On September 10, Silicon Motion Technology fell 5.01% in regular trading, trading around $262.55/share, with turnover of approximately $17.52 million. The decline came amid a broad pullback across the memory and storage sector.

On the news front, the latest industry data showed July global chip sales declined 9.8% month-over-month, with the memory segment posting a steeper 16.3% sequential drop. The revenue decline was primarily driven by shipment volume contraction, even as DRAM and NAND average selling prices rose 8.3% and 9.8% respectively. This volume-down-price-up dynamic has raised concerns over demand sustainability. As a leading NAND flash controller chip designer positioned in the upstream of the storage supply chain, Silicon Motion Technology had exhibited high earnings leverage during the recent upcycle, making it particularly susceptible to near-term profit-taking pressure.

Within the Semiconductors sector, weakness was broad-based. Among major names, Micron Technology fell 3.29%, SK hynix fell 4.45%, Intel fell 4.80%, NVIDIA fell 2.09%, and Advanced Micro Devices fell 2.05%.

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