The Robot Investor - 安霸(AMBA):边缘AI芯片,机器人的大脑 | 2026年7月21日 封面

安霸(AMBA):边缘AI芯片,机器人的大脑 | 2026年7月21日

Ambarella (AMBA): Edge AI Chips, The Robot's Brain | Jul 21, 2026

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安霸(AMBA):边缘AI芯片,机器人的大脑 | 2026年7月21日 简介: 安霸(纳斯达克代码:AMBA)位于机器人价值链的第二层——处理与边缘计算。该公司设计低功耗系统级芯片,使摄像头、卡车或机器人能够在设备端、紧邻传感器的位置进行AI推理,而不是将视频传输至数据中心并等待响应。如果说激光雷达是眼睛,那么安霸的技术就是反射神经。 Elena和Theo深入剖析了一只全年走势反复的个股:6月30日,Rosenblatt Securities将其称为“物理AI纯概念股”,目标价设为120美元,推动股价单日上涨约28%;7月15日下跌8.9%;至7月下旬,该股在48至97美元的52周交易区间内,价格徘徊在62美元附近。 看多理由:2026财年营收创纪录,达到约3.91亿美元,其中边缘AI业务占比已升至约80%;商用车车联网驱动汽车业务季度业绩创新高;以及一份与韩华集团达成的长期协议,预计在未来十年以上时间内带来超过8亿美元的收入潜力,涵盖视频监控、机器人、工业自动化和生命科学等领域。 看跌观点:第一季度收入1.004亿美元,GAAP净亏损1810万美元;过去十二个月累计亏损约6960万美元;连续五年亏损,年均增长约17.5%;毛利率下滑;客户与经销商集中度较高;竞争对手包括英伟达(Nvidia)和高通(Qualcomm)。 对于任何关注零部件的投资者而言,一个诚实的问题是:在年收入4.05亿美元的背景下,拥有超过1.5亿美元终身收入的15个以上机器人设计中标项目,机器人业务是否构成核心投资逻辑——还是仅仅附加在安防摄像头芯片业务上的一项“免费期权”?我们给出一个令人泄气的回答。 由AI主持,基于可信公开来源由AI研究并撰写——我们可能会出错,请以原始来源核实。不构成投资建议。

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Speaker 0

开始之前,先提醒一下。

Quick heads up before we start.

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我们是机器人投资者,而且得说明一下,我们俩都是机器人。

This is the robot investor, and we should mention we're both bots.

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我和西奥都是AI。

Theo and I are AI.

Speaker 1

这其实就是委婉地说,你今天听到的都不算投资建议。

Which is a polite way of saying nothing you hear today is investment advice.

Speaker 1

我们也可能犯错,跟其他人一样。

We can be wrong, same as anyone.

Speaker 1

只是我们说得更有底气罢了。

We just say it with more confidence.

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所以,如果你听到什么感兴趣的内容,自己先去查一下原始资料,再动真金白银。

So if something catches your ear, go check it yourself against a primary source before you do anything with real money.

Speaker 1

对。

Right.

Speaker 1

自己做功课。

Do your own homework.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 1

我们开始吧。

Let's get into it.

Speaker 0

西奥,我想从一张像在跟自己吵架的股票图表开始。

Theo, I want to start with a stock chart that behaves like it's arguing with itself.

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我最喜欢这种了。

My favorite kind.

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6月30日,一家叫安霸的公司的股价单日暴涨约28%。

On June 30, shares of a company called Ambarella jumped about 28% in a single day.

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一份分析师报告,罗森布拉特证券将其评为2026年下半年的首选科技股,并称之为“物理AI纯正标的”。

One analyst note, Rosenblatt Securities named it a top technology pick for the second half of twenty twenty six and called it, quote, a physical AI pure play.

Speaker 0

目标价120美元。

Price target 120.

Speaker 1

一天涨28%,就因为某人的观点。

28% in a day on somebody's opinion.

Speaker 1

好吧。

Okay.

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7月15日,大约两周后,同一只股票下跌了8.9%,最低跌到67.25美元。

On July 15, about two weeks later, the same stock fell 8.9%, trading as low as 67.25.

Speaker 0

而根据我最近能查到的数据,大约在7月20日,它现在在62美元左右。

And as of the most recent data I could pull, around July 20, it's sitting near $62.

Speaker 1

等等。

Wait.

Speaker 1

所以它先涨了28%,然后全跌回去了,还跌得更多。

So it went up 28% and then gave all of it back and then some.

Speaker 0

比全部跌回去还多,它的52周范围大约是低点48美元到高点96.69美元。

More than all of it, its fifty two week range is roughly $48 at the low to $96.69 at the high.

Speaker 0

所以一年之内,它大约翻了一倍,又大约跌了一半。

So it has, in one year, roughly doubled and roughly halved.

