Breaking: OpenAI just posted robotics engineering jobs paying up to $500,000, according to Business Insider 4 stocks worth watching if robotics becomes the meta: • TE Connectivity $TEL *Makes the connectors and wiring that link a robot's motors, sensors, and battery together, and is already designing parts specifically for humanoid robots • Parker-Hannifin $PH *Builds the motors and joints that let a robot's arms and legs actually move • Novanta $NOVT *Makes the sensors that let a robotic arm feel how hard it's gripping something • Teradyne $TER *Owns Universal Robots, one of the biggest robot arm makers already running in factories worldwide

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EARNINGS TODAY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2026 29 companies report today. BEFORE THE OPEN • AEP (American Electric Power Company, Inc.) • APH (Amphenol Corporation) • DINO (HF Sinclair Corporation) • EXTR (Extreme Networks, Inc.) • FLEX (Flex Ltd.) • FTV (Fortive Corporation) • GEV (GE Vernova Inc.) • GNRC (Generac Holdings Inc.) • LFUS (Littelfuse, Inc.) • NI (NiSource Inc.) • PSX (Phillips 66) • TEL (TE Connectivity plc) • UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) • VRT (Vertiv Holdings Co) AFTER THE CLOSE • 005930 (Samsung Electronics) • AWK (American Water Works Company, Inc.) • COHU (Cohu, Inc.) • EBAY (eBay Inc.) • EQIX (Equinix, Inc.) • FORM (FormFactor, Inc.) • FTNT (Fortinet Inc) • GOOGL (Alphabet Inc.) • KLAC (KLA Corporation) • MSFT (Microsoft Corporation) • MYRG (MYR Group Inc.) • NOW (ServiceNow, Inc.) • OLED (Universal Display Corporation) • SIMO (Silicon Motion Technology Corporation) • STRL (Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.)

$LITE showing the ecosystem forming around near-package optics. Open CPX founders include Ciena $CIEN, Coherent $COHR and Marvell $MRVL, alongside Molex, Samtec and TeraHop. Publicly traded contributors shown here include Credo $CRDO Intel $INTC MaxLinear $MXL Applied Optoelectronics $AAOI Astera Labs $ALAB Amphenol $APH Keysight $KEYS TE Connectivity $TEL VIAVI $VIAV Lumentum $LITE NPO reuses the existing pluggable supply chain, making it much easier to scale.

EARNINGS CALENDAR: NEXT 30 DAYS 261 companies report from October 20 through November 13, 2026. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • NOC (Northrop Grumman Corporation) • VICR (Vicor Corporation) AFTER THE CLOSE • NFLX (Netflix, Inc.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • NEE (NextEra Energy, Inc.) • PM (Philip Morris International Inc.) • TDY (Teledyne Technologies Incorporated) AFTER THE CLOSE • HXL (Hexcel Corporation) • IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) • LRCX (Lam Research Corporation) • META (Meta Platforms, Inc.) • SAP (SAP SE) • TSLA (Tesla, Inc.) • TXN (Texas Instruments Incorporated) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • BX (Blackstone) • CRS (Carpenter Technology Corporation) • DTE (DTE Energy Company) • EME (EMCOR Group, Inc.) • FIX (Comfort Systems USA, Inc.) • LMT (Lockheed Martin Corporation) • NBIS (Nebius Group N.V.) • NOK (Nokia Corporation) • PCG (PG&E Corporation) • SPOT (Spotify Technology S.A.) • VLO (Valero Energy Corporation) • WKC (World Kinect Corporation) AFTER THE CLOSE • BE (Bloom Energy Corporation) • MXL (MaxLinear, Inc.) • VRSN (VeriSign, Inc.) • WDC (Western Digital Corporation) TIME NOT SET • TTMI (TTM Technologies, Inc.) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • INFY (Infosys) • NVT (nVent Electric plc) • XOM (ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation) MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2026 AFTER THE CLOSE • AMKR (Amkor Technology, Inc.) • CDNS (Cadence Design Systems, Inc.) • CLS (Celestica Inc.) • RMBS (Rambus Inc.) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • CMS (CMS Energy Corporation) • CNP (CenterPoint Energy, Inc.) • GLW (Corning Incorporated) • GLXY (Galaxy Digital Inc.) • GOOGL (Alphabet Inc.) • HUBB (Hubbell Incorporated) • SKHY (SK Hynix Inc) AFTER THE CLOSE • ASMIY (ASM International NV) • EQT (EQT Corporation) • FE (FirstEnergy Corp.) • FFIV (F5, Inc.) • HOOD (Robinhood Markets, Inc.) • NXPI (NXP Semiconductors N.V.) • RBBN (Ribbon Communications Inc.) • STX (Seagate Technology Holdings plc) • TER (Teradyne, Inc.) • UCTT (Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.) • V (Visa) TIME NOT SET • FCX (Freeport-McMoRan Inc.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • AEP (American Electric Power Company, Inc.) • APH (Amphenol Corporation) • DINO (HF Sinclair Corporation) • EXTR (Extreme Networks, Inc.) • FTV (Fortive Corporation) • KLAC (KLA Corporation) • MYRG (MYR Group Inc.) • PSX (Phillips 66) • TEL (TE Connectivity plc) • UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) • VRT (Vertiv Holdings Co) • WOLF (Wolfspeed, Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • AWK (American Water Works Company, Inc.) • EBAY (eBay Inc.) • EQIX (Equinix, Inc.) • FORM (FormFactor, Inc.) • MSFT (Microsoft Corporation) • NOW (ServiceNow, Inc.) • OLED (Universal Display Corporation) • SIMO (Silicon Motion Technology Corporation) TIME NOT SET • ACMR (ACM Research, Inc.) • FLEX (Flex Ltd.) • GEV (GE Vernova Inc.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • AES (The AES Corporation) • ALGM (Allegro MicroSystems, Inc.) • AMZN ( Inc.) • ASX (ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.) • BTU (Peabody Energy Corporation) • CARR (Carrier Global Corporation) • COHU (Cohu, Inc.) • COIN (Coinbase Global, Inc.) • CTSH (Cognizant Technology Solutions) • ENTG (Entegris, Inc.) • GSAT (Globalstar, Inc.) • IEP (Icahn Enterprises L.P.) • KTOS (Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.) • MA (Mastercard) • MCHP (Microchip Technology Incorporated) • ONTO (Onto Innovation Inc.) • PBF (PBF Energy Inc.) • PGY (Pagaya Technologies Ltd.) • PPL (PPL Corporation) • PWR (Quanta Services, Inc.) • RKT (Rocket Companies, Inc.) • SILC (Silicom Ltd.) • STM (STMicroelectronics N.V.) • SWKS (Skyworks Solutions, Inc.) • VISN (Vistance Networks, Inc.) • WCC (WESCO International, Inc.) • XEL (Xcel Energy Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • AXTI (AXT, Inc.) • DAR (Darling Ingredients Inc.) • DLR (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.) • EIX (Edison International) • FTAI (FTAI Aviation Ltd.) • INTC (Intel Corporation) • LNT (Alliant Energy Corporation) • MPWR (Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.) • MSTR (Strategy Inc.) • SNDK (Sandisk Corporation) TIME NOT SET • TECK (Teck Resources Limited) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • BP (BP PLC) • CVX (Chevron Corporation) • EXC (Exelon Corporation) • SRE (Sempra) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • BRK/A (Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Class A)) • CVI (CVR Energy, Inc.) • ON (ON Semiconductor Corporation) • PEG (Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated) • TSEM (Tower Semiconductor Ltd.) AFTER THE CLOSE • AAPL (Apple Inc.) • BWXT (BWX Technologies, Inc.) • ICHR (Ichor Holdings, Ltd.) • LSCC (Lattice Semiconductor Corporation) • PLTR (Palantir Technologies Inc.) • WMB (The Williams Companies, Inc.) TIME NOT SET • AEHR (Aehr Test Systems) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • ADTN (ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.) • AEIS (Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.) • AME (AMETEK, Inc.) • APO (Apollo Global Management, Inc.) • ETN (Eaton Corporation plc) • IPGP (IPG Photonics Corporation) • LFUS (Littelfuse, Inc.) • MPC (Marathon Petroleum Corporation) • NLST (Netlist, Inc.) • SMCI (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) • WEC (WEC Energy Group, Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • ALAB (Astera Labs, Inc.) • AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) • ANET (Arista Networks, Inc.) • NVTS (Navitas Semiconductor Corporation) • PARR (Par Pacific Holdings, Inc.) TIME NOT SET • PNW (Pinnacle West Capital Corporation) • SUN (Sunoco LP) • TLN (Talen Energy Corporation) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • ACLS (Axcelis Technologies, Inc.) • CAT (Caterpillar Inc.) • DHT (DHT Holdings, Inc.) • ETR (Entergy Corporation) • GFS (GlobalFoundries Inc.) • GNRC (Generac Holdings Inc.) • HUT (Hut 8 Corp.) • MELI (MercadoLibre, Inc.) • NI (NiSource Inc.) • Q (Qnity Electronics, Inc.) • RDDT (Reddit, Inc.) • SHAZ (SharonAI Holdings, Inc.) • UBER (Uber Technologies, Inc.) • VPG (Vishay Precision Group, Inc.) • VSH (Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.) • VVV (Valvoline Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • APP (AppLovin Corporation) • ARM (Arm Holdings plc) • ATO (Atmos Energy Corporation) • DASH (DoorDash, Inc.) • EMR (Emerson Electric Co.) • MKSI (MKS Inc.) • ORA (Ormat Technologies, Inc.) • SEI (Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc.) • SITM (SiTime Corporation) • VIAV (Viavi Solutions Inc.) TIME NOT SET • CRCL (Circle Internet Group, Inc.) • RAL (Ralliant Corporation) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.) • AMTX (Aemetis, Inc.) • CMI (Cummins Inc.) • CNR (Core Natural Resources, Inc.) • DCO (Ducommun Incorporated) • DDOG (Datadog, Inc.) • DIOD (Diodes Incorporated) • DUK (Duke Energy Corporation) • EVRG (Evergy, Inc.) • FWONA (Liberty Media Corporation (Series A)) • INOD (Innodata Inc.) • MTSI (MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.) • NRG (NRG Energy, Inc.) • NVMI (Nova Ltd.) • PDFS (PDF Solutions, Inc.) • SO (The Southern Company) • SPCX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) • SYNA (Synaptics Incorporated) • TRGP (Targa Resources Corp.) • TTD (The Trade Desk, Inc.) • WIX ( Ltd.) AFTER THE CLOSE • AKAM (Akamai Technologies, Inc.) • AOSL (Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited) • ATEN (A10 Networks, Inc.) • CLNE (Clean Energy Fuels Corp.) • ED (Consolidated Edison, Inc.) • EOG (EOG Resources, Inc.) • LITE (Lumentum Holdings Inc.) • NET (Cloudflare, Inc.) • PSIX (Power Solutions International, Inc.) • WLDN (Willdan Group, Inc.) TIME NOT SET • HIMX (Himax Technologies, Inc.) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • ALMU (Aeluma, Inc.) • CLMT (Calumet, Inc.) • VST (Vistra Corp.) TIME NOT SET • WULF (TeraWulf Inc.) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • CAPL (CrossAmerica Partners LP) • CEG (Constellation Energy Corporation) • CENX (Century Aluminum Company) • DOCN (DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc.) • FN (Fabrinet) • KKR (KKR & Co. Inc.) • SANM (Sanmina Corporation) • STRL (Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.) • VECO (Veeco Instruments Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • HIMS (Hims & Hers Health, Inc.) TIME NOT SET • VG (Venture Global, Inc.) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • AIP (Arteris, Inc.) • AXON (Axon Enterprise, Inc.) • RIOT (Riot Platforms, Inc.) • TEM (Tempus AI, Inc.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • AEE (Ameren Corporation) • AEVA (Aeva Technologies, Inc.) • ASM (Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd) • CIFR (Cipher Digital Inc.) • COHR (Coherent Corp.) • CORZ (Core Scientific, Inc.) • DK (Delek US Holdings, Inc.) • DKL (Delek Logistics Partners, L.P.) • ECHO (EchoStar Corporation) • ENS (EnerSys) • KGS (Kodiak Gas Services, Inc.) • LEU (Centrus Energy Corp.) • MARA (MARA Holdings, Inc.) • POWI (Power Integrations, Inc.) • QCOM (QUALCOMM Incorporated) • SKM (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.) • SU (Suncor Energy Inc (Canada)) • TE (T1 Energy Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • UGP (Ultrapar Participacoes SA) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • BTBT (Bit Digital, Inc.) • FRMI (Fermi Inc.) • PANW (Palo Alto Networks) • POET (POET Technologies Inc.) • SBET (Sharplink, Inc.) • SLNH (Soluna Holdings, Inc.) • WYFI (WhiteFiber, Inc.) AFTER THE CLOSE • AMAT (Applied Materials, Inc.) TIME NOT SET • BDCO (Blue Dolphin Energy Company) • TRT (Trio-Tech International) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2026 BEFORE THE OPEN • MOVE (Corvex, Inc.)

