Serenity (@aleabitoreddit)

Be Jensen: > Asian American Dishwasher at Dennys > Founded $NVDA and pioneered GPU computing > Took an extraordinary gamble in CUDA, despite the company close to bankruptcy risk. > Bet paid off heavily, and Nvidia was there as the infrastructure for deep learning and generative AI. > Spent last 33 years of his life growing $NVDA, and finally saw it become a $5T+ company > Devoted his life to establishing American AI leadership > Started having more influence on policies that Washington conflicted with > Leaks and hit pieces happen all at once around midterms > Washington tries to push out others like Lutnick that shared similar China stances to Jensen. > Forced to resign by Taco Bell and NFL experience board members over unconfirmed Spy accusations + personal relationships. > Huang's leadership then questioned by politicians that ask how $META makes money or how Wifi works. > Slandered by US media that think because Mcdonalds did well under a CEO change, so can American semiconductors like $NVDA. This feels like a horrible joke. Jensen Huang was the pinnacle of visionary tech CEOs and living the American dream. Ousting Jensen Huang will go down as one of most consequential and darkest decisions in recent US history.

I have no confidence in the future of $NVDA after Jensen’s resignation. Beyond the next couple years of existing revenue + roadmaps. Without Jensen’s visionary leadership that previously set them ahead of $AMD to Broadcom It’s don’t find Nvidia compelling in the long horizon

I disagree, Jensen Huang is practically irreplaceable from $NVDA. And it's like if you took out Elon from $TSLA, the valuation and confidence in the company would collapse. The foresight to bet on CUDA before AI took off, build the Neocloud ecosystem... The move to secure critical supply chain capacity years ahead of demand, and sell rack-scale systems (with CPUs, networking, etc). Turn the ASIC threat into another opportunity by investing in $MRVL, MediaTek, to compete against $AVGO. Bringing them all into Nvidia's NVLink ecosystem... Is absolutely insane foresight. Jensen practically architected both the financial and industrial ecosystem surrounding the current AI trade. Jensen took Nvidia from a startup to a $5T+ company, and the fact he managed to keep growing that with projected FY2028 70% constrained forward growth... at these levels. Is equally as absurd. I normally don't post negative things about companies... but even if you don't see material revenue or roadmap changes in the next 2 years. Ousting the face of the AI trade and a technology visionary might spell disaster for Nvidia long term.

$LITE CEO: "Next year with the advent of CPO and NPO in 2027, our estimates are that we'll be undershipping demand... By 70%. Literally 70%. So we can only supply 30%. And this has caught us by supply. By 2029-2030, we get to some level of balance." Source: Global Photonics Economic Forum Day 1 (7:57:15 - 7:58:00) Any other players with laser capacity coming online are probably going to get more market attention soon.

我突然意识到, 原来我有这么多粉丝. 第一次从第三方的视角看了一下自己的主页…感觉好像还有点吓人? 如果我们办一场派对, 而且所有人都来了, 那应该不是塞满一个小房间的问题, 而是能塞满一整座城市吧? 总之, 中秋节快乐！

I've always been bullish on memory with $MU / Samsung / solana:SKHYhSjuRWHgikq8eRKbtBbpABgJSkd7ytQV14i9EQ3 for the 2026-2027 period. Same opinion, even after $NVDA call. And I've been fervently defending how high end memory demand is structural + OP for operating income (especially during Iran tensions around LNG/Helium). Nvidia earnings just reaffirms what we know about extreme demand since commitments went from $119B -> $279B largely driven by memory procurement. Nvidia's CFO also said: "We are experiencing extreme pricing conditions in memory." As for what I've done, H1 2026 I was extremely overweight in memory: With $MU, $SNDK, Phison, $SIMO, Nanya, Macronix, Winbond, and $EWY / SK Hynix (HBM/DRAM + NAND + legacy DRAM/NAND + controllers + NOR Flash). I trimmed down those positions aside from Samsung/SK Hynix longs, since I do believe many have been rerated (eg. Micron $300 -> $1000+ already). I think the largest price discovery period has played out, but just a waiting game for the operating income to catch up (esp u samsung) And I used that period to go overweight on photonics. But I do believe we're seeing a relatively newer cascade down into the "legacy legacy" memory like DDR2/DDR3 with the "legacy" players like Winbond leaving some of those segments. Where the price hikes finally hit the 40-60% Q/Q mark, which reminds me of the extreme $SNDK days, across DDR2/DDR3. Which is why I started up positions in ESMT (1.9x P/E from July annualized) and Etron. Maybe we'll see a price discovery moment further down the legacy memory stack (could be wrong), but that's the area I've focused on recently.

