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  1. 0:00Official information is what it is;
  2. 0:01don't settle for casual assumptions.
  3. 0:02It’s time to catch everyone up on the
  4. 0:03gossip about Boss Huang; this situation
  5. 0:04is the perfect opportunity to dive into
  6. 0:05the industry scoop. Let's briefly
  7. 0:07summarize what happened. Although this
  8. 0:08story has been circulating for two days
  9. 0:10, Jensen Huang wrote a letter to all
  10. 0:11employees the day before yesterday. What
  11. 0:13did he admit? He admitted to personal
  12. 0:14indiscretions, saying he let down his
  13. 0:16family and everyone else. Why does this
  14. 0:18sound like something a gambler in a
  15. 0:19mid-life crisis would say? On the same
  16. 0:21day, Nvidia's board announced the
  17. 0:22formation of a special committee to
  18. 0:24investigate one thing: assessing whether
  19. 0:26their own leader had become a target of
  20. 0:28foreign intelligence operations. Just a
  21. 0:30few days prior, the chairs of three U.S.
  22. 0:32House committees sent him a joint letter
  23. 0:34, demanding he provide a closed-door
  24. 0:36briefing on October 18 th—a date that is
  25. 0:38quite interesting, as it coincides
  26. 0:40exactly with the AI fair in Shenzhen.
  27. 0:41The whole internet is telling the same
  28. 0:43story these days: a beautiful spy using
  29. 0:45a honey trap to take down a billionaire
  30. 0:47. We won't cover that today; instead,
  31. 0:49we’ll look at the ledger. My assessment
  32. 0:51? This female protagonist is not a
  33. 0:53lone-wolf spy, and Huang is not just
  34. 0:55some leather-jacketed old lecher blinded
  35. 0:57by beauty. What is this, really? It’s a
  36. 0:59deal where both sides calculated
  37. 1:00everything clearly. The subject? $ 4.8
  38. 1:02billion worth of chips. Why did he feel
  39. 1:04compelled to make this deal? The answer
  40. 1:05lies at the peak of this AI cycle.
  41. 1:07Before we begin, let’s clearly define
  42. 1:09the boundaries of the evidence. Where
  43. 1:10did this "spy" label come from? It
  44. 1:12started with media reports citing a
  45. 1:14classified U.S. intelligence memo, still
  46. 1:15speculating that she was recruited by
  47. 1:17Chinese state security. Yet, to this day
  48. 1:19, neither the U.S. nor Singapore has
  49. 1:21charged her with espionage. Singapore’s
  50. 1:23Ministry of Home Affairs even issued a
  51. 1:24clarification. They stated they never
  52. 1:26investigated her as a spy, and the U.S.
  53. 1:28is merely investigating the company
  54. 1:30behind her. So, is she a spy? That’s not
  55. 1:32something we can definitively answer,
  56. 1:33but the path she’s walked cannot be
  57. 1:35hidden. Today, we aren't chasing spy
  58. 1:36rumors; we are following the paper trail
  59. 1:38—from Chinese court rulings and exchange
  60. 1:40announcements to business records in
  61. 1:41Singapore and Malaysia, plus a Wall
  62. 1:43Street short-seller's investigative
  63. 1:44report. Of course, short-selling
  64. 1:46agencies make money by stirring up
  65. 1:47trouble. I’ll pick out the information
  66. 1:48they’ve released to discuss separately,
  67. 1:50and you can decide for yourselves what
  68. 1:51to believe. Let’s start with the
  69. 1:52protagonist, Huang Le, who goes by the
  70. 1:53English name Ice. She’s in her early 40s
  71. 1:55and is from Hunan. What kind of status
  72. 1:56does she hold? She has permanent
  73. 1:57residency in Hong Kong. What did her
  74. 1:59early resume claim? She claimed to have
  75. 2:01been a reporter for Hunan Satellite TV
  76. 2:02and CCTV, but when the New York Times
  77. 2:03later asked Hunan Satellite TV, the
  78. 2:04answer they got was that they had never
  79. 2:05heard of this person. Her subsequent
  80. 2:07path is even more interesting. According
  81. 2:09to her own public resume, as a liberal
  82. 2:10arts master’s graduate in media, she
  83. 2:12went straight into a foreign private
  84. 2:13bank in 2008, worked her way up to Vice
  85. 2:14President, and then jumped to CITIC
  86. 2:16Securities in 2013 to be a VP in finance
  87. 2:17. Today I’m going to share some gossip
  88. 2:19with you: what exactly do these two