$NVDA OPENS VERA RUBIN RACK DESIGNS, EXPANDS AI NETWORKING WITH META, GOOGLE AND CISCO NVIDIA announced new partnerships and open infrastructure contributions at the OCP Global Summit, covering rack designs, networking, software and power systems for next-generation AI data centers. The company contributed key Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs through its MGX architecture. The updated MGX 1.2 specification supports racks up to 250kW, with standardized power connections, liquid cooling and fanless compute trays. $META is adopting NVIDIA’s Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches, which deliver 102.4Tb/s of switching capacity. Combined with Spectrum-X Multiplane technology, the architecture is designed to connect more than 100,000 GPUs with fewer switch layers. Traffic is distributed across up to eight independent network paths, allowing workloads to keep running if a component fails. Cisco $CSCO and NVIDIA announced plans for USFP, a new pluggable optical module designed for 400Gb/s-per-lane networking. The companies say it will deliver 4x the bandwidth density and approximately 1.3x the power efficiency of 200Gb/s-per-lane modules, with up to 12.8Tb/s of overall capacity in roughly the same physical footprint. TE Connectivity and Amphenol are helping develop USFP connectors, cages and modules. The companies plan to establish an open industry specification, giving multiple suppliers a common design to build around. Google’s Falcon Transport will be supported on future NVIDIA ConnectX-10 SuperNICs and BlueField DPUs. The collaboration enables NVIDIA and Google networking hardware to communicate over a common transport, with features for managing congestion, recovering dropped packets and protecting connections. NVIDIA also released new open-source DSX software components for configuring networks, stress-testing GPU clusters, managing racks and preparing hardware for deployment. Its Vera CPU rack design specifically targets AI agent workloads, including tool calling, orchestration and sandboxed execution. On power infrastructure, NVIDIA joined AMD, Google and Meta on an open data-center design specification, and Google, Meta and Microsoft on grid-resilience standards. Separately, Visionbay introduced plans for K-1, an 800V DC AI factory platform combining NVIDIA’s reference architecture with Vertiv’s power and cooling technologies for future Vera Rubin deployments.

