Over the past three decades, the global semiconductor industry was built on a highly efficient model of specialization. The United States controlled chip design, EDA, IP, and end-platform ecosystems. Taiwan became the center of advanced foundry manufacturing and packaging. South Korea dominated DRAM, NAND, and memory supply. Japan retained key positions in materials and equipment. China provided massive electronics manufacturing capacity and end-market demand.

Steam Deck OLED prices have increased again across several Asian markets, with South Korea seeing the biggest jump. The 1TB model now costs ₩1,578,000, up 51% from its previous price. Updated prices: - Japan – 512GB OLED: ¥137,980 | 1TB OLED: ¥167,980 - South Korea – 512GB OLED: ₩1,298,000 | 1TB OLED: ₩1,578,000 - Taiwan – 512GB OLED: NT$26,280 | 1TB OLED: NT$31,800 - Hong Kong – 512GB OLED: HK$6,488 | 1TB OLED: HK$7,788 The latest increases range from 38% to 51%, depending on the model and region. This follows an earlier round of price hikes in March 2026 linked to exchange rates.

🚨 POD UP! HAPPY FRIDAY! Bestie Guestie Marc Benioff (@Benioff) fills in for Sacks A LOT covered on this one: -- Trump-Xi Summit: Trade, Taiwan, midterms impact -- AI's impact on software: What thrives and what dies? -- OpenAI could sue Apple over failed ChatGPT integration -- Thinking Machines drops new model, future of AI is multi-sensory -- BIG Science Corner on a potentially devastating El Nino (0:00) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins the show! (1:14) Trump-Xi summit, doing business in China as a US company, impact on Americans and the midterms (18:46) Taiwan, chips, AI models, and peace through trade (31:41) AI's impact on software: What SaaS thrives, what SaaS dies? (47:26) OpenAI is considering suing Apple over failed ChatGPT integration (56:54) Thinking Machines releases real-time model, future of consumer AI, multi-sensory models (1:02:24) Science Corner: Impacts of a historically strong El Nino in 2026 (1:11:40) Anthropic goes after "Dark SPVs"

Q2 Shareholder Update → Highlights – Cybercab began production at Gigafactory Texas – Tesla Semi remains on track for volume production this year at our new factory in Nevada – Making continued progress with battery pack capacity expansion (the main limiting factor to near-term vehicle production volume increase) – Megafactory Texas is nearing completion (start of production planned for this year) – More customers are now opting to subscribe to FSD at the time of vehicle purchase! – Robotaxi rollout continued in the US. Now live in 7 major metros – Construction of Optimus at Fremont Factory began after decommissioning the Model S & X lines. Planned production later this year From here, there remains much hard work as we aim to revolutionize transportation, energy and productivity through our leading real-world AI. Scaling will be non-linear and we are focused on long-term value creation. We’ve never been more optimistic about the future. Automotive – Record deliveries in several markets: South Korea, Australia, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Portugal, the Philippines, Chile, Slovenia & Lithuania – We launched the Model YL in the US in July and have seen a positive response from customers Energy generation and storage – Record energy storage deployments in EMEA, supported by record deployments from Megafactory Shanghai, which continues to ramp production – On track to begin production of Megapack 3 & Megablock this year at our new Megafactory Texas – Powerwall 3P (three-phase) is now available in Germany and is designed to meet the power needs of German homes with a single unit Robotics – Installing the first-generation lines for Optimus at Fremont Factory, where we expect to start production soon – The initial Optimus builds will be used in our Optimus Academy for training data collection and further functionality development – Additionally, we continued site development at Gigafactory Texas with building construction now in full swing AI Training Compute – More than doubled our onsite compute in Texas (in terms of MW of compute) during the first half of 2026 – Cortex 2 supports the development of both