BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK SAYS A NEW ASSET CLASS IS COMING: FUTURES ON COMPUTE
"The United States is short power. We're short compute, we're short chips."
Fink sees shortages ahead across all three, plus memory. And he thinks the scarcity gets financialized: "I actually believe a new asset class will be buying futures of compute."
That is computing power described the way traders treat oil: a commodity scarce enough to hedge, price and trade. "We just don't have enough compute power right now."
DAN NILES SAYS MONEY IS COMING OUT OF MICRON
-SK Hynix trades 20-30% cheaper than $MU and got high bandwidth memory running first
-Expects money to rotate out of $MU and $SNDK now that US investors finally have a third way to play memory
-Says the AI buildout money looks infinite right now, but "money is not infinite" @DanielTNiles
SPENDING CAPS ARE THE BULL CASE FOR AI
-Companies are capping employees at $200 a week or $1,000 a month, roughly $10,000 a year per person
-@hamids says no other product category has spend limits anywhere near that high
-The caps won't shrink AI spend. Most companies haven't even started
NVIDIA CAN'T WALK AWAY FROM SK HYNIX - @TickerSymbolYOU
-70% of Vera Rubin's high bandwidth memory will be made by SK Hynix
-The chips are co-designed. If SK raises prices, $NVDA can't just turn around and go to $MU or Samsung
-56% HBM share vs Micron's 23%
The difference in Strait activity from when #3 first arrived / began observing the strait about 4-5 days ago to today is stark. Traffic has meaningfully picked up - there are still โdarkโ runs and ships transiting without AIS turned on, but thereโs a lot more going along the coast of Oman. At least 15 ships have crossed, including at least 3 VLCCs.
When we arrived, virtually none were going through. Then a trickle through the Qeshm channel. Itโs meaningful now, could be talking low double digit percent of pre-conflict volume. Meanwhile, expectations for a US operation involving โboots on the groundโ within the next week or two are still high among locals.
When analyst #3 first got to the strait we were hopeful weโd get a clear cut answer - bullish or bearish, open or closed, war or deal. It soon became clear that was the wrong framework through which to view this trip. On the same day that we learned it was the broad expectation of nearly everyone in the region - from locals to informed parties - that US ground troops would be launching an operation (โboots on the ground!โ), we also observed multiple ships beginning to cross the strait. Soon they werenโt just limited to the Qeshm channel.
It is clear to us that this isnโt as much a story in isolation as it is a story about the multipolar world and how itโs rapidly changing from what weโre used to. Itโs a story about parallel warfare and diplomacy, US promises for the โStone Ageโ in tandem with Alliesโ seeking new venues for negotiation, and the changing global climate that necessitates this balance.
Before, it would have been unlikely to imagine a world where Japan, the EU and other US allies were negotiating with a country the US is directly in conflict in to secure passage and work on agreements while the US still maintained footing for an escalation of kinetic warfare. Now, thatโs simply how the world works. These countries must deal with the issues imposed, as the US wonโt be sorting it out on their behalf.
Itโs undeniable the world is very different now and viewing this conflict through the lens of the past 50 years is a flawed approach. On Sunday, we will release our report that covers in depth what weโve learned, how complex the situation is and what investment implications and nuances exist that have longer term implications than the next 100 points on SPX.
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Samsungโs giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Teslaโs next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate.
Samsung currently makes AI4.
TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona.
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