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Kulicke & Soffa
It s pretty well known that we are currently in a semiconductor shortage, which is benefiting semiconductor equipment stocks such as Kulicke & Soffa. The company is a leader in back-end assembly and testing equipment, especially wire bonding machines, which help connect processors, memory, and other types of chips together in various architectures on a printed circuit board.
While it s traditionally a cyclical stock, powerful secular trends and an internal transformation at K&S specifically, could propel this $3 billion market-cap stock on to much bigger things.
First, semiconductor chips are beginning to run up against the laws of physics. The leading foundries today are already at work on 3-nanometer (nm) chips, a metric that signifies the distance between transistors. The lower the nanometer, the more densely packed and powerful a chip is. It s hard to see how chips will scale f
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