vehicle and humanoid robot autonomy software & will ramp further over the rest of the year Battery – Ramping new battery & material factories, including vehicle pack capacity in Berlin, cathode material production and lithium refining in Texas and LFP cells in Nevada for our energy storage products – Increasing production of 4680 cells to support ramping Cybercab & Tesla Semi plus increased production of Model Y Other Supporting Infrastructure – Added over 2,400 net new Supercharging stalls, growing the network by 17% year-over-year AI Software – Started rolling out FSD v14 lite to early-access customers in the US & South Korea with AI3 hardware This software build distills the driving behavior from AI4’s v14 series into both the camera & compute configuration of AI3, bringing destination options & speed profiles. It also addresses challenging driving scenarios with improved proactive & reactive responsiveness AI Inference Compute – Making progress on construction & equipment procurement for our semiconductor fab in Austin Automotive and Other Software – Rolled out Summer Release: Self-Driving stats are now available in the mobile app Grok can make phone calls, search & play music, and adjust climate controls, among other things Automatic Navigation expands beyond home & work to support any destination based on personal habits and schedule Robotaxi – Started production of Cybercab, our purpose-built autonomous EV designed to be the workhorse of our Robotaxi fleet – Began offering employee rides in Cybercabs on our GFTX campus in July – Preparing for expansion of our Robotaxi service to additional US metros: testing, permitting & first responder training – Expanded unsupervised rides to the entire Austin metro area & launched unsupervised rides in Miami, Orlando & Tampa in July FSD Supervised – Record net new subscriptions in Q2 – Record FSD attach rates in North America, with over half of new deliveries including FSD subscriptions – Received additional approvals in Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark & Belgium, with customers in these countries driving over 50 million kilometers (31 million miles) on FSD as of July

My latest industry checks indicate that MediaTek has upgraded the strategic positioning of its AI business from "IC / ASIC design" to "system-level design," initially targeting the PCBA (L6) for Google's TPU and the L10 rack for Elon Musk-affiliated companies' in-house AI chips. Overall, this strategic shift aligns with industry trends and, if executed well, should help strengthen MediaTek's customer relationships and long-term competitive advantage. Industry checks and analysis: ▎This is a long-term play, with immaterial impact on fundamentals over the next two years. The aim is to capture new growth opportunities while mitigating potential risks. 1. Opportunity: Two factors are jointly raising the value-add of system-level design: increasing server rack design complexity, driven by the adoption of technologies such as CPO and 800V HVDC, and refresh cycles comparable to those of consumer electronics. 2. Risk: Growth momentum in ASIC design may begin to slow in 2–3 years as the Semi-COT business model takes hold. 3. To secure a gross margin of at least 40–50% in its system-level integration business, MediaTek is expected to adopt an asset-light model in which it leads design and validation, leverages the strengths of Taiwan's hardware supply chain ecosystem, and outsources manufacturing. ▎Google TPU PCBA: 1. MediaTek aims to begin with TPU v10 (Icefish), while also pursuing the integration of its own CPO solution. 2. Google's hardware assembly ecosystem is already well-established, so MediaTek's chances of winning L10 are slim. ▎The L10 rack for Musk's in-house AI chips: 1. The AI compute currently being built out by Musk's companies relies mainly on Nvidia chips, so the assembly ecosystem for their own AI chip racks is not yet in place, and that's where MediaTek's opportunity lies. 2. This business still lacks clear timeline visibility. Long-term success will hinge on whether MediaTek can leverage Taiwan's hardware supply chain ecosystem and its partnership with Terafab to land L10 rack orders.

