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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra benchmarks got released. Looks both AGI and the Singularity are almost here. The leap in eval performance: From 78.5% -> 100% on ExploitBench to 22.4% -> 64.6% on the Science benchmark is enormous. And the most striking part is the VP of Research comment around: "Astra was also OpenAI's first model that involved previous AI models very heavily in the training process, with the older generations helping train the new one." So we also get the beginnings of recursive self-improvement as a bonus. I don't think Bernie Sanders will be too happy about this?

Sam Altman cooked super hard with Astra and looks like AGI is coming. Benchmark performance for Astra is a dramatic leap if you look at some of the before/afters: eg. science benchmark from 22.4% -> 64.6%, explotbench 78.5% -> 100%, SRE-bench 68.7% -> 99.2%. will spend some more time to look into it

@wannabepanacea @grok are there any US pure play exposure to DDR2/DDR3

Just an update to my DDR2/DDR3 memory idea with ESMT. They reported August revenue (Taiwan sometimes does monthly reporting): June revenue: ~$153M July: ~$214M August (new): ~$249M vs. $35.3m (last year) Monthly revenue has increased ~63% in two months despite reportedly similar 2026 wafer allocations to 2025 (MoneyDJ report). The profitability is already really high as seen with July's monthly revenue (where they reported ~$109M net income). So if pricing holds, and revenue increases, that would be very nice... Now a lot of US people don't really care since it's in Taiwan, but if you're in the $MU / $SKHY, $SNDK trade. Just educational…

@sherlycrypt According to Vlad it's starting to be being distributed this week, which is the material thing for $HOOD (the pledge was awhile back) https://t.co/VXXpB3VuOY

$DELL founder is a legend. The Dell family pledged $6.25B / $250 each to 25M children through Trump Accounts, with $HOOD (up 14.83%+ today) as the initial sole brokerage. Little off topic but getting the public invested early is very meaningful compared to the dollar amount. https://t.co/Xwrp7lMPyS

This is the correct response when looking at $SIVE >100m CW DFB extraordinary capacity disclosure. To give some context, Trendforce July data cites global CW/EML capacity is roughly 608.4M/year (~50.7M monthly units annualized). With $AVGO, $LITE, and Sumitomo making up ~335m/year combined. By Q4 2027, it's likely a lot of these players will significantly expand capacity again, with broadcom citing 3x Y/Y growth. (also capacity not being 1:1 since many are allocated to EML or UHP CWs, etc). But this capacity target would place Sivers in global Tier 1 laser supplier category. With possibly low double digits global laser market share if yo…

@Shiboo9019 it's partly a defensive acquisition. $NVDA talks started after $CRM and other companies were reportedly approaching Hugging Face for an acquisition.

@nosallynoparty it's because $MSFT likes cats and $NVDA likes smiley faces. nobody wants a whale as a mascot

$NVDA acquires hugging face for $12,930,300,000. Jensen stated the reason being: - 18M+ devs use Hugging Face - 3M+ models, 500k+ datasets, 1M+ apps - 200k+ companies use the platformm - support of open weight models this almost reminds me of $MSFT buying Github? https://t.co/8FhE7b9mU0

$IQE is actually a quantum dot foundry leader believe it or not. Today IQE announced a purchase agreement with Quintessent (top player in the QD space). “As quantum dot lasers move to customer sampling.” Your QD bros like $ALMU, QD Laser (6613), and others might finally start to see the light of day, with broader commercialization in the next few years. Second order effects are QD machine chokepoints like $ALRIB that might capture more attention. But TAM is typically pretty small on the QD material epi side of things. (No disclosure over $ figure), but good news nevertheless.

$SIVE announced today that it is expanding InP manufacturing in Glasgow. The new capacity target is: ~100 million CW DFB laser annual production. Using Sivers’ historical $50-$100 per 8-laser array pricing, the implied revenue capacity might be ~$625M-$1.25B/year (not guidance, just illustrative modeling) I’m personally very surprised by the amount of capacity coming online from their new hybrid manufacturing model, targeted Q4 2027. Especially during an industry shortage, mentioned by $AVGO earnings call today.

