I don’t quite think photonics from $AAOI to $LITE or $SIVE are disappearing anytime soon…
Just extremely volatile.
Anyway, curious what other people are buying today?
@jim29223471 Can’t give advice on what you should do.
But personally I think $XFAB valuations are a joke at $1.45B MC if they’re leading Europe’s silicon photonics supply chain efforts.
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WOW now they have BRAND NEW a PURE photonics ETF. Seems like an insane opportunity $FOTO
How is NOBODY talking about this? Shoutout @seer_xyz for showing me
$AAOI is one of the only U.S.-based optical players that designs AND fabs its own laser chips in-house (DFB/EML via a proprietary MBE + MOCVD process).
That vertical integration = margin control + supply security for Western hyperscalers.
The setup:
→ 800G ramping hard. First volume shipment to a major hyperscaler landed in Q1’26.
→ 1.6T on deck. Mgmt has guided 2026 revenue to potentially top $1B - more than doubling the business.
→ New 210k sq ft Texas facility = largest AI-transceiver capacity in the U.S.
But the sleeper catalyst is CPO.
As the industry shifts to co-packaged optics, the laser moves OUT of the module and becomes an external light source (ELSFP).
$AAOI just rolled out a 400mW ultra-narrow-linewidth pump laser purpose-built for this and they make the laser in-house.
The kicker here is that they’re targeting ~400K ELSFP units/month by 2027.
In a CPO world, $AAOI stops being “just a transceiver vendor” and becomes a foundational light-source supplier to the entire AI datacenter buildout.
Picks and shovels guys ⛏️
I am adding $AAOI throughout 2026-2027 for the CPO ramp up, I think this is a $1000 stock in the making.
What are your thoughts on $AAOI?
$AAOI will be one of those stocks that is completely obvious like $SNDK - it goes up 5,000% and you are wondering what spell was cast on you to not buy it.
Im long $AAOI till the foreseeable.
$AAOI - Zoom out to the prize
How fast is the CPO market $AAOI feeds actually growing?
Per Yole Group, the most respected analyst in photonics, pure co-packaged optics scales from ~$46M (2024) to ~$8.1B (2030).
That’s a 137% CAGR - one of the steepest curves anywhere in AI infrastructure (~176× in six years).
A vertically integrated laser/light-source supplier sitting dead center of that ramp is exactly the kind of name you want to own early.
(Source: Yole Group — “Co-Packaged Optics for Data Centers 2025.”)
Still think this US list from $MRVL to $ARM to $INTC was goated.
Just as a recap if new followers were wondering what US equities I like.
Especially because I've been talking about international companies recently.
@0xHyperEVM Yeah $MRVL was $87 or so, $ARM was $130.
$87 -> $288 for Marvell
$134 -> $347 for Arm
not too shabby for my names? I still think many have a toooon of room to go like $AAOI.
Uhh, $XFAB de-risked foundry. Compelling upside from CPO if they make things work in H2 2027/2028?
I call this frontrunning institutions... since it's a massive guessing game few months ahead of normal repricing.
Cause it's a lot of customer/document mapping + timeline guessing without formal volume contracts in place.
But I think I'm right? We'll see.
Surprised $SIVE is only up 3.36% off the news JP Morgan (institutional) bought 5%+ ownership of Sivers.
Just in the last month alone.
First major signal of major institutional buying of the float for Sivers.
$SIVE --- Sivers (SIVE:STO) is primarily listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, trading in Swedish Krona (SEK). It also has U.S. OTC ADRs (SIVEF) for American investors.The company has fully upgraded its 2024–2025 financials to meet U.S. PCAOB audit standards—a core requirement for a U.S. main-board listing. This process involved restating revenues, inventory valuations, and share-based compensation to align with stricter U.S. rules.
1.Historic Surge in AI Data Center Photonic Chip Pipeline
Through May 2026, Sivers’ opportunity pipeline surged 77% in just five months, soaring from $453 million at end-2025 to nearly $800 million. Design-in and late-stage projects rose 70%, driven mainly by demand for Indium Phosphide (InP) laser chips for AI data centers and LiDAR for autonomous vehicles.
2.U.S. CHIPS Act Contract Momentum
Sivers secured $6.6 million in CHIPS Act funding for the second year (+20% YoY) and has received an invitation for the third-year application. Its defense partner BAE Systems plans full commercial deployment of the technology in 2028–2029.
3.The “Invisible Enabler” of the AI Compute Era
As NVIDIA, Oracle, and others push data center transmission rates to 1.6T and beyond, traditional copper-based electrical interconnects are hitting thermal and loss limits. Silicon photonics and Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) are widely recognized as the solution. Sivers holds world-leading InP high-power laser technology, an indispensable fundamental light source for high-bandwidth AI chips and optical modules.
4.Asset-Light, High-Margin Model
Sivers operates an asset-light foundry model with top-tier wafer manufacturers like GlobalFoundries. Once production scales up in 2027, its net profit and cash flow will see explosive operating leverage.