$VICR

@thevalueistMay 26, 2026 · 1:26 PM

$VICR +10% pre on raised guidance. I'm long VICR 1/21/28 c400. Power semis up across the board. (Dow Jones) -- Vicor raised its second-quarter revenue guidance due to rising product revenues and royalties from an additional licensee to its power system technology. The company boosted its second-quarter revenue outlook to $142 million from $126 million. The new license includes all of Vicor's patents covering power converter topologies, control systems, power components and distribution architectures. Shares rose 7.5% to $288 in premarket trading.

@investmentguru_May 12, 2026 · 9:43 AM

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 the full supply chain map 👇 ⚙️ FOUNDATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE → PCB: $TTM, $JBL → CCL: $ROG → MLCC: $VSH → Liquid Cooling & Thermal: $VRT 🔴 CORE COMPUTE & MEMORY AI Silicon: → $NVDA $AVGO $AMD $INTC Memory / Storage: → $MU $SNDK $WDC $STX $INTC Power Management / Analog: → $TXN $ADI $NXPI $STM $MPWR $VICR Wafer Foundry: → $TSM $GFS $UMC Advanced Packaging / OSAT: → $TSM $ASX $AMKR 🔵 OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Optical Components: → $LITE $COHR $AAOI Optical Fiber & Cable: → $GLW Silicon Photonics Foundry: → $TSEM $GFS INP: → $AXTI Optical DSP / Interconnect Silicon: → $MRVL $FN ☁️ CLOUD & AI PLATFORMS → $AMZN $GOOG $BABA $BIDU The AI compute supercycle isn’t one stock — it’s an entire ecosystem repricing in real time. Not financial advice. DYOR.

@thevalueistMay 11, 2026 · 1:46 PM

$VICR +15% to all-time high. Market making it a $CRBS proxy pre-trade. https://t.co/pUgMaFoXOF

