Anthropic has signed a $10 billion deal with AI infrastructure startup Volta Infra, with the six year deal covering 133MW of $NVDA Vera Rubin capacity, with phase 1 targeted by year-end.
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Abstracts of Addressing Recent Debates on LT Capex and NVDA Platform Content Away from Memories
• Recent CSP Earnings Review on Capex: Amazon to $220bn, Google $195-205bn, Meta $130-145bn
• U.S. CSP capex forecast at $0.8tn/$1.2tn / $1.4tn in 2026/2027/28 (+45% / +20% YoY in 27/28), supported by healthy balance sheets
• Capex growth expected to moderate to +20% / +15% YoY in 2028/29 as CSPs prioritize returns & FCF & uncertainties over AI model competition
• Top 5 debt issuance seen at $257bn / $419bn in 2026/27 (31-35% of capex), still manageable
• Cumulative debt issuance could reach ~$421bn by 2028, yet remains well-supported
• Balance sheets stay very healthy (ex-Oracle): net leverage only ~0.5x (EBITDA basis) by 2028/29
• Net debt-to-equity ratio projected at just 18% by 2029 despite heavy capex • Reiterate our July 2’s report of Nvidia cutting memory: Vera CPU SOCAMM from 192GB → 96GB → selective SKUs to 64GB by 1Q27 • Rubin Ultra HBM stepped down from 384GB to 192GB/256GB (HBM4/4E); 8-Hi design finalized, yet 12-Hi remains on line up • Competitors already on lower configs: AMD MI450 Custom and Google TPU Humufish already 8-Hi • Scale-up expanding via NVL576 w NPO optics to offset reduced memory content • Nvidia platform OE shipments estimated at 5.8m / 8.1m units in 2027/28 • Still positive on AI trends; prefer GPU / CPU / Optics, cautious on memory commodities
Recommendations:
1) Nvidia GPU: NVDA (Buy), Hon Hai (2317 TT), SMCI (Buy)
2) CPU: INTC (Buy), AMD (Buy), ASE (3711 TT, ASX, Buy)
3) Optics NPO: LITE (Buy), MRVL (Buy), SMTC (Buy), TSEM (Buy), Bizlink (3665 TT Buy), Browave (3163 TT)
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Earnings Takeaways- AMD
• Raised 2026/27 EPS by +8%/+23%; TP lifted from $640 → $700 on 45x 2027E or 31x 2028E
• After-hours weakness as market digests high expectations despite solid results
• 2Q26 revenue $11.5bn (+50% YoY) in line; EPS $1.66 slightly above consensus • 3Q26 guide: $13bn revenue above consensus, GM 56% soft • Mgmt sees datacenter >100% YoY growth in 2027 (CPU + GPU) • MI450/MI455X on track. Helios ramping in 3Q/4Q26 with further step-up in 1Q27
• We see Helios rack supply chain build plan ROBUST (>20k racks 2H26-27) • MI500 expected to outperform Nvidia’s Rubin Ultra in hardware performance • Business tracking well ahead of long-term model (>35% revenue CAGR, EPS >$20) • Strength from AI GPUs (MI450/Helios/MI500) + server CPU TAM/share gains • Margin wise, AI GPU margins to stay below corporate avg due to large-memory strategy, while CPU and Embedded recovery are positive drivers
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