  89. 2:20roles do in an investment bank? Anyone
  90. 2:22who understands the rules of Chinese
  91. 2:23investment banking knows how these
  92. 2:24private banking and wealth management
  93. 2:25businesses really work. Most of the time
  94. 2:27, they just hire an outsider with
  95. 2:28connections and slap a "VP"—that is,
  96. 2:30Vice President—title on them. What do
  97. 2:32they hire them for? It’s not to have you
  98. 2:33sit in an office calculating models. The
  99. 2:35unspoken rule is to take business cards
  100. 2:36to dinner parties, accompany the big
  101. 2:37shots, and build networks. What was the
  102. 2:38Hong Kong private bank she was in really
  103. 2:39doing at the time? It was helping
  104. 2:41mainland bosses move money across
  105. 2:42borders. And the department at CITIC
  106. 2:43handling stock pledges—the one lending
  107. 2:44to big players with leverage—what kind
  108. 2:45of work was that really? It was building
  109. 2:47bridges between the powerful and the
  110. 2:48capital. So her real skill was never
  111. 2:49finance; it was making connections. To
  112. 2:51put it bluntly, what was she? She was a
  113. 2:53broker. And it was at CITIC that she met
  114. 2:55her future boss. When he was at Shanghai
  115. 2:57Hexi Investment, Kang Wei was once known
  116. 2:58as the youngest mutual fund manager in
  117. 3:00China. After the 2015 stock market crash
  118. 3:02, she left CITIC and went straight to
  119. 3:03Hexi as an Executive Director. What role
  120. 3:05did she actually play at Hexi? This
  121. 3:07requires discussing another history of
  122. 3:08litigation. Hexi later got into a bonus
  123. 3:10lawsuit with another partner. To win,
  124. 3:12they submitted internal documents to the
  125. 3:14court. What did the documents show? Kang
  126. 3:16Wei made the final call to designate
  127. 3:17that 25%of Hexi's equity be transferred
  128. 3:19to Huang Le's name for her to hold. In
  129. 3:202016, he partnered with Kang Wei’s
  130. 3:22company to register a new firm with a
  131. 3:23registered capital of 600 million, and
  132. 3:24he served as the legal representative.
  133. 3:26Just one month later, this new company
  134. 3:28took 48%of Hexi’s shares. In the
  135. 3:30evidence, what was Hexi directly called
  136. 3:31? It was called the holding platform for
  137. 3:33legal representative Huang Le. Now,
  138. 3:34here’s the issue: he had four funds
  139. 3:36under his name, but in the fund filing
  140. 3:37records, he didn't even have the
  141. 3:39qualifications to manage them. Despite
  142. 3:40lacking the credentials, he was listed
  143. 3:42as the manager, and nearly half of
  144. 3:43Hexi’s shares were held in his name.
  145. 3:45This type of arrangement is a classic "
  146. 3:46white glove" tactic—putting it bluntly,
  147. 3:48he was just a frontman to hold shares
  148. 3:49and sign documents for the real boss.
  149. 3:51There’s no need to elaborate on his
  150. 3:52relationship with Kang Wei; seeing this
  151. 3:54, I can conclude that Huang is a
  152. 3:55template—a template for someone who can
  153. 3:56go to any lengths and climb the ladder
  154. 3:58through men. This is the ecosystem of
  155. 3:59China's investment banking sector. By
  156. 4:01the way, I’d like to correct a widely
  157. 4:03circulated claim online. They say that
  158. 4:04for this 25%equity, he directly went to
  159. 4:06court and had a falling out with Kang
  160. 4:07Wei. In reality, the verdict clearly
  161. 4:09states that the one who sued Kang Wei
  162. 4:10was another partner, and he was only
  163. 4:11mentioned in the evidence as the
  164. 4:13transferee. So, what is a "white glove’s
  165. 4:15" most useful skill? It’s being able to
  166. 4:17ensure the boss behind the scenes stays
  167. 4:18clean when trouble arises. He once
  168. 4:20helped Feicui’s boss, Guo Ping, leverage
  169. 4:21a buyout of an A-share listed company,
  170. 4:22involving 1.8 billion in total, and even
  171. 4:24the shareholding was...So much so that
  172. 4:25not a single public announcement was
  173. 4:27ever made. In early 2018, an annual
  174. 4:28meeting resulted in fines; Hexi and Kang
  175. 4:30Wei were fined 18.1 million. The mess
  176. 4:31Feicui later got into was even bigger.