@thevalueistMay 10, 2026 · 8:09 PM

$VICR $CRBS Vicor–Cerebras Relationship and Business Exposure: Deep-Dive Analysis Executive Overview Vicor’s relationship with Cerebras appears to be one of the highest-quality strategic design-win exposures in the AI power-delivery ecosystem. The relationship is not a generic merchant-component supply arrangement. It is a deep architecture-level power-delivery collaboration that began with Cerebras’s first wafer-scale engine and has likely evolved into Vicor’s current “lead computing customer” ramp for vertical power delivery. The key confirmed fact is that Cerebras and Vicor jointly implemented a vertical power delivery architecture for the original Cerebras WSE, with Vicor-linked commentary stating that Cerebras’s 15kW wafer-scale processor required uniform high-current delivery and that the Cerebras/Vicor VPD approach reduced power delivery network resistance by more than 50%.  The key current inference is that Cerebras is almost certainly the unnamed “lead computing customer” referenced repeatedly by Vicor in late 2025 and Q1 2026. Vicor stated on its Q1 2026 call that its “lead computing customer is continuing a steep production ramp of its wafer-scale engine with best-in-class AI inference performance.” That language is highly specific and maps directly to Cerebras’s product branding and market positioning: Cerebras calls its core chip the Wafer Scale Engine, its CS-3 system is powered by a 4 trillion-transistor WSE-3, and AWS/Cerebras marketing describes CS-3 as optimized for decode and “the world’s fastest AI inference system.” Vicor has not explicitly named Cerebras in the 2026 call transcript, so this should be treated as a high-conviction inference rather than a legally confirmed customer-disclosure datapoint.  The investment implication is significant. If Cerebras converts its OpenAI, AWS, and sovereign AI demand pipeline into shipped CS-3 or next-generation systems, Vicor should participate through high-value power modules and potentially future licensing or second-source economics. The exact revenue contribution, bill-of-material content, pricing, and gross margin from Cerebras are not disclosed. However, the scale mismatch is clear: Cerebras is pursuing AI infrastructure commitments measured in hundreds of megawatts and billions of dollars, while Vicor’s total 2025 Advanced Products revenue was $248.6M, including $57.4M of royalties, and Q1 2026 Advanced Products plus royalty revenue was $64.9M. A successful Cerebras ramp can therefore be material to Vicor even if Vicor captures only a modest fraction of the CS-3 system value.  The risk is that Vicor’s current equity value already discounts a large AI/VPD inflection. At a market cap of approximately $12.1B and a P/E ratio of approximately 85.8x, Vicor is being valued far ahead of its historical power-module profile. On management’s nearly $570M 2026 revenue guide, the stock trades at roughly 21.3x forward revenue before any enterprise-value adjustment. That multiple can be justified only if Cerebras-like ramps broaden into a durable AI power-delivery platform with strong margins, capacity expansion, and licensing leverage. It is vulnerable if Cerebras deployment timing slips, if Vicor capacity becomes a bottleneck, if second sourcing dilutes economics, or if the company’s VPD advantage proves narrower than current market enthusiasm suggests.  What is confirmed versus what is inferred The confirmed relationship is clear at the first-generation WSE level. A Vicor-authored 2020 article stated that Cerebras’s WSE was composed of 84 processing cells spanning an entire wafer, functioned as a single chip, and was rated at 15kW, requiring “an advanced power architecture whereby power is applied uniformly to each cell at extremely high currents.” The same article stated that “Cerebras working in conjunction with Vicor implemented a Vertical Power Delivery (VPD) architecture,” and that this architecture reduced PDN resistance by more than 50%. This is the strongest primary-source evidence that Vicor was not merely an off-the-shelf supplier, but was involved in the power architecture enabling the WSE package.  A Vicor-hosted version of the same article also directly frames the relationship as Vicor “helping Cerebras achieve new levels of processing power,” while reiterating that the Cerebras WSE required uniform high-current delivery across the wafer. This is important because it confirms that Vicor itself has historically highlighted Cerebras as a reference customer for AI/HPC power-delivery innovation.  The inferred current relationship is based on Vicor’s latest customer language. In Q4 2025, Vicor said that a “lead customer for VPD solutions” was ramping a Gen 4 factorized power system before transitioning to a Gen 5-based solution with higher current density and performance, with the transition expected to start in H2 2026. In Q1 2026, Vicor sharpened that language, stating that the lead computing customer was ramping a “wafer-scale engine with best-in-class AI inference performance.” There are very few plausible companies that fit that wording. Cerebras is the company whose product is branded as the Wafer Scale Engine and whose current go-to-market messaging is centered on high-speed inference.  The missing datapoints are just as important. Vicor does not disclose Cerebras revenue, Cerebras backlog, per-system content, product SKUs, gross margin by customer, or whether revenue flows directly from Cerebras or through contract manufacturers. Vicor’s 10-K states that Advanced Products customers are concentrated in data center and hyperscaler enterprise computing and that a substantial portion of Advanced Products revenue has historically come from a limited number of customers, but it does not identify Cerebras. The 10-K also shows that one customer accounted for approximately 11.1% of total net revenues in 2025, but that customer is not named and should not be assumed to be Cerebras.  Why Vicor matters to Cerebras technically Cerebras’s architecture creates one of the most extreme power-delivery problems in commercial computing. The WSE-3 is not a conventional accelerator card with a GPU and HBM stack. It is a wafer-scale processor with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 AI cores, and Cerebras describes the CS-3 as consuming up to 23kW. That is the power level of an entire high-density server concentrated around a single wafer-scale compute engine. Conventional lateral power delivery becomes increasingly inefficient and physically constrained when power must be delivered at sub-1V core voltages and very high current levels across a dense processor package.  Cerebras’s own system description reinforces the need for an unusual power architecture. The company describes the CS-3 “engine block” as a wafer packaging solution that delivers power “straight into the face of the wafer” to achieve power density that “could not be achieved with traditional packaging,” while also providing uniform cooling through a closed internal water loop. That description is highly consistent with Vicor’s VPD approach, which moves final-stage current multiplication vertically close to the load instead of routing massive low-voltage current laterally across a PCB or substrate.  Vicor’s technical architecture is based on Factorized Power Architecture, or FPA. In Vicor’s formulation, FPA separates the power-conversion process into regulation and current multiplication. Regulation occurs first, then a relatively high voltage is distributed across the board, and current multiplication occurs adjacent to the load. The advantage is that high voltage can be moved more efficiently over distance, while very high current is generated only at the point of load, minimizing distribution losses and reducing thermal and impedance challenges.  The power-delivery challenge becomes more severe as processors scale. Vicor’s 10-K states that the advantages of FPA are most evident in high-performance computing applications, where GPUs and AI ASICs require high average and peak current. Vicor’s Power-on-Package architecture places current multiplier modules directly on the substrate to reduce losses and free package pins for other functions, and its latest VPD innovation mounts high-performance solutions beneath the motherboard opposite the GPU or ASIC to further reduce distribution losses and improve power density.  