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Software Developer at Microsoft, Tesla/NVIDIA Commentary
Rising AI equipment demand could sustain the buildout behind Micron, Nebius, Marvell, Bloom Energy and Applied Optoelectronics. ASML says customers are raising short- and medium-term forecasts, some are interested in orders for 2029 or 2030, and its currently planned 2027-28 supply may not fully meet demand. The dip in these AI stocks might be a buying opportunity. x.comÂ
AI-buildout stocks could reverse quickly and strongly because billions in ongoing investment and recent earnings and guidance contradict the bearish narrative fueled by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and the media. Micron, Sandisk, Nebius, CoreWeave, Marvell, Nvidia and SpaceX are the picks; this is probably a bear trap. Anthropic's pre-IPO meeting may clarify its path to a $100B-$110B annualized revenue run rate. As @beqdn8 notes, Sandisk guides to $10.3B-$10.8B this quarter after $9B last quarter. x.com x.comÂ
AI suppliers' profits and signed demand distinguish this buildout from dotcom overcapacity. AI leaders rose 2.9x on 3.1x earnings growth versus 7.4x on 2.1x before 2000; cloud providers have $2.3T in signed backlog. Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta could repay debt with about six months' cash flow, unlike 2008's leveraged banks. Micron has multiyear take-or-pay deals and ASML has orders years ahead. Memory profits are cyclical; TSMC, ASML and GE Vernova remain favored in AI's early innings. … Show more
AI infrastructure bottlenecks could give eight stocks as much as 18x upside. Nvidia supplies frontier-model GPUs; Broadcom and Marvell supply custom silicon and networking; TSMC makes advanced chips; Micron supplies sold-out HBM; Vertiv provides power and cooling; Palantir monetizes enterprise AI; Alphabet spans TPUs, research, cloud and apps. The list tracks where AI infrastructure spending is flowing. x.com x.comÂ
AI cloud infrastructure stocks risk falling together because neocloud providers depend on the same debt funding. Musk says debt markets have almost shut off financing for companies dependent on AI data-center revenue, though he is a chip buyer and balance sheets differ; Nebius remains up over the year. x.comÂ
AI's physical buildout looks set to last to 2030 and beyond because financing, memory supply and hyperscaler spending still point to sustained demand. Nebius has $3.5B in financing, IREN $2.4B at 9% and SPCX $40B for GPU equipment. SK hynix expects shortages through at least 2030 and Samsung says HBM4 is sold out; memory companies are making money with no sign of slowing. Google expects 2027 capex to rise significantly. Pullbacks can happen; be cautious and buy quality. x.comÂ
Semiconductors could stay undersupplied for a long time as more capable AI per dollar creates more uses and drives compute demand. Micron and NVIDIA trade at low forward P/Es because investors fear peak cyclical earnings, yet current earnings show no slowdown. Shortages may worsen as AI adoption spreads, though the industry could remain cyclical; a reversal of the forced rollover trade is hoped for, not assured. x.com x.com x.comÂ
AI suppliers' demand may not justify today's investment. Roughly $3 trillion in revenue absent last year is needed to support the spending, yet GDP growth is weak and many companies may be seeing only incremental gains. If the estimate that Anthropic uses two-thirds of its compute for training is right, it could triple inference supply. The most likely outcome for many companies, roughly half the S&P 500, is slowing growth, compressed margins and multiples; when the bubble ends is uncertain. … Show more
SanDisk CEO David Goeckeler's report of customer signals beyond fiscal 2030 adds storage to the long-duration AI hardware-demand case. He says those signals come through new-business-model partnerships; Micron and SK hynix in memory and Lumentum in photonics were already cited as signs of demand beyond 2030. x.comÂ
Networking, power and compute look more durable than cyclical memory in the AI buildout. Lumentum's revenue compounded year after year across the 2010s and 2020s, unlike Micron's; AWS revenue also compounded. Lumentum, Nebius, Bloom Energy and Credo should heavily outperform SanDisk and Micron from here, though AI itself remains heavily doubted. x.com x.comÂ
Marvell risks paying a peak-scarcity price for Lumentum if optical supply catches up by 2028-30. The proposed ~$99B deal values Lumentum at roughly 20x guided annualized revenue and 58x estimated after-tax operating income, while Lumentum, Coherent and Chinese suppliers are adding laser capacity. The DSP-and-laser combination has strategic logic, but durable scarcity economics and Nvidia's response remain uncertain. x.comÂ
Semiconductor trade faces a capex growth ceiling even if AI delivers what bulls expect. Spending cannot compound at 70-100% a year indefinitely, and compute per dollar roughly doubles every two years, so the same budget buys more capacity later. Today's chip valuations also demand years of 20% AI earnings growth beyond 2028: roughly 10.9 extra years for AMD, 8.9 for ASML, 7 for Marvell and 6.4 for TSMC, versus 1.6 for Broadcom and 0.8 for Nvidia; Micron needs none under the chart's assumptions. … Show more