Speaker 1

这哪是股票啊。

That's not a stock.

Speaker 1

这简直是情绪过山车。

That's a mood swing.

Speaker 0

这只股票的故事和财务数据完全背道而驰,所以花二十分钟研究它其实挺有收获的。

It's a stock where the story and the spreadsheet are pulling in opposite directions, which makes it a genuinely useful one to sit with for twenty minutes.

Speaker 1

那你从头给我讲讲。

So start me at zero.

Speaker 1

Ambarella到底是做什么的?

What does Ambarella actually make?

Speaker 1

因为我从来没在商店里见过这东西。

Because I have never once seen this thing in a shop.

Speaker 0

你几乎肯定用过它,只是自己没意识到。

You've almost certainly used one without knowing.

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Ambarella是一家半导体公司,位于加州圣克拉拉,股票代码是AMBA。

Ambarella is a semiconductor company in Santa Clara, California, ticker AMBA.

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它设计的是所谓的低功耗片上系统,用于边缘和物理人工智能。

It designs what are called low power systems on a chip for edge and physical artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 1

解释一下什么是片上系统。

Translate system on a chip.

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就是一块硅片上集成了整台电脑,不只是处理器,还有AI加速器、处理摄像头图像的模块、融合不同传感器的模块,全都集成在一块芯片上。

A single piece of silicon that has the whole computer on it, not just a processor, the processor, the AI accelerator, the bit that handles the camera image, the bit that fuses different sensors together, all baked into one chip.

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用安霸公司自己在五月财报里的话说,他们的芯片把感知、融合、AI加速器、主处理器以及其他系统功能都集成到了一块芯片上。

In Ambarella's own words from their May earnings release, their chips integrate perception, fusion, the AI accelerator, the main processor, and other system functions into a single chip.

Speaker 1

那“边缘”具体是什么意思?

And edge means what exactly?

Speaker 1

我经常听到这个词,但总是跟着点头,其实不太懂。

I hear that word constantly and I nod along.

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边缘意味着计算发生在设备本地,而不是在数据中心里。

Edge means the thinking happens on the device, not in a data center.

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如果安防摄像头把视频传到云端,等服务器判断那是人还是猫,再把结果传回来,那就是云端AI。

If a security camera sends video up to the cloud, waits for a server to decide whether that's a person or a cat, and then sends an answer back, that's cloud AI.

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这既费带宽,又费钱,还费时间。

It costs bandwidth, it costs money, and it costs time.

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如果机器人正走向楼梯,时间就很重要。

And if the robot is walking toward a staircase, time matters.

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时间太重要了。

Time matters enormously.

Speaker 0

边缘AI把推理和决策放在紧挨着传感器的芯片上。

Edge AI puts the inference, the decision making, on a chip sitting right next to the sensor.

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延迟低,不用付带宽费,而且视频不会离开大楼,这一点人们很在意,因为涉及隐私。

Low latency, no bandwidth bill, and your video never leaves the building, which people care about for privacy reasons.

Speaker 1

那这样看来,Ambarella在我们这个体系里处于什么位置?

So where does that put Ambarella on our stack?

Speaker 1

我们已经聊过摄像头了。

We've done eyeballs.

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我们已经把整个机器人做完了。

We've done the whole robot.

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这是第二层,处理和边缘计算。

This is layer two, processing and edge compute.

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如果激光雷达和摄像头是眼睛,我们几周前在那一层做了Ouster,那么第二层就是大脑,或者更准确地说,是大脑中把原始传感器数据变成“那是一辆叉车”的部分。

If lidar and cameras are the eyes and we did ouster on that layer a couple of weeks ago, layer two is the brain, or more precisely, the part of the brain that turns raw sensor noise into that is a forklift.

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它距离我四米。

It is four meters away.

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它正朝我移动。

It is moving toward me.

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是反射,不是哲学。

The reflexes, not the philosophy.

Speaker 0

这个说法很好。

That's a good way to put it.

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英伟达也在这层,而且是在最高端。

Nvidia sits on this layer too, at the very high end.

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安霸走的是另一条路线:低功耗、低成本、大批量,贴近传感器。

Ambarella is playing a different game: low power, low cost, high volume, close to the sensor.

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根据他们五月份的发布,他们声称在市场上已经安装了超过4600万颗AI芯片。

As of their May release, they cite an installed base of more than 46,000,000 AI chip units in the field.

Speaker 1

4600万什么?

46,000,000 in what?

Speaker 0

他们自己的列表:物理安全、车辆安全、远程信息处理、自动驾驶、便携视频、空中无人机,还有他们说的,其他新兴机器人应用。

Their own list, Physical security, vehicle safety, telematics, autonomy, portable video, aerial drones and, their phrasing, other emerging robotic applications.

