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7 Oct, 12:22Latest

SiTime's timing content multiplies as AI data-center bandwidth scales, driving continued hypergrowth. Moving from 800G to 1.6T optical modules splits links into more, faster lanes with tighter jitter budgets and extra clock domains, so each module needs more and better timing parts, lifting volumes and prices. High-radix switches multiply timing content the same way. Its discrete parts sit apart from GPU and switch ASICs, so demand rises in several places in NVIDIA-based racks at once. x.com

SITM

17 Jul, 13:30

SiTime is one of the cleanest structural AI infrastructure stories, leading high-performance MEMS timing that displaces quartz where dense AI clusters need precise synchronization. CED revenue jumped 158% last quarter, its eighth straight triple-digit print, and total revenue rose 88%. The Renesas acquisition completes its timing stack, and proprietary MEMS and analog know-how form a real moat. Valuation is rich, so the stance is to hold rather than add, buying more on any meaningful pullback. x.com

SITM

Ophir Gottlieb

CEO of CMLviz, Former Options Market Maker

15 Sep

SITM

SiTime's opportunity is being missed because AI inference needs far more timing content than training, so even a pause in training doesn't really matter. Per its Q1 commentary, inference infrastructure on newer XPUs needs two to four times more timing content per system; in Q2 it said synchronization adds several hundred dollars of content per rack across accelerators, switches and other subsystems. Demand is also spreading to enterprise, captive, neocloud and sovereign data centers. x.com

Audit The Herd

CPA, Corporate Finance Professional

24 Oct

SITM

SiTime's quartz-to-MEMS shift extends beyond AI servers, supporting growth if AI training spend slows. Q2 CED rose 181% to $101M, AIED (auto, industrial, aerospace and defense) 51% to $25M, and MIC (mobile/consumer, mostly Apple) 85% to $31M; CED is still largest and fastest. About a quarter of acquired Renesas timing revenue is industrial and auto. Design-in timing content tends to stick even if server builds pause. Space and robots have separate potential demand. x.com x.com x.com

Joel

Long-Term Growth Investor & Options Trader

28 Oct

AAOI

SIVE.ST

Optics and photonics should be among AI's biggest winners as faster GPU networks need optical connections that suppliers cannot expand quickly enough. Lumentum says some components are sold out through early 2029; Sivers is investing $30M to target more than 100M lasers a year, with operations expected in Q4 2027. Potential US restrictions on Chinese transceivers could reshape supply in 2027. Applied Optoelectronics and Sivers are the favorites. x.com x.com

Oliver | MMMT Wealth

Founder of MMMT Wealth, CPA, Technical/Fundamental Analysis

28 Oct

AAOI

Higher optical-fiber use per GPU could expand demand for Applied Optoelectronics. Corning said fully optical scale-up would raise fiber count from about 16 to 160 per GPU; that 10x case is hypothetical for now, with a mix of technologies likely near term, but it shows the direction of travel. x.com x.com

Matt Allen

Founder & CEO of Bean Research/BeanWealth, Growth Stocks

27 Oct

MOD

Inference's move toward edge devices and dense, memory-hungry racks should drive demand for specialized chips, links, power delivery and cooling. McKinsey projects inference at 60% of AI computing demand by 2030. Ambarella makes on-device AI chips; Astera Labs links GPUs, memory and networks; Credo supplies short copper connections; Rambus earns from memory interfaces; Navitas reduces power waste; Modine cools dense racks; and Super Micro builds inference-specific server racks at volume. x.com … Show more

Ben Pouladian

Founder of BEP Research, AI Compute Economics

23 Oct

Scale-up moving to optics adds demand for optical suppliers even if new AI architectures need fewer switches. Bigger data centers and more GPUs add to that need; Jensen Huang expects future optics requirements to be several orders of magnitude above what NVIDIA ships today. This challenges the optics bear case for Lumentum, Coherent, Tower Semiconductor and Credo. x.com

Oliver | MMMT Wealth

Founder of MMMT Wealth, CPA, Technical/Fundamental Analysis

25 Oct

Rising 1.6T switching demand favors optical suppliers, though their execution risks vary. Bank of America says the market could grow ~101% annually through 2030. Marvell's leading DSPs and Lumentum's supply-short 200G EML lasers are lowest risk; Applied Optoelectronics' capacity expansion and Fabrinet's customer concentration make them medium risk. Aeluma remains pre-commercial, while Lightwave Logic's polymer modulators are a high-risk moonshot despite its TSM partnership. x.com

IvanaSPEAR

Founder & CIO of Spear Invest, Portfolio Manager of SPRX ETF

8 Oct

Networking is the next AI hardware trade after memory, whose share of rack value rose from 15% to 35%. Optics is moving inside the server, as Nvidia's Feynman architecture builds in co-packaged optics and silicon photonics. Scale-across networking could grow 30% a year just linking existing data centers, as inference moves closer to users and training spreads across sites. Supply is tight: Lumentum's CEO said it can meet only 30% of expected 2027 demand and sees optics tighter than memory. x.com

Ben Bajarin

CEO & Principal Analyst of Creative Strategies, Semiconductors-to-Software Research

15 Oct

COHR

Optical networking's broader rollout will be slow because scale-up and scale-out require orders of magnitude more connections than today's limited optical distance links. Supply-chain discussions echo that slow pace. NPO/CPO starts in switches and reaches XPUs and GPUs much later, with new challenges. Optical backplanes will be necessary as racks move to optical, though copper will remain in many implementations. x.com x.com x.com x.com

Finn Stockinger

Equity Analyst & Investor, Technology Research

19 Oct

AAOI

CRDO

Optical transceiver demand exceeds supply, and 1.6T lifts revenue per module for suppliers able to qualify capacity. Applied Optoelectronics raised at least $1.62B through 2026 ATMs; its last reported monthly capacity was 200,000 modules versus a year-end target above 650,000. Credo expects over $600M in FY2027 revenue across optical DSPs, PICs and modules, not modules alone. Shipments, yields and margins must prove out. Lumentum and Coherent already price in much expected growth. x.com

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