Vicor’s own technical literature explicitly calls out Cerebras-like clustered ASIC architectures. Vicor states that tightly packed processor clusters leave little room for lateral power delivery and that VPD is “essential” to provide high currents. It also notes that clustered ASIC approaches from Cerebras and Tesla create significant power-delivery and thermal-management challenges, and that delivering peak currents above 1,500A per core can require more than 30 phases per AI ASIC or GPU under conventional multiphase designs, a number Vicor characterizes as difficult, if not impossible, with lateral power delivery.  This is the fundamental reason the relationship matters. Cerebras’s performance pitch depends not only on compute architecture but also on the ability to feed an enormous wafer-scale engine with stable, low-noise, high-density power while simultaneously cooling the wafer. Vicor is not a peripheral vendor in that system. It is likely part of the enabling architecture that allows Cerebras to turn a wafer-scale design into a deployable product. Why the relationship appears to be moving from validation to scale Historically, Cerebras was a highly differentiated but relatively low-volume customer. The earlier WSE systems were strategic proofs of concept, sovereign AI systems, national lab deployments, and select cloud offerings. That limited the immediate commercial scale for Vicor, even if the design win was technically important. The current setup is different because Cerebras now has large public demand signals: OpenAI, AWS, and a second IPO attempt tied to a much larger revenue base. Reuters reported that Cerebras revenue increased to $510M in 2025 from $290.3M in 2024, and that Cerebras has tied much of its growth to OpenAI through a $20B multi-year deal under which OpenAI will deploy 750MW of Cerebras chips. Reuters also reported that Cerebras is targeting a valuation of up to approximately $26.6B in its U.S. IPO by offering 28M shares at $115–$125, aiming to raise approximately $3.5B.  AWS is the second major validation point. AWS and Cerebras announced a March 2026 collaboration to deploy CS-3 systems inside AWS data centers and make the solution available through Amazon Bedrock. The architecture disaggregates inference into prefill and decode, with AWS Trainium optimized for prefill and Cerebras CS-3 optimized for decode. AWS’s David Brown said the system is designed to produce inference “an order of magnitude faster and higher performance than what’s available today.” This matters for Vicor because AWS hosting Cerebras hardware turns Cerebras from a specialty hardware vendor into a potentially scaled cloud infrastructure supplier.  Vicor’s 2026 commentary aligns with this Cerebras ramp. In Q1 2026, Vicor reported product and royalty revenue of $113M, up 20.2% year over year, and one-year backlog of $300.6M, up 70% sequentially. Management guided to nearly $126M of Q2 revenue and nearly $570M of 2026 revenue. In the same discussion, management linked strong bookings to high-performance computing and specifically cited the lead computing customer’s steep wafer-scale engine ramp.  The timing also lines up with Vicor’s product generation roadmap. In Q4 2025, Vicor said its lead VPD customer was ramping Gen 4 before transitioning to Gen 5 in H2 2026. In Q3 2025, Vicor said its Gen 5 VPD solution for the lead customer had met target specifications and was progressing to a Q1 2026 production launch. In Q1 2026, Vicor described a second-generation VPD solution with 3A/mm² current density, current multiplication up to 40, and a 1.5mm-thin package, with the next-generation transition expected to begin before year-end. The most coherent interpretation is that Vicor is currently shipping and ramping Gen 4 for Cerebras-like systems while preparing Gen 5/second-generation VPD for future Cerebras and other AI ASIC platforms.  Commercial model: how Cerebras likely monetizes for Vicor Vicor’s business with Cerebras likely has 3 monetization layers. The first is product revenue from high-density power modules or current-multiplier components used in Cerebras systems. The second is non-recurring engineering or design support tied to new WSE generations and package integration. The third is potential licensing or alternate-source economics if Vicor’s VPD IP becomes embedded in broader AI accelerator designs or if customers require licensed second sources. Product revenue is the most direct path. Vicor’s Advanced Products category is the relevant segment because it includes the proprietary FPA and power-delivery products used in high-performance computing. In 2025, Vicor reported $248.6M of Advanced Products revenue, including $151.5M from direct customers, contract manufacturers, and non-stocking distributors; $34.4M from stocking distributors; $4.2M from NRE; and $57.4M from royalties. This indicates that a large compute customer could show up in several buckets depending on purchasing structure, but most likely in direct/contract-manufacturer revenue and potentially NRE.  The second path is capacity utilization and manufacturing leverage. Vicor’s Q1 2026 backlog of $300.6M is nearly 70% higher than year-end 2025 backlog, and the company stated that the backlog represents orders scheduled within the next 12 months. Management also said Fab One had previously been earmarked for approximately a $1B annual revenue run rate, but now appears capable of supporting at least $1.5B through cycle-time and process-step improvements. If Cerebras is the lead ramp, Cerebras demand is helping Vicor move from a historically underutilized or unevenly utilized Advanced Products manufacturing model toward higher fab absorption and margin expansion.  The third path is licensing. This is less directly tied to Cerebras but strategically important. Vicor has stated that its existing licensing revenue does not yet include vertical power; it stems from asserted IP around earlier power-module patents. It also stated that it has “lots of patents with respect to VPD power package” and that those have not yet been asserted. In Q1 2026, management said licensing could eventually reach as much as 50% of product revenues and be nearly 100% margin. For Cerebras specifically, this matters because the Cerebras design win can serve as proof that Vicor’s VPD architecture works at the most demanding end of the AI power spectrum, strengthening Vicor’s leverage with hyperscalers, OEMs, and potential second-source partners.  Potential revenue magnitude The exact Vicor content per Cerebras system is not publicly disclosed. Any attempt to assign a precise dollar value per CS-3 would be speculative. The correct analytical approach is to frame scale sensitivity rather than assert a false precision estimate. The scale sensitivity is large. Cerebras says CS-3 consumes up to 23kW. Reuters reported that OpenAI’s Cerebras arrangement involves 750MW of Cerebras chips. A simple power-equivalent calculation implies that 750MW divided by 23kW per CS-3 equals approximately 32,609 CS-3-equivalent systems. A 2GW figure would equal approximately 86,957 CS-3-equivalent systems. These are not shipment forecasts because the 750MW commitment may refer to deployed compute capacity, could include non-CS-3 or future-generation systems, may be affected by PUE, rack-level infrastructure, redundancy, utilization, and contract timing, and does not identify the unit-level hardware mix. The calculation is still useful because it shows the order-of-magnitude mismatch between Cerebras’s planned deployment scale and the historical scale of Vicor’s Advanced Products business.  The more practical conclusion is that Vicor does not need to capture an extraordinary percentage of Cerebras system value for the relationship to matter. Vicor’s entire 2025 Advanced Products revenue was $248.6M, and total 2025 revenue was $407.7M. If Cerebras/OpenAI/AWS deployment demand becomes real production volume, even a low single-digit percentage value capture within the power-delivery subsystem could become a material revenue stream relative to Vicor’s current size. Conversely, if Cerebras deployment ramps slower than expected, Vicor’s backlog and AI-growth narrative could prove too optimistic relative to the current equity multiple. 