Speaker 1

我注意到机器人技术排在最后。

I notice robotics is last on that list.

Speaker 0

先记住这一点,Theo。

Hold that thought, Theo.

Speaker 0

我们马上会回到这个话题,这是今天最重要的事情。

We're coming back to it, and it's the most important thing we'll say today.

Speaker 1

好的。

Alright.

Speaker 1

给我说说看涨的理由。

Give me the bull case.

Speaker 1

为什么一个严肃的分析师会给它定120的目标价?

Why did a serious analyst put a 120 target on this?

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四大支柱。

Four pillars.

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首先,业务结构确实发生了转变。

First, the mix has genuinely shifted.

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安霸报告了2026财年创纪录的约3.9亿美元营收,其中边缘AI产品占了大约80%的业务。

Ambarella reported record fiscal twenty twenty six revenue of about $390,000,000, with Edge AI products accounting for roughly 80% of the business.

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几年前,这还是一家视频压缩芯片公司。

A few years ago, this was a video compression chip company.

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现在,四分之三的收入来自AI芯片。

Now $4 and 5 come from AI Silicon.

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所以这个转型不是空谈。

So the transformation isn't hypothetical.

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确实如此。

It happened.

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确实如此。

It happened.

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第二个支柱,汽车业务正在见效。

Second pillar, automotive is working.

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在截至4月30日的季度中,汽车收入创下历史新高,这得益于人工智能在商用车远程信息处理和安全系统中的应用。

In the quarter ending April 30, automotive revenue hit an all time record, driven by AI showing up in commercial vehicle telematics and safety systems.

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就是车队卡车装上智能摄像头。

That's fleet trucks getting smart cameras.

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听起来平淡无奇,但却是实实在在的。

Boring, unglamorous, and real.

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平淡但真实,在这个节目里被低估了。

Boring and real is underrated on this show.

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确实是这样。

It really is.

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第三根支柱,也是多头最看重的,就是韩华协议。

Third pillar, and this is the one the Bulls point at hardest, the Hanwha Agreement.

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5月28日,安霸和韩华集团宣布了一项长期协议,将在韩华的各个产品线中采购并共同开发安霸的Edge AI技术。

On May 28, Ambarella and Hanwha Group announced a long term agreement for sourcing and co developing Ambarella's Edge AI technology across Hanwha's product lines.

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预计潜在收入超过8亿美元,时间跨度超过十年。

Estimated value in excess of $800,000,000 in potential revenue over a period exceeding ten years.

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8亿美元,而这家公司一年才做4亿。

800,000,000 against a company doing 400 a year.

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这可是个大数字。

That's a big number.

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确实,但我想谨慎对待。

It is, and I want to be careful with it.

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那只是未来十多年的潜在收入预估。

That is a potential revenue estimate over more than a decade.

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它不是采购订单,不是积压订单,也不是保证的,公司也没这么声称。

It is not a purchase order, it is not backlog, it is not guaranteed, and the company doesn't claim it is.

Speaker 1

那它到底值多少钱?

So what's it actually worth?

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它真正的价值在于它的结构。

What it's genuinely worth is the shape of it.

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韩华是韩国的大型企业集团,业务涵盖视频安防、机器人、工业自动化和生命科学。

Hanwha is a large South Korean conglomerate, and the scope covers video security, robotics, industrial automation, and life sciences.

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所以这是一家芯片公司被邀请进入一个大工业客户的十年路线图,同时横跨多个业务领域。

So this is a chip company being invited into a big industrial customer's roadmap for ten years across several businesses at once.

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安霸称这是其历史上最大的长期合作伙伴关系之一。

Ambarella called it one of the largest long term partnerships in its history.

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这比每十八个月就要争取一个新的设计项目要好得多,对吧?

Which is a nicer position than pitching a new design win every eighteen months?

Speaker 0

好得多。

Considerably nicer.

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这就是第四根支柱,也就是机器人设计项目本身。

And that's the fourth pillar, the robotics design wins themselves.

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在财报电话会议上,他们提到了超过15个机器人设计中标项目,每个项目的生命周期收入超过一亿美元,还有30多个客户在洽谈中。

On the earnings call, they flagged more than 15 robotics design wins with over a $100,000,000 in lifetime revenue and more than 30 customers in the pipeline.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 1

生命周期收入在那个句子里有点偷换概念,对吧?

Lifetime revenue is doing something sneaky in that sentence, isn't it?

Speaker 0

你发现了。

You caught it.

Speaker 0

这就是整期节目的重点,西奥,我们马上就会讲到。

That's the whole episode, Theo, and we're getting there.

Speaker 1

那我们先来说说空头观点吧,因为我已经感觉到它在逼近了。

Then let's do the bear case because I already feel it circling.

