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July 2026 · 25 mentions
Jul 17
Serenity — @johnoao CPO hasn’t scaled up yet. Lot of their earnings come from 2028 TAM for FAU.
There’s just a lot of uncertainty recently due to CPO delay reports and $GLW glass bridge. htt…↗
Jul 16
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Dropped $100K into the market here into a fresh "I bought the dip" account.
Risk reward looks fantastic to just go long a big list of my favorite stocks, some down 30-50%. I see…↗
Jul 14
Alex A.C. — Seeing the HUGE amount of Optic Fiber that the AI Data Centers will consume..... I think I'm brave enough to say that $GLW will pring $$$ 😉
Remember that the 'Fiber segment' for…↗
Jul 13
Serenity — Just a semi recap TLDR:
- $GLW glass bridge per Morgan Stanley has potential, but hard to displace FAU (like FOCI) in short term
- $SPCX Starlink Gen 3 is scaling to 100,000 unit…↗
Jul 13
Gaetano — As we go into Photonics earning season...
$AEHR $NOK $AXT $AAOI $GLW
We are going to have lots of great opportunities
Especially if we go into them 30-40% off highs
What names…↗
Jul 12
Trade Whisperer — AI is still in diapers. Still crawling.
Everyone is debating today's AI.
I'm investing in tomorrow's AI.
Imagine the AI adulthood.
Go Long.
$MU $DRAM $SNDK $SKHY $TSM $NVDA $LITE…↗
Jul 11
Trade Whisperer — $GLW No light, no cluster. No fiber, no AI. Meta locked in. Amazon locked in. 2026 Sold Out.
Blue candles carried it here but getting noisy lately. $194 is loaded with huge volume…↗
Jul 10
Alex A.C. — @aleabitoreddit Remember guys $GLW will also play an important role in CPO!!↗
Jul 10
Evergreen Capital — With the emergence of $SPCX and $META, the Western frontier is on the verge of expanding from 3 to 5 players. This is a phenomenal development that should have a meaningfully posit…↗
Jul 9
Alex A.C. — AI Photonics
Still to confirm the sources of the data, but looks to me very interesting 🧐
Weight of the different elements involved in CPO by Price and Quantity.
"Optical Engin…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — There is one looming bear case for Photonics
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $SIVE
That this is cyclical and will end up in oversupply.
With lots of the focus on lasers/transceivers.
My goal…↗
Jul 9
PhotonBull — Data centers are hitting the physical limits of copper. Goldman sees AI optical component spend growing from $15B in 2026 to $154B by 2028, and NVIDIA just committed $2B each to Co…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — Again, this was a very positive update
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN $NOK etc.↗
Jul 9
InvestmentGuru — buying opportunity in market
Photonics $AAOI $AXTI $COHR $GLW $NOK
Space $RKLB $ASTS $SPCX $RDW $SATL
NeoCloud $NBIS $CRWV $CIFR $APLD $IREN $HIVE $BTDR
Energy $OKLO $SMR $EOSE…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — This is a really big deal, and it needs to be understood.
$AAOI $SIVE $AXTi $LITE $GLW $NOK etc.
Much of the run up in the Photonics basket was due to the fact they many of these…↗
Jul 8
Gaetano — If you care about Photonics, read this
$AXTI $SIVE $LITE $COHR $GLW $AAOI etc.
There are lots of important updates here
The one I want to talk about in this post is InP substrate…↗
Jul 8
Gaetano — That run up in $GLW was unprecedented.
And way too much too soon.
It went way above me 12 month base case and was approaching my 12 month bull case
But at $180...
What do you…↗
Jul 6
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $20M trade update.
I just updated my "Photonics Is Next" AI infra portfolio on @joinautopilot followed by 3300+ U.S. retail investors and $21.9M in connected assets as of 7/6.
Th…↗
Jul 6
InvestmentGuru — Semis & AI Infra Stocks Rally Overnight
Strong broad-based move across memory, optical, and semiconductor names in overnight trading.
Memory / Storage
$SNDK jumps ~10%
$MU +7%…↗
Jul 5
Gaetano — It's clear that people are getting interested...
So in this article I talk about some of my own recent buys. I took a handfull of positions on Thursday.
I also discuss a wide ran…↗
Serenity — Always a fun time seeing semi markets crash from Bloomberg report framing once again…
UBS analyst on $META report: “this is not new news”.
Regardless:
$AEHR down -18.3%
$AAOI do…↗
Jul 1
InvestmentGuru — Today’s selloff in AI infrastructure stocks looks more like a rotation in sentiment than the end of the AI story.
Reports that $META plans to lease excess cloud-computing capacit…↗
Jul 1
InvestmentGuru — $GLW one of those days https://t.co/zBUon5OXzw↗
Jul 1
Gaetano — Awesome article on $GLW
They are so relevant to many future architectures in the infra buildout↗
June 2026 · 68 mentions
Jun 30
Tradable Astronaut — Best structures from the heatmap, cross-referenced against RS leaders.
$GEV lean pin, 1,150 floor, 1,200 ceiling target, stacking nodes to 1,420.
$AMAT ceilings stacked to 800.
$G…↗
Jun 30
TheValueist — $GLW absolutely rerating AGAIN. If you have been following me for some time, you know GLW has been one of my core longs, outside of $NVDA $MU $SNDK $LITE , since the middle of last…↗
Jun 30
TheValueist — $GLW Corning: The AI Optical Infrastructure Springboard Strategy. Investment Thesis. New: 6/29/26.
Corning has repositioned a traditional materials manufacturer into a critical su…↗
Gaetano — Dang, $AAOI had the most mentions!
I'd have to agree, I do believe it is one of the most asymmetric plays out there that I would ever hold any significant amount of money in. Yes…↗
Alex A.C. — @crux_capital_ $AAOI
$LITE (yes, at lows/mid-$800 s, I'd buy more LITE)
$GLW / $NOK↗
May 30
Trade Whisperer — Everyone is talking about CPO but nobody is actually talking about CPO. Most CPO TAM talk is just components, lasers and photonics. Pretty strange if you ask me.
CPO stands for Co…
April 2026 · 43 mentions
Apr 30
Gaetano — My focus this week is earnings
$GLW $SANM $VIAV $AXTI $COHU etc.
While there are a handful of new ideas I want to explore, I'll save that for the weekend
This week it's all about…↗
Apr 29
Gaetano — While there are many exciting smaller companies with interesting positioning
I still like to be heavily concentrated in my optics port in companies that are performing well right…↗
Apr 29
Gaetano — I am so curious on the event next week $GLW
They were teasing new products HARD
Definitely think scale-up will be a big feature
From the call it sounds like this is getting pul…↗
Gaetano — The excitement around $AAOI is palpable
This was a name that for the most part sat on the sidelines of the optical supercycle while others like $LITE $COHR $GLW etc. ripped
I thi…↗
Feb 27
IvanaSPEAR — The big debate: Optics vs. Copper
$COHR $LITE $GLW
vs.
$APH $ALAB $CRDO
Detailed thoughts below 👇 https://t.co/jQ2I5fTksA↗
Feb 27
Gaetano — 🚨How I construct my Photonics portfolio
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW etc.
For me, diversity is the game.
Different parts of the stack have different timelines and catalysts and…↗
Feb 26
Jason Luongo — Big Tech just committed $650B+ in 2026 capex.
Here's how that money flows through every layer of the AI stack:
Compute: GPUs and Accelerators
$NVDA - Blackwell shipping now, Rubi…
January 2026 · 13 mentions
Jan 28
TheValueist — $GLW EXECUTIVE CALL SUMMARY: Corning Incorporated (01/28/26)
Corning reported a strong Q4 2025 close and used the call to materially reframe the forward narrative from “Springboar…↗
Jan 28
TheValueist — $GLW $APH The Global Optical Fiber Supply Chain and GAI Infrastructure Boom.↗
Jan 27
Shay Boloor — Great to be featured in Fortune today discussing the $6B $META + $GLW deal.