$NVDA earnings TLDR: Revenue: $96.22B vs. ~$92.17B (beat) Adj. EPS: $2.22 vs. $2.09-$2.10 (beat) DC: $89.0B vs. ~$86.3B (beat) Adj. gross margin: 75% vs. 75% Hyperscaler Revenue: $48.71B from $43.05B last quarter (custom ASIC growth hasn't really prevented this revenue from accelerating) For guidance: Revenue: $108B vs. ~$104.2B Adj. gross margin: 74% vs. 75% (kinda the only soft spot) Revenue ramp has been genuinely absurd over last 4 quarters. -> $68.1B -> $81.6B -> $96.2B (we are here) -> next quarter guidance: $108B, despite assuming zero China DC compute revenue. Fun thing to note is Nvidia says its commitments jumped from $119B last quarter to $279B, primarily related to procurement of memory (for next few years).. So memory goes brrr. TLDR: AI keeps on going brrr. Nvidia is clearly leading the charge and no obvious signs of demand slowing. Given Nvidia is already a $5T+ company, I think most of the alpha comes from how Nvidia's architecture/capacity decisions impact elsewhere in the supply chain (eg. CPO, memory, 800V) nowadays. Rather than simply finding mispricing in Nvidia itself. Regardless, all the fun stuff happens in the earnings call in a few min.

I feel like AI investing is simpler than what people expect. Because $NVDA + Jensen literally tells everyone what's coming. But somehow. Almost every. single. time. Markets dismiss it until it actually happens? Be Nvidia in 2025: Buys up EML and laser capacity. Markets dismissing it: "Photonics is a bubble and like quantum! ____ company is a scam with shady management" 1 year later: $LITE +678%, $AAOI +475.12%, $COHR +260.7%, $AXTI +3,843.9%. _ Nvidia in 2026: Buys up CW/EML capacity with LTAs. 800V shift. Extraordinary explicit about CPO shift. States Physical AI as the next theme. Markets now: "CW players are meme stocks! 800v, CPO is not coming anytime soon, Humanoids are not profitable!" Yeah... We'll see what happens in 2027. I think I'm putting my money on Jensen/Nvidia as the leading indicator.

I didn’t know Leopold was a fellow MLCC bottleneck investor in Taiyo Yuden (6976) It’s been disclosed today that Situational Awareness owns 5.99% of the company with a ~ ¥17,446/share avg as of June 29th. Current prices are ¥9,797. I actually added some today to show support since Taiyo Yuden is one of the largest % MLCC manufacturers globally.

Holy... We've reached 1,000,000 followers! It's genuinely incredible that so many people care to read about my ideas around AI chokepoints and bottlenecks. From substrates, lasers, actuators, memory, power to some of the most niche parts of upstream supply chains. I've had a lot of fun sharing free thoughts I've come across along the way and tracking whether they get validated over time. A lot worked out, some haven't, and some are still playing out! But honestly, all of this attention has come as a massive surprise to me this year, especially globally, from Sweden, Japan, Korea, to China. Thank you for all your support! I'll be announcing something soon to celebrate.

I've mapped the entire Wall Street bear playbook on AI names: Have your favorite institution/media insert one of these name down below: 1. < ______ [GPUs, Transcivers, MLCC, Memory...] are a commodity set to crash> 2. < ______ [YMTC, CXMT, Dongshan...] from China will flood the market > 3. < ______ [Micron, Nvidia, ...] from unverifiable channel checks is facing issues > 4. < ______ [Kospi, Sivers, ...] is a bubble like the ____ [2007, 2021] crash> 5. <____ [1,2,3, ...] unexpected rate hikes this year> 6. < _____ [Google, Nvidia, Deepseek ...] optimization removes the need of this!> in a new headline, and it's ready to go!

I remain convinced nobody knows how to pronounce or talk about $AAOI in real life. It’s one letter too long to say $TSM or $AMD. And nobody ever says to a friend“Wow, I like applied optoelectronics!”