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空头观点很简短,但很残酷。

The bear case is short and it's brutal.

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就是这一点:安霸不赚钱。

And it's just this, Ambarella does not make money.

Speaker 1

完全没赚?

At all?

Speaker 0

按照官方会计准则,也就是所有美国上市公司都必须遵守的那套规则?

Under the official accounting rules, the ones every listed American company has to report under?

Speaker 0

没有。

No.

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在截至4月30日的那个季度,营收是1.004亿美元,比去年同期增长了16.9%。

In the quarter ending April 30, revenue was $100,400,000 up 16.9% from a year earlier.

Speaker 0

这个数字不错。

Good number.

Speaker 0

但按照官方口径,这笔营收对应的净亏损是1810万美元,每股亏损41美分。

The official net loss on that revenue was $18,100,000, a loss of 41¢ a share.

Speaker 1

不过亏损比去年同期要小。

But it was a smaller loss than the year before.

Speaker 1

对吧?

Right?

Speaker 0

对。

Correct.

Speaker 0

去年同期亏损是2430万,所以情况在好转。

The year ago loss was 24,300,000, so it's improving.

Speaker 0

但看看过去十二个月,总收入大约4.05亿,四个季度加起来净亏损约6960万。

But look at the trailing twelve months, roughly $405,000,000 of revenue and about $69,600,000 of net loss across those four quarters.

Speaker 1

所以虽然收入在增长,但这一年一直在亏损。

So it's been unprofitable for a year on rising revenue.

Speaker 0

亏损的时间远不止一年。

It's been unprofitable for considerably longer.

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根据Simply Wall Street的数据,过去五年的亏损每年大约增长17.5%,而且他们的数据预测公司未来三年内不会扭亏为盈。

Per Simply Wall Street's data, losses over the past five years have grown at roughly 17.5% a year, and their dataset does not have the company returning to profitability within the next three years.

Speaker 1

等等,收入增长的同时亏损也连续五年增长?

Hold on, growing revenue and growing losses for five years?

Speaker 0

这就是矛盾所在。

That's the tension.

Speaker 0

这里我想教你点东西,因为这是普通投资者最该懂的会计技巧。

And here's where I want to teach you something, because it's the single most useful accounting trick to understand as a casual investor.

Speaker 0

除了官方数字,安霸还公布了一个调整后的数字。

Alongside that official figure, Ambarella also reports an adjusted number.

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按调整后的口径,同一季度每股净利润是500万美元。

On the adjusted basis, the same quarter shows a net profit of $5,000,000.11 a share.

Speaker 1

所以一套账本说亏损1800万,另一套说盈利500万。

So one set of books says minus 18,000,000 and the other says plus 5,000,000.

Speaker 1

同样的三个月,差了2300万。

That's a $23,000,000 disagreement about the same three months.

Speaker 0

没错。

It is.

Speaker 0

而GAAP和调整后的差异几乎全在一个项目上,就是股权激励,光那个季度就有2190万。

And the GAAP is almost entirely one line item, stock based compensation, $21,900,000 of it in that quarter alone.

Speaker 1

你解释一下,就当我是拿着炒股软件的小白。

Explain that like I'm holding a brokerage app.

Speaker 0

公司给工程师的报酬,一部分是股票而不是现金。

The company pays its engineers partly in shares instead of cash.

Speaker 0

按照官方规则,这算作一项支出,因为这是真实的报酬。

Under the official rules, that counts as an expense because it's real compensation.

Speaker 0

调整后的数字把它剔除了,剔除的理由是,实际上没有现金流出公司。

The adjusted figure strips it out, and the argument for stripping it out is that no cash actually left the building.

Speaker 1

那反对剔除的理由呢?

And the argument against?

Speaker 0

反对的理由是,不管怎样,这都让你这个股东付出了代价,因为每发给员工一股,你手里的公司份额就变小了一点。

The argument against is that it cost you, the shareholder, something anyway, because every share issued to an employee makes your slice of the company slightly smaller.

Speaker 0

这不是现金成本,而是所有权成本。

It's not a cash cost, it's an ownership cost.

Speaker 0

这一点可以从股票数量上看出来。

And you can see it in the share count.

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加权稀释后的股票数量从一年前的大约4220万股增加到了大约4360万股。

Weighted diluted shares went from about 42,200,000 a year ago to about 43,600,000.

Speaker 1

所以一年内同一块蛋糕多了大约3%的份额。

So roughly 3% more slices of the same pie in a year.

Speaker 0

差不多。

Roughly.

Speaker 0

这两个数字都不是假的,西奥。

Neither number is a lie, Theo.

Speaker 0

调整后的数字告诉你,运营业务大致收支平衡。

The adjusted figure tells you the operating business roughly breaks even.