@investmentguru_May 9, 2026 · 3:53 PM

The Complete Semiconductor Playbook — AI Supercycle 2026 🤖 EDGE AI $QUIK · $CEVA · $SYNA · $QCOM · $INDI · $VLN · $SMTC → AI leaves the data center. Devices. Cars. Factories. Multi-year secular trend just getting started. 🏗️ AI INFRA $SGH · $SKYT · $AVGO · $NVDA · $ARM · $CRDO · $MRVL → The “Nvidia-only” era is over. The full stack is getting priced in. ⚡ POWER $POWI · $TXN · $MPWR · $VICR · $GANX · $AEHR → AI data centers are power monsters. Unsexy. Essential. Increasingly scarce. 🔬 FUTURE-TECH $LWLG · $AXTI · $POET · $TSEM · $GFS · $IPGP → Silicon photonics foundry capacity = national strategic asset. 🛠️ EQUIPMENT $AMAT · $LRCX · $KLAC · $ASML · $ONTO · $ACMR → Without these, nothing above gets built. Map the full stack. That’s where the alpha is. Not financial advice. DYOR

@thevalueistApr 30, 2026 · 7:39 PM

$MPWR $POWI $AOSL $VICR Strong day for power semis. There will be tons of custom ASICs/silicon coming online over the next 3-5 years, and they need power-related chips. https://t.co/CF3TjfG8jy

@thevalueistApr 26, 2026 · 11:03 PM

I’m long $VICR 1/21/28 calls. Still more to go for this company. https://t.co/0OCHfyl2R6

