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An Interview with Rivian’s Mukund Chavan About RAP1
Rivian designed its own autonomy SoC. Why?
Mar 5 • Austin Lyons
Broadcom Makes Lasers?
Broadcom's InP fab, EMLs at 1.6T, full-stack CPO play, and comparing against Lumentum and Coherent
Mar 3 • Austin Lyons
Lumentum and the Laser Bottleneck
Lumentum is winning and still can't keep up. Coherent is closing in. Earnings, sell-side sentiment, and the tensions to track.
Mar 2 • Austin Lyons
Photons as a Service
xLight's plan to swap EUV's light source for a free-electron laser and sell light like a utility.
Feb 25 • Austin Lyons
Arista's Ethernet Bet, and the Six Debates That Decide If It's Worth 40x
Q4 FY2025 earnings scored against the bull and bear cases
Feb 23 • Austin Lyons
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GPU Networking Basics, Part 1
Mar 19, 2025 • Austin Lyons
GPU Networking Basics, Part 2
Apr 10, 2025 • Austin Lyons
Credo AECs
Sep 22, 2025 • Austin Lyons
GPU Networking Basics Part 3: Scale-Out
Sep 9, 2025 • Austin Lyons
The Nvidia Business Hiding in Plain Sight
And it's bigger than Wall Street thinks
Feb 17 • Austin Lyons
The $200 Billion Bet
Why Amazon has the hardest ROIC story in tech, and what to do about it
Feb 13 • Austin Lyons
Meta’s ROIC Strategy: GEM Now, LLMs Later
Meta doesn't need the smartest AI. It needs the most profitable one.
Feb 10 • Austin Lyons
The MI450 Waiting Game
AMD delivered its best quarter ever. Yet the market wants to know why to own it right now.
Feb 6 • Austin Lyons
This Month in Review (Jan '26)
Infra Economics, Post-GPT Architectures, Autonomy & LiDAR, Intel, Semi Doped
Jan 30 • Austin Lyons
Intel Q425: Back to Reality
Continued supply constraints, advanced packaging timing, and why Q1 2026 will be more of the same
Jan 29 • Austin Lyons
An Interview with Microsoft's Saurabh Dighe About Maia 200
The why behind Maia 200. SRAM–HBM balance, scale-up without scale-out, 30% lower TCO claims, and more.
Jan 28 • Austin Lyons
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