AI Conferences and Investor Days, Friday, October 9, 2026 TODAY No tracked events today. TOMORROW No tracked events tomorrow. REMAINING THIS WEEK Nothing remaining this week. LATER OCP GLOBAL SUMMIT 2026 Mon Oct 12 to Thu Oct 15, San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Theme: "Scaling Innovation for the AI Era". Sold out; registration closed with no onsite signup. No public livestream found; keynote and session recordings expected on the Open Compute Project YouTube channel after the event: Keynotes Mon Oct 12 (PT): AMD Chair/CEO Lisa Su, 4:15pm, open full-stack infrastructure for agentic AI; Broadcom's Asad Khamisy (SVP, Core Switching), 5:30pm, "Scaling AI Infrastructure Through Open Innovation"; NVIDIA's Ian Buck (VP Hyperscale/HPC), 5:55pm, "AI Factories at Scale"; Meta keynote (speaker and time unconfirmed). Themes to watch: rack-scale AI factory architectures (Vera Rubin NVL72, MGX, DSX); Ethernet vs InfiniBand for AI scale-up (Broadcom Tomahawk 6, Thor Ultra 800G, OCP ESUN vs NVIDIA Spectrum-X); power delivery and thermals (800V DC racks, liquid cooling); optical interconnect (CPO, 448G signaling). 42 tracked company sessions (Oct 12-13; times ET): AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom, Meta, Alphabet, Arm, Marvell, Astera Labs, Credo, Lattice, SK hynix, Samsung, MediaTek, Intel, Cisco, HPE, Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, Super Micro, Vertiv, Eaton, Nokia, TE Connectivity, Celestica, Flex, Jabil, Sanmina, Wiwynn, Pegatron, Mitac, Foxconn Industrial Internet, Inventec, Keysight. Also: Lattice/AMI keynote Tue Oct 13, 10:00am PT, "The Open Control Plane: From AI Racks to Autonomous Infrastructure" (Ford Tamer, Sanjoy Maity). APPLIED MATERIALS INVESTOR DAY (INVESTOR BREAKFAST AT SEMICON WEST) Tue Oct 13, 8:00-10:30am PT. Webcast: replay same day. Setup: executive leadership team presents during SEMICON West. The number: the 2027 WFE (wafer fab equipment) growth outlook. Why it matters: AMAT is the largest WFE vendor; its outlook frames the 2027 capex cycle and AI-driven fab capacity plans. Watch: a firm 2027 WFE growth figure; commentary on AI-driven capacity adds. WORKDAY FINANCIAL ANALYST DAY Tue Oct 13, 2:00pm PT, Las Vegas (during Workday Rising). Webcast: replay 90+ days. Setup: analyst day alongside the annual customer conference. The number: Agentic AI ARR ~$600M (+200% YoY). Why it matters: the multi-year AI monetization framework sets expectations for converting the installed base to AI products. Debates: seat-based vs consumption (FlexCredits) pricing durability. Watch: FlexCredits disclosure; FY28 subscription growth vs the ~11% framework. ACCENTURE INVESTOR AND ANALYST CONFERENCE Wed Oct 14, 8:30-11:30am ET, virtual. Setup: shares +23% on the Q4 print (~$84.5B FY bookings), faded ~6% since. The number: refreshed long-term growth and margin targets. Why it matters: bellwether for enterprise IT services demand and AI-led consulting. Debates: fixed-price mix; granularity of AI disclosure. Watch: long-term targets; AI bookings disclosure. SAILPOINT INVESTOR DAY Wed Oct 14, 12:00pm ET, virtual. Webcast: replay 1 year. Setup: recap of product introductions from Navigate (annual identity security conference, Austin, Oct 5-8). The number: not a guidance event; product-led. Why it matters: identity security is consolidating; SailPoint's AI positioning against Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks. Watch: genuinely new capability vs repackaging; AWS/NVIDIA pipeline commentary. SEMTECH DATA CENTER TEACH-IN (ANALYST DAY) Thu Oct 15, 9:00am PT, San Jose. CEO Hong Hou, Imran Sherazi (Signal Integrity GM), CFO Mark Lin. Webcast: Setup: stock at 52-week highs; past ACC timing wobbles have been punished. The number: 1.6T/800G and ACC (active copper cable) ramp timing. Why it matters: key read on optical DSP and copper interconnect demand in AI clusters. Watch: ACC ramp milestones; long-term financial objectives. THINKEQUITY CONFERENCE Thu Oct 15, Mandarin Oriental, New York. Single-day small-cap broker conference. AI-relevant presenters include Roadzen (RDZN, 9:30am ET) and Mobilicom (drone track, 1:30pm ET). WEEK OF OCT 19 AND BEYOND • Qnity Electronics (Mon Oct 19, ICPT planarization/CMP conference, Gangseo): semiconductor materials read. • Zoom Communications Investor Day (Tue Oct 20, 4:00pm, timezone unconfirmed). • Tempus AI (Fri Oct 23, presenting at ESMO 2026): AI healthcare name at a medical oncology conference. • Celestica Investor Day (Tue Oct 27): AI data center EMS; key read on AI server build demand. • Guidewire Investor Day (Tue Oct 27, 7:30pm, timezone unconfirmed): insurance software. • Oracle Investor Day (Wed Oct 28): OCI and AI infrastructure. Also tracked: semicap names at the 18th Annual CEO Investor Summit (Tue Oct 13, California): ACM Research, Cohu, Photronics; Kulicke & Soffa (CEO Summit, San Francisco); BE Semiconductor (SEMICON West); Zhen Ding (20th QIC CEO Week, Hong Kong). Wolfspeed at the Wolfe Research quant/macro conference (Wed Oct 14, New York). Unusual Machines at the Maxim Growth Summit (Mon Oct 12, New York).

