New reports that $AMD is scrambling for CW laser supply.
And is negotiating large-scale purchase orders for CW Lasers to ensure its production capacity is not constrained by $NVDA (Trendforce)
Obvious CW laser beneficiaries:
- $SIVE (AMD went to GFS for CPO, Sivers reference laser level)
- $AAOI (Rosenblatt analyst checks)
Lumentum/Coherent are kinda booked out way into 2028 as well.
Lumentum is especially constrained for CW capacity already from existing EML contracts (so they probably are buying from Sumitomo/Furukawa and co).
Maybe Macom and Japanese giants still have spare capacity. (disclosure, own aaoi/sivers).
I predicted this last year and said hyperscalers should go more upstream to secure capacity... at laser levels, epiwafer levels, or even inp substrate levels.
To not get bottlenecked by Nvidia.