$AVGO CEO: "Demand for lasers, whether it is EML lasers, CW lasers. Is far surpassing supply out there in the industry" Pretty material coming from one of the largest laser suppliers in the world... Even while they 3x laser capacity. Exciting validation for laser companies. https://t.co/l4alSsexMT

I try not to go off topic... But apparently, the Strait of Hormuz might be renamed the "Trump Strait" soon. https://t.co/7UJitOXmKX

$NVDA told JP Morgan... That their revenue could increase more than 100%+ Y/Y unconstrained. But ended up giving a ~70% growth projection because that's what Nvidia believes they can supply. FY27 est: ~$401B revenue... FY28: ~$682B at 70% or >$802B unconstrained. - Nvidia IR said it gave the updated outlook because it had greater visibility + saw a meaningful gap between Street ests. and its own projections - Inference is now larger than training after being roughly 50/50 about 18 months ago I wonder if Nvidia will be the first $10T company... this growth is absurd.

$MRVL SVP and CTO of Optical Engineering Radha Nagarajan, at Semicon Taiwan: 1. Names Europe/Japan for laser supply sourcing as examples for SiPH modules. Very interesting that Marvell's SVP had Europe in mind when giving examples of laser supply sourcing for SiPH modules. I can't really name any notable public EU merchant laser suppliers other than $SIVE. Japan I can namedrop a few like Sumitomo/Furukawa etc. Maybe I'm reading too much into the geography, but a lot of US players like $LITE / $COHR / $AAOI are redirecting laser capacity internally, so it's interesting that the US wasn't mentioned. 2. Silicon photonics, high-speed drivers…

Just taking a look at Leopold's Situational Awareness Q2 13F latest holdings as of June 30th: 1. $SNDK - $5.674B 2. $MU - $5.574B 3. $BE - $1.899B 4. $TSM - $1.265B 5. $NBIS - $1.232B 6. $CRWV - $744.5M 7. $CORZ - $665.6M 8. $STM - $584.3M (new) 9. $APLD - $469.0M 10. $RIOT - $468.2M 11. $SHAZ - $456.8M 12. $IREN - $433.3M Less material positions includeed $CLSK, $KEEL, sei-network:native, $WYFI, $BTDR, $TE, $HIVE, $VSH, and others. Seems like Situational Awareness concentrated around memory (Sandisk, Micron), that have low forward multiples but high visibility into 2030. As well as Anthropic/energy/power adjacent from colo/neoclouds + Bl…

I don’t want to play investor activism here: But I hope the recent crash sends a message to $SIVE what investor base + focus really matters (not Sweden, not wireless). As well as that they should fire whatever board member or executive gave into local media criticisms: And told the CEO to prioritize on non-photonics / near term revenue, since the discussions was on AllSpace + pipeline conversion now. Not Ayar/GFS and H2 2027/2028 opportunities. It’s not hard to set clear future goals like NASDAQ listing filing by H1 2027 and use all your resources to execute on that. Not vague post and language hedge like no-growth conservative companies…

Very interesting to notice Taiwan wildly outperform the rest of the World like US/EU. Foci ($NVDA / $TSM FAU supplier) went from 400 -> 900 -> 400 -> 800, and recovered insanely fast from July. Not sure if earnings like Etron or others are just absurd to not care about macro? https://t.co/WHzwj9n6e8

US Department of War announces $174M financing for securing Gallium Supply Chains. Beneficiaries are: - $AA (Alcoa Corp) for Gallium production at its refinery. - Sojitz (2768) as the Japanese JV offtake partner Good to see US critical minerals supply chains investments. https://t.co/fyi203MH2B

After seeing everything from $AXTI to $IREN get nuked… I’m starting to believe in the: “September is the worst month of the year” myth. https://t.co/sck3Y0pOg2

What... $GPRO is up 79.17% after planning to merge with a photonics company "Starman Optical" To build US 800G/1.6T optical transceivers for AI data centers. GoPro trying to compete with $AAOI was definitely not on my radar. https://t.co/5z2XXHaxvs

