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title: "This week's Intel Desk | Xiaomi net profit -42.6%, memory stocks stay volatile; NVDA and Warsh's debut both land next week"
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# This week's Intel Desk | Xiaomi net profit -42.6%, memory stocks stay volatile; NVDA and Warsh's debut both land next week

***AI Intel Desk · Issue 3 ·** one readable piece of market intel every week*

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## 📖 Key events this week (17–21 Aug)

The signals that mattered: on 19 Aug Xiaomi's Q2 net profit fell 42.6%, as rising memory prices kept feeding downstream; the same day the big US retailers mostly beat and the FOMC minutes pushed September hike odds back up; on 20 Aug Alibaba Cloud revenue grew 45%, though heavy AI capex took net profit down 75%.

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## 📌 This week's top Q&As

*From real Longbridge AI conversations this week — the three topics users asked about most.*

### Question 1:

> **Xiaomi Q2 net profit dropped 42.6%, blamed on memory prices. How much pricing power do Chinese phone OEMs actually have in this memory supercycle?**

Source: an actual Longbridge AI answer

### Question 2:

> **8/18 memory selloff — is it the storage supercycle topping, or just rates crushing multiples?**

Source: an actual Longbridge AI answer

### Question 3:

> **8/19 FOMC minutes vs last week's CPI (in-line 3.4%/2.5%) — has the Sep hike probability entered a new pricing range?**

Source: an actual Longbridge AI answer

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## ✍️ Next week's calendar (24–28 Aug)

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*Questions come from this week's hot topics; the answers were generated by us asking Longbridge AI, not taken from anyone's chats. Results vary by user and by time; not investment advice.*

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