Every AI buildout eventually hits a physical limit. GPUs led to power constraints, power led to copper…↗
Gaetano — 🚨Layer 2B drops tomorrow at 7:30am EST.
$ASPI $XOM $GLW $ALMU $LEU $CRS
Layer 2B focuses on the physical materials underneath AI hardware and why they matter more as systems scal…↗
— Last week I updated my mock Optics ETF
$AAOI $SIVE $GLW $CIEN $NOK $COHR
I use this, along with 12/24 month financial modeling
To support the research behind the companies I disc…
Gaetano — @TristanMacinnes @TomorrowXSummit @GavinSBaker Just send $glw to 300↗
Jun 29
Trade Whisperer — $GLW Blue Candle: +35% Pop.
Look at the volume. The week after the Blue candle. As if it predicted what was coming.
Best daily gain since January. Last time this happened, the b…↗
Jun 29
Gaetano — $GLW absolutely insane strength
So glad to see the thesis playing out.
It took a little bit. But the reward is worth it!↗
Jun 29
Trade Whisperer — $GLW $131 → $234. All Time High.
$103 value added since I initiated the thesis/thread. The simplest thesis in the portfolio. Pure fiber play. When the thesis is easy to understand…↗
Jun 29
Gaetano — I posted an update on $GLW
If you invest in Corning, or you are interested in it
Please read!
https://t.co/ksTUIkHRwu↗
Jun 29
TheValueist — $GLW $LITE $COHR $AAOI This is the more verbatim Chinese-to-English version, not the cleaned explainer. I preserved the spoken order and filler much more closely, with only obvious…↗
Jun 29
TheValueist — $GLW $LITE $COHR $AAOI My Analyst Agent rebuilt this video in English. Some great insights in here.
Note: this is a cleaned/technical English translation, not lip-sync and not a c…↗
Jun 29
InvestmentGuru — Overnight Movers:
Optical communication rebounds:
• $GLW +3%
• $CRDO +2%
Memory stocks continue to recover:
• $MU
• $SNDK
• $WDC
• $STX
(All +1%+)
$CBRS +6% after last week’s 2…↗
Jun 28
Gaetano — $GLW was the best performing 'optics' stock last week
It is one of my largest holdings
If you want to learn more about it, read this article!↗
Jun 28
Alex A.C. — $GLW 💘 Glass Substrates
Never forget who was bullish Glass Substrates when a lot of "experts" were saying that "it's a thing from 2031 on" LOOL 😌↗
Jun 25
Frenchie — @michaelsikand @GavinSBaker Surprised not to see $GLW↗
Gaetano — $GLW hit $227 this morning!
Slammed through ATH.
Let’s see what happens over the coming days
I just love to see the respect in this name↗
Jun 24
TheValueist — $GLW all-time high today. It keeps on going. I'm long GLW 1/21/28 c200 and will probably roll up. Still lots and lots more to go in the coming decade. https://t.co/dUXYhp6WAx↗
Jun 24
Trade Whisperer — $GLW +9.6% $ASX +6.2% 🤷♂️
Interconnect & Z-Axis bottleneck
Choose your notifications wisely https://t.co/hxZbBhpXjs↗
Jun 24
Gaetano — $GLW gains are helping buffer my $AAOI pains 🤣
Very interesting relative strength from $GLW↗
Jun 22
Gaetano — It is really nice to see the strength in optics today
$GLW $COHR $VIAV $SMTC $AAOI $NOK etc.
Especially nice to see $GLW and $COHR relative strength
I believe that these are two…↗
Jun 21
Gaetano — The optical supercycle!
$LITE $COHR $GLW $AAOI $SIVE
What's your favorite way to play?↗
Jun 20
Alex A.C. — Go $GLW guys if you want to participate in the Photonics scale-up 😉↗
Jun 20
Michael | Hypermarkets — $SPY AI Infrastructure — YTD Returns & Why They will keep going higher...
1. $SNDK +820.36% — Spun off from Western Digital, pure-play NAND flash exposure. AI data centers need ma…↗
Jun 18
Gaetano — We are seeing a fragmentation in the connectivity sector
Stronger - $SMTC $GLW $ALAB $CRDO $MTSI $MXL $MRVL
Weaker - $LITE $AAOI $FN $NOK $CIEN $IQE $AXTI $SIVE
Obviously this…↗
Jun 18
Gaetano — Could be a reason we are seeing $GLW momentum↗
Jun 18
Trade Whisperer — @kay83227648 So missed $TSM $AMD $INTC $ARM $SIMO $ASX $AMKR $GLW $LITE $COHR? cpu interconnect z-axis trades with notifications on?↗
Alex A.C. — In CPO (according to GS), value of Fiber+FAUs is x2 the value of Laser content! 😱
The Optical Engine is the major part of the value, but now it's not in the Transceiver!
$LITE $…↗
Jun 18
Gaetano — $GLW is a company exposed to the whole optical supercycle
> If pluggables stay for longer, $GLW gets paid
> If NPO or CPO get pulled forward, $GLW gets paid
> If data centers bec…↗
Jun 17
Alex A.C. — Do you remember guys how the Memory giga cycle started?
"those matrix multiplications, the base of the AI, will use a lot of memory don't you think? Let's buy Memory stocks...."…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — $CSCO just gave us AI networking bulls a new datapoint...
A single agentic task can generate 450% more network traffic than a human doing the same work.
Roughly 70% of that traff…↗
Jun 17
Alex A.C. — Potential future Taiwanese and Chinese competition against $GLW Corning in the fiber, FAU, glass substrates landscape
As I commented back in the day, will be a tight Market but n…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — The Optics sector momentum won't last forever...
There will be winners and losers
Those that outlast the rest and those that get crushed
So my goal is to find the companies that…↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — When I think of all the ways this could go
My brain keeps thinking $GLW is such a durable / well positioned company↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — If you care about $LITE $COHR $NOK $GLW $CIEN
Then bookmark and read this when you can!↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — @dankdrankkz I play scale across via $CIEN and $NOK primarily but also $COHR $LITE $MRVL and $GLW↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — $GLW Is not the highest torque
But it is one of my favorite companies
And a large position for me
I do believe it is very durable, regardless of what direction the AI buildout m…↗
Alex A.C. — "What the Street missed in the whole controversy is that whether it is NPO or CPO, the optical content remains unchanged. It is only a question of how the packaging works and the d…↗
Jun 12
Trade Whisperer — "However much capacity you add, NVIDIA will consume it" -Jensen Huang
$MU $DRAM $SNDK $GLW $LITE $COHR $TSM $NVDA https://t.co/PhakQp5pkf↗
Jun 10
Trade Whisperer — $GLW $AMZN Amazon Signed Multibillion-Dollar Fiber Optics Supply Agreement With Corning
In January, Corning signed a multiyear $6 billion agreement with Meta Platforms to expand i…↗
Jun 9
amit — A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
Here’s a full recap:
$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang pushed back on the recent stock market selloff, saying NVIDIA is still at the begi…↗
Jun 8
Gaetano — One of my favorite strategies...
Bookmark this!
I laid out how I deal with the volatility the other day.
And I wanted to share it here.
I am not that good with timing index vo…↗
Jun 8
Alex A.C. — $AMZN 💘 $GLW
A new Win for Corning😌 More to come, bc. Optics/Photonics is the next big (AI) thing 🙌 https://t.co/7FMwAOB398↗
Jun 8
TheValueist — $GLW - the gift that keeps on giving.
