Northland analyst Tom Sepenzis recommends buying shares of Cirrus Logic on weakness after the company reduced its guidance for the December and March quarters. Cirrus joined the growing list of Apple (AAPL) suppliers that have been negatively impacted by the weaker than expected iPhone sales in recent weeks, Sepenzis tells investors in a research note. The company has much lower exposure to China than peers as it is only shipping to Apple, Samsung and Motorola, the analyst contends. He believes the long-term thesis around Cirrus Logic is unchanged and keeps a Buy rating on the stock with a $45 price target.

Apple has renewed talks with OpenAI about using the company's technology to power some new features coming to the iPhone later this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The two companies have begun discussing terms of a possible agreement and how the OpenAI features would be integrated into Apple's iOS 18, the next iPhone operating system, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.

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Erste Group downgraded Apple to Hold from Buy.

Apple (AAPL) supplier TSMC (TSM) has unveiled its A16 chip manufacturing technology featuring nanosheet transistors with "backside power rails" meant for producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026, Nikkei Asia's Cheng Ting-Fang reports. TSMC says the introduction of the technology can "greatly improve logic density and performance." Reference Link

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