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From Chips to Apps? Rethinking the AI Trade Beyond NVDA, MU
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Cycles and Supply Constraints
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The discussion touches on historical capital cycles, the .com era, and the supply constraints keeping chipmakers like TSMC, Nvidia, and Micron highly profitable in the near term.
Corporate leaders are aggressively investing in AI to avoid being left behind. However, if these firms do not ultimately see a tangible return on their investments, they will pull the plug and the entire cycle will reverse, similar to the metaverse boom.
If corporate buyers do not see a robust, sustainable return on their AI infrastructure investments, they can easily pull the plug, causing the entire boom to reverse.
The rational move for individual companies would be to test the waters with moderate AI budgets. Instead, because competitors like OpenAI go all-in, rival firms have no choice but to match the aggressive spending to survive.