(Dow Jones) -- https://t.co/SpqvHNUxpK said it entered a multibillion-dollar agreement with Corning to get optical fiber, cable and connectiv…↗
Jun 8
Shay Boloor — $AMZN announced a multibillion-dollar deal with $GLW to supply optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions for its U.S. data center buildout.
The deal expands Amazon’s domesti…↗
Jun 7
Gaetano — What happens next?
A few of my favorite companies hit my trendline on Fri
Names like $glw $smtc $nok $viav all hit
So now what?
Do they respect it or knife through?
I think th…↗
Jun 7
Alex A.C. — Glass substrates not so far:
"TSMC plans to mass-produce CoPoS glass interposers in 2028-2029; Samsung targets 2027; SK Absolics aims for 2026 mass production in the US; and Rapid…↗
Jun 6
Alex A.C. — @semivision_tw FAUs and fibers will be manufactured by $GLW 😌↗
Jun 4
Gaetano — Why $LITE $COHR $NOK $GLW $CIEN ...
The chain looks like this:
> AI clusters spread across physical locations.
> Scale-across DCI grows.
> Multi-rail architectures ramp.
> Line s…↗
Trade Whisperer — @dylanlep2 I am holding all 6. I have $TSM $COHR $LITE $GLW too.
Smaller positions on software for $NOW, $PLTR, $RDDT, $MSFT↗
Jun 4
Jason Luongo — These are 10 of my top buys if we get a substantial pullback in the markets:
$HOOD - fintech
$IREN - AI data centers
$TE - solar manufacturing
$MP - rare earth materials
$SMR - sm…↗
Alex A.C. — Real Corning $GLW Glass Substrate with already IOX waveguides and TGV 🤩🤩
[Pic source: IMAPS 2022 - 55th International Symposium on Microelectronics] https://t.co/AcGW2DvD47↗
Jun 3
Alex A.C. — Remember guys, Corning $GLW will be a player in CPO with several products and Glass Substrates:
"Corning’s IOX (Ion-exchange) waveguide [on Glass Substrate]. The light path runs:…↗
Gaetano — There are lots of ways to make money
One of my favorites is to take advantage of market rotations causing selloffs.
I have a basket of companies that I strongly believe in.
So w…↗
Jun 2
Trade Whisperer — $GLW The easiest fiber optics thesis to understand. And one of the most compelling.
AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than standard server designs. Glass shortages are p…↗
Jun 2
Trade Whisperer — @martingar_ I don't know but I lite $LITE $COHR $GLW↗
Gaetano — @SixSigmaCapital Hey some of these make money!! My poor $glw↗
May 29
Alex A.C. — AI Photonics
- $MRVL "CPO units [in the Market] from 1MM in 2025 to more than 100 MM by 2030"
- Foxconn: "We will ship around 10k CPO units this year and the shipment next year w…↗
Alex A.C. — Fren Gaetano is bullish Photonics Scale-across. I've read about it and I agree in general (can't model the scale though)
InP Laser companies like $LITE are already very expensive,…↗
May 28
InvestmentGuru — THE $42 BILLION BROADBAND SUPER CYCLE IS JUST GETTING STARTED -
$HLIT $CALX $CLFD $ADTN $DY $GLW $MTZ $PWR $COHR $AAOI $POET
Everyone is chasing AI semiconductors, GPU clusters,…↗
Trade Whisperer — @paul_d2 I just own $LITE $GLW $COHR $TSM $ASX↗
May 26
Alex A.C. — According to Zephyr, the Chinese going into NPO imminently 😱🔥🔥
Optics/Photonics bottlenecks 🚀🪐
$LITE $AAOI $GLW $SOI↗
May 25
Gaetano — If you haven't read this, you should! $GLW
Corning is one of my largest positions
It doesn't have the highest torque
But I believe it will be a steady compounder over time
NFA↗
May 24
Raging Capital Ventures — This worked for a quick 18 hours, but it has been miserable since. No longer short $GLW for now, but still involved with the others.↗
May 23
Jason's Chips — Given the popularity of this article, I will definitely be doing a CPO Supply Chain 102.
Assembly ( $HIMX, FOCI), Test ( $AEHR, $TER), Fiber ($GLW), even ferrules (Mipox, Seikoh G…↗
May 22
Alex A.C. — "Optical interconnects will first be used in switches and XPUs"
CPO soon in Switches
$GLW $LITE
https://t.co/AaKVfRwkSk↗
May 22
TheValueist — $GFS opening to a strong follow-on morning, up ~8% to an all-time high. GFS will be my $GLW trade of 2027. Both down the fairway longs at their respective moments for the GAI infra…↗
May 22
Trade Whisperer — @AsianbeBlazin $LITE $COHR $GLW are my picks.↗
May 21
Midas — AMD $AMD
Solaris $SEI
Intel $INTC
Core Scientific $CORZ
Bitdeer $BTDR
Micron $MU
Sandisk $SNDK
Babcock and Wilcox $BW
Cleanspark $CLSK
T1 Energy $TE
Bloom Energy $BE
ASML $ASML
Cor…↗
May 21
Midas — $20.2M of $AMD
$62.5M of Solaris $SEI
$8.9M of Intel $INTC
$389.1M of Core Scientific $CORZ
$29.8M of Bitdeer $BTDR
$5.9M of Micron $MU
$724.4M of Sandisk $SNDK
$19.9M of Babcock a…↗
May 20
Gaetano — $GLW
They told us they have 2 deals similar in duration and size as the $META one they signed earlier this year
That contract was a major catalyst for Corning
And they have 2 mo…↗
May 20
Trade Whisperer — $NVDA has made over $18 billion in strategic infrastructure investments on in less than 6 months.
$GLW $3.2B. Three new US optical manufacturing plants. AI fiber capacity expandin…↗
May 20
Jason Luongo — 5. $GLW - Corning
Q1 core sales $4.35B, up 18% YoY. Optical Communications segment revenue surged 36% to $1.8B with segment income up 93%. Signed two new hyperscaler deals matchin…↗
May 20
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL I/O 2026 made it clear that Gemini is becoming the operating layer across Search, Android, Chrome, Workspace and agent workflows.
If Google shows real AI Search monetizatio…↗
May 20
Gaetano — One of my main takeaways $GLW
During their investor event, they talked about Optical content per GPU
Corning can grow faster than GPU growth if optical content per GPU rises.
“…↗
May 20
Trade Whisperer — The most expensive model, Claude, is winning the Enterprise AI race.
Golden Cross
$MU $DRAM $SNDK $AMD $INTC $LITE $GLW $TSM https://t.co/InSaunCNkV↗
May 19
Gaetano — Following up on Scale Across...
$LITE $CIEN $COHR $GLW $NOK
Multi-Rail Means More Content Per Deployment
A rail is a parallel optical path across the network. A normal DCI or sc…↗
May 19
Dylan Patel — Breaking: Andrej Karpathy just filed his Q1 2026 13F.
