There's a lot of news about WT (3036) introducing their first CW DFB laser line card.
More significant than people think for medium-long term. For economic impact and what revenue looks like:
- $SMTC generated 74% of its revenue through distributors. $AMBA as another example, ~60-70% of their 2026 revenue went through this company.
- With WT in specific, if you look at even a large company like $AVGO scaled:
-> 13% of Broadcom revenue went through WT in 2020
-> 18% (2021)
-> 20% (2022)
-> ~21% (2023)
-> ~28% (2024)
-> now possibly up to ~46% (they stopped naming)
Just showing how important the largest distributors in the world become to semi companies.
Given how WT chairman attributed rapid growth coming from AI photonics demand (eg. DSPs to optical module makers):
It becomes more interesting for a certain company that WT introduced their first CW DFB laser line card during an industry bottleneck.