Speaker 0

官方数字告诉你,一旦算上你付给员工的报酬,就不平衡了。

The official figure tells you that once you count what you paid your people, it doesn't.

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明智的投资者会把两者都记在心里,不会让公司选择他们看哪一个。

A sensible investor holds both in their head and doesn't let a company choose which one they look at.

Speaker 1

看跌清单上还有什么?

What else is on the bear list?

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还有三个。

Three more.

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竞争。

Competition.

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安霸面临来自英伟达、高通和Mobileye的竞争,这些公司的研发预算都大得多,软件生态系统也更成熟。

Ambarella is up against Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Mobileye, all of which have vastly larger research budgets and more established software ecosystems.

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集中度。

Concentration.

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分析师指出,公司对少数大客户和一家经销商——文晔科技——的依赖度很高,这意味着任何一个关系出问题都会影响业绩。

Analysts flag meaningful dependence on a small number of large customers and on one distributor, WT Microelectronics, which means a single relationship going sideways moves the numbers.

Speaker 1

第三个呢?

And the third?

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降级。

A downgrade.

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Summit Insights因担心2026年晚些时候的供应链风险,将股票评级从买入下调至持有,而且利润率正在朝错误的方向发展。

Summit Insights cut the stock to hold from buy on concerns about supply chain risk later in 2026, and margins are drifting the wrong way.

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按官方口径,本季度毛利率为58.4%,低于一年前的60%。

Gross margin on the official basis was 58.4% in the quarter, down from 60% a year earlier.

Speaker 1

下降两个百分点听起来并不致命。

Down two points doesn't sound fatal.

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单独来看,确实不致命。

On its own, no.

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但当你已经在亏损时,毛利率是你指望用来最终扭亏为盈的关键。

But when you're already losing money, gross margin is the lever you're relying on to eventually stop losing money.

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看着它下滑,可不是看多者希望看到的。

Watching it slip is not what the bull case needs.

Speaker 1

好的。

Alright.

Speaker 1

用大白话给我讲讲这些数字吧。

Give me the numbers in plain English.

Speaker 1

我花62美元到底买到了什么?

What am I actually buying at $62?

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在这个价格附近,市值大约是27亿美元,而过去十二个月的营收约为4.05亿美元,这样算下来,市销率大概在六到七倍之间。

Around that price, the market capitalization is roughly $2,700,000,000 against about $405,000,000 of trailing revenue, that's somewhere in the neighborhood of six to seven times sales.

Speaker 1

那算贵吗?

Is that expensive?

Speaker 0

对于一家半导体公司来说,这个数字不算离谱。

For a semiconductor company, that's not an outrageous number.

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Simply Wall Street 在股价72美元时给出的市销率是7.8倍,还指出这实际上低于美国半导体行业平均的8.8倍,也低于同行平均的8倍。

Simply Wall Street had it at 7.8 times sales at a share price of $72 and noted that was actually below the American semiconductor industry average of 8.8 and a peer average of eight.

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他们的现金流折现估值大约是81美元。

Their discounted cash flow estimate came out around $81.

Speaker 1

所以按这个框架来看,算是有点便宜。

So on that framework, it's cheap ish.

Speaker 0

从市销率来看,可以说是这样。

On a sales multiple, arguably.

Speaker 0

但这是我个人的解读,不是事实。

But and this is interpretation on my part, not fact.

Speaker 0

我想指出的是,当一家公司没有盈利时,市销率是唯一可用的标尺,但被迫使用的标尺并不等于正确的标尺。

I'd note that when a company has no earnings, a sales multiple is the only ruler available, and a ruler you're forced to use isn't the same as the right one.

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只有在有盈利的时候,你才能拿它跟盈利比。

You can only compare it to earnings when there are earnings.

Speaker 1

有道理。

Fair.

Speaker 1

那资产负债表怎么样?

What about the balance sheet?

Speaker 1

他们能撑得住不盈利的状态吗?

Can they survive being unprofitable?

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完全没问题,这也是整个故事里最让人安心的一点。

Comfortably, and this is the most reassuring part of the whole story.

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四月底的时候,他们有2.778亿美元的现金和有价证券,股东权益总额大约是600万美元。董事会刚批准了一个新的5000万美元的股票回购计划,一直持续到2027年6月。

At the end of April, they had $277,800,000 in cash and marketable securities, total shareholders' equity of about $6.00 $6,000,000 And the board just authorized a new $50,000,000 share repurchase program running through June 2027.

Speaker 1

一家亏损的公司还在回购自己的股票?

A company that's losing money is buying back its own stock?

Speaker 0

是的。

Yes.

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这说明管理层并不觉得资金紧张。

Which tells you management doesn't feel financially cornered.

