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JP Insights
@jpinsights
I write about the boring stuff behind AI. Longer analysis available on my Substack. NFA
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$CBRE has agreed to buy Onnec for $610M upfront, with another $400M tied to growth targets. Onnec installs and maintains network and fiber infrastructure for hyperscalers. CBRE expects roughly $498M in revenue and more than $67M in core EBITDA from the business in 2027. I like seeing what companies are actually willing to pay for exposure to the buildout. Here, the money is going into the installation and maintenance work around the hardware. It’s also why I keep paying attention to service within $VRT.
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With $AVGO reportedly helping arrange financing for OpenAI, I’m wondering whether capital becomes the biggest AI bottleneck. How much exposure can lenders take when so many projects depend on the same few customers, and suppliers are also financing them? Who takes the loss if one of those customers can’t pay?
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AMD’s Lisa Su met with SK hynix today and her message to memory suppliers was pretty simple: “Build faster, as fast as possible.” $AMD says overall data center demand remains very strong and described $SKHYNIX and Samsung as key to achieving its ambitions in AI. Korean reporting also says AMD’s HBM relationship is now being planned across multiple generations, with HBM4 supply already expanding.
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One thing from yesterday’s $MRVL Investor Day I also think about. Marvell says it does not need new customer wins to reach its long-term custom targets. The programs are already in place. And the opportunity is becoming much bigger than the XPU itself. Management sees 1–2 additional XPU attach sockets at roughly $1,000 ASP each across networking, memory, storage, infrastructure management and inference acceleration. They think individual attach categories can become billion-dollar businesses. That helps explain how custom goes from ~$1.5B in FY26 to >$12B in FY29 and ~$30B by FY31.
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From yesterday’s $MRVL Investor Day: Marvell just gave us a pretty wild look at what they think this business can become. FY2031 revenue target: $70–90B. For comparison, Marvell did just $8.2B in FY2026. And the revenue is supposed to come from: Custom silicon: ~$30B Interconnect: ~$37.5B So Marvell is basically saying that moving data around AI clusters could become an even larger business for them than building the custom accelerators themselves. And custom is hardly small either. They now see custom chip revenue reaching $12B by FY2029, up from the previous $10B target. I’ve written a lot about Broadcom because I think the custom silicon opportunity is still underestimated. But yesterday’s Investor Day was another reminder that this market is getting large enough for more than one winner. If Marvell gets anywhere close to $30B in custom silicon and $37.5B in interconnect, the company we are looking at in 2031 will barely resemble the Marvell of a few years ago. But 5 years out. Alot will and can happen in that time.
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From yesterday’s $MRVL Investor Day: Marvell just gave us a pretty wild look at what they think this business can become. FY2031 revenue target: $70–90B. For comparison, Marvell did just $8.2B in FY2026. And the revenue is supposed to come from: Custom silicon: ~$30B Interconnect: ~$37.5B So Marvell is basically saying that moving data around AI clusters could become an even larger business for them than building the custom accelerators themselves. And custom is hardly small either. They now see custom chip revenue reaching $12B by FY2029, up from the previous $10B target. I’ve written a lot about Broadcom because I think the custom silicon opportunity is still underestimated. But yesterday’s Investor Day was another reminder that this market is getting large enough for more than one winner. If Marvell gets anywhere close to $30B in custom silicon and $37.5B in interconnect, the company we are looking at in 2031 will barely resemble the Marvell of a few years ago. But 5 years out. Alot will and can happen in that time.
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I think BPC nails it with the dopamine point here. Resisting that urge was one of my hardest battles when I started investing 20 years ago. We can own good businesses and still feel tempted to do something because someone on our feed is making money faster. Suddenly, we’re taking risks we wouldn’t have considered a week ago, even though nothing has changed in the businesses we own. We’ve just become impatient. I want investing to be a lifelong interest, but I don’t want to depend on my portfolio for entertainment. A tiny portion for riskier plays? Sure, as long as it stays tiny. The temptation is to keep increasing it when things go well. Some good names on his recommended list too. BPC himself is well worth following.
