Jukan
Semiconductor & AI Infrastructure Research at Citrini
China's already-shipping CW lasers make Sivers' Chinese pluggable pipeline depend on price and qualification speed. Yuanjie says its 70/100mW chips, the classes Sivers lists, are in continuous large-volume delivery. It guides Q3 revenue up 265-293% and expects new capacity from end-2026 to early 2027, before Sivers' Q4 2027 Glasgow expansion. Yuanjie's 120/300/400mW parts remain in customer validation; Western hyperscaler qualification is probably where Sivers still has time. x.com x.com x.com … Show more
Sivers Semiconductors is still a startup, not a volume supplier, until it announces purchase orders with clear amounts and gives year-by-year revenue guidance. Its growing opportunity pipeline rests on management's discretion, not contracts, so it is noise. Management dodged forward guidance, reported no qualifications or production orders while CPO should grow triple digits, and conceded it trails Lumentum everywhere. Its margin target would be remarkable versus Coherent's ~40%. x.comÂ
Sivers is less exposed to tighter AI financing because its 700M SEK raise funds a buildout largely reliant on external foundries. It is qualifying with Ayar, Jabil, GlobalFoundries and O-Net for potential tier-one hyperscaler pluggable, CPO and NPO deployments. Higher rates may strain neoclouds needing billions for GPUs, but optical content and aggregate demand should still rise even if hyperscaler AI capex falls, especially as new players start qualification. x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors' supposed bottleneck isn't really a bottleneck but a wide-open gap with a lot of fantasy priced in; the stock is now down 70% from its recent high. x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors' valuation is hard to justify even on its most ambitious targets for the next 1-3 years, given the margins it has and will have. Its most interesting angle is private companies such as Lightmatter apparently using its CW laser arrays, though that is not officially confirmed. Lumentum and Coherent, while not exact peers, are preferred. x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors is crossing from an engineering and NRE model to a product-led component model, a shift that earns very different multiples. FY2025 revenue rose 25% to SEK304.1m, product revenue reached SEK85.7m (about 28% of sales), and it entered 2026 with a $453m non-binding pipeline. Wireless is the nearer-term, more de-risked engine; photonics for AI interconnects carries larger long-duration upside. The risk is that losses and negative cash flow dilute equity before products scale. … Show more
Sivers Semiconductors' share price has run ahead of what even its supporters think it is worth, making it one to avoid for a while. Northland's Tim Savageaux named it a 2026 top photonics pick with an Outperform rating, while Global Equity Briefing warned most of its value depends on production ramps that haven't happened yet and delays could sink the stock. None of them thinks it is worth today's price, and the stock looks very extended. x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors' stock looks unlikely to resist the current negative sentiment, even though belief in the company itself remains. There is no point following it all the way down, which is stepping aside rather than turning bearish, and it is worth reconsidering after earnings in August. x.com x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors is already load-bearing in the AI optical stack through its Ayar Labs relationship, more like a fiber connector inside the chip than a swappable cable. An ASML acquisition, as @michael_rigoni speculates, would only determine which flag flies over that dependency. x.comÂ
Sivers Semiconductors has everything in development for years, leaving a big pipeline with little coming through; good luck in 2030. x.comÂ