A visitor at CIOE in Shenzhen this morning asked a manager on the $ALAB stand whether the value of retimers gets eroded as the industry moves toward optics. I went and put the answer he got next to a specification the company is already helping to write. The answer, as he wrote it down: "The number of high-speed links is going to increase exponentially. Whether it's copper, re-timed optics, or linear optics, all of them are going to increase exponentially. If you think this is crazy right now, 2027 by all accounts is supposed to be where it goes even faster after that. So you cannot go wrong by investing in any of these. You just have to invest in at least one of them." The question was about value per link. The answer is about the number of links. Those are different quantities and only one of them was asked about. I am not going to make much of that on its own. It is a stand manager, unnamed, no title given, at a trade show, and none of that is company guidance. What is worth something is that Astera Labs has already put its name to the thing that decides the answer. Astera Labs is a contributor member of the Open CPX MSA, formed in March this year. What that group is writing, in the words of Credo's own release when it joined on 31 August: common specifications covering "mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, and management interfaces" for "an optimized optical engine with a defined pluggable socket and electrical connector system." A defined pluggable socket is the whole argument in five words. Once the socket is specified, what goes in it becomes swappable, and swappable is the mechanism by which value per unit gets competed away. That is not a prediction, it is what the MSA is for. The founding members say so directly: the stated goal is to reduce power, cost and latency. The roster is the part I would sit with. Founding members are Ciena, $COHR, $MRVL, Molex, Samtec and TeraHop. Contributors include $ALAB itself, $INTC, $QCOM, $LITE, Source Photonics, TE Connectivity, Accton and Viavi. $CRDO announced it had joined on 31 August and had still not appeared on the published list when I read it this morning. Two names are on neither list: $NVDA and $AVGO. That is the shape of it. The companies without a proprietary scale-up interconnect are standardising the socket between them. The two companies that do have one are not in the room. NVLink is NVIDIA's and nobody sells into it. An open socket is the tool everyone else uses to build domains big enough to compete with it, and the price of that tool is that nothing inside the socket stays scarce for long. So the honest version of the booth answer is that the manager is probably right about volume and the question was about something else. Link counts go with the size of the coherent domain, and in all-to-all topologies links grow faster than accelerators do. Value per link is a separate fight, and the specification his own company is contributing to is the venue for it. Worth saying plainly: absence from a roster is not opposition to a standard, and being in the room is not the same as losing pricing power. Astera is contributing rather than founding, which is a real distinction in how these bodies work. For scale, everything in this chain is up today, which is a CPI day and not a verdict on any of this. $ALAB 294.53, $COHR 310.43, $MRVL 238.11, $LITE 969.09, $CRDO 163.69, all mid-session. What would change my read: watch whether the first Open CPX specification puts the retiming function inside the socket or leaves it on the board outside. If re-timing lives in the module, the module vendors take that content. If it stays outside, the socket standardises the optics and leaves the signal conditioning where it is, and the booth answer holds for reasons better than the one he gave.