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Everyone that aspire to become succesful should (seriously) read this: Being on X requires serious mental strength, that the average person not necessarily have acquired yet. Its so easy to get caught up in 5x leverage and thinking retirement is just around the corner. Sadly, most end up burning their hard earned money away. I cannot emphasize how BIG a part mindset is to long-term succes in investing. If you can't controle your dopamine, you're basically fk....... You need to be able to delay gratification and resist immediately reward - until you KNOW in your core what youre doing. When I started investing, I made one promise to myself: Make this a long-term career and hobby for yourself. So, I came up with a learning plan for myself: Use the first year on studying the basic rules of long-term investing, learn to read market, macro and basic fundamentals. Use the second year on becoming better at writing thesis, studying companies to its core, sectors e.g. Use the third year on studying and fine-tune technical analysis and swing trading. Use the fourth year on putting everything together. The game requires patience. Each day YOU are invested in the game, you get to learn more and become better. Don't get caught up in quick fixes. Most of the ACTUAL succesful people you've seen on here have been in this game the past +10 years or acquired the skills to navigate themselves and market. Each of them have one thing in common: they learned, the adapted, they survived and they did not chase. Here's a few GOAT's that imo lives up to that mindset: @babyfolio @Sandeman52 @TheBigBerbowski @ChairmansLedger @Brownmoose @moninvestor @jrouldz @jpinsights @Kaizen_Investor @outliercapx @JonahLupton -BP Not financial adivce.
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$NVDA reaching ATH today and it took some time but during june-september I have been saying it was a real solid investment hidding in plain sight. It still feels undervalued here.
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One concern I had with the Anthropic deal was how much of the financing risk $AVGO would actually end up carrying itself. We got a pretty important answer today. Banks have started syndicating the $60B financing package tied to Anthropic's use of Google's Broadcom-designed AI chips. $42B is senior secured debt backed by Broadcom's A- credit. Another $18B is junior debt without Broadcom's guarantee, and Blackstone has already committed $9B to that piece. So this is not Broadcom simply writing a $42B check to finance its own revenue. They are using the balance sheet to get the structure in place, but a large part of the capital is being pushed out to the credit market. I still want to see how easily the $42B gets placed, because that tells us a lot about how much risk Broadcom actually ends up holding. But if the syndication goes well, I think one of the more valid concerns around the Anthropic deal becomes a lot less worrying.
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$AAOI has now completed the entire $600M ATM they filed on August 21. 5.69M shares sold at an average price of $105.36, raising ~$588M net. AAOI specifically points to growing demand for high-speed optical connectivity in AI data centers and says the proceeds will support manufacturing expansion for data center optical devices. And since the ATM was filed, we have watched them: • Add significant manufacturing space in Houston • Buy another Houston facility for $26.8M cash • Lease a new ~412k sq ft manufacturing facility in China • Expand in-house InP laser production They didn't file a $600M ATM just to have the option. They used the whole thing in roughly six weeks. Now I want to know what they are building all this capacity for.
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Fascinating to see $NVDA trading at 29.6x trailing earnings and just 19.4x forward earnings, considering the growth I believe still lies ahead.
Avoiding stocks you don’t believe in is just as important as finding winners. When I started posting here, I caught some heat for “always” sitting on the sidelines. I passed on $TRT and $AMPG and explained why here on X. Looking back, I’m glad I trusted my own judgment. You can make plenty of money without owning every stock people get excited about. And if you follow me, you know I won’t put my money into something I can’t make sense of.
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Not going to lie, I would really like it here.
"Create an image of what the world would look like if I were in charge (based on my tweets)" Let’s see your guys’s haha
The $42B figure was already in $AVGO’s September 10-Q, under Note 10. Broadcom disclosed that its customer could issue up to $42B in convertible notes under certain conditions to meet lease obligations. There may be more detail here from Anthropic’s side, but I wouldn’t read this headline as a fresh $42B commitment today.