Here's everything you need to know about his recent 13F Top 10 positions:
1. VanEck Semiconductor ETF - $SMH - [Put] — $2.04…↗
May 19
Alex A.C. — Optic fiber & related in the next years (CPO and Scale-out) will be, in my view, a HOT field (great growth and potential), but I don't think will be a bottleneck: there are sev…↗
May 19
Gaetano — I often get asked what my largest positions are
Well, here they are:
$LITE
$COHR
$CIEN
$NOK
$GLW
$AAOI
These make up a majority of my portfolio
If you want to learn:
> wha…↗
May 19
Gaetano — I am VERY bullish on scale-across
$CIEN $NOK $LITE $COHR $GLW $SMOP
Every company over the last few weeks has been hammering the point here
They are seeing so much demand in the…↗
May 19
Trade Whisperer — $GLW AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers, severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year
Major Chinese manufacturers (H…↗
May 18
Daniel Koss — @crux_capital_ Careful, Leopold has 0.15% in $GLW puts! 😂↗
Michael | Hypermarkets — 🟢 NEW POSITIONS (he's now long the chip complex)
$AMD MI450 GPU cycle incoming, hyperscaler locked
$NVDA still buying Blackwell dips
$MU HBM4 memory supercycle play
$TSM TSMC,…↗
May 18
Daniel Koss — Leopold Aschenbrenner's 13F finally dropped and X is already full of the DUMBEST interpretations possible!
Please read this.
1. The 13F shows what the fund held as of quarter-end…↗
May 18
Shay Boloor — LEOPOLD’S SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 13F IS OUT
New positions included $NVDA, $AMD, $INTC, $TSM, $ASML, $MU, $SMH, $GLW, $HIVE, $TE and $SHAZ.
Added to AI power and compute names incl…↗
May 18
InvestmentGuru — Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AGI fund is making one massive bet:
The AI bottleneck isn’t software anymore.
It’s Power + Compute + Infrastructure.
Top holdings…↗
May 18
Gaetano — You can make a lot of money trading high spec stocks
In the NYSE/NASDAQ optics space that's typically $LWLG $POET $ALMU
Personally, I can't go into any of these with any meaning…↗
May 16
Mike Investing — SpaceX $SPCX is officially set to go public on June 12.
This will be the largest IPO in history, & will cause a total reprice amongst the entire space sector.
These are the criti…↗
May 16
InvestmentGuru — SpaceX $SPCX IPO — June 12.
Biggest IPO in history. Know your map.
🛸 Launch
→ $RKLB $FLY
🛰️ Imaging
→ $PL $SATL $BKSY $SPIR $HAWK $GSAT
📡 Satellite Comms
→ $ASTS $IRDM $VSAT…↗
May 13
Michael | Hypermarkets — In 2026, $NVDA put $15,000,000,000 in 7 AI super companies so far.
Here's exactly why they partnered with these companies:
$MRVL Marvell → AI scaling is now bottlenecked by netwo…↗
May 13
InvestmentGuru — 15 of my favorite AI infrastructure plays in this market right now:
$MU
$AMD
$INTC
$SNDK
$AAOI
$MRAM
$PENG
$MXL
$CRDO
$MRVL
$GLW
$NOK
$CEVA
$GFS
From…↗
May 12
InvestmentGuru — $GLW — Deep Dive & Long-Term Plan
Corning isn’t a glass company anymore. It’s becoming the optical backbone of the entire AI infrastructure buildout.
Here’s everything you need to…↗
May 12
InvestmentGuru — The “Inflation Era” of AI Compute is Breaking Out Across the Board
Every layer of the AI infrastructure stack is seeing demand explosion — and the winners aren’t just $NVDA.
Here’s…↗
May 12
amit — A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
Here’s a full recap:
1. The $SPX S&P 500 and $QQQ Nasdaq closed at fresh all-time highs today, even with oil spiking and U.S.-…↗
May 11
Gaetano — Ok, enough celebrating today
We need to continue to find asymmetric plays
I believe I found one in Europe.
I am always looking for companies that have an under appreciated, grow…↗
May 11
Trade Whisperer — $GLW +70% since the thesis dropped here.
Pure fiber glass for optics. The simplest thesis in the space. While everyone chased transceiver and laser names, nobody was talking about…↗
May 11
amit — @JackPrescottX i really do believe in it
a name grabbing my attention right now is $GLW
it’s run a ton, I’d be VERY happy to buy it 20% lower which is the only reason I’d buy it…↗
May 11
Gaetano — We need to remind Photonics companies they are overvalued
They shouldn't keep going up
$LITE ATH
$COHR ATH
$SMTC ATH
$AAOI ATH
$CIEN ATH
$GLW ATH
$ALMU ATH
$HUBN ATH
$AEHR ATH…↗
May 11
rubicon59 — $GLW +8% in a few days beyond the initial $NVDA pop, but, frankly, not sure the valuation makes any sense on the projected fundamentals.↗
TheValueist — $GLW the gift that keeps on giving. All-time high today up +10%. Wendell, you will forever be my boy. https://t.co/fqNF6JCVhn↗
May 11
Gaetano — $200 Tap! $GLW
What a strong stock and even better company
Working on 3 articles right now and a full Corning analysis of the last couple weeks is one of them↗
May 11
InvestmentGuru — $MU $AMD $INTC $P $MRAM $MXL $CEVA $PENG $HIMX $ON $GFS $GLW $NOK
Some of the better-looking setups in this market right now.
Semiconductor, connectivity, memory, optical, an…↗
May 10
Shay Boloor — $NVDA has committed more than $40B to equity investments this year alone:
• OpenAI $30B
• $GLW ~$3.2B
• $IREN ~$2.1B
• $MRVL ~$2B
• $LITE ~$2B
• $COHR ~$2B
• $CRWV ~$2B
• $NBIS ~$…↗
May 10
Serenity — “Leading” Glass Substrate players that were name dropped if you’re curious:
• $LPK — TGV Equipment
• $GLW — Glass Materials
• $ASGLY (5201 T)— Glass Materials
• $NIDGY (5214 T) —…↗
May 9
Tradable Astronaut — What members are posting this week.
$TSLA $450 calls: +97%.
$AAPL $300 calls: +56% and +77%.
$GLW $165 calls: +49%.
$HIMX $20 calls: +640%.
$MRAM commons: +26.5%.
One member…↗
May 9
InvestmentGuru — The Complete Semiconductor Playbook — AI Supercycle 2026
The AI trade is no longer one ticker. It’s a full stack. Here’s every layer:
💾 MEMORY
$MU · $WDC · $STX · $SNDK · $AM…↗
May 9
Shay Boloor — Jensen Huang called AI the “single largest infrastructure buildout in human history” while discussing $NVDA partnership with $GLW.
He pointed to faster interconnects, larger compu…↗
May 9
Gaetano — I have written a lot about $GLW the past 2 weeks
It is now one of my largest positions
There is so much to discuss, so I am working on a write up to explain everything
A rehash…↗
May 8
Gaetano — We're seeing a trend with earnings
Companies that are already viewed from the market as having significant optics exposure are dropping 10-15%
Like $LITE $COHR $AAOI $FN $GLW…↗
Alex A.C. — @PhotonCap Corning $GLW , a possible lows P/E 60s this very year 2026, with the story only starting
When I bought $LITE , I did it assuming a P/E 80s by FY2026; a x3 since then
I'…↗
May 7
Wayne Liang — $MSFT is planning to reconsider or even abandon their "100/100/0" target - matching 100% of hourly electricity use with renewable energy by 2030. The AI data center buildout is sim…↗
May 7
InvestmentGuru — Black swan innovations that could destroy today’s AI bottleneck trade (HBM, GPUs, power infrastructure):
Everyone is crowded into the same AI scarcity trade:
GPU scarcity → $NVDA…↗
May 7
Gaetano — Things I want to write about:
1 - $GLW full breakdown of their event today
2 - OCS supply chain + a potential new OCS pure play
3 - Multirail with $GLW $COHR $LITE $CIEN $NOK↗
May 7
Serenity — $LPK up 80% in the last two weeks. Not too shabby at ~$687M MC?
It's probably one of the cleaner ways to play the next Glass Substrate supercycle.