📈 US Market Pre-Market Intelligence | June 3, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sources: CNBC · Benzinga · StockTwits · The Motley Fool · TheStreet Pro · Reuters · Bloomberg · LSEG · FTSE Russell · · Yahoo Finance · The Globe and Mail Data window: Past 24h (priority: past 12h) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【Market Snapshot】 • S&P 500 Futures: -0.3% | Nasdaq futures: +0.4% • VIX: 15.77 (1-year low, neutral-low) • Fear & Greed: 66 (Greed zone) • WTI Crude: ~$93/barrel (Iran tensions supporting) • Dollar Index: DXY 107.2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 1: TOP NEWS — TECH/AI/SEMICONDUCTOR】 🔥 Jensen Huang at GTC Taipei (June 2-3, 2026): The Single Biggest Catalyst ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Source: The Motley Fool · StockTwits · Bloomberg · Reuters · Yahoo Finance · BigGo Finance · Times of India · DataCenterNews Asia 1. MRVL +32.5% Tuesday → all-time high. Huang on stage: "Matt [Murrett] is building the next trillion-dollar company." MRVL premarket today: +22%. → Custom AI chips (non-NVDA) = the new AI alpha. Gary Black (top Tesla/tech fund manager): "Broadcom and Marvell are the big winners as focus shifts to custom AI ASICs." 2. AVGO + Broadcom: Hit 52-week high alongside MRVL. Custom AI networking/DPU chips gaining enterprise share. Gary Black: AVGO is a "big winner" in the custom chip shift. 3. HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hit 52-week high premarket. Analyst (StockTwits): "AI-driven quarter — shares deserve a higher multiple." Aruba/AI infrastructure backlog strong. 4. NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform: Full production announced at GTC Taipei today (June 3). Next-gen AI data center GPU. NVDA stock slightly lower premarket (-0.5%) as markets digest the rally in competitors MRVL/AVGO. 5. TSMC ADR hit record high +2.5%. Deepened NVIDIA partnership confirmed at GTC Taipei. Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) surged 5.9% to all-time peak — biggest single-day move in 2026. 6. IPG Photonics, MACOM, Amkor: All skyrocketed after Huang's GTC Taipei keynote. AI photonics + advanced packaging = next bottleneck. 7. Trump Executive Order: Government gets early access to advanced AI models. StockTwits called it "pro-AI infrastructure" signal. Microsoft + NVIDIA partnership: RTX Spark + Vera CPU for Windows AI laptops. Build 2026 event this week. 8. MU Micron: UBS upgraded to $1625 target — more than 100% upside. HBM memory demand = structural supercycle. ⚠️ Warning Signal: Michael Burry (The Big Short): AI chip rally is within 7% of 2000 dot-com bubble peak. Chart suggests caution on AI momentum names. Retail vs. institutional positioning diverging. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 2: RETAIL SENTIMENT — STOCKTWITS/TRADINGVIEW/WALLSTREETBETS】 Source: StockTwits · TradingView News · TheStreet Pro · Yahoo Finance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 Most-discussed tickers by retail (past 24h): • MRVL: Trending #1# on StockTwits. Retail piling in after Huang shoutout. Bullish comments dominate. "MRVL to $200" comments everywhere. • AVGO: Custom chip theme driving retail interest. "This is the NVDA of 2026" sentiment growing. • ASTS (AST SpaceMobile): Snapped 2-day losing streak. Top execs buying shares = vote of confidence. SpaceX IPO buzz creating turbulence but long-term thesis intact. Retail mostly bullish. • RKLB / LUNR / RDW: Slipping on SpaceX IPO speculation. Bears say SpaceX could cannibalize launch demand. Bulls watching. • META: Retail sees buying opportunity. Stock still trails Mag 7 peers despite new subscriptions + layoffs + cloud plans. "META cheap vs. GOOGL/AMZN" sentiment. • TSLA: Dips on SpaceX merger rumors. Retail influencer: "Bull case adds $450B to valuation." SpaceX IPO terms uncertainty weighing. • INTC Intel: Surprising surge today. Investors asking "why is Intel surging?" AI PC + foundry turnaround narrative returning. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 3: MARKET THEMES — AI ROTATION + SMALL CAP BREAKOUT】 Source: The Globe and Mail · 247WallSt · Benzinga · AInvest · TheStreet Pro · LSEG ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 AI Money Rotating from Mega-Cap → Small/Mid Cap: • Small caps are AI's big winners in 2026 (The Globe and Mail, Reuters, 10 hours ago) • Russell 2000 small-cap value has beaten growth by 9 percentage points YTD • Something rare is driving the Russell 2000 — and AI is the answer (Benzinga) • AI exuberance rotating into small caps amid sticky inflation (ActionForex) • IWM, VTWO, URTH all flashing strong buy signals (MarketsHost) 📊 Russell 2000 reconstitution underway (FTSE Russell, May 22 announcement): Total US equity market cap in Russell 3000 reached $75.6 trillion — 29% increase from prior year. Major index changes creating volatility + opportunities. 