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Next week, the U.S. non-farm payroll and core PCE will be announced, and Micron will release its earnings report after the market closes on Wednesday

Next week's macro data focus will be on Friday's U.S. non-farm payroll report, including non-farm employment population, unemployment rate, and average hourly wage, which are directly related to the Federal Reserve's interest rate path and are important employment data ahead of the October monetary policy meeting. According to Beijing time, on Wednesday at 20:15, the U.S. September ADP employment figures will be released, and at 20:30, the U.S. August core PCE price index year-on-year will be announced; on Thursday at 20:30, the number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending September 26 will be released, and on Friday at 20:30, the U.S. September seasonally adjusted non-farm employment population and unemployment rate will be published.Regarding officials' speeches, on Thursday at 16:00, Bank of England Governor Bailey will speak, and at 21:30, European Central Bank President Lagarde will speak. Starting from early Wednesday, Federal Reserve officials will have a series of public activities; 2027 FOMC voting member and Chicago Fed President Goolsbee, along with 2028 FOMC voting member and St. Louis Fed President Bullard, will speak in succession, and FOMC permanent voting member and New York Fed President Williams will deliver a keynote speech at the University at Buffalo. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Governor Cook, Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari, and Richmond Fed President Barkin will speak in turn, and on Friday, Williams and Dallas Fed President Logan will still have public activities. In terms of U.S. stocks, Micron will release its earnings report after the market on Wednesday, and Nike will announce its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, with both companies corresponding to storage chips and consumer demand.

first_img Acer Chen Junsheng: Memory is no longer in short supply, only 2 types of PC components are in tight supply

Acer Chairman Chen Junsheng stated on the 19th that there is no shortage of memory, as suppliers in mainland China are continuously releasing quantities, acting as price destroyers. The contract prices are currently experiencing high fluctuations, with chaotic ups and downs. Some components like LPDDR5 or DDR5 9600 paired with N1 or N1X are still in short supply, but more common components like DDR4 are in oversupply. Currently, there is also no shortage of CPUs, except for certain low-priced licensed models from Microsoft, such as those with Small Core specifications, which are in tight supply.Chen Junsheng pointed out that the price increases for key components this year are unprecedented, with customers going from complaining to scrambling for goods. Acer is increasing its inventory of low-priced components in response, facing pressure to raise PC prices each quarter, with different products still seeing price increases of 5% to 20% in the fourth quarter. The three major memory suppliers have expressed optimism about price increases until 2027, but the unlimited production capacity released by mainland China means that sustained price increases are unlikely.He expects that by 2027, Acer's costs for SSDs and memory will decline compared to this year, with a chance for prices to stabilize in the second half of next year. There may still be opportunities for price increases in the first quarter of 2027, but the increases should become narrower. The expansion of semiconductor production is expected to begin in mid-2027, after which prices may peak and enter a stable phase.

first_img Analyst: PCB prices are expected to rise again in the third quarter, optimistic about Taiguang Electric and Nandian's future market

According to the Economic Daily, in the past six months, CCL manufacturers have raised product prices by about 20% to 30% due to the overall increase in upstream material prices. Most PCB manufacturers have not been able to pass on these costs quickly enough, resulting in a time lag of 2 to 3 months, which has eroded profit margins. Institutional investors indicate that starting from the third quarter of this year, some PCB manufacturers will increase prices, and the benefits are expected to drive a rebound in the profitability of related manufacturers.Analysts state that in terms of substrates, electronic fiberglass cloth led by T glass and copper foil drilling needles are still in short supply, with T glass experiencing the most severe shortage, with some manufacturers facing a gap of up to 20%. This gap is expected to continue into next year. It is anticipated that in the second half of this year, substrate manufacturers will enter a supply-demand imbalance driven by the high demand for AI GPUs and ASIC high-performance computing, as well as the continued tightness of key raw materials. Substrate manufacturers will continue to adopt rolling price adjustments, with prices still having double-digit upward potential.Additionally, due to the sustained high demand related to AI and the specification upgrades driven by new generation products, there is continued optimism that CCL manufacturers will benefit from both price and volume increases. With raw material prices remaining tight and the delivery times for high-end CCL continuing to extend, the trend of price increases remains unchanged. There is continued optimism for the future development of Taiwanese CCL manufacturers such as Taiflex and Taisil. Meanwhile, as the substrate gap gradually widens, it benefits the bargaining power of substrate manufacturers, and the trend of price increases will continue, maintaining a positive outlook on the future performance of Taiwanese substrate manufacturers, including Nanya Technology and other supply chain partners.

X-Agent: The next step for OPC is to enable the Agent to proactively invoke capabilities

X-Agent stated in a recent article that with the help of AI programming tools, "Vibe Coding" is significantly lowering the barriers to software development, allowing a developer to complete work that previously required small product and engineering teams in a short time. However, for a one-person company like OPC, what is truly scarce is not productivity, but demand, trust, and distribution. Being able to quickly create a demo does not mean it will enter the real workflow of users or other Agents.X-Agent indicated that compared to building a complete SaaS from scratch, which includes a website, login, backend, subscription, and customer service system, developers can start with a clear, practical, and callable capability. They can encapsulate data analysis, market research, automated processes, or AI tools as MCP services, enabling Agents to understand what they can do, when to call them, what inputs are needed, and what results will be returned. This is also the focus of the X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon, which is not about competing to build the most complex MCP Server, but rather about helping developers upgrade real and usable APIs, tools, or services into Agent-native services with clear capability boundaries, stable interfaces, verifiable deployments, and ongoing productization potential.X-Agent believes that the most important aspect of the Agent economy is not "service launch," but making services reliable enough to be discovered, trusted, and repeatedly called by other Agents. For OPC, the real advantage is not stacking more features, but capturing market signals faster than large companies and transforming professional capabilities into digital services that can continuously generate value.
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