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📢 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍: $AVGO Broadcom to Lend up to $42 Billion to Anthropic for Infrastructure Lease Agreements, According to IPO Prospectus
I think this is another good example of why replacing $AVGO isn’t as simple as hiring more chip designers. If these HBM pricing reports are accurate, Broadcom’s volumes are now large enough to get roughly the same pricing as NVIDIA. That is worth something to its customers, even if much of the saving ends up with Google. People talk about cutting out Broadcom’s margin as if all of it would become savings for the customer. I’m more interested in how much would actually be left after taking on the work and negotiating component purchases yourself. The bigger Broadcom gets, the harder that calculation could become.
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"However, Broadcom's procurement volume has increased substantially compared with the past and is now roughly on par with NVIDIA's, which has strengthened its bargaining power." Broadcom’s volumes in 2027 will be massive. Many Taiwanese sources say TPU volumes will exceed NVIDIA’s in 2027.
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I own both, so thankfully I don’t actually have to choose. But for my next dollar, AVGO. Anyone following me knows how much conviction I have in $VRT. I like owning the power and cooling infrastructure that has to work regardless of whose chips end up inside the datacenter. Every new installation also gives Vertiv an opportunity to earn service revenue for years. There is a lot to like about that business. But at these levels, I think $AVGO offers the better return opportunity. The debate around customers designing their own chips often seems to assume that Broadcom’s role disappears as those customers become more capable. I don’t buy that. Doing more design work internally and still needing Broadcom to help get the chip into production can coexist. My view is that the market is underestimating how much Broadcom can earn as these programs scale. It may take another couple of reports before that becomes clearer, and I’m happy to keep accumulating while we wait.
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@jpinsights If u had to choose between AVGO and VRT. Which stock are u going with??
$AVGO really stands out as one of the best opportunies right now.
The most important line from the $AVGO call was not the quarter. AI revenue: $58B this year. $115B guided next year. $230B the year after. Management is guiding 4x in two years, and the stock still trades around 19x forward. That gap is the trade.
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I think Markos brings up a very good point here. It’s something I’ve talked about a lot with $VRT: getting more compute out of the power already available becomes more important as the power bottleneck gets tighter. The Munters/ZutaCore example is interesting. These are modelled results, but you can see why an operator would be interested in freeing up power for more servers. I still expect spending per MW to rise as cooling requirements become more demanding. But as a Vertiv shareholder, I also want to follow what companies like these are developing. There’s money to be made here, and Vertiv has to keep earning its share.
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I see a lot of posts about power these days and how much we’re going to need, but much less about the optimisation everybody is working on. After our conversations with APR Technologies, ZutaCore, and Accelsius with different cooling solutions, I think the cooling efficiency of next-generation AI data centres will improve significantly. The ZutaCore/Munters comparison gives a sense of the potential: modelled annual cooling energy roughly 74% below its specified single-phase chilled-water baseline, with partial PUE falling from 1.115 to 1.03. Just to be clear, this is cooling-energy savings, not a 74% reduction in the facility’s total electricity consumption. But it would still be a huge step. The figures are modelled for a particular design and climate, with a reference-design proof of concept planned for Q1 2027. From our liquid-cooling sector research, we see how much time, energy and engineering effort is being committed to solving thermal issues. Accelsius reported B200 server benchmarks in which its two-phase system matched the single-phase baseline’s thermal performance with facility water at 54°C rather than 45°C. Warmer water gives operators more opportunity to reject heat without running energy-intensive chillers. Accelsius benchmark Part of APR’s approach is local coolant control. Management described directing coolant towards hotspots to reduce pumping energy and improve heat transfer at the chip interface. These designs target energy savings, thermal control and, depending on the system, opportunities to reduce cooling infrastructure and CAPEX. If you look at the route to market, there are interesting options for how these technologies could scale. In