Apparently my X post about Bo Xilai / @BoKuangyi became part of a much bigger storm around Guagua. Millions of views have now been generated across related posts and YouTube content.
The following video was very well done, explaining the whole episode and laying out my views clearly. Too bad it’s only in Chinese.
妖妖酱这个video做得很好啊!把整个事件的来龙去脉都讲清楚了,也把我的观点阐述得很清晰。
但其实前半段的事情我根本不知道。我只是看到瓜瓜发了一个关于他爸的 X post,所以才写了我第一篇回应。
我的X posts基本上全是英文。我不想参与中文圈里面的打打杀杀、你来我往。对我来说,X更像是我的一个公开日记,记录我平日的一些观察、思考和随笔。
这次算是趟了一次浑水。
Here's the angle I'm looking at $SIVE at:
Companies/CSPs have been going out of their way way to lock up any qualified CW laser capacity for optical transceivers.
So now, Sivers is coming into the industry with:
- Large capacity from Win Semi
- "tremendous capacity that is available now" from a new foundry (likely qualifications since 2024) since it's engaged "for a while"
And what excited me from this earnings was the "6 pluggable/module" engagements (which is an enormous amount).
The nuance I'm reading is:
- $COHR said it sees no near term ability to sell InP lasers externally because internal transceiver demand consumes all available
- $AAOI said the same about consuming laser capacity internally (wasn't a major merchant supplier before though).
- $LITE has been bottlenecked and been buying lasers off the open market
Your previous merchant players rerouted laser capacity internally.
So a lot of the bigger names (eg. Eoptolink/Innolight as just a random example) are probably looking to source more lasers.
And that kinda matches the quote "capable of very rapid qualification and ramp" (which would not match Series B startup)...
Lot of people are asking why aren't there LTAs to 2030 then?
-> You can't just randomly escape the qualification process that established players have already completed.
Why aren't the customers disclosed?
And as seen with the $MRVL + $POET engagement, you can't just disclose the vendors you're working with.
But the "$1.2B opportunity pipeline" almost doubled relative to the jump of $JBL + $GFS. So it's signals that the new pluggable engagements might be pretty substantial relative to Jabil.
So if $SIVE comes along with enormous amounts of CW DFB laser capacity during a supply shortage...
The industry conditions have changed in a major way that increases conversion rates of engagements.
And with the sheer size from all your ~est. customers jabil, globalfoundries, poet, aeva, lightium, ayar, (maybe lightmatter, celestial, lightelligence), 6 other pluggable players, and others.
I think Sivers is going to cook after connecting the dots.
$SIVE ER transcript just dropped, TLDR:
- 6 NEW pluggable players working with Sivers now.
Probably the biggest news of the entire ER next to new foundry allocations.
"3 are in alpha sample evaluation stage" and another 3 in technical engagement / supply assessment stage."
And now it makes more sense why their $1.2B revenue pipeline ballooned (since this was a bigger leap than Jabil).
- Initial production orders with $JBL expected in the first half of 2027, with the production ramp planned second half of 2027
LFG, Jabil is a massive hyperscaler supplier and finally got clear timelines on revenue from volume ramp.
- "new foundry partner who has brought on tremendous capacity that is available now"
This is what I wanted to hear. Apparently they've been in the works for this for awhile since it's "available now", and THIS IS VERY MATERIAL.
CW lasers are in a massive shortage and $SIVE brought on new supply outside of Win Semi (also de-risks).
As you hear with other qualified CW players (anything they make gets sold), so as Sivers partners finishes their qualifications, I'm expecting the same.
- "long-term capacity model where one-third of manufacturing capacity will be internal, while two-thirds will come from our foundry partners"
Lukewarm on this, it makes sense they need to be vertically integrated like $AAOI / $LITE eventually but implies more capex (better after NASDAQ listing).
As you see with ESMT + DDR2 bottlenecks, the operating income they get from just securing wafers during shortages and doing fabless models is incredible.
And it would make more sense to fund this with cashflow down the road.
- NASDAQ listing ongoing. CFO gave a very lawyer like answer, but on track as usual.
- "We do not see production capacity as a bottleneck at this point in time"
This is very meaningful since with their new foundry partners, implies $SIVE is coming online with a very material CW laser supply to a bottlenecked market.
