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Ayar’s announcement today with Wiwynn is potentially very material for $SIVE regarding CPO -> rack scale deployments.
As Wiwynn cloud clients include $AMZN, $META, $MSFT.
And they’ve been in talks for $GOOGL TPU deployments.
I think just for some reference architectures it’s around 512+ supernova light sourc a rack.
So if $SIVE is the primary laser array supplier (which we expect, given Macom + Lumentum was removed from Ayar’s site).
Even modest rack deployments would be very meaningful for revenue.
This is just rack scale commercialization potential right now from $SIVE / Ayar / Wiwynn, which won’t show up in revenue financials yet.
$SIVE$AMZN$META$MSFT$GOOGL
$MRVL earnings were a bullish indicator on the broader CPO theme (and $SIVE as the likely laser supplier).
- “Scale-up interconnect represents one of the newest and most strategically important opportunities emerging in AI infrastructure.”
CPO thematically go brrr
- Confirmation Celestial was selected by T1 hyperscaler for scale up.
I’ve found Celestial $AMZN warrants in the past)… so probably Amazon.
- Scale-up optics revenue next year should be more than 2x prior ~$150M outlook with Celestial
Forward revenue ramp expectations go brrr.
- Celestial team plus $MRVL optics team was a “home run”.
Marvell sees celestial as growth vector, upstream celestial suppliers go brr
- $MRVL is now focused on bringing Celestial to high volume manufacturing.
Volume ramp indicator
If you don’t recall, there was OSINT mapping $SIVE directly to Celestial, not through $POET.
So Celestial forward growth is a volume ramp indicator for Sivers lasers.
$MRVL$SIVE$AMZN$POET
Look who joined team $NBIS.
5.6% is a pretty massive stake, maybe he realized by now it’s miles better than the dumpster fire that is $IREN.
That being said: Nebius is now up ~3x since I went long last year.
Weebius has plot armor.
$NBIS$IREN
Bro media… how is $XFAB a meme stock?
Can you not repeat the same mistake with $RPI this time?
They’re literally getting CHIPS ACT funding from the EU because of how critical they are.
And have $NVDA / $NOK evaluating their SiPH side of things, while they traded at a low ~1.28 P/B.
This just reminded me of $SOI low p/b but high growth verticals out of legacy segment drag.
$XFAB was literally mentioned for CHIPS ACT 2 next week in the blueprints… Which focuses around photonics.
The main revenue ramp was around power semis with $NVDA pushing 800 vdc.
So $NVTS, $POWI, $WOLF and everyone have been taking off recently.
Markets just missed $XFAB, because they’re a lesser known foundry in power semis…But US Dpt. Of commerce pointed them out as the only high volume SiC foundry in the US 2Y ago.
I just happened to point out the connections.
Just because you don’t understand something, don’t just go call it a “meme stock” with price detached from fundamentals.
$XFAB$RPI$NVDA$NOK$SOI$NVTS$POWI$WOLF
They’re stupid?
$JBL announced demand > supply for their 1.6T LRO and this signals mass production on $SIVE lasers.
Ayar raised $500m for volume ramp and dropped $LITE and $MTSI for $SIVE as primary.
$AMD went with $GFS and have a high chance cw of using sivers for their CPO program.
Sivers also signaled M&A which expands TAM a ton downstream
$JBL$SIVE$LITE$MTSI$AMD$GFS
@MalteAnkan20 $XFAB is more tethered to power semis growth.
With silicon photonics upside optionality depending on how $NVDA / $NOK evaluations go
$XFAB$NVDA$NOK
Back when $AAOI was ~$20-30 when I went long:
I thought $AMZN and $MSFT were qualifying specific optical transceivers for their ASIC programs.
Turns out it’s more interchangeable/mass producible.
Regardless, glad my thesis on $LITE, $AAOI, Innolight, $COHR, $AXTI played out so well.
Keep in mind: everyone on X was saying “scam management” with $AAOI back at $20-30…
Or “scam company” with $AXTI at $12.
FUD was pretty extreme.
Feels like dejavu again… going long on the next CPO architectural shift like $SIVE or Foci? And getting the same comments.
We’ll see if my CPO longs play out the same way like Shunsin does with Innolight or $SIVE does with $LITE.
Either way all of those are now up hundreds to thousands of percent.
↗ Quoting @aleabitoreddit
$AAOI$AMZN$MSFT$LITE$COHR$AXTI$SIVE
| return | 1D | 1W | 1M | 1Y | now |
| $AAOIlong |
-6.0% | +2.4% | -24.5% | — | -47.6% |
| $AMZNlong |
+0.8% | -8.0% | -14.4% | — | -0.1% |
| $AXTIlong |
-5.8% | -13.1% | -42.9% | — | -50.8% |
| $COHRlong |
-0.8% | +9.8% | +0.1% | — | -30.9% |
| $LITElong |
-4.6% | +4.0% | -9.5% | — | -20.9% |
| $MSFTlong |
+3.5% | +3.6% | -9.6% | — | +12.6% |
| $SIVElong |
| | | | |
Interesting photonics selloff today on no news?