our call with APR, management said that even when large companies send their best engineers, they still need to teach them how to use and integrate the technology at a really deep level. Management stressed the need to get involved early in the hardware design, helping with simulations, coolant selection and materials. To me, that gives these niche players significant strategic value as partners to server manufacturers and chip designers. There’s a real specialist edge here that’s what we’ve gathered from multiple calls. So I see specialists teaming up with larger partners as a likely route, alongside potential M&A. Time to market is still something we’re researching. We have follow-up calls planned with these companies, but also with a few major players to look at it from their side. The combination of commercial scale and getting more compute out of the electricity a site can access is really interesting in these times. Lowering cooling overhead can leave more power available for running the servers. In my view, this sector is still very undercovered by analysts and people on X. $NVDA $NBIS $IREN $VRT
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I have been saying for a while that I think the market is underestimating how far ahead $AVGO's AI customers are already committing capital and Antrophics latest disclore is another thing pointing in that direction. Anthropic's confidential IPO prospectus reportedly shows $161.2B of Broadcom-related equipment lease obligations, largely non-cancelable. That is around 31% of Anthropic's $518B of total AI infrastructure commitments over the coming decade. $161B! I obviously would NOT put that number directly into a Broadcom revenue model. "Broadcom-related equipment" is not the same thing as Broadcom revenue, and we don't know the economics behind every dollar. But this connects almost perfectly with what I have been writing about Broadcom. Back in June, when FY2028 consensus revenue was around $229B, my own scenario came out closer to $272B. Since then we have seen more custom accelerator customers, larger cluster plans, stronger networking demand and increasingly long-term infrastructure commitments. And Anthropic is especially interesting because this is one of the customers people have worried could eventually bring more silicon work in-house. But customers can build more internal design capability while still depending heavily on Broadcom for IP, implementation, packaging, networking and getting enormous chips manufactured at scale. Those things are not mutually exclusive. $161.2B of Broadcom-related equipment obligations certainly doesn't look like a customer preparing to walk away. This is why I remain very comfortable accumulating $AVGO around these levels.
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Free posts can be just as good as paid ones if you find accounts that help you cut through the noise. I added to my $CRDO position at around $163 late last week. It’s now at $175, but still nowhere near a price where I’d even consider trimming.
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I’ve added to my $CRDO because I think the next two quarters will make the H2 opportunity much harder to ignore. Why? Credo’s outlook for more than 85% revenue growth this fiscal year implies revenue above roughly $2.47B. Q1 delivered $479M, and Q2 guidance is $525–535M. Using the Q2 midpoint, that gives us about $1.01B in the first half. To reach 85% growth, Credo then needs roughly $1.46B in H2. About 45% more revenue than H1. That acceleration is already embedded in management’s outlook. For a sense of the quarterly progression, approximately $655M in Q3 and $806M in Q4 would get them there. These are my illustrative numbers, not quarterly guidance from Credo. And if we hang on to the Q4 figure. We’re looking at a business that just reported $479M in quarterly revenue, with an annual outlook that could support an exit quarter above $800M. That’s why I struggle with putting so much weight on whether Q1 beat expectations by enough. My investment case has been built around the larger revenue ramp still ahead, and management raised its full-year growth outlook after reporting Q1. The profitability is another reason I’m bullish. Q1 non-GAAP gross margin was 68%, with Q2 guided to 67–69%. At that level, an additional $100M in quarterly revenue produces roughly $68M in gross profit before operating expenses, assuming the margin holds. So I’m thinking about what earnings could look like as those larger revenue quarters arrive. There is considerably more earning power in an $800M quarter than a $479M quarter, even without assuming any gross margin expansion. Customer timing is the main execution risk I’m watching given how much revenue sits in H2. But my expectation is that the ramp happens, and I see room for Credo to exceed the full-year outlook. I’ve added because I want to own more of the business before those quarters arrive. By then, we’ll be debating what comes after an entirely different revenue base.
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