Day: February 3, 2026

Amkor beat with record $1.9B Q2 sales, citing Computing as a primary driver days after a $1.5B advanced packaging partnership with Nvidia.

AI compute doesn't stop at silicon: the packaging layer is capturing its own share of the spend. $AMKR

Orbital compute is a full-stack engineering problem with many contributors across the design phase and supply chain.

Awesome to talk through the problem areas and hear who's poised to win beyond SpaceX with @StockSavvyShay.

Pod going up on YT tomorrow!

Above the Line launches tomorrow. First up: @BrendanBurkeX on data centers in orbit.

The analyst brings the research reports and the data. Shay brings the part the analyst cannot: which tickers sit on every layer of the stack, and what that means for your portfolio.

BofA calls the EU semiconductor sell-off a compelling entry point, noting the SOX has underperformed the S&P 500 by about 18% off its peak.

Wafer fab equipment spend tracking toward $250 billion in 2028 is the build-out this correction is discounting. $ASML

CXMT, China's largest maker of memory chips, is now a public company after debuting on the Chinese market this week.

The stock rose 466% on day one, lifting the company's worth past Intel $INTC to roughly $500 billion.

Nvidia is weighing roughly $250B in guarantees tied to OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, part of a project that could top $500B.

Nvidia is increasingly the credit backstop for its own demand, pulling customer risk onto its balance sheet as the build-out scales. $NVDA

"There's gold in them hills."

Daniel Newman on episode 50, on the $11.7T cumulative AI capex bull case through 2030: buy the companies earning through the buildout and stop grading them every trading day.

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