@aleabitoredditApr 26, 2026 · 5:09 PM

TLDR of recent news + bottlenecks that go brr: 1. CPU bottleneck - $INTC CEO said AI inference pushed CPU Ratio From 1:8 to 1:1. CPUs go brr ( $AMD, Intel, $ARM) -> $AMAT / $TSM / $KLAC, etc. go brr. 2. PGME / PGMEA shortage. DuPont, Shiny Chemical, Daxin, San Fu, $DOW and others go brr? Photoresist bottleneck go brr? 3. Microcontroller potential bottleneck + price hikes (Arterytek/Arterychip) was weighing price hikes on AI capacity squeezes. MCU companies potentially go brr? 4. President invoked the "Defense Production Act" this week, it included: -Transformers - transmission components - advanced conductors - power electronics - substations - high-voltage circuit breakers - protective relays, capacitor banks - electrical core steel As "severe shortages". Stuff like $AMSC, $PLPC, $POWL, $VICR, $ATKR, $HPS.A go brr. 5. $GOOGL ramps new TPU servers. Google splits AI chips into training and inference TPUs. Taiwan happy. Mediatek and others go brr? 6. Samsung, Kingston lift SSD prices by over 10%. SSD prices keep going brrr? 7. T-glass fiberglass shortages keep getting worse? Nittobo and others keep going brrr? 8. Bromine, essential for etching circuits and flame retardancy, has surged to $12,000 per metric ton. ICL Group in Israel apparently controls 40% of the global supply? Not as familiar with this but questionable brrr? 9. "Epitaxy manufacturer LandMark Optoelectronics reporting output still far below customer needs". Uhh $IQE and others go brr? 10. "AI data centers hit interconnect limits, boosting optical module demand". "the bottleneck is no longer computing power alone, but how that power is connected." Photonics from $AAOI, $LITE, $COHR, Innolight and others keep going brr? next gen from $SIVE, $POET, $MRVL, Win Semi and others go brr? Basically AI semi supply chains go brr because there's widespread shortages everywhere due to AI hyperscaler demand.

@kaizen_investorApr 25, 2026 · 1:53 PM

Companies I’m going to look into this weekend: $HIMX $ENSI $MEMS $TRT $VICR $FTC $LPKF $SHMD $NOC $QRVO $WOLF If you don’t want to waste a lot of tile on researching new companies, here is my method 👇

@aleabitoredditApr 22, 2026 · 7:12 PM

Yes. The President invoked the "Defense Production Act" 2 days ago. To expand on domestic infra. Implicit beneficiaries were: Transmission & Advanced Conductors: $AMSC - HTS Wires (advanced conductors), power electronics $PLPC - advanced conductors $ATKR - transmission components $VMI - grid components Power Electronics $AEIS - power control electronics $VICR - power delivery Capacitor Banks $VSH - power capacitors and capacitor banks Substations & High-Voltage Circuit Breakers $POWL - substations/switchgear $AZZ - substations Transformers $HPS.A - My favorite for transformers $SPXC - power transformers Electrical Core Steel $CLF - Only producer of electrical steel in America? This included: -Transformers - transmission components - advanced conductors - power electronics - substations - high-voltage circuit breakers - protective relays, capacitor banks - electrical core steel TLDR: The executive action declared a national energy emergency regarding the domestic supply chain for grid infrastructure. Authorized federal funding, purchase commitments, and expedited actions to rapidly expand the manufacturing. Lot of beneficiaries, I made a mini ETF of with $AMSC, $CLF, $PLPC, and then $HPS.A; dont have any of the others. There's probably going to be a bunch of DOE contracts in the next 3-6 months like " DoE Awards ___ to $POWL " off this act is my guess.

@aleabitoredditApr 22, 2026 · 6:27 PM

$NVDA actively pushing to 800V, and today was a pretty big signal. "On April 22, 2026, NVIDIA has initiated discussions with major South Korean power equipment companies to explore designing DC infra based on an approximately 800V direct current (DC) system" Previous named Nvidia partners include: Infineon, $TXN, $STM, $NVTS, Delta, Flex, $ETN, Schneider, and $VRT. It's been known they're been pushing for this but... looks like Nvidia is really driving it. Personally very small exposure to $NVTS since they're they have a high exposure for SiC/GaN ICs for 800V DCs. I know others really liked $VICR for exposure.