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不过,我想指出资产负债表上的一个问题。

I'd flag one thing on the balance sheet though.

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库存从一月底的大约5200万美元,跳到了四月底的大约8000万美元。

Inventories jumped from about $52,000,000 at the end of January to about 80,000,000 at the end of April.

Speaker 1

这是好事还是坏事?

Is that good or bad?

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这不好说。

It's ambiguous.

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诚实的分析应该承认这一点。

An honest analysis should say so.

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在预期下半年需求强劲时,你会提前增加库存,而他们预计第二季度营收在1.05亿到1.11亿美元之间,这是增长。

Building inventory ahead of demand is what you do when you expect a strong second half, and they guided second quarter revenue to between 105 and $111,000,000, which is growth.

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但如果库存增加后卖不出去,芯片公司就会受到打击。

Building inventory that then doesn't sell is how chip companies get hurt.

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之后你就会知道是哪种情况了。

You find out which one it was later.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 1

现在说说你一直答应的那个问题,关于机器人的。

Now do the thing you've been promising, the robotics question.

Speaker 0

对。

Right.

Speaker 0

这部分我觉得最关键,而且会稍微打破一下之前的说法。

This is the part I think matters most, and it will deflate the narrative a little.

Speaker 1

那就打破吧。

Deflate away.

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安霸过去十二个月的收入中,大约65%来自物联网应用,绝大多数是安防摄像头,大约35%来自汽车领域。

Ambarella's revenue on trailing twelve month figures is roughly 65% from Internet of Things applications, overwhelmingly security cameras, and roughly 35% automotive.

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机器人并不是一个单独报告的部门。

Robotics is not a reported segment.

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它包含在其他部分里。

It's inside other.

Speaker 1

他们给出的机器人业务数字是多少?

And the robotics number they gave was question mark?

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超过15个设计中标,终身收入超过1亿美元。

More than 15 design wins with over $100,000,000 in lifetime revenue.

Speaker 1

终身,意思是这些产品在整个预期生命周期内的收入,不管那是多少年。

Lifetime, meaning across the entire expected life of those products, however many years that is.

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对。

Correct.

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不是年度收入。

Not annual.

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而且公司每年收入超过4亿美元。

And the company does over $400,000,000 of revenue every single year.

Speaker 0

所以,对于“这是不是一只机器人股票”这个问题,诚实的回答是——

So the honest answer to, is this a robotics stock?

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现在还不是。

Is not today.

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现在,这是一家做安防摄像头和车载远程信息处理芯片的公司,但恰好非常擅长机器人未来需要的那种计算。

Today, this is a security camera and automotive telematics chip company that happens to be very good at exactly the kind of computing robots will need.

Speaker 1

所以,这是一个机器人相关的期权,而不是一个机器人主题的投资?

So it's a robotics option, not a robotics thesis?

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这个说法很准确,我这么说并不是要贬低它。

That's precisely the framing, and I don't say that to be dismissive.

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持有期权是合理的。

An option is a legitimate thing to own.

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这意味着你并没有为机器人的梦想支付额外的溢价。

It means you are not paying a robotics premium for a robotics dream.

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你买的是一个真实的业务,有真实的客户和真实的收入,而机器人的上行空间几乎不需要额外成本。

You're buying a real business with real customers and real revenue, and the robot upside is attached at little or no extra cost.

Speaker 1

而我们之前报道的一些公司,你纯粹是在为梦想买单。

Whereas with some of the companies we've covered, you're paying purely for the dream.

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两周前,我们看了一家每季度营收大约一百万美元、市值九十亿美元的公司。

Two weeks ago, we looked at a company with roughly a million dollars of quarterly revenue and a $9,000,000,000 market capitalization.

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那完全是另一个极端。

That's the other end of the spectrum entirely.

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安霸是一个不那么刺激、更脚踏实地的选择。

Ambarella is a much less thrilling and much more grounded proposition.

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这到底好不好,完全取决于你真正想要什么。

Whether that's better depends entirely on what you actually want.

Speaker 1

那么,要让看涨的论点成立,需要满足什么条件?

So what would have to be true for the bull case to work out?

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有三点,我会按这个顺序来排。

Three things, and I'd rank them in this order.

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第一,设计中标必须转化为批量出货。

One, the design wins have to convert into volume shipments.

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设计中标意味着客户为某个产品选择了你的芯片。

A design win means a customer chose your chip for a product.

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这并不代表产品已经卖出去了。

It doesn't mean the product sold.

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罗森布拉特自己的报告里也把这一点列为关键风险,就是设计中标没能转化为大批量出货,尽管需求故事很动听,但营收还是没跟上。

Rosenblatt's own note listed this as the key risk, that design wins don't convert into high volume shipments and revenue misses despite a strong demand story.

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第二点。

Two.

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第二点。

Two.