  177. 4:33Feicui later tied itself to a wealth
  178. 4:34management platform called something
  179. 4:35like Lin Finance, which eventually
  180. 4:37collapsed. The court determined the
  181. 4:38illegal fundraising amount was over 83
  182. 4:39billion, and Guo Ping was sentenced to
  183. 4:41life in prison. As for Huang Le, who
  184. 4:42directly participated in the project, he
  185. 4:44withdrew from the holding platform in
  186. 4:45July 2017 before the fines were issued,
  187. 4:47and he also stepped down as the legal
  188. 4:48representative. The person who took over
  189. 4:50was also surnamed Huang, named Huang
  190. 4:52Yuyu. The business registry shows that
  191. 4:54these two individuals co-founded a
  192. 4:55company over a decade ago, which is why
  193. 4:57his name never appeared on any penalty
  194. 4:59lists or in subsequent legal proceedings
  195. 5:01. He simply used his Hong Kong identity
  196. 5:03to move on. Let’s look at his first
  197. 5:05venture after going overseas, and we’ll
  198. 5:07clearly see how he pulled this off. The
  199. 5:09story begins with a small gaming company
  200. 5:11. In 2015, a listed company called
  201. 5:12Century Huatong spent 4 million to
  202. 5:14acquire a startup. At that time, the
  203. 5:16company had only been around for a month
  204. 5:17, and suddenly, good news arrived.
  205. 5:19Honestly, even Buffett would be
  206. 5:20intimidated by Huang Le's track record.
  207. 5:22After acquiring the company, its profits
  208. 5:24suddenly skyrocketed, helping Century
  209. 5:25Huatong’s subsidiary exceed its
  210. 5:27projected gambling targets. What is a "
  211. 5:29gambling agreement"? It’s like a
  212. 5:30military pledge signed during an
  213. 5:31acquisition: if you meet the target, I
  214. 5:33pay you; if you don't, you compensate me
  215. 5:34. But as soon as the gambling period
  216. 5:36ended, the profits plummeted by 70%, and
  217. 5:38it immediately became a total mess. Yet
  218. 5:39, just at that moment, a Hexi
  219. 5:41partnership suddenly stepped in with 500
  220. 5:43million to take over. Something worth 4
  221. 5:44million was resold for 500 million, and
  222. 5:46this deal alone pulled Century Huatong
  223. 5:48from a profit decline that year to a 55
  224. 5:50%surge. Of course, Hexi isn't naive;
  225. 5:52they were just waiting for the next act
  226. 5:53. What was that next act? By 2019, this
  227. 5:55asset was bundled with other gaming
  228. 5:57companies to be sold to a Hong
  229. 5:59Kong-listed company called 7th Road. The
  230. 6:01price doubled to 1 billion RMB, and the
  231. 6:02deal required a full cash settlement.
  232. 6:04The problem is that Huatong had already
  233. 6:06invested in 7th Road; the two sides were
  234. 6:07considered strategic partners. Selling
  235. 6:09it directly would easily be seen as what
  236. 6:10? Selling it directly would easily be
  237. 6:12scrutinized as a related-party
  238. 6:13transaction, so what could they do?
  239. 6:14Huang Le registered a shell company in
  240. 6:16the British Virgin Islands. The assets
  241. 6:17were first transferred to her name, and
  242. 6:19after 23 days, she signed the contract
  243. 6:21with 7th Road. In the Hong Kong Stock
  244. 6:22Exchange announcement, 7th Road stated
  245. 6:24in black and white that Ms. Huang Le was
  246. 6:25an independent third party. Yet, the
  247. 6:27same announcement also stated that the
  248. 6:29Hexi partnership was the ultimate
  249. 6:30controller of these assets and an
  250. 6:31acting-in-concert party with Huang Le.
  251. 6:33Now, that’s interesting. Since these two
  252. 6:35statements are in the same document,
  253. 6:36isn't that a classic case of
  254. 6:37transferring benefits? Starting with 4
  255. 6:39million in assets, he moved it through
  256. 6:40two transactions into a billion-dollar
  257. 6:42cash deal, and in the end, he remained
  258. 6:43the ultimate beneficial owner.