TLDR:
- NEW substantial FOUNDRY ALLOCATION! (very, very material during CW laser shortage)
- 6 new pluggable players outside of $JBL
- Clear revenue ramp timelines from Jabil
Heavy focus on pluggables -> NPO -> CPO seems like the progression. Only lukewarm piece was building up internal capacity but it's long term positive.
Anyway, very happy after reading the transcript aside from potential capex prioritizing laser capacity (which is fine too during an industry shortage) over IP acquisition.
The 6 new pluggable players + substantial wafer allocation "available now" is a pretty insane disclosure.
$SIVE earnings just got released:
$1.2 billion revenue opportunity pipeline growth up 268% from December (incredible growth).
Last ER: $799M (this was a surprise, likely linked to Jabil)
July 2026: ~$1.2B (hinting more either more customer engagements than what's announced or larger volume ramps within programs).
"Sivers continued to reallocate resources from NRE projects toward product ramp preparation.
Sivers expects the impact of this transition to become visible in Q4 2026 and accelerate through 2027 as multiple programs progress toward volume production."
Makes sense on timelines.
Current financials reflect a qualification-stage player before volume ramp:
- $5.64M in revenue (reducing NRE activity, shifting to volume ramps soon)
-$3.72M in adjusted EBITDA (what to look at given one-off charges, eg. social security accounting expense)
Key thing to look at is earnings call in 30 minutes, very excited so far.
I know everyone’s watching $NVDA earnings right now…
But did you know Landmark signed a 4 year CW agreement with US customer to ensure “sufficient supply”?
So now you have:
- $LITE (capacity gone)
- $COHR (capacity gone)
- Landmark (capacity committed)
- $AAOI (capacity for transceivers)
- $MTSI (not online)
- $SMTC (limited)
I remember saying earlier this year CW lasers would be the next optical shift and heavily bottlenecked by Nvidia?
So fun watching this play out, with players signing LTAs already to 2030 (signaling less availability for other players).
Implications for $SIVE / Win Semi are very material as one of the few remaining CW merchant suppliers with capacity (+ CPO-grade lasers).
Let’s see how they execute.
$ETH 这两周虽然暴力反弹回到了 2,500 美元上方,但如果把时间线稍微拉长,大部分在今年高位被套的人,账面上依然难受。
而 作为以太坊最大的明牌巨鲸,@Fundstrat 和他的 BitMine 在过去 14 个月顶着一路阴跌狂买了 582 万枚 ETH,持仓量已经快到全网供应近 5%了。
哪怕买到今天账面大概率还在浮亏,Tom Lee 却丝毫没有减速的意思,甚至在最新的 Bankless 播客里直接放话:新一轮牛市 ETH 至少看 5,000 美元,1-2 年内轻松冲上 10,000 美元。
为什么越跌越买?这近 600 万枚砸不穿的底牌到底是什么? 整场播客信息量极大,Tom Lee 拆解了几个极具启发性的实操细节:
1. 质押现金流彻底锁死抛压
很多人担心 BitMine 买成第一大持仓后,一旦资金链吃紧会成为市场最大的“达摩克利斯之剑”。
Tom Lee 直接给市场吃了定心丸:BitMine 每年靠 ETH 质押能产生约 3 亿美元 的收益,而他们发行的优先股(BMNP)每年只需支付 3,000 万至 3,500 万美元的股息。
质押现金流完全覆盖了负债成本,不仅零财务压力、绝不卖币,甚至还有余力拿剩下的未质押 ETH 去做生态布局。
2. 华尔街式的“无杠杆看涨期权”
BitMine 全程没有发行可转债,也没有高息借贷。 他们发行的 9.5% 优先股 BMNP,在 Tom Lee 眼里本质上是用极低成本锁定的一张 3 年期 ETH 平价看涨期权(正常在市场上买期权费接近 100%)。
只要 ETH 未来翻倍,质押收益就会远超股息,让股东享受到极大的资本杠杆。
3. 5% 只是观察哨,买入远未结束
买到 5% 之后还会不会继续买?Tom Lee 表示如果企业和机构开始把 ETH 视为长期资产,买穿 5% 完全合理,他们将在 2027 年正式评估扩容计划。
同时,公司最近 5 周已经开始回购股票,为的就是在价格起飞前集中每股的“含 ETH 量”。
4. ETH 是“土地”,AI 是其最大的下游买家
针对市场上“AI 抽干加密资金”的论调,Tom Lee 给出不同视角:加密是 AI 的下游故事。随着 AI 代理网络成熟,机器对机器的高频交易、链上结算与资产代币化需求将呈指数级爆发。
ETH 的核心逻辑不是生息债券,而是承载这些算力结算的“数字地产”。
尽管 Tom Lee 的个人财富与 ETH 深度绑定且利益相关,喊单难免带有屁股决定脑袋的成分,但现在的市场需要多头来提振信心,Tom Lee 的公开表态显然也能起到宣传效果。
Good question, it's mainly third party commentary + actions around $SIVE.