50-100 machines per customer a…↗
May 7
Trade Whisperer — @endyinvesting I am bullish on Advanced Packaging $TSM $AMKR $ASX $INTC and $GLW fiber glass but this is LONG time horizon.↗
May 6
Trade Whisperer — $GLW +13.3% Fiber Optics
Corning will increase its U.S. optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by 10x and expand U.S. fiber production capacity by more than 50%.
NVIDIA and…↗
May 6
BULL OF BRITAIN — THE SUPERCYCLE IS HERE. QUICK RUNDOWN BELOW ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAST MONTH
> Hyperscaler capex just got revised UP. $805B this year (+79% from 2024). $1.1T next year.
> A…↗
May 6
Alex A.C. — Corning $GLW
"They want to do $40 B in run rate by 2030" 🧐↗
May 6
Shay Boloor — $NVDA is up over 5% today as the market finally rewards Jensen’s AI infrastructure dealmaking.
These deals are basically a roadmap for where shortages are getting worse and which…↗
The Future Investors — $NVDA $GLW NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated have formed a long-term partnership to strengthen AI infrastructure in the United States 🤝
They plan to significantly expand optical fi…↗
May 6
TheValueist — Wendell Weeks is a well-known @HarvardHBS alumnus. I suspect there will be a new $GLW HBS case on the Springboard plan out in no time.
https://t.co/3XgxrabOt2↗
May 6
Gaetano — The markets very rarely give us opportunities like this $GLW↗
May 6
TheValueist — $GLW $NVDA Nvidia, Corning partner on massive optical fiber deal that may be a game changer for AI
https://t.co/67OYvQI0Th
Katie Tarasov (https://t.co/SBZjqHtv56)
Corning is ope…↗
May 6
Shay Boloor — $NVDA received warrants to buy up to 15M $GLW shares at $180 as part of its long-term partnership with Corning.
Corning also issued Nvidia a pre-funded warrant for up to 3M additi…↗
May 6
Jukan @COMPUTEX — NVIDIA announced a long-term partnership with Corning to strengthen U.S. AI infrastructure. Corning will build three new factories in the United States, increasing U.S. optical con…↗
May 6
Shay Boloor — $NVDA & $GLW announced a multiyear partnership to expand U.S.-made optical connectivity for AI factories.
Corning will 10x optical connectivity capacity, increase fiber produc…↗
May 6
Gaetano — $LITE and $NOK earnings are giving a major signal for $GLW.
GLW grows when AI networks need more fiber density.
> More buildings connected.
> More data centers linked.
> More cam…↗
May 5
Gaetano — My hopes are up $GLW
Is anyone else heavy in here going into tomorrow?↗
May 5
Gaetano — We've heard a lot about DCI this earnings cycle
From $GLW to $NOK to $FN
DCI is Data Center Interconnect. The optical/fiber layer connecting data centers, AI clusters, and campus…↗
May 4
Gaetano — $GLW Do we think they hit ATH after Wednesday?
I am expecting a significant TAM expansion↗
May 2
InvestmentGuru — The Full Optical AI Industry Chain:
1. IC Design & Manufacturing
(Where the brains are built)
ASIC / xPU / Photonic ICs
→ $NVDA $MRVL $AVGO $LITE $COHR $INTC $AMD $CSCO…↗
May 1
Jason Luongo — 3. $GLW - Corning (Passive Optics)
Every photon needs fiber to travel through. Corning's optical comms revenue hit $6.3B in 2025, up 35% YoY with data center revenue up 61%. Signe…↗
May 1
Trade Whisperer — $DRAM $TSM $LITE $COHR $GLW
Samsung just entered silicon photonics. First order. Mass production H2 2026.
TSMC saw this coming years ago.
-CoWoS. SoIC. Hybrid bonding. Now CPO.
-…↗
May 1
Tigris 会讲课教授是好老师 — Show me the money。审判日
在这个被高估值和中东地缘摩擦双重夹击下,四大巨头微软谷歌Meta亚马逊财报发布
云厂商关于 AI 资本开支走向,与实际商业变现的指导,是最重要的市场合理性估值的钢铁长城还是海市蜃楼。
特别是如何看产业链上 $VRT , $GEV , $GLW , $LTE , $AVGO ,还有最重要的Intel $INTC…↗
— My opinion on the best companies for every role in Photonics - from someone with 1000+ hours on the sector.
Layer 1 (Equipment): $AIXA
Layer 2 (Substrates / Raw Materials): $SOI…
Gaetano — I posted a full breakdown! $GLW
You'll want to read it
Great signal for Corning and the whole optics sector
Plus some really interesting teases for May 6th
https://t.co/xfuBaW3…↗
Apr 28
TheValueist — $GLW KEY READ-THROUGHS FROM CORNING Q1 2026 EARNINGS CALL
Corning’s Q1 2026 earnings call provides a high-signal cross-sector read-through into AI data center infrastructure, opti…↗
Apr 28
Gaetano — $GLW Just finished up the call
Some notes
>2 new hyperscaler deals (similar in size + duration as Meta)
> Lots of excitement around next week's event
> Will be discussing new pro…↗
Apr 28
TheValueist — $GLW (Bloomberg) -- Corning forecast core earnings per share for the second quarter of 73c to 77c.
SECOND QUARTER FORECAST
•Sees core EPS 73c to 77c, estimate 76c (Bloomberg Consen…↗
Apr 27
Michael | Hypermarkets — CHEATSHEAT and price targets for PHOTONICS STOCKS:
Here’s the full stack + WHY each matters + price targets 1 year from now:
1. MATERIALS & WAFERS
$AXTI — Enables indium phosp…↗
Apr 26
Shay Boloor — 2026 IS THE YEAR OF PHOTONICS
• $GLW glass fiber & cable infrastructure for optical networks
• $MRVL optical DSPs & custom interconnect silicon for AI clusters
• $CRDO retimers, D…↗
Apr 26
Gaetano — We've got ALOT of Photonics earnings this week...
Monday - $SANM
Tuesday - $GLW
Wednesday - $VIAV $FORM
Thursday - $LPK $AXTI $AIXA $COHU
There is going to be lots of money to…↗
Shay Boloor — THE SUPER BOWL OF EARNINGS IS NEXT WEEK
• Monday | $AMKR, $CDNS
• Tuesday | $HOOD, $SPOT, $GLW, $BE, $ENPH
• Wednesday | $AMZN, $MSFT, $META, $GOOGL, $QCOM, $SOFI, $LMND, $KLAC,…↗
Apr 24
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL TPU shift is now pulling demand across the full AI compute stack from silicon & packaging to optics, power & memory:
• CPU Architecture: $ARM
• Optical Circuit Switch: $COH…↗
Apr 21
Serenity — People nonstop ask me about $LPKK / $LPK for my opinion
Yes, I mentioned they're like a chokepoint for glass core substrates for LIDE (laser induced deep etching) way back when.…↗
Apr 21
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $COHR $AAOI $AXTI https://t.co/QgmilVpzIJ (ELASER)
The global AI optical transceiver market is projected to reach US$26 billion in 2026, up from US$16.5 billion in 2025…↗
Serenity — @M1nEe07 This is just stupid, I don't even own $GLW. Can I just post public information synthesis.↗
Apr 20
Serenity — Digitimes: $GLW leads glass core substrate vs. KCC and LX Glass
"Glass core substrates ... are key to next-generation advanced semiconductor packaging".
On top of its structural…↗
Apr 19
Gaetano — Photonics is a stack!
$AXTI $AIXA $TSEM $AEHR $LITE $GLW
Here is a clean map of the sector.
Please bookmark & share!
