This is the variable no model captures: even with unlimited money, you can't pour concrete faster than bureaucracy moves. A fab held up by military base relocation is exactly why memory supply can't respond to price signals, and exactly why prices keep running. The physical world is the real moat.
@exencial_RP This is the underpriced bottleneck. Everyone models GPU supply, almost nobody models grid interconnection queues. The next two years won't be won by whoever buys the most $NVDA, but by whoever gets electrons to the rack first. Behind-the-meter is the cheat code.
@SemiconductorsX Love the phrase "price inverse elasticity" of memory demand. Translation: in this B2B cycle, Big Tech keeps buying even as prices rise, because the alternative is losing the AGI race. That one sentence is doing all the work behind this 3.1 to 3.2 million won target hike. $SKHY
@business A Warsaw-listed electronics distributor is up 476% riding AI infrastructure. The AI money is now seeping from $NVDA all the way down to the last mile of the supply chain. Remember the pattern: in every tech supercycle, the last names to rally are the ones you've never heard of.
@business The AI IPO window is getting picky. The Firmus flop is a message to every AI data-center deal queued behind it: an AI story alone won't cut it anymore, show me the cash. Expect much more honest pricing on Asia's AI pipeline in the coming months.
Interesting framing: the bottleneck moved from chips to capital. Did the math earlier: 1GW of compute rents for $40-50B a year on the spot market. If the money can't keep up, all the chips in the world won't get deployed. $INTC and $AVGO flagging a cash crunch is half message to the market, half message to Washington.
@business Bond-funded AI capex, now Tencent joins in. When the AI capex race needs debt to keep going, it's no longer a war profits can win. China and the US are oddly aligned here: it's not about whose model is stronger, it's about whose balance sheet is thicker and funding costs lower.
@damnang2 Funny reversal. Two years ago everyone was talking about GPU shortages, now it's CPUs getting price hikes. The pass-through chain is clear, next up is whether PC makers can absorb it. $DELL and $HPQ gross margins will speak first.