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Not exactly! I'm just a tad more familiar with photonic supply chains than I am with energy so I like picking potential winners. Just wanted to introduce $IQE into the equation like i did with $AXTI, so I could do a "Did you Listen Anon?" post 3 months later if it turns out well.




Allbirds $BIRD to sell its brand and footwear assets, rename itself NewBird AI, and use a new $50M convertible financing facility to buy high-performance GPUs to pivot into AI compute infrastructure.




$SIVE Sivers Semiconductors: The Photonics Inflection In the semiconductor world, real alpha is found where physics hits a wall. Today, that wall isn’t GPU compute power - it’s interconnect bandwidth. As we transition to 1.6T networking, copper is dying, and light is taking over. Sivers Semiconductors ($SIVE) is no longer just a "Swedish tech hope." It has officially transitioned from an engineering research house to a high-volume product company. 1⃣ The 1.6T AI Bottleneck: Indium Phosphide (InP) AI clusters are only as fast as the links between them. Silicon Photonics (SiPh) is the solution, but silicon cannot emit light efficiently. It needs an external "engine." ➡️The Moat: Sivers is one of the few global players capable of mass-producing InP CW-WDM laser arrays. These are the "spark plugs" for the next generation of AI transceivers. ➡️Proof of Concept: Partnership with $POET is hitting a critical milestone. Prototype External Light Source (ELS) modules for 1.6T architectures are sampling in H1 2026. ➡️The Pivot to "Standard Products": CEO Vikram Vathulya recently confirmed a strategic shift. Sivers is moving away from low-margin custom engineering toward Standard Products. This will drastically shorten "time-to-revenue" and scale margins by serving multiple customers with the same high-spec chips. 2⃣ Hard Evidence: The 2026 Contract Ramp-up Investors have long criticized Sivers for a "paper pipeline." That changed this month (March 2026): ➡️LiDAR Breakthrough: A strategic LiDAR customer (winning in both Automotive and Industrial) is ramping up in Q4 2026. Cumulative revenue potential: $53M to $138M. ➡️SATCOM & IRIS² Momentum: The Wireless division grew 33% in 2025 (constant FX). Crucially, three terminal vendors for Europe's IRIS² satellite constellation have moved to the RFP stage and are currently building prototypes using Sivers technology. ➡️US Chips Act: Sivers is using Chips Act funding not just for cash, but to accelerate the integration of their tech into US Defense "Electronic Warfare" (EW) programs. 3⃣ Financial De-Risking & The "Uplisting" Catalyst The biggest drag on $SIVE has been its balance sheet. That drag is being cut: ➡️Debt Refinancing (Feb 2026): Secured a $17M facility from Bootstrap Europe, consolidating all debt and providing a clear runway to the Q4 2026 ramp-up. ➡️The 2027 Line in the Sand: Management has set a firm target to reach full break-even/positive cash flow by the end of 2027. ➡️The US Nasdaq Spin-off: With 80% of Photonics revenue coming from the US, the plan to spin off Sivers Photonics into a US-listed entity remains the primary "valuation unlock" to capture US-style multiples (think Lumentum or Coherent). 4⃣ 2026 Guidance: The Roadmap to Pavement ➡️Opportunity Pipeline: Stands at $453M (up 64% YoY). ➡️Profitability Pivot: Q4 2025 delivered a positive Adjusted EBITDA of $1.14M. Expect this to stabilize as "Foundry Customers" (SME base business) provide a recurring revenue floor while waiting for the "Big Elephants" (AI & Auto) to join. ➡️OFC Los Angeles (March 15-19, 2026): Currently underway. Industry leaders are vetting Sivers' laser arrays. Success here is the catalyst for large-scale datacenter deployment. 👇Final Verdict Sivers is no longer a "story" stock; it is a "delivery" stock. As 1.6T networking becomes the standard for AI datacenters, the demand for Indium Phosphide laser sources is set to explode. Sivers is one of the very few companies sitting on the right IP at exactly the right time. What’s your take on the Silicon Photonics race? Are you betting on the massive, vertically integrated giants like Broadcom, or do you see the "pick-and-shovel" specialists like $SIVE capturing the real alpha in the 1.6T transition? Drop a comment below with your thoughts or ask me anything. I'm here for you. #Investing #Semiconductors #AIInfrastructure #StockPicking #Sivers #Photonics







Fun Trade Idea: Long $RPI (Raspberry Pi) Reason: 🦞 Openclaw / Picoclaw / Nanobot + Hoarding. Everyone has been openly hoarding Apple Mac Minis and were long Apple. But $APPL is already a $3.7T+ company. Product mass-buying won't make a dent. Raspberry Pi, however, is a 542.68M company. The revenue is material. Feels like markets haven't priced this in since I've seen almost 0 mentions about the ticker on X (but many product mentions). And it's only recently that have the hoarding started Raspberry Pis, as they're much cheaper than $500+ Apple products. They also have their mini $NVDA CUDA-light utility ecosystem that people use. So it turns out these extremely cheap $20 or $200 devices are perfect for deploying mass deploying isolated instances. The reason is for OpenClaw orchestration (so they don’t mess up your device) -> interfacing with a central LLM via API. Before people were just buying 1 or 2 for hobby/education purposes, so revenue has slowing. But now Silicon Valley startups and individuals anecdotally appear to be buying tens or hundreds of these things to run concurrent OpenClaw agentic swarms or do stuff like agentic marketing on Reddit and other places. And no, there are many applications that can't be done by spinning up AWS VPS, so people do it locally (there's TOS around automation/AI bots, so companies setup their own servers). That being said main downside risk is that its - partially foundation owned, and they might not hike rates like $SNDK or $MU does, even if there's extreme demand - Subject to memory price hikes like LPDDR4 component so this is not a major position. However, going forward, revenue should increase due to people buying tens or hundreds of these things for running AI agents. Balance sheet also looks clean with low downside risk: - ~$280M - $300M revenue - ~$75M+ Gross Profit - ~25% Gross Margin - Net income: ~$10M - $15M - Net Cash: $28M Analysts currently project revenue growth closer to 14–17%. But if the demand influx continues, we might see revenue numbers might hit increase from 14% growth to a modest 48-55% if hoarding continues. Consumer segments are roughly 1/3rd of revenue but the newfound buying from Openclaw + variants is a new cataylst nevertheless for re-rating. Especially now that Picoclaw and compressed OpenClaw variants are now able to be run on $20 Raspberry Pis instead of just the Raspberry Pi 5’s. But seems like people just forgot Raspberry PI was a publicly stock as well. The stock price is down 56% 1Y to 542.68M euro MC to an all time low. So this might be that tailwind for a reversal. There's also a non-zero chance OpenClaw is a long term catalyst for Raspberry Pi based, agentic deployments. TLDR: People are openly buying Raspberry Pis and Apple Mac Minis for Openclaw/Picoclaw, so revenue should benefit from increased demand.