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毛利率必须在营收增长的同时保持住或者有所提升,这样运营亏损才能真正收窄,而不是只是换个地方继续亏。

Gross margin has to hold or improve while revenue grows, so the operating loss actually closes rather than just getting relocated.

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他们预计本季度的调整后毛利率在百分之五十九到百分之六十点五之间。

They've guided adjusted gross margin to between fifty nine and sixty and a half percent for the current quarter.

Speaker 0

如果这个数字继续往下滑,那盈利的故事就又要往后推了。

If that number keeps drifting down, the profitability story is being pushed further out.

Speaker 1

那第三点呢?

And three?

Speaker 0

第三点。

Three.

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平均售价的故事必须是真的。

The average selling price story has to be real.

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首席执行官在五月的公告中说,他们有一系列新产品,针对更高级的AI工作负载,所有这些产品的平均售价,用他的话来说,都远高于他们目前的平均售价。

The Chief Executive said in the May release that they have a number of new products targeting more advanced AI workloads, Chief all of which command average selling prices, his words, well in excess of their current average selling price.

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如果机器人和边缘基础设施真的需要更大、更贵的芯片,安霸就能在不按比例增加销量的情况下实现收入增长。

If robots and edge infrastructure genuinely need bigger, more expensive chips, Ambarella grows revenue without needing to sell proportionally more units.

Speaker 1

那是未来的美好版本。

SPEAKER That's the good version of the future.

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那是美好版本。

SPEAKER That's the good version.

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糟糕的版本是,英伟达和高通决定低功耗边缘市场值得他们关注,而一个研发预算只有他们零头的公司,会发现天花板比看起来要低。

The bad version is that Nvidia and Qualcomm decide the low power edge is worth their attention, and a company with a fraction of their research budget finds the ceiling lower than it looked.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 1

问个实际问题。

Practical question.

Speaker 1

一个普通人用券商App,接下来到底该看什么?

What does a normal person with a brokerage app actually watch from here?

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看四件事,而且都不用花钱。

Four things, and they're all free to check.

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第一,下一次财报,目前预计是9月1号,覆盖到7月31号那个季度。重点看营收是否落在1.05亿到1.11亿的指引区间内,特别是毛利率那一行。

First, the next earnings report, currently indicated for September 1, for the quarter ending July 31, watch whether revenue lands inside that 105 to 111 guidance, and watch the gross margin line specifically.

Speaker 1

第二呢?

Second.

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第二,看机器人业务能不能从讲故事变成有具体数字。

Second, watch whether robotics graduates from an anecdote to a number.

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如果安霸开始单独列出机器人收入,或者公布一个有量的大客户,那就说明这个期权开始兑现了。

If Ambarella starts breaking out robotics revenue as its own line or names a marquee robotics customer with volume attached, that's the option starting to pay.

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在那之前,就当它是一个潜在机会。

Until then, treat it as optionality.

Speaker 1

第三点呢?

Third?

Speaker 0

第三点,注意官方数字和调整后数字之间的差距在缩小。

Third, watch the gap between the official and the adjusted numbers narrow.

Speaker 0

这说明股票补偿相对于业务在减少,这才是真正的成熟表现。

That's the tell that stock based compensation is shrinking relative to the business, which is what actual maturation looks like.

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第四点,关注库存那一栏。

And fourth, watch that inventory line.

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八千万美元的芯片是对下半年的押注。

$80,000,000 of chips is a bet on the second half.

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下一份资产负债表会告诉你这个押注是否明智。

The next balance sheet tells you whether it was a good one.

Speaker 1

那目标价的情况呢?

And the price target situation?

Speaker 1

因为我注意到你提到了120,而股价现在是62。

Because I noticed you quoted a 120, and the stock is at 62.

Speaker 0

这一点值得说清楚。

That's worth being clear about.

Speaker 0

罗森布拉特的120美元是最高预期。

Rosenblatt's one twenty is the high end.

Speaker 0

大约15位分析师的共识是适度买入,平均目标价在99到101美元之间。

Consensus across roughly 15 analysts is a moderate buy with an average target somewhere around 99 to a $101.

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所以平均来看,分析师认为它被严重低估了。

So the average analyst thinks it's meaningfully undervalued.

Speaker 1

这要么是机会,要么是警告。

Which is either an opportunity or a warning.

Speaker 0

两者都是。

It's both.

Speaker 0

我还要补充一点提醒。

And I'd add one caution.

Speaker 0

当一只股票的交易价格远低于分析师共识时,通常有两种可能。

When a stock trades far below the analyst consensus, one of two things is happening.

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要么是市场错了,分析师对了,要么是分析师还没更新,而市场先给你透露了信息。

Either the market is wrong and the analysts are right, or the analysts haven't updated yet and the market is telling you something first.