@thevalueistApr 22, 2026 · 2:13 PM

Power semis continuing to rip. $GEV $VRT both with robust revenue growth guidance today (VRT down because short of wisper). Power semis definitely look like a strong candidate for GAI hype trade for H2-2026. https://t.co/Zd7FlRao3K $VICR $POWI $AOSL $NVTS https://t.co/1VCG47cC76

@thevalueistApr 22, 2026 · 10:10 AM

$VICR up 8% pre. Looks like it’s on tap for another strong day. https://t.co/Bz7Hk3OAml

@aleabitoredditApr 21, 2026 · 5:06 PM

@PhotonCap Forgot about $VICR but glad to see it’s doing well

@thevalueistApr 21, 2026 · 2:20 PM

The $VICR is recovering from the sell-off pre. The call was mid, but in reality, who else is really capable of making these high-quality products at scale over the next 2-3 years? I am long 11/20/26 calls. https://t.co/T02iSb28xB

@thevalueistApr 21, 2026 · 11:41 AM

$VICR (Bloomberg) -- Vicor reported net revenue for the first quarter that beat the average analyst estimate. FIRST QUARTER RESULTS •Net revenue $113.0 million, +20% y/y, estimate $109.5 million (Bloomberg Consensus) •EPS 44c vs. 6.0c y/y, estimate 33c •Income from operations $16.9 million vs. loss $0.15 million y/y, estimate $15.8 million (2 estimates) COMMENTARY AND CONTEXT •Gross margin increased to $62.4 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared to $44.4 million for the corresponding period a year ago NOTE •For Bloomberg Consensus estimates used in this story see: VICR Equity MODL •Shares fall 3% in pre-market trading to $218.00 on 5,705 shares traded •4 buys, 0 holds, 0 sells

@thevalueistApr 21, 2026 · 11:36 AM

$VICR (Bloomberg) -- Vicor reported net revenue for the first quarter that beat the average analyst estimate. FIRST QUARTER RESULTS •Net revenue $113.0 million, +20% y/y, estimate $109.5 million (Bloomberg Consensus) •EPS 44c vs. 6.0c y/y, estimate 33c •Income from operations $16.9 million vs. loss $0.15 million y/y, estimate $15.8 million (2 estimates) COMMENTARY AND CONTEXT •Gross margin increased to $62.4 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared to $44.4 million for the corresponding period a year ago NOTE •For Bloomberg Consensus estimates used in this story see: VICR Equity MODL •Shares fall 3% in pre-market trading to $218.00 on 5,705 shares traded •4 buys, 0 holds, 0 sells

@thevalueistApr 21, 2026 · 11:33 AM

Power semis pre. Feels like this sector will be the next big rip. https://t.co/Zd7FlRao3K $VICR $AOSL $VSH $POWI https://t.co/618izNlvOX

@thevalueistApr 20, 2026 · 7:04 PM

$VICR $AOSL $VSH $POWI Global Power Semiconductors: AI Infrastructure Creates a New Profit Pool, but the Industry Remains Bifurcated Between Mature Silicon, SiC Digestion, and Grid-to-Core Winners https://t.co/265B1T9nIz Bottom Line: The global power semiconductor industry should be underwritten as 2 overlapping markets rather than 1. The narrow discrete and module layer is a roughly $32.8bn market, while the broader investable power stack, including PMICs, drivers, controllers, battery-management ICs, smart power stages, protection, and wide-bandgap devices, is closer to $57bn in 2025 and still only mid-single-digit growth at the aggregate level. The real strategic split is therefore not growth versus no growth, but where mix is moving. Broad silicon power remains mature and manufacturing-intensive, automotive and industrial remain the economic center of gravity, and upstream SiC is in cyclical digestion after a 2019-2024 capacity build. At the same time, AI infrastructure is creating a localized demand shock in low-voltage, high-current, high-frequency power delivery, higher-voltage front-end conversion, specialty BCD, GaN, smart power stages, advanced packaging, and grid-facing electrical infrastructure. The most durable winners are likely to be companies that combine multiple material systems, content across multiple stages of the grid-to-core chain, specialty manufacturing and packaging leverage, and architecture-level customer intimacy. The most important analytical mistake is to treat broad SiC oversupply as broad power-semiconductor weakness. The sharper conclusion is that the sector is becoming a strategic infrastructure layer for electrification and AI, but profits are being redistributed unevenly toward solution-complete vendors and select foundry, materials, and packaging enablers rather than toward the entire category equally.

@thevalueistApr 20, 2026 · 5:46 PM

My US-Listed Power Semiconductor Tracker sorted by YTD. $VICR $AOSL $VSH $POWI https://t.co/wTNaUKn30c

@thevalueistApr 17, 2026 · 3:04 PM

$VICR ascending to an all-time high today +8.5%. The power-related names have been on tear. https://t.co/ZQiCP2clU0

@thevalueistMar 19, 2026 · 1:57 PM

Looking at $VICR dip buy. Would prefer it in the $150s... https://t.co/6p3u1pdPQg