Memory is king
• Elon focused on HBM for terafab as the most important bottleneck(not NAND or HDDs)
• Gavin Baker: HBM could be 3–40% of hyperscaler capex in 2027
• Jukan: memory may matter more than Nvidia going forward
• Micron CEO: robotics may require 10x more memory
• Memory is still cyclical, but HBM is becoming less commodity-like
Main longs
• SOXL
• HBM: SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron
Barbell
“Anything that helps soften the memory blow should do well over the next year”
Would approach these more technically
• MRVL: custom ASIC + HBM architecture for hyperscalers
• PENG: CXL / KV-cache servers to offload GPU HBM pressure
• QCOM: HBC, near-memory compute, possible HBM alternative + robotics angle
• AMD: MI350/MI450 = non-NVDA HBM capacity monster