💰 Sector rotation: Energy (oil $93, Iran) + AI semis + small-cap value = today's leadership. Defensive sectors (utilities, consumer staples) outflowing. ⚡ Middle East: Oil supported at $90-95 range. US-Iran tensions escalating (missiles launched toward Kuwait/Bahrain per fxstreet). Energy stocks (XOM, CVX) get tailwind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 4: KEY STOCKS — PREMIER DATA FROM AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES】 Source: StockTwits · The Motley Fool · Yahoo Finance · Benzinga · TheStreet Pro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 MRVL — Marvell Technology Price: ~$140+ (premarket +22%) | 52-week HIGH Catalyst: Jensen Huang at GTC Taipei: "next trillion-dollar company" Analyst: Gary Black — "big winner" in custom AI chip theme Analyst: Morgan Stanley sees $120+ target Narrative: AI custom ASIC for cloud. Google's TPUSnake, Amazon's Trainium = MRVL customers. Data center custom silicon = secular trend. Risk: Rich valuation. PS 20x. Momentum + Huang boost = near-term overbought. 📊 AVGO — Broadcom Price: ~$220+ | 52-week HIGH Catalyst: Custom AI networking chips + VMware synergy Narrative: #2# AI chip play after NVDA. Custom DPUs + networking for AI data centers. Gary Black: "big winner" alongside MRVL Risk: Valuation already pricing in strong growth 🚀 HPE — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Price: premarket +strong | 52-week HIGH Catalyst: AI-driven quarter beat. Aruba networking + GreenLake AI services. Analyst quote (StockTwits): "AI quarter — shares deserve higher multiple" Narrative: AI infrastructure + edge computing + hybrid cloud = multi-year growth Risk: Competition from Dell/Arista in AI networking 💡 TSMC — Taiwan Semiconductor ADR Price: $446.69 (+2.5% record high) Catalyst: NVIDIA partnership deepened at GTC Taipei. Advanced node capacity = structural moat. Narrative: Foundry king. AI compute demand = capacity fully booked for 2026-2027 Risk: Taiwan geopolitical risk premium always present ⚡ IPG Photonics / MACOM / Amkor Price: all skyrocketed after GTC Taipei keynote Catalyst: AI photonics (laser/optical interconnect) + advanced packaging (Amkor = chiplet packaging) Narrative: AI hardware bottleneck shifting from compute → interconnect + packaging Risk: Volatile momentum names ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 5: SMALL-CAP US ALPHA 🔍】 Serenity Framework: Demand → Earnings → Small-Cap Elasticity → Verification ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 IWM — iShares Russell 2000 ETF | Small-Cap Core Trigger: Russell 2000 hit strong buy signals; small-cap value beating growth by 9pts YTD; AI rotation into small caps confirmed (The Globe and Mail) Elasticity: Russell 2000 constituents with AI exposure = leverage to sector rotation Verification: FTSE Russell reconstitution underway; IWM options volume surging Catalyst: ADP jobs data today; Fed speakers this week; Russell reconstitution culminates end of June Risk: Rate sensitivity if jobs data hot → delay Fed cuts → small caps hurt 📌 FLNC — Fluence Energy | AI Data Center Cooling Trigger: Jensen Huang GTC keynote emphasized AI data center infrastructure at scale. Cooling/power = next bottleneck as compute density explodes. Elasticity: AI data centers need liquid cooling at scale — FLNC is leader in modular battery/cooling systems Verification: Stock up strongly post-GTC keynote. Institutional buying volume rising. Catalyst: Next earnings — watch backlog. If backlog grows >40% YoY = confirm supercycle thesis. Risk: Competition from Schneider Electric / Vertiv 📌 SOXL — Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Trigger: Philadelphia Semiconductor Index +5.9% to all-time high. TSMC record. MRVL +32%. AI chip theme = institutional inflow. Elasticity: 3x leveraged ETF = amplified move in semiconductor sector Verification: SOXL options activity spiking. Retail interest elevated (StockTwits trending). Catalyst: Any NVIDIA/AMD/MU earnings beat = SOXL pops 5-8% same day Risk: 3x leverage = decay risk. Only for short-term tactical use. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 6: MACRO + MARKET STRUCTURE】 Source: Bloomberg · Reuters · fxstreet · LSEG · FTSE Russell ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Today's Key Events (June 3, 2026): • ADP Private Sector Employment (May) — consensus: +180K • ISM Services PMI (May) — flash PMI showed expansion, services follow-up • EIA Weekly Crude Inventory • Fed speakers: likely to maintain data-dependent stance • GTC Taipei keynote continues (NVIDIA ecosystem announcements) ⚠️ Key Risks: 1. Iran/Middle East escalation → oil spike >$95 → inflation risk → Fed hawkish 2. AI chip rally froth (Burry warning) → sector could see sharp 5-10% correction 3. SpaceX/OpenAI/Anthropic IPO timeline: Standard Chartered warns "market oxygen being sucked out" when these hit 4. Tariff fatigue: Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies (forced labor) could hit supply chains 5. MU/TSMC: Any supply disruption from Taiwan Strait tension = semiconductor sector crash ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【SECTION 7: INSTITUTIONAL FLOWS】 Source: LSEG · FTSE Russell · Bloomberg ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • AI/Infrastructure: MRVL, AVGO, HPE, TSM — HEAVY institutional accumulation • Energy: XOM, CVX — inflows on oil geopolitics premium • Small-cap value: IWM, VTWO — first real institutional rotation signal of 2026 • Outflows: Utilities (XLU), Consumer Staples (XLP), REITs — rate sensitivity • Crypto/Fintech: COIN, SQ — mixed; Bitcoin holding $95K support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【INVESTMENT SUMMARY — 3 Scenarios】 🔵 Bull Case: AI custom chip theme continues → MRVL/AVGO/TSM lead → small caps catch fire → Russell 2000 breaks out → IWM $250+ Catalyst: MU earnings beat, AMD data center beat, ADP jobs soft (Fed cuts priced in) 🔴 Bear Case: Burry warning correct → AI chip rally peaks → MRVL/AVGO reverse → Nasdaq -3% correction Catalyst: Strong ADP + hot inflation → rate cut timeline pushed out → small caps get crushed 🟡 Base Case: AI infrastructure secular bull → semis consolidate at high level → small caps rotate in/out in tranches → VIX stays 15-18 Catalyst: No major catalyst → range-bound S&P 500 with sector divergence ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Data sourced from public English-language financial media (CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, StockTwits, Benzinga, The Motley Fool, TheStreet, LSEG). Historical performance does not guarantee future results. Consult a licensed financial advisor before investing.

Taiwan memory module makers are rushing to secure cash to boost inventory levels of chips and materials due to the AI boom and rising prices, media report: -ADATA has raised NT$14 billion (US$440 million) through a convertible bond and syndicated bank loan, and is planning a 30 million private share placement -GoldKey Technology has raised NT$4.5 billion via convertible bond and syndicated loan -Apacer NT$1 billion convertible bond -Team Group NT$2 billion convertible bond -Innodisk, Transcend: each planning NT$3 billion convertible bonds -Silicon Power: planning NT$500 million convertible bond $SSNLF $HXSCL $MU #semiconductors# #semiconductor#

🚨 President Trump just went FULL ART OF THE DEAL MODE, he's using the yet-to-be-approved $12B in arms to Taiwan as a bargaining chip with Xi! "He thinks I could do it with the signing of my signature. I am holding that. It depends on China. It's a VERY good negotiating chip for us, frankly! It's a LOT of weapons, $12B." "I may do it. I may not do it. But we're not looking to have wars." "And if you kept it the way it is, I think China's going to be okay with that." "But when you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful big country. That's a very small island. Think of it. 59 miles, we're 9,500 miles away."

BREAKING: Trump says China’s President Xi asked him whether the United States would defend Taiwan if China invaded. Trump says he responded: “I don’t talk about that.” That answer should alarm every American. Taiwan is not just another island in a geopolitical dispute. It is the beating heart of the global AI industry. Nearly every advanced AI chip powering companies like NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon depends heavily on Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing. If China were to seize Taiwan: • The global AI industry could face catastrophic disruption. • Advanced chip production could collapse overnight. • America’s AI leadership could stall for years. • GPU shortages could cripple everything from AI research to national defense systems. • The U.S. economy could suffer one of the largest technological shocks in modern history.