The recent developments of Coherent and Lumentum is still under appreciated by markets. CPOs are going to drastically reduce the power consumption in networking between racks and that is going to reduce TCO big time. I think that is when model companies are going to start making profits
Please don’t be swayed by the shiny numbers. Big part of that TAM is dominated by AI semi’s working mainly on digital domain. Analog domain doesn’t have that kind of TAM. Moreover they are doing semi services much like TCS , Infy etc. they are building product IP as a side not main biz. That’s where the biz model is not margin accretive. If it was really focusing on semi, it should design custom IP for which market will pay up. That’s where the margin lies.
This is correct way of representing the flow of money model. But what is missing is pricing, margins and volatility of both. How is the opex costs added as part of pricing. How long are the contracts? Longer contracts better visibility? Do they have fixed price model or variable model? What is the plan to upgrade to newer ai infra ? How concentrated is their customer base ? Competition in pricing? What is USP of each of them from customer point of view ?
@zephyr_z9 I don’t understand why there’s no development of using 1.58 quantisation bit weights for models. It’s going to drop memory bottlenecks by 10x