  259. 6:44Furthermore, it's said that when the
  260. 6:46gaming business hit a wall, Huang Le and
  261. 6:47his group of capital players shifted
  262. 6:49tracks, but their tactics remained
  263. 6:51exactly the same. In October '22, the
  264. 6:52U.S. began restricting high-end IC
  265. 6:54exports, and five months later, 7Road
  266. 6:56sold its Singapore-based gaming
  267. 6:58subsidiary to Huang's offshore company,
  268. 7:00renaming it MASED. They changed their
  269. 7:02main website from gaming to real-time
  270. 7:03events, positioning themselves as a
  271. 7:04cloud service provider. But there was a
  272. 7:06hitch: having a Chinese owner and a
  273. 7:07Chinese gaming background made it nearly
  274. 7:09impossible to pass NVIDIA's client
  275. 7:11background checks. So, in 2023, a
  276. 7:13Singaporean businessman based in
  277. 7:15Shanghai registered a new company. Just
  278. 7:17before the U.S. chip sanctions took
  279. 7:19effect on November 10th, the entire
  280. 7:20stake was transferred under this new
  281. 7:22entity. Huang Le then resigned as a
  282. 7:24director on the same day, and just four
  283. 7:26days later, the company secured official
  284. 7:28NVIDIA Cloud Partner status. What is
  285. 7:29this qualification for? It serves as
  286. 7:31NVIDIA’s stamp of approval on the market
  287. 7:33, allowing them to procure high-end
  288. 7:35chips. From then on, no matter who asked
  289. 7:36, NVIDIA would respond: "This company
  290. 7:38has no Chinese shareholders." But what
  291. 7:40did the short-selling firm Copper find,
  292. 7:41citing comments from current employees?
  293. 7:43They claimed that Huang Le was, in fact
  294. 7:45, still their boss. Another point of
  295. 7:46suspicion is: Where did the money for
  296. 7:48the chips come from? After all, 4.8
  297. 7:49billion is no small amount—in U.S.
  298. 7:51dollars, no less. The following data
  299. 7:52comes from public corporate records,
  300. 7:54customs logs, and financial statements
  301. 7:55unearthed by the short-selling firm. By
  302. 7:56the end of 2023, MASED had only $ 572 in
  303. 7:58cash on its books. Over the next two
  304. 8:00years, its Malaysian subsidiary imported
  305. 8:02nearly $ 4.8 billion worth of NVIDIA
  306. 8:03equipment, more than half of which were
  307. 8:05the latest restricted models. Doing $
  308. 8:064.8 billion in business with $ 570 in
  309. 8:08capital—that's a leverage of over 800
  310. 8:10times. Shouldn't we wonder who fronted
  311. 8:11the money? Well, the company’s accounts
  312. 8:13are very interesting. By the end of 2024
  313. 8:15, a line item for over $ 2.9 billion in
  314. 8:16"receivable refundable deposits"
  315. 8:18suddenly appeared. Who was it paid to?
  316. 8:19Where is the answer hidden? Hidden in
  317. 8:21Malaysian business filings, on June 18,
  318. 8:232024, this Malaysian subsidiary
  319. 8:24transferred all existing and future
  320. 8:26equipment—note that future equipment
  321. 8:28didn't even exist yet, but even if it
  322. 8:29was just thin air, it was all assigned
  323. 8:31to a Singaporean company called Apex.
  324. 8:33What do the Singaporean records show?
  325. 8:35Singaporean records show that Apex is
  326. 8:36controlled by Alibaba, and its
  327. 8:37registered business is described in a
  328. 8:39single phrase: providing procurement
  329. 8:40services. Let’s look at who supplied the
  330. 8:42goods: over $ 4 billion worth came from
  331. 8:44a California server company called IV.