A laser, a photonic chip, a finished module, and a deployed…↗
Apr 19
InvestmentGuru — $GLW — Corning: The Fiber Glass Monopoly That Runs Under Every Data Center. Corning is the dominant fiber glass supplier — what the photonics supply chain calls a necessary materia…↗
Apr 19
Mike Investing — The upcoming $2T SpaceX IPO is about to cause a generational rally amongst the full space economy…
Your chance to enter these space sector names below before they squeeze will end…↗
Trade Whisperer — @chaosjuicebox I can't answer that question.
But here's how my portfolio looks like
$MU $TSM $DRAM $SNDK $LITE $GLW $ASX $AMKR $AMD $INTC. Order of importance, personally.↗
Apr 18
Trade Whisperer — @Rollneck Photonics are taking off because most are small caps. They are easily modulated by the sudden investments that come in. Now having said that, the need for optics is REAL…↗
Apr 18
Trade Whisperer — @danreese347 Good question. I shared the the outlook for Advanced Packaging a little here but more on Patreon.
I've been prioritizing $TSM over $AMKR $ASE $INTC but I am slowly s…↗
Apr 18
Shay Boloor — SPACE ECONOMY CHEAT SHEET
A SpaceX IPO likely forces the market to look beyond rockets and start repricing the full supply chain and infrastructure layer beneath the space economy…↗
Apr 16
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $COHR $TSM $ASX $AXTI $AAOI
“Scale up focused optical technologies, protocols, and switch architectures are foundational to building scalable, multi-rack, high performa…↗
Apr 16
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $COHR $AXTI $TSM $ASX
Tech titans have formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop an open, standardized specification for…↗
Apr 12
InvestmentGuru — PHOTONICS / OPTICAL STACK — THE FULL VALUE CHAIN
“The layer below the chips” — AI’s real bottleneck
Layer 1 — Materials
Foundation of everything (InP, fiber, wafers)
$AXTI $GLW $…↗
Apr 11
Shay Boloor — The AI Inference boom is now driving demand across the full compute stack from silicon & memory to optics, power, packaging & cloud:
• AI Silicon: $NVDA, $AMD, $AVGO, $INTC
• Foun…↗
Apr 10
Trade Whisperer — $GLW +19.4% last 5 days
Fiber Optics >> Copper for East-To-West AI Traffic https://t.co/rgFkA74tNI↗
Gaetano — "What photonics positions do you own?"
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $GLW $TSEM
I get this question often.
So I created a mock photonics ETF
To show how I view these companies in term…↗
Apr 8
Gaetano — The more I research $GLW
The more I realize I underestimated it↗
Apr 6
Trade Whisperer — You just dropped your entire IRA and 401k into $LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI $GLW $TSEM $FN
This is what your broker's "research" promised 🤣 https://t.co/aO4ViOTNEL↗
Apr 5
InvestmentGuru — Photonics
Lumentum, $LITE, is up +1,137% over the last 12 months, the 2nd-best performing stock in the S&P 500.
Over the same period, Applied Optoelectronics, $AAOI, is up +…↗
Apr 3
Trade Whisperer — Books become movies in a single prompt. Anyone can do it.
We are in the earliest innings of what AI will consume. Storage. Bandwidth. Glass. Light.
Can't be bullish enough on $MU…↗
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $COHR
Optics and Photonics On Fire 🔥 https://t.co/7K9gtXFc05↗
— PHOTONICS SECTOR SHOWING STRENGTH in this market
While the broader market bleeds ( $SPX -1.67%, $NDX -1.85%), the optical/photonics names are quietly holding green -
Here’s who’…
InvestmentGuru — Photonics: The Missing Layer Powering the AI Boom
Photonics — using light instead of electricity — is emerging as the solution.
Photonics Ecosystem
1️⃣ Silicon Photonics & Opti…↗
Mar 26
Jukan @COMPUTEX — >> Fiber Optic Prices Break to an All-Time High… Tight Supply Amid AI and Drone Demand (Shanghai Securities News)
• In March, with demand from both drones and AIDC construction ri…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — @AtlasShrug1 The supply chain map is just very interesting.
When a follower found likely $LITE OCS upstream suppliers on the glass wafer level alongside hundred billion dollar com…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — So just checked out the comments...
$P4O does look like a potential upstream $LITE supplier at a $34M MC.
How it likely maps:
-> Plan Optik $P4O (Glass Wafers)
-> Teledyne $TD…↗
Mar 24
Trade Whisperer — 60K of you decided $MU Memory and $PLTR Ontology were worth following.
By 100K, both will be top 10 companies in the world.
Let's keep building wealth together.
Next: $AMAT $L…↗
TheValueist — $GLW will reclaim all time highs and continue its upward march. They are the undisputed global leader in optical fiber and control over 50% global market share in certain of the mo…↗
The Future Investors — AI’s next bottleneck: data movement 🚀
Photonics is the solution 💡
Photonics has multiple layers. These stocks stand to benefit 👇
🔴 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟭: 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗠�…↗
Mar 20
InvestmentGuru — Where to concentrate in this market
NeoCloud
$IREN $CIFR $NBIS
Photonics
$COHR $LITE $POET $LWLG
Chips
$NVDA $MU $TSEM
Drone + Defence
$ONDS $KTOS $RCAT
Robotics +Automation…↗
Mar 20
Serenity — The Serenity Silicon Photonics / CPO ETF.
YTD Returns of Each Index Stock:
$IQE: +282.5%
$AXTI: +246.6%
Landmark: 167.54%
$AAOI: +157.37%
$SIVE: +113.08%
$SOI: +103.54%
$LITE: +…↗
InvestmentGuru — PRE-MARKET MOVERS
🟢 GAPPING UP (Momentum Names)
$SWMR +23% → Fresh IPO strength, AI drone + defense narrative catching fire
$KC +17% → Cloud pricing power expanding (Alibaba AI…↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — MARKET LEADERS EMERGING — FOLLOW THE MONEY, NOT THE NOISE
The market is clearly rotating into AI infrastructure, photonics, power, and defense — and these names are leading the mo…↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — $NVDA GTC Takeaways — Quick Hits
Fiber vs Copper = BOTH win
Jensen Huang made it clear: no full shift to optics. AI scale needs copper + fiber together.
Winners on balance:
$APH…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — GTC is live and the photonics basket is responding.
$TSEM leading the board at +11%.
$CIEN +5.1%.
$LITE +4.6%.
$MRVL +4.5%.
$COHR +3%.
The names catching the largest bids are…↗
Mar 16
Jason Luongo — Photonics is the hottest theme in the market right now.
Here’s every company you need to add to your watchlist:
Photonics / Lasers
$LITE $COHR $MTSI $AAOI $IPGP $POET
Optical Mo…↗
Mar 15
KawzInvests 🦑 — Photonics has quietly become one of the hottest sectors on FinX right now.
$LITE +800%.
$COHR +262%.
$AAOI +360%.
$GLW +175%.
$CIEN +400%.
This sector pushed me out of my com…↗
Mar 15
Gaetano — @TristanMacinnes You don't hear $GLW too much. I dig it!↗
Mar 15
Gaetano — What Photonics companies should I buy?!
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $LWLG
I get asked this question often.
I can't tell anyone what to buy.
So instead, let me lay out all the compa…↗
Mar 13
InvestmentGuru — $AAOI $LITE $COHR $AXTI $GLW
$POET $MRVL $LWLG
OFC 2026 (Optical Fiber Communications Conference) starts next week — one of the most important events for the photonics and AI inf…↗
Mar 13
Jason Luongo — NVIDIA just invested $4B into photonics. Marvell spent $5.5B on Celestial AI. GlobalFoundries acquired AMF.
Photonics is the hottest theme in the market and most investors still d…↗
Mar 12
Shay Boloor — Co-Packaged Optics could have its $NVDA GTC moment next week as AI data centers run into a bandwidth wall that traditional pluggables are struggling to solve.
