr. Farima Farmandi, co-founder and chief scientist for security verification at Caspia Technologies.

Farima is the Wally Rines Endowed Professor in Hardware Security and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida.

Well, I think to your point, George, it clearly is entering a new phase because the market to us this week has a bit of a different feel.

Very clearly, the Semiconductor stocks have come off the boil.

We're perched just above the July lows, both on a relative and absolute basis compared for the semiconductor index, the SOX, relative to the market.

And it's been largely on the back of a stock that our listeners probably haven't heard much about, which is CoreWeave.

It is the real economy.

Now contrast that traditional banking pressure with the expectations placed on the semiconductor giants reporting.

We have ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC.

These companies represent the physical, heavy industry infrastructure of the artificial intelligence boom.

And the projections here are just staggering.

Hello, my name is Daniel Nenny, founder of SemiWiki, the open forum for semiconductor professionals.

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My guest today is Gillian O'Donnell, Director of Growth at YieldHub.

the enterprise yield management platform trusted by semiconductor and photonics manufacturers worldwide.

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My guest today is John Bruggeman, Chief Marketing Officer at Vinci, where he leads the company's market narrative and strategic positioning.

His work focuses on translating complex technical advances into clear category definition, industry relevance, and market adoption.