  332. 8:46You’ve likely never heard the name, but
  333. 8:48you’ve definitely heard of the original
  334. 8:50: Inspur Systems. Its parent company is
  335. 8:52the famous Inspur Group, which was added
  336. 8:54to the U.S. Entity List—the blacklist—
  337. 8:56in March 2023, only to change its name
  338. 8:58two months later. Why wasn't it blocked
  339. 9:00as well? Because what is the rule for
  340. 9:01the U.S. blacklist? A subsidiary is only
  341. 9:03automatically blocked if the parent
  342. 9:05company owns 50%or more. Inspur Group
  343. 9:07used a holding company to keep its stake
  344. 9:09at exactly one-third, staying just under
  345. 9:11the 50%red line. When we piece these
  346. 9:13files together, the structure of this
  347. 9:14channel becomes clear: Alibaba provided
  348. 9:16the funds, the U.S. Inspur company
  349. 9:17provided the hardware, the Singaporean
  350. 9:19shell company acted as the front, the
  351. 9:20chips sat in a Malaysian data center,
  352. 9:22the computing power was leased to China
  353. 9:24via the network, and Huang Le was the
  354. 9:25architect of the entire process. Even
  355. 9:27though the chips didn't enter China, the
  356. 9:28computing power did. But did Huang Le
  357. 9:30violate the regulations? Actually, he
  358. 9:32didn’t. At the time, this was a gray
  359. 9:33area in U.S. export controls; there was
  360. 9:35no explicit ban. But the Americans were
  361. 9:37also scratching their heads, wondering:
  362. 9:38did the computing power get through? But
  363. 9:40didn't the chips get in? They started
  364. 9:41conducting on-site inspections, and once
  365. 9:43they did, the books didn't add up. At
  366. 9:45the end of 2024, U.S. Department of
  367. 9:46Commerce officials inspected the
  368. 9:48Malaysian data center and what did they
  369. 9:49find? They saw large quantities of
  370. 9:51equipment still sealed in boxes,
  371. 9:52completely unopened. Furthermore, the
  372. 9:53number of chips in the data center
  373. 9:55didn't match the customs records. What
  374. 9:56did the customs records show? They
  375. 9:57showed 136,000 Nvidia chips, but after
  376. 9:59Nvidia sent people to take inventory,
  377. 10:00they only found a few thousand of the
  378. 10:01latest-generation chips in the room.
  379. 10:03What was Nvidia’s explanation?
  380. 10:04Everything not yet installed is kept in
  381. 10:05the warehouse, and we’ve counted it all
  382. 10:07. There’s no evidence showing it was
  383. 10:08shipped to China, but how many units are
  384. 10:09actually in the warehouse? He doesn’t
  385. 10:11even have a job. That research firm
  386. 10:12mentioned something else: back in April
  387. 10:14, a data center owned by BN Capital
  388. 10:16liquidated MS, and the reason was
  389. 10:17laughable—they discovered the racks were
  390. 10:19filled with dummy servers, just empty
  391. 10:21shells for show, like those fake books
  392. 10:23on a shelf. The real hardware had
  393. 10:24already been moved out. However, this is
  394. 10:26information cited by the research firm,
  395. 10:28and I’ll mark it as such as usual. This
  396. 10:29brings up an unavoidable question.
  397. 10:31Nvidia’s quarterly revenue is around $
  398. 10:3396 billion, so you might wonder, is it
  399. 10:35really worth it for them to authorize a
  400. 10:37suspicious firm for $ 4.8 billion? Was
  401. 10:39it worth having the boss himself show up
  402. 10:40to endorse it? Is it really worth it?
  403. 10:42I’ll tell you, it is absolutely worth it
  404. 10:43, because the answer isn’t in Singapore
  405. 10:45, but in North America. The machine
  406. 10:46powering Nvidia is starting to show
  407. 10:48cracks this year. And what is that
  408. 10:49machine? It’s the circular capital we
  409. 10:50discussed before; I call it "stepping on
  410. 10:51your own left foot to lift your right."
  411. 10:53Look, Nvidia, venture capitalists, and
  412. 10:54private equity firms get together and
  413. 10:55pour money into startups and compute
  414. 10:57leasing companies. These companies then
  415. 10:58take that money and use it entirely to
  416. 11:00buy Nvidia chips. In other words, the
  417. 11:01invested money circles right back into
  418. 11:02their own revenue. We’ve covered this
  419. 11:04specifically before, so I won't go into
  420. 11:05too much detail today. This year, that
  421. 11:07loop is starting to break at both ends.
  422. 11:09Let’s look at the equity side first: in
  423. 11:10the first half of this year, global AI
  424. 11:12startups raised $ 40.7 billion in
  425. 11:13venture capital, which set a record. But
  426. 11:15don’t be fooled by the scale; the
  427. 11:16capital structure is highly concentrated
  428. 11:18. How concentrated? OpenAI and Anthropic
  429. 11:20alone took over $ 21.7 billion, which is
  430. 11:22more than half of it. Even though the
  431. 11:24total funding didn't decrease, most of
  432. 11:25it just went into the pockets of these
  433. 11:26two companies. For the rest of the vast
  434. 11:28number of small and medium-sized
  435. 11:29companies, financing is getting harder
  436. 11:30...Let’s look at the debt side:
  437. 11:31CoreWeave, the leader in compute leasing
  438. 11:32, had $ 2.6 billion in Q2 revenue but $
  439. 11:339.4 billion in capital expenditures.