CPO helps address th…↗
Gaetano — Connecting the dots📓
$CIEN $NOK $MRVL $GLW $MSFT
Yesterday I introduced the concept of scale-across.
The simplest way to think about it is this:
Scale-across is when separate A…↗
Mar 10
Gaetano — There is so much more to the Photonics trade📓
$LITE $CIEN $GLW $AXTI $AAOI
On this page I have predominately covered just a couple layers to this trade
Mainly lasers, optical co…↗
Mar 10
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $AXTI
Ripping: Future AI needs Lasers & Optics https://t.co/09xYVAjarq↗
Mar 10
InvestmentGuru — These are my 5 favorite sectors
1️⃣ Photonics / Optical Technology
The backbone of AI infrastructure, data centers, and high-speed connectivity. As AI compute grows, optical com…↗
Mar 9
Gaetano — $CIEN Is telling us something important...
$GLW $AAOI $LITE $COHR
The massive $600 billion AI infrastructure trade is hitting a physical wall. Literally. You can only cram so many…↗
InvestmentGuru — 2026: The Year of Lightspeed Optics — Here’s Every Stock You Need to Know
The optical networking revolution is accelerating, and the investment landscape just got a whole lot more…↗
Mar 6
Gaetano — We sure got a pullback!
$LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN $POET
Lot's of these names traded at uncomfortable valuations for investors (so I have been told)
Well, how about now?
I know the…↗
Mar 6
TheValueist — $GLW is a quality long-duration AI infra name with real revenue and real contracts. It is foundational exposure to the DC buildout. But it's not an alpha trade at this point. It's…↗
Mar 6
Trade Whisperer — NVIDIA Rubin Ultra is Optics/Copper Hybrid Scale-Up Platform which is expected to have +5x more optics than previous gens.
A single rack: 792 optical engines. 144 GPU packages. 57…↗
Mar 5
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AXTI $AAOI $COHR
Major shift toward optics starting NVIDIA Rubin Ultra:
The NVIDIA Rubin Ultra NVL576 rack will mark a major architectural shift by incorporating opti…↗
Mar 5
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $AXTI $COHR
Confused by Broadcom's CEO comments on Copper vs. Optics? Let me clear it up.
Hock Tan's emphasis on Direct Attach Copper (DAC) as "the way to go" f…↗
Gaetano — 🚨'The Photonics Trade Is Over'
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN
'All these companies are up way too much'
'We need to find the NEXT big play'
Etc.
I hear you.
I have heard these…↗
Mar 1
InvestmentGuru — Why Photonics Is a High-Conviction Sector Investment
Photonics isn’t just “optics.”
It’s the infrastructure layer enabling AI, hyperscale data centers, telecom upgrades, and next…↗
Mar 1
Trade Whisperer — 2026: More parameters. Longer context.
Every trend in AI points to the same two bottlenecks: memory and optical interconnects. HBM can't scale fast enough. Fiber optics is the bac…↗
Mar 1
Gaetano — Education Saturday! 📓
$AAOI $LITE $POET $COHR $GLW
New to photonics stocks and wondering why they are going parabolic?
Let's break it down!
Photonics is simply the use of ligh…↗
Gaetano — Maybe we'll finally see a red day?
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $AXTI
Reminder, this watchlist is my own personal levels and reflect my already heavily concentrated port
I scheduled a…↗
Feb 26
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AXTI The Optical Highway for the East-To-West Traffic. The Interconnect Opportunity.
Fiber Optics is here and accelerating. Silicon Co-Packaged Optics and Photonics by…↗
Feb 26
Gaetano — 🚨 Photonics investors, $NVDA just reported earnings.
The call had clear signal for the photonics trade.
Let's dig in.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $FN $CRDO $MRVL $POET
1/ "Netwo…↗
Feb 26
Raging Capital Ventures — You may have to hold your nose, but my bet is that a basket of current perceived AI losers such as $WDAY / $TOST / $BL / $HUBS nicely outperforms perceived AI winners such as $MU /…↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — 🚨I want to build a high-conviction community
$LITE $GLW $COHR $ALMU $POET $CIEN
I've been thinking about this alot since I posted.
I don't want to be a trading signal. I respec…↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — A pullback into consolidation in these names would be very healthy
$lite $cohr $axti $glw $cien etc.↗
TheValueist — Networking very strong start to the morning.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW https://t.co/kewycF7nwS↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — Well, maybe I was too conservative 😅
Yesterday we saw some big moves
$AXTI up 23%
$AEHR up 14.3%
$LWLG up 13.6%
$ALMU up 13.5%
$POET up 10.6%
$GLW up 4.3%
$AAOI up 4.2%
This…↗
Feb 24
TheValueist — $GLW OTM leap call IV continues to move higher. https://t.co/ho0K0x6HDo↗
Feb 24
Serenity — @DaSteeringWheel I did make a bottleneck ETF earlier of names from $ONTO to $GLW!
https://t.co/9RsyIarQgM↗
TheValueist — Wendell Weeks remains $GLW CEO and Chairman of the Board, approaching 19 years at the helm — a meaningful positive for the thesis. His tenure provides deep institutional knowledge…↗
Feb 24
TheValueist — I’ve been hesitant to share the specific options I’m trading, but I realize there’s little benefit in holding back. Sharing much of the research, notes, and company-specific insigh…↗
Feb 24
TheValueist — Agreed. Then you have the solar business build-out. And it is a 175-year-old company that the world knows (or thinks it knows). All wrapped up in the Made in America trade. $GLW is…↗
Feb 24
Gaetano — 🚨Photonics Investors, here is my active watchlist!
Prices where I would consider initiating or adding
Keep in mind that none of this is financial advice or a recommendation and…↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — I am surprised to see the $GLW 1/18/28 c200 didn't give up any IV and closed near its high for the day, even though the underlying price sputtered after the morning gap up. Hopeful…↗
Feb 23
Gaetano — In a see of red, Photonics holds up
$COHR $ALMU $CIEN $AAOI $GLW
This is why it was my main theme going into 2026.
This is why I want to create this resource.
This is such a s…↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — $GLW 1/21/28 c200 IV staying nicely elevated with the stock giving up gains throughout the day. https://t.co/1Q7LntW2Q1↗
Feb 23
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $AXTI
Deloitte on AI Network Fabric Outlook
AI network fabric spending is expected to climb 38% in annual growth over the next few years to support the gigawatt-…↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — $GLW is another name that is seeing an explosion in IV for OTM leap calls. I suspect there are more names in the GAI ecosystem exhibiting a similar trend. https://t.co/17zGR3GoNj↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — $GLW keeps getting better. Now, $MS says it is the least bid up of the optical set, hopefully giving it incremental runway with the institutional long only investors.
MS - "These…↗
Feb 23
Shay Boloor — @VanquishTrader People don’t associate these names with $NVDA GPUs when they should.
Nvidia ships the GPUs. $LITE, $COHR & $GLW ship the plumbing that connects them.↗
Feb 23
Shay Boloor — $JPM sees a multi-year optics upcycle for $LITE, $COHR & $GLW as hyperscaler spend surges into 2027 and 800G+ datacom compounds 40%+ CAGR.
$NVDA ships the GPUs but optics scal…↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — This OFC will be a banger. Crazy they are running it on the same days as NVDA GTC.
https://t.co/9RtPVBxl4G
$LITE $COHR $GLW $NVDA↗
Feb 22
Gaetano — "Is it too late to jump in?"
I get this questions a lot on my photonics posts
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $AXTI
It's important to remember that I really don't want to give specific ad…↗
Feb 21
Gaetano — @DanielL99616823 So $GLW is this bit: "And none of it moves an inch without the fiber it runs through. Ultra-pure glass strands, thinner than a human hair, carrying light signals b…↗
Feb 21
Gaetano — Education Saturday! 📓
For all my Photonics followers, you'll want to learn this
$AXTI $LITE $COHR $GLW $POET etc.