Ayar probably speaks volumes to me most removing $LITE / $MTSI from their supply chain section of their site. Then just featuring Sivers by itself for the laser suppliers.
VP at Ayar also said Sivers was ... "essential to powering our optical I/O solution", which is pretty high signal commentary.
Then you have $JBL that built a 1.6T LRO after selecting Sivers, which is very rare. And bragged about their technological moat at one of the fireside chats.
Then $GFS choosing Sivers as the reference laser too and featuring them in their presentations...
Feels like all your leading players are moving forward with Sivers for some reason? And I'd assume these leading companies did their DD
Lot of misinterpretations flying left and right around the $600m ATM. I'm still bullish on $AAOI and I have large positions (which is why I care more).
What I've been consistent with is not being a fan of overusing ATMs/dilution for financing. I've said this before with $IREN + $POET.
And I'll be consistent with my own positions like AOI.
However, the reason I'm still overweight on AOI vs. the rest (looking at you Poet):
Is that AOI is actually capacity constrained with high demand visibility.
In terms of timing:
- AOI should have waited until completion of 1.6T qualifications (expected in the next few weeks)
- Could have used other structures like convertible notes above market prices.
But they did it on the drop from $220 -> $130, and it's likely there will be short term structural overhang whenever they want to tap into it.
I don't have to support every single business decision to remain long.
Since people are having fun speculating on $SKHY CPO roadmap supply chains.
I'm gonna do my own guess and say SK Hynix is evaluating Celestial/Ayar. Then doing heavy evaluation into microLEDs past first-gen deployments.
Both have been kinda working on it for awhile.
- Ayar shown up in SK hynix's own website in the context of optical <-> memory links.
- Marvell is actively working with SK Hynix in custom memory solutions (and guess who owns Celestial now).
Celestial/Ayar are both also cited in SK Hynix's linked Nature Paper, which helps a bit with technical relevance:
(121): Stojanovic, V. A UCIe optical I/O retimer chiplet for AI scale-up. In 2025 IEEE Hot Chips 37 Symposium (HCS) 1–22 (IEEE, 2025)
- This is Ayar reference (Ayar’s teraphy optical I/O chiplet), Stojanovic is Ayar Lab's co-founder btw.
(123): Winterbottom, P. Photonic interconnect for accelerated computing celestial AI photonic fabric module (cough cough Celestial)
There's more breadcrumbs out there, but wanted to keep this relatively short-form.
For more upstream beneficaries:
-> I still think $SIVE is the cleanest read through since they're likely supplying to both Celestial/Ayar.
The interposer/packaging IP layer... People were speculating $POET, but Marvell probably vertically integrated players them out this year after the announcement.
Given they've had their own SiPH interposer tech/integration IP before Celestials acquisition (eg. presented a silicon-photonics interposer back in 2023)
-> AMS Osram (which I don't own), seems like they're co-developing in this area given they randomly went out of their way this year to say HBM <-> optics was a TAM increase for them.
TLDR: I see Ayar/Celestial as candidates for SK Hynix's CPO roadmap, then microLEDs being commercialized past gen-1 maybe 2029. (this is all speculation)
Just to throw a bone to quantum dot bros, this got cited like 5 times.
Serenity (who mapped out the entire supply chain for $SIVE) speculates on potential supply chain partners in $SKHY CPO roadmap
Focused on optical interconnects for memory and processors, pointing to Celestial / Ayar Labs as top candidates
In the upstream segment, $SIVE stands out as the cleanest play, being a manufacturer of InP DFB lasers and laser arrays that likely supplies both companies as an external light source for their optical engines and optical I/O chiplets
Yet another speculation to add to the $SIVE bucket
With so many coincidences pointing toward $SIVE
Not saying all of them will, but many will end up being confirmed