  440. 11:35That massive gap is all covered by debt
  441. 11:36. Just look at the interest expenses—
  442. 11:38isn't it terrifying? It reached $ 640
  443. 11:39million in a single quarter. What does
  444. 11:41that even mean? That means for every
  445. 11:42four dollars, one dollar has to go
  446. 11:44toward interest payments. Then, in the
  447. 11:45middle of last month, its bond yield
  448. 11:47surged to 15%to 16%. What does this
  449. 11:49figure translate to? The market is
  450. 11:50already pricing in the possibility that
  451. 11:52this company won't be able to pay back
  452. 11:53its debt. As everyone knows, another
  453. 11:54portion of Nvidia's revenue comes from
  454. 11:56cloud giants like Amazon, Google, and
  455. 11:57Microsoft. However, the situation on
  456. 11:59that front is even more intense. Goldman
  457. 12:01Sachs released a report on September
  458. 12:0224th stating that the projected total
  459. 12:04capital expenditure for these four, plus
  460. 12:05Meta and Speedx (xAI), is expected to
  461. 12:07reach $ 86 billion, which is almost
  462. 12:08double compared to last year. Goldman
  463. 12:10Sachs then did the math on the
  464. 12:11break-even point. Look, considering the
  465. 12:13rapid depreciation of AI chips and
  466. 12:14servers, if you amortize the massive
  467. 12:16capital expenditure over their lifespans
  468. 12:17, these six companies need to earn an
  469. 12:19additional $ 308 billion a year just to
  470. 12:21cover the depreciation of their hardware
  471. 12:22. Mind you, that's just to break even;
  472. 12:24not a single cent of profit yet. So,
  473. 12:26what is the reality? Based on the
  474. 12:27second-quarter books, the annualized
  475. 12:29cloud revenue growth for these cloud
  476. 12:30providers in 2024 is only around $ 70
  477. 12:32billion. Even if we count the
  478. 12:33third-quarter reports released at the
  479. 12:34end of October, that number just barely
  480. 12:36reached around $ 100 billion. It is
  481. 12:37still over $ 200 billion short of the $
  482. 12:39308 billion break-even line, and this
  483. 12:40happens every year. So, how is this gap
  484. 12:42filled? Isn't it always by finding ways
  485. 12:44to manipulate the books first? Microsoft
  486. 12:45is very cunning. As early as July, they
  487. 12:47changed their accounting estimates,
  488. 12:48extending the useful life of their data
  489. 12:50center buildings from 15 to 25 years.
  490. 12:51The buildings are the same, but their
  491. 12:52useful life has been extended, so the
  492. 12:54annual depreciation cost is reduced.
  493. 12:55Consequently, the reported capital
  494. 12:57expenditure on the books dropped by $ 15
  495. 12:59billion. What is the situation now? It
  496. 13:00means the money to buy the shovel has
  497. 13:02already been spent, but the gold being
  498. 13:03dug up isn't even enough to cover the
  499. 13:04depreciation of that shovel. Furthermore
  500. 13:05, there is now a classic signal of a
  501. 13:07cycle peak, and that signal is a surge
  502. 13:08in mergers and acquisitions. Let me
  503. 13:10briefly explain why, generally speaking
  504. 13:11, a surge in mergers and acquisitions
  505. 13:13happens when a cycle is peaking. When an
  506. 13:15industry's own performance stops growing
  507. 13:16, the leaders will use their
  508. 13:18high-valuation stocks or cash to go out
  509. 13:19and buy growth. What kind of logic is
  510. 13:21this actually? It's the logic of
  511. 13:22performance consolidation. When is
  512. 13:23consolidation needed? The organic growth
  513. 13:25rate isn't high anymore. Then, on the
  514. 13:272nd of this month, chip company Marvell
  515. 13:29announced a $ 1.15 billion all-stock
  516. 13:31acquisition of a communications company
  517. 13:32. Did you see the market on the day of
  518. 13:34the announcement? Both companies '
  519. 13:36stocks fell, one by 12.7%and the other
  520. 13:38by 18.6%. Both the buyer and the seller
  521. 13:40dropped together; this is a clear
  522. 13:41reflection of market sentiment. Even
  523. 13:42legacy chip giant Analog Devices
  524. 13:44recently shelled out $ 7.5 billion in
  525. 13:46all cash to acquire which company?