The Photonics Supply Chain: Start to Finish.
Step 0: Mining an…↗
Trade Whisperer — $GLW $LITE Absolutely Ripping
Thesis: Si Photonics & Optics for East-To-West Traffic. https://t.co/m4WLdcoE3d↗
Feb 19
Trade Whisperer — @BrianOswal32718 I have $LITE and $GLW in smaller positions. I like them.↗
Feb 19
Gaetano — @austinhodly Thats a tough one that I can't really answer, Im sorry man. Some of the strongest charts are $LITE $GLW $CIEN . Thats reflective of their dominance and growth. For me,…↗
Feb 17
Gaetano — 80-200 Billion $MRVL $GLW $ANET
Marvell Technology - $MRVL - $67B
$MRVL akes the silicon that controls high-speed data movement inside data centers, including Ethernet switches,…↗
Feb 16
Trade Whisperer — @mellis1163 I like $GLW and $LITE. I haven't done any DD on $AAOI though. Looking forward to studying it.↗
Feb 16
Trade Whisperer — @endz_on_x I am generally cautious about undervalued stocks unless they have a brand new product never seen before by the world (like HBM).
Perhaps $MRVL?? You need more DD though…↗
Feb 16
Gaetano — $GLW The backbone of the AI buildout
Corning manufactures the optical fiber, ribbon cable, and high-density connectivity systems that hyperscalers deploy inside AI campuses.
A r…↗
Trade Whisperer — @Growth_Arcane Unfortunately, my resources are entirely focused on memory. I don't tend to diversify in my portfolio. I just don't have enough to time to research that many compani…↗
Feb 14
Trade Whisperer — @Dixitagg When memory booms, usually the equipments follow and the market did exactly that already, very impatient. Packaging will boom as well. Personally, I am going after Fiber…↗
Trade Whisperer — $GLW East-West AI Traffic Bottleneck
AI data centers need 10x more fiber interconnects than traditional cloud setups to enable server-to-server or intra-data center traffic. It ju…↗
Feb 12
Serenity — @HimotheeBuckets The YTD on many of these from $GLW to $CAMT is even higher.
But I do agree that 1 week sample isn’t the most definitive of overall trends.
This just happened t…↗
Feb 12
Serenity — The "Bottleneck ETF" from supply chain mapping.
Not a single name red.
Equal weighted results 1W: +12.83%.
List:
$LITE: +31.68%
$AMKR: +28.7%
Disco: +24.35%
$GLW: +23.57%
$COHR…↗
Feb 11
Trade Whisperer — @GVDInvestor If you are hesitating, make a much smaller entry than planned. That can help a lot psychologically (just dipping the toes a bit helps to clear the remorse) and risk is…↗
Trade Whisperer — $NVDA's Silicon Photonics Co-Packaged Optics Bring In a Whopping 3.5X Increase in Power Efficiency, Catering to Limitations of Optical Connections
A co-invention with $TSM $LITE $…↗
Feb 9
Trade Whisperer — Silicon Photonics & Optics: $GLW $LITE taking off
Don't sleep on $TSM CPO/COUPE optics platform. https://t.co/70ETxDph79↗
Feb 9
TheValueist — $GLW all-time high today. This is turning into a monster trade; much more than down the fairway. It is still only February. https://t.co/PjGgmTv1Tt↗
Feb 9
Gaetano — 🚨 Where Is The Photonics Trade Headed Next?
$AAOI $POET $GLW $MRVL $CIEN
$LITE & $COHR earnings came out last week.
So let’s talk about what they actually told us and how that s…↗
Feb 8
Trade Whisperer — @1031ent @windcloud5 $GLW is pure materials play which is interesting and I need to do more DD. Don't forget about $TSM Silicon Photonics. CPO and COUPE.
They will be the ones ma…↗
Feb 8
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL, $MSFT, $META & $AMZN just confirmed $600B+ in 2026 CapEx.
Here’s how that money flows through the AI stack:
GPUs, Accelerators
• $AMD provides second source AI GPUs with…↗
Feb 7
Serenity — @B38B37 These are all big known bottleneck suppliers on the supply chain $TSM or $GLW.
$POET is a few hundred million MC speculative pick without hyperscaler qualification, so the…↗
Feb 7
Serenity — Here's my TLDR + mapped into investment framework from Semivision bottleneck summary:
HBM:
HBM4 (16Hi) - Samsung, Sk Hynix, $MU
HBF - $SNDK, Kioxia
Base Die - $TSM, Samsung (inter…↗
Feb 6
Jason Luongo — The hyperscalers are telling you exactly where the money is going.
AI Compute - $IREN $CIFR $NBIS $WULF
GPUs - $NVDA $AMD
Networking - $AVGO $ANET $MRVL
Optical/Fiber - $COHR $GLW…↗
Feb 6
Raging Capital Ventures — Spent some time looking at $GLW last night. $100 billion market cap and 30x ‘27 EPS estimates.
Are we really going to have to relearn 1999 lessons?↗
Feb 4
Serenity — @PhotonCap Yes, the supply chain for TPU/DC is massive with $GLW and other beneficiaries from $META and $GOOGL capex.
Main thing (hardest part) is identifying BOM and who benefi…↗
Feb 3
TheValueist — Outstanding video on $GLW . Highly recommend watching if you are investing in any part of the optical networking ecosystem.
https://t.co/EShWhenmqh↗
Feb 2
KawzInvests 🦑 — CPO is the thesis behind the photonics sector catching a bid. Co-packaged optics is the next evolution of AI infrastructure and the supply chain runs through
- $AAOI
- $LITE
-…↗
TheValueist — My updated Custom Index Dashboard attached. Optical networking is ripping today.
$GLW $LITE $COHR $FN https://t.co/saOgRiK2Gb↗
Jan 27
Gaetano — The $GLW news this morning matters for the entire optics stack.
$LITE $COHR $AAOI
Meta just underwrote multi-year, multi-billion-dollar fiber and connectivity capacity through 203…↗
Jan 27
The Future Investors — $META $GLW Meta announced a up to $6B multi-year deal with Corning to supply fiber-optic cables for U.S. data centers, boosting domestic AI infrastructure and expanding Corning’s N…↗
Jan 27
Shay Boloor — $META has committed to pay $GLW up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable to support its AI data center buildout https://t.co/QnE1laIo2c↗
Jan 27
TheValueist — $GLW $META Corning (GLW) CEO Wendell Weeks told CNBC in an exclusive interview that Meta (META) has committed to paying Corning up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its…↗
Jan 24
Gaetano — 🚨Copper crunch Is the viral narrative right now!
I'm really interested in the pivot from copper to optics
$POET $ALMU $LITE $COHR $AAOI
The market is obsessed with copper right…↗
Jan 12
Gaetano — When I build my photonics portfolio, I like a mix of stages and a mix of where each company sits in the buildout
I think of it as 4 buckets
Bucket 1 - Executing now. Scaled earni…↗
Jan 8
Gaetano — Here is my active and updated photonics watchlist:
$AAOI ~$30
$ALMU ~ $17
$ANET ~ $110
$AVO ~ $320
$AXTI ~ $14
$CIEN ~ $170
$COHR ~ $170
$CRDO ~ $120
$FN ~ $370
$GLW ~ $78
$LITE…↗
Jan 4
Gaetano — 🚨What Photonics Companies Should I buy?!
$POET $LITE $COHR $AXTI $MRVL ...
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It's no secret that the Photonics trade is here for 2026
Many tickers…↗