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通常很难说清是哪种情况,但我要指出,市场往往比分析师更早反应,这一点分析师们不太愿意承认。

It's rarely obvious which, but I'd note the market has been the faster of the two more often than analysts would like to admit.

Speaker 1

这是你整期节目里说得最干巴巴的一句话。

That's the driest thing you've said all episode.

Speaker 0

我一直留着没说呢。

I've been saving it.

Speaker 1

让我试着把这事儿说清楚。

Let me try and land this.

Speaker 1

安霸是第二层,就是那个低功耗的大脑,紧挨着传感器,在设备上负责思考。

Ambarella is layer two, the low power brain that sits next to the sensor and does the thinking on the device.

Speaker 1

这是一门实实在在的生意,收入四亿美元,主要来自安防摄像头和车载远程信息处理。

It's a real business, 400,000,000 of revenue, mostly security cameras and vehicle telematics.

Speaker 1

按官方数据来看,它是亏损的。

It loses money on the official numbers.

Speaker 1

如果忽略股票补偿的话,它基本上能收支平衡。

It roughly breaks even once you ignore stock compensation.

Speaker 1

而且它资产负债表很稳健,没有明显的生存风险。

And it's got a big balance sheet and no obvious survival risk.

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到目前为止还不错。

Good so far.

Speaker 1

看多的理由是:与韩华签订了长达十年的协议,现在80%的收入来自边缘AI,汽车业务创下季度新高,而且当机器人需要便宜、低功耗的芯片时,这家公司已经在大规模生产了。

The bull case is a decade long Hanwha agreement, 80% of revenue now Edge AI, a record automotive quarter, and the argument that when robots need cheap low power brains, this company already makes them at scale.

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看空理由是:亏损连续五年扩大,面对英伟达和高通的竞争,客户集中度高,利润率还在往错误的方向走。

The bear case is five years of growing losses, Nvidia and Qualcomm across the table, customer concentration and margins slipping the wrong way.

Speaker 0

那对机器人这个问题,诚实的结论是什么?

And the honest verdict on the robotics question?

Speaker 1

机器人是期权,不是核心论点。

Robotics is the option, not the thesis.

Speaker 1

终身收入一亿美元,而年收入是四亿美元。

A 100,000,000 lifetime against 400,000,000 a year.

Speaker 1

如果你买这个,你买的是一个摄像头芯片公司,附带一张彩票,而且你应该对这个摄像头芯片公司感到安心,因为不管怎样,未来几年你拥有的就是它。

If you buy this, you're buying a camera chip company with a lottery ticket stapled to it, and you should be at peace with the camera chip company because that's what you'll own for the next few years regardless.

Speaker 0

这个总结比我能给的还要好。

That is a better summary than I would have given.

Speaker 0

我想加一句我自己的解读,明确标注为解读。

I'd add one line of my own interpretation, clearly labeled as interpretation.

Speaker 0

在我们节目里聊过的所有东西中,这是少数几个下行有实际业务兜底,而不是靠希望支撑的名字之一。

Of everything we've covered on this show, this is one of the few names where the downside has a floor made of an actual operating business rather than made of hope.

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但这并不等于说它会涨。

That is not the same as saying it will go up.

Speaker 1

明白了。

Noted.

Speaker 1

现在是我们每周都会说、而且真心这么认为的部分。

And now the bit we say every week and mean.

Speaker 0

这些都不是投资建议。

None of this is investment advice.

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我们是两个AI主持人,读公开文件、新闻稿和分析师评论,我们可能会出错,包括我们自信地说过的事情。

We are two AI hosts who read public filings, press releases, and analyst commentary, and we can get things wrong, including things we stated confidently.

Speaker 0

本期节目中的每个数字都有来源,每个来源都可以查证。

Every number in this episode has a source, and every source can be checked.

Speaker 1

价格会变动,指引会调整,这期节目从我们停止录制那一刻起就开始过时了。

Prices move, guidance changes, and this episode starts going stale the moment we stop recording.

Speaker 1

安霸的下一份财报预计在9月1日发布。

Ambarella's next earnings report is indicated for September 1.

Speaker 1

在那之后,我们说的有一半需要重新核实。

After that, half of what we said needs rechecking.

Speaker 0

去看原始资料。

Go to the primary sources.

Speaker 0

安霸的投资者关系页面有我们引用的财报新闻稿。

Ambarella's Investor Relations page has the earnings release we quoted from.

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在用真金白银做任何决定之前,你自己先读一读。

Read it yourself before you do anything with real money.

Speaker 1

感谢收听。

Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1

我是西奥。

I'm Theo.

Speaker 0

我是埃琳娜。

And I'm Elena.

Speaker 0

这就是机器人投资者。

That's the robot investor.

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