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Would Jensen's infidelity story benefit $AMD , $GOOG and some others?

Every AI name in Taiwan from Mediatek to Winbond looks like its limit up. TAIEX: +4.94%, its 2nd largest daily gain in history. I guess the market is impressed by $NVDA’s Jensen Huang vitality at his age?

Various commentary from Qualcomm, Arm, to Meta executives this week during the AI selloff: $LITE CEO: "You had a comment from the CEO of $IREN and I'd second that. There's a massive disconnect in what we're seeing in our demand books. And what the markets are showing. And yet you're seeing a massive, massive selloff." (Fri, Nov 6) $AMD CEO CNBC: "We're at the very beginning of the adoption cycle, where people can see where AI and superintelligence will take us" "We are seeing demand being higher than supply" (Wed, Nov 4) $ARM CEO regarding a debate whether AI infrastructure spending is about to peak: "I think in some states where it gets harder, other states may pick it up to make it easier, but I do believe strongly that if the US hesitates in any way shape performance in terms of data center buildout... "The rest of the world is ready and willing. There is just huge demand for this capacity. And I think globally the US really wants to be able to compete against China. China is not slowing down at all." (Thu, Nov 5) $APLD CEO: Bank construction lending, project financing and bond markets remain available, although interest rates and credit spreads have risen "The big risk is delivering on time." "The demand picture is extremely robust." (Mon, Nov 2) $QCOM CEO: "It's not demand bound. It's a supply bound." "We're short on wafers, we're short on substrate, we're short on assembly. Everything is short because demand is very, very high." "I think what the market is reacting to is what is the speed of the compute build out." $META on political risk: "We did have a governor that won last night who did make data centers a big part of the platform. Say as soon as we get past the inauguration, let's meet because we don't want to lose this investment in our town. We don't want these jobs to go elsewhere." (Wed, Nov 4) Even politicians campaigning against data centers are negotiating. But Meta's president also emphasized that starting new US DCs will become more difficult. TLDR: -> Extremely bullish commentary from accelerator players, networking, and semi companies -> DC developers report strong pricing/demand, but increasingly emphasize financing, permitting and execution risks (more cautious) -> Politicians that previously campaigned against DCs are showing cooperation There's an important difference between demand disappearing and demand being delayed by the inability to build fast enough. Despite the severity of the selloff, I'm not seeing evidence of widespread AI demand destruction in commentary.

Anthropic has agreed to pay $3.4 billion for gas-fired generators for data centers, the FT reported, in what it described as the largest known single purchase of power-generation equipment by an AI lab bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I’m old enough to remember a few days ago when data centers caused residential electricity prices to soar. Now .. not so much.

BREAKING: US officials believe Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang had a "romantic relationship" with a Chinese spy from China’s main intelligence agency, per FT. Details include: 1. US officials say Jensen Huang had been romantically involved with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed 2. US intelligence shows that Alice Huang was recruited as a spy by China’s Ministry of State Security 3. Megaspeed has now come under US scrutiny for allegedly smuggling advanced Nvidia chips into China It's unclear what the implications of this development will be.