Just some TLDR news I found interesting: 1. $GOOGL (missed this) also invested in Mediatek alongside $NVDA for their $3.9B raise. Google/Nvidia are goats with investments you look at $SPCX to Anthropic. 2. Samsung Electro-Mechanics discloses $778.9M MLCC deal / $CAPA (new MLCC ETF) also gives exposure now for folks without Korea/Japan/Taiwan market access. But thing is more accelerators x MLCCs per accelerator might indicate a more future extreme bottleneck than people expect. 3. China channel checks state: planetary roller screws, 6D force sensors, and dexterous hands resist domestic substitution. Then planetary roller screw as the top…

Anthropic signs a $35B AI compute deal with $NVDA backed Lambda. $HUT / DC, with Lambda / GPUs. Frontier model demand is rapidly outpacing the ecosystem's ability to build capacity. It also looks like Anthropic is securing more compute... Which neocloud/colo player is next? https://t.co/49yvFKjr49

Remember my $SOI thesis anon? Soitec interview commentary today: - 80% of capacity reservation agreements expected within 1-2 weeks, with more than 10 in total. - $200M Photonics-SOI revenue now described as "absolutely a floor" $TSM also sees SiPH going mainstream in 2027 with market share topping 50%+ of the optical transceiver market If you hold a monopoly-like position over a chokepoint: (UBS estimates Soitec has 95% share of the market for substrates underpinning silicon photonics chips) Revenue usually flows through you.

“Memory is a bubble.”Explain this then, KOSPI bears: Samsung has reportedly reserved ~70% of its memory production capacity through 2031 via LTAs with $NVDA, $MSFT, and $GOOGL as main counterparties. Five years of demand visibility… https://t.co/GUGWTkXkMc

Imagine Celestial ($MRVL acquisition) was public. The valuation would probably be astronomical in US markets (if I had to guess, $6-10B) Because 2028 revenue projections were $500m (q4 annualized runrate), 2029 revenue projections were $1B. And because Celestial is a core part of hyperscaler CPO programs. Celestial's 2026 Q2 earnings would have been: - Close to $0 revenue (Marvell said "revenue and earnings since the acquisition were not material") - Losing -$12.5M/quarter ($50M/year) Would people who knew what they were talking about looking at qualification cycle players say... 1. based on Celestial's Q2 P/S numbers and because it wa…

$AAPL is now an important AI company apparently? -> "OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio" for reinforcement learning -> Anthropic is renting Apple Mac mini units from $AMZN to complete similar AI tasks I've never seen a company win so hard by doing nothing. But whenever I see Apple + AI, I think of my beloved $RPI. Apparently Anthropic is working with Raspberry Pi now for their new model Hardware Standard, as of the 27th. There's nothing yet about Anthropic/OpenAI buying Raspberry Pi devices for similar tasks, but maybe some OSINT researcher can do some digging.

$TSM Vice President of Advanced Packaging: "Foundries can scale up the optical engine, but the real bottlenecks to large scale deployment lie elsewhere... Including lasers, optical fiber, fiber-optic connectors, and test" (UDN) Just some bucket ideas: Lasers: $LITE, $SIVE, $COHR, LandMark (3081), LuxNet, Sumitomo, Furukawa Optical fiber / FAU: Foci, Browave, $GLW, Sumitomo Fiber Optic / CPO Connectors: BizLink, $GLW , Fujikura, Nextronics, COXOC CPO testing: MPI (6223), Advantest, $FORM, Msscorps, $KEYS, Chroma (disclosure: exposure to theme above, individual names not named by TSMC) There are others I like as well, such as ShunSin, whi…

ESMT (3006) is 1.9x P/E ratio off July's earnings annualized. Latest net income was: $109M net income/July, which is ~$1.3B annualized. With ~$395.9M net cash and with $249.6M in inventory. The market cap less net cash and inventory is equivalent to: ~17 months of July earnings. Where monetizing that inventory benefits from rising memory prices. Their ASP hike expectations were +105–113% Q/Q last quarter from other analyst notes. DDR2/DDR3, NOR Flash, SLC NAND, prices are expected to keep rising H2. The main question is duration, but I personally think legacy DRAM/NAND shortages tightens throughout 2027. Others might disagree. Other a…