  526. 13:48Wireless chip company Spark Microsystems
  527. 13:50. The entire semiconductor industry is
  528. 13:52now relying on these high-priced
  529. 13:53acquisitions to support their valuations
  530. 13:54. Now, if we connect these two threads,
  531. 13:56it becomes clear why that $ 4.8 billion
  532. 13:58is so valuable. Its gross margin was 75
  533. 14:00%for the past two quarters, but the Q3
  534. 14:02guidance has slipped to 74%. There are
  535. 14:04actually many reasons for this, partly
  536. 14:06due to rising memory prices, and cloud
  537. 14:07giants are also making their own chips
  538. 14:09to divert orders. The revenue
  539. 14:10contributed by major firms this quarter
  540. 14:12is only 13%higher than the last. The
  541. 14:13real growth is coming from another group
  542. 14:15: those borrowing money to buy GPUs to
  543. 14:16act as secondary lessors, or those
  544. 14:18taking on government-funded national
  545. 14:19projects. This group’s orders jumped by
  546. 14:2125%, but they have a fatal flaw: they
  547. 14:22have no money themselves. They rely
  548. 14:24entirely on borrowing, and sometimes
  549. 14:25even need Nvidia to step in and
  550. 14:27guarantee them. Do you remember that
  551. 14:28move from this past August? Nvidia
  552. 14:30rounded up six Wall Street institutions
  553. 14:31for a special project. What does that
  554. 14:33mean? It means mobilizing $ 500 billion
  555. 14:34in external capital to help customers
  556. 14:36buy chips. Jensen Huang even publicly
  557. 14:37stated that $ 125 billion of that could
  558. 14:39be backed by Nvidia. What does that mean
  559. 14:40in plain terms? It means if these chips
  560. 14:41go unused, sell them to me at a 30%
  561. 14:42discount. Yes, I'll buy them; I'll take
  562. 14:44them at a 30%discount. This is very
  563. 14:45cunning. Now, look back at the Singapore
  564. 14:47route: Alibaba pays deposits and
  565. 14:49prepayments, and even pays in full for
  566. 14:51cash-on-delivery. Nvidia doesn't need to
  567. 14:53invest a cent of equity or guarantee a
  568. 14:54cent of debt. This is the cleanest cash
  569. 14:56in the entire order pool. And what's
  570. 14:58even better? It’s the accounting method
  571. 15:00—Nvidia records this revenue based on
  572. 15:01where the customer's headquarters is
  573. 15:03registered. You sell your goods to that
  574. 15:04California company, so the revenue is
  575. 15:06counted as US income. That’s why in
  576. 15:08their financial reports, they can very
  577. 15:09confidently write: "Oh, our revenue from
  578. 15:11Chinese data centers is assumed to be
  579. 15:13near zero." But if you look at the
  580. 15:14breakdown from audit agencies, 20%to 40
  581. 15:16%of their data center revenue is
  582. 15:17actually driven by Chinese demand. Let
  583. 15:19everyone think back: what is the one
  584. 15:20thing Jensen Huang has been repeating in
  585. 15:22Washington for the past two years? He
  586. 15:23says the tighter the restrictions, the
  587. 15:25faster China will catch up. That is
  588. 15:26complete and utter. For a
  589. 15:27state-of-the-art AI chip, over 85%of the
  590. 15:29design software is controlled by just
  591. 15:31three Western companies. Look at EUV
  592. 15:32lithography machines; currently, only
  593. 15:34ASML in the Netherlands can build them.
  594. 15:36The bulk of the optical components are
  595. 15:37Japanese, the lenses are German, the
  596. 15:39metrology tech is uniquely British, and
  597. 15:40finally, it has to be sent to TSMC for
  598. 15:42production and packaging. The technical
  599. 15:44level required far exceeds the
  600. 15:45difficulty of building an atomic bomb.
  601. 15:46Look at China's C919 today; I really
  602. 15:47don't believe this stuff can just be
  603. 15:48forced out by throwing money at it.