$LITE down -4.95%
$AAOI down -4.85%
$SIVE down -14.8%
$SOI down -5.73%
$AXTI down -8.13%
$IQE down -12.13%
I think it’s probably the most compelling theme going forward (even more than power semis).
Just tends to be very volatile on the way up.
Surprised about $AAOI though given there’s some institutional notes apparently about long term $AMD or $NVDA agreements. (Rosenblatt). Maybe $600m ATM caps some near term upside.
$SIVE as well, given EU Chips Act 2 is next week around photonics, and they’re listed on the blueprint. Same with MSCI/NASDAQ omx inflow next week.
I’ve been personally adding to positions since I have high conviction in the photonics theme (CPO especially) given TAM expansion overall next 2 years.
$LITE$AAOI$SIVE$SOI$AXTI$IQE$AMD$NVDA
Yeah I get a lot of requests to manage institutional capital, eg. 8 figures ready lot of times.
It’s primarily capital appreciation for already wealthy folks though.
At a certain point, you don’t need more money? I guess unless there’s a certain cause you want to address.
I just want to help regular retail investors at this point after seeing them get shafted by bs institutional reports like $INTC $35 PTs and paywall subscriptions that I see are bs 99% of the time.
And of course help dog shelters on the side.
$INTC
Yep, I model financials around every stock I post, I don’t post breakdowns a lot of time to make it more digestible for retail investors to read w/o jargon.
You can see my old $RPI revenue estimates modeling, I got that spot on.
Same with $MU gross margin estimates before earnings, spot on.
I’ve modeled $AAOI capacity ramp x ASP, from projections to derive MC estimates.
A lot of the bottleneck names like $AXTI it’s impossible to model $SNDK style ASP so it’s more of an estimate on how much they can hike + how important they are.
$RPI$MU$AAOI$AXTI$SNDK
@DisruptivePoltx Yeah they have close relationships with $IQE, $SOI and my other longs.
Was familiar with a lot of the private photonics companies working with $XFAB so liked it a bit more.
$IQE$SOI$XFAB
$XFAB (photonics + power semis) is an interesting long idea at $1.28B MC, that I took positions in.
Given EU CHIPS act 2 is today as the catalyst for European photonics players.
> 800 VDC power semi exposure to $NVDA push through $NVTS + $POWI
> Silicon Photonics / CPO exposure with $NVDA as evaluation stage for high volume manufacturing (optical transceivers/switches)
> The only high-volume SiC foundry in the US.
> One of the critical MEMS foundries
> ~1.29 P/B, which was around what $SOI was sitting at when I went long. Depressed valuations due to legacy drag
> ~6.5-8.5 fwd p/e 2028 personal est.
> backstopped by Government:
- EU CHIPS act, $128M Euros
- US CHIPS act $50M PMT (department of commerce).
With likely more coming (just signals critical importance to Western supply chains).
So at a certain point with all the grants, they’re just getting the capex funded by the Governments.
EU CHIPS act 2 is coming out this week, and I’m gonna go ahead and guess $XFAB might get included given they were before, and this package is specifically targeting photonics.
~$1.3B MC seems compelling to me if it can pull a Soitec reversal (low p/b, very high growth segments, auto legacy drag).
As for the $NVDA silicon photonics relationships it’s under “photonixFAB”.
Markets probably missed this silicon photonics relationship (like $TSEM when I went long) with Nvidia since XFab leads this… Just under a different name.
For power semis, XFAB is named for SiC + $NVTS. In PCN-22181, $POWI explicitly names XFAB as its foundry.
Given its exposure to power semis and photonics as growth, low P/B, gov backstop (of course dyor, just sharing my personal thoughts)
Thought it personally seemed compelling.
$XFAB$NVDA$NVTS$POWI$SOI$TSEM
| return | 1D | 1W | 1M | 1Y | now |
| $NVDAlong |
+0.8% | +1.0% | -9.3% | — | -5.5% |
| $NVTSlong |
-1.3% | +6.8% | -40.1% | — | -62.4% |
| $POWIlong |
+0.2% | -2.0% | -8.4% | — | -29.8% |
| $TSEMlong |
-0.8% | -3.6% | -10.0% | — | -24.0% |
| $SOIlong |
| | | | |
| $XFABlong |
| | | | |
@BgEdgelord $SIVE is fundamentally extremely compelling from CPO.
And all the valuation drivers are $JBL 1.6T and CPO ramp from players like Ayar.
Think those shorts turning into a long are just a cherry on top along the way.
$SIVE$JBL
I was wondering why there was an irrational amount of disinformation about $SIVE.
Turns out short sellers have been running bot farm campaigns to spread disinformation.
And likely through local news media too.
Hope they get blown apart on their short positions now.
$SIVE