Sam Altman says AI usage could grow from 100,000 tokens per month in 2020 to hundreds of billions today, creating enormous demand for the companies powering the AI economy (Save this). That would represent roughly a million fold increase in six and a half years. Tokens are a way to measure how much information an AI model processes, so this growth shows that AI is moving from occasional chatbot questions to continuous use for coding, research, customer service, and business automation. OpenAI has reportedly seen its heaviest users consume around 100 billion tokens per month. Some extreme users have processed several hundred billion tokens in just 30 days. If usage continues expanding, demand will rise across the entire AI supply chain and here is some of the stocks that will benefit from this. NVIDIA remains the clearest beneficiary because its GPUs, networking products and software are used to train and run AI models. AMD could benefit as cloud companies and enterprises look for alternatives to NVIDIA’s chips. Broadcom and Marvell are important networking and custom chip suppliers and as AI models process more data, data centers need faster connections between servers, memory, and processors. Micron benefits from demand for high-bandwidth memory, which is essential for advanced AI processors. Super Micro Computer and Dell can benefit from demand for AI servers, storage systems, and complete data-center installations. Arista Networks supplies high-speed networking equipment for data centers, while Amphenol and TE Connectivity provide connectors and other components used to connect servers, racks, and communication systems. The AI boom also requires enormous amounts of electricity and cooling. Vertiv provides data-center cooling and power-management systems. Eaton and Schneider Electric benefit from electrical distribution, backup power, automation, and data center infrastructure. GE Vernova, Constellation Energy, and Vistra could benefit from the rising electricity demand created by AI data centers. The stronger AI adoption becomes, the more power companies and utilities may need to build or expand generation capacity. Equinix and Digital Realty provide data-center space and connectivity. Their facilities can benefit as companies lease additional capacity for AI workloads. The opportunity also extends to industrial automation. Siemens and Schneider Electric provide factory automation, industrial software, sensors, and control systems. If AI moves from the cloud into factories, warehouses, and robots, these companies could benefit from the physical deployment of intelligent machines. If you enjoyed reading this, make sure to follow @MilkRoadAI for more AI infrastructure and semiconductor insights and turn on post notifications on.

Here is every stock currently in the KraneShares Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF $AGIX: NVIDIA $NVDA 4.34% weighting Meta Platforms $META 4.00% Google $GOOGL 3.79% Microsoft $MSFT 3.70% Apple $AAPL 3.51% Amazon $AMZN 3.21% Snowflake $SNOW 2.84% Taiwan Semiconductor 2.81% Broadcom $AVGO 2.56% Advanced Micro Devices $AMD 2.47% Palantir $PLTR 2.20% Datadog $DDOG 2.18% Tesla $TSLA 2.15% Astera Labs $ALAB 2.10% SpaceX 1.85% SK Hynix 1.83% Anthropic 1.79% Arm $ARM 1.77% ServiceNow $NOW 1.70% Cloudflare $NET 1.70% Palo Alto Networks $PANW 1.65% Micron Technology $MU 1.61% ASML $ASML 1.60% Nebius Group $NBIS 1.54% Nutanix $NTNX 1.50% Shopify $SHOP 1.47% Samsung Electronics 1.46% Eaton $ETN 1.41% MediaTek 1.41% Arista Networks $ANET 1.36% NextEra Energy $NEE 1.36% Hut 8 $HUT 1.35% Roblox $RBLX 1.30% Oracle $ORCL 1.28% Texas Instruments $TXN 1.28% Flex $FLEX 1.25% Riot Platforms $RIOT 1.20% Tower Semiconductor $TSEM 1.20% Salesforce $CRM 1.18% Netflix $NFLX 1.14% Samsara $IOT 1.09% Apptronik 1.06% GlobalFoundries $GFS 1.06% Applied Digital $APLD 1.04% TeraWulf $WULF 1.03% Sanmina $SANM 1.03% Tempus AI $TEM 1.01% Cadence Design Systems $CDNS 0.99% Twilio $TWLO 0.97% SAP $SAP 0.96% SpaceX (pre-IPO shares) 0.96% Zscaler ZS 0.95% Teradyne TER 0.95% Vertiv VRT 0.91% CoreWeave CRWV 0.90% Renesas Electronics 0.79% Circle CRCL 0.74% TE Connectivity TEL 0.73% Ciena CIEN 0.73% Ayar Labs 0.68% Nuro 0.55% Nitto Boseki 0.51% Polymarket 0.28% Disclosure: KraneShares is a WOLF Financial Partner.