  604. 15:50Seriously, no country—not even the US—
  605. 15:52can do this alone. Thinking they can is
  606. 15:53a total pipe dream. So, his statement
  607. 15:55isn't an industry assessment; it's a
  608. 15:56business strategy. He just wants to
  609. 15:58protect the demand from his Chinese
  610. 15:59clients. Therefore, my judgment from
  611. 16:01start to finish is that this is a mutual
  612. 16:02exploitation: Huang wants Jensen's face
  613. 16:04, and Jensen wants Huang's money. I dug
  614. 16:06up a report from the Taiwanese media two
  615. 16:07years ago that is quite interesting. It
  616. 16:09says that in June 2024, Huang was at a
  617. 16:11computer expo in Taipei. At a client
  618. 16:12gathering, he said something in front of
  619. 16:14a high-ranking official: "I bet I can
  620. 16:15get Jensen to come over." And Jensen
  621. 16:17actually showed up, sitting there
  622. 16:18drinking and chatting. Then, in that
  623. 16:20same month, the documents pledging all
  624. 16:21equipment to Alibaba's subsidiary were
  625. 16:23signed, and the massive procurement
  626. 16:24kicked off. The relationship is very
  627. 16:25obvious, because Huang's side just wants
  628. 16:27the orders. I'll add one more thing: I
  629. 16:28don't know anything about it. In my view
  630. 16:29, Jensen Huang has already covered his
  631. 16:31bases with three layers. The first is
  632. 16:32the shareholder layer: nominally a
  633. 16:33Singaporean shell company, so on paper,
  634. 16:35the client has no Chinese shareholders.
  635. 16:36The second is the delivery or sales
  636. 16:37layer to that company, but with Malaysia
  637. 16:39as the destination. Once delivered,
  638. 16:40revenue is recognized; as for who gets
  639. 16:41the profit afterward, that's the
  640. 16:42client’s own business. The third layer
  641. 16:44is the letter dated October 8th. What
  642. 16:45was Congress questioning? It was about
  643. 16:47national security and loopholes in
  644. 16:48export controls. What is he admitting to
  645. 16:49now? He’s saying, "I'm sorry, I went too
  646. 16:51far," but claiming no confidential
  647. 16:52information was compromised. You see,
  648. 16:53Jensen isn't stupid; he had everything
  649. 16:54designed from the transaction structure
  650. 16:55to the narrative path long ago. So my
  651. 16:57conclusion is: this isn't a "honey trap
  652. 16:58" story—at least not a simple one, and
  653. 17:00certainly not that cliché tale of "
  654. 17:01Jensen being scared by a CCP operative.
  655. 17:02" After all, it’s not like Nvidia didn't
  656. 17:04send people to inspect the site. The
  657. 17:05findings weren't about the chips ending
  658. 17:06up in China; they were sitting in
  659. 17:07warehouses in Malaysia. Furthermore,
  660. 17:08what is the current sentiment
  661. 17:09surrounding tech stocks? It’s that as
  662. 17:11long as your performance doesn't leap
  663. 17:12upward, even a 1%drop in revenue will
  664. 17:13cause the stock price to take a nosedive
  665. 17:15. The reason is simple: current pricing
  666. 17:16already accounts for growth expectations
  667. 17:18. Once the growth factor—the biggest
  668. 17:19contributor to valuation—can no longer
  669. 17:20push the stock price higher, what
  670. 17:21follows isn't just a correction, but a
  671. 17:23total reassessment. I don't believe in
  672. 17:24conspiracy theories, and I certainly
  673. 17:25don't believe the CCP could spend ten
  674. 17:27years cultivating someone just to trick
  675. 17:28Jensen. Don't we all know the nature of
  676. 17:29the CCP system by now? They use you when
  677. 17:31you're useful, and discard you when
  678. 17:32you're not. Someone in a role like
  679. 17:33Jensen’s is ultimately just a guest, a
  680. 17:34transient player. If you tell me he's
  681. 17:35colluding with the CCP, I’d absolutely
  682. 17:36believe it. But if you say the CCP
  683. 17:38cultivated him with a specific long-term
  684. 17:39plan, I don't buy it—after all, ten
  685. 17:41years ago, Nvidia hardly had any market
  686. 17:42status. If the CCP had the foresight to
  687. 17:44plan something like that, they wouldn't
  688. 17:45be in the pathetic mess they are today.
  689. 17:47Alright, that's all for today.
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