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· Premarket Alpha · by Buzzberg Research
The biggest arguments treated the OpenAI scare as an accounting artifact while specialists detailed locked-up memory supply and sold-out optics; @bubbleboi framed an Nvidia revenue miss as a potential short.
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Telecom and SpaceX
SpaceX's spectrum purchase kept carriers under pressure and traders flagged ASTS's competitive window as nearly shut, with one quipping about shorting Verizon.
Metals and energy
Gold pushed toward $4,173 and platinum jumped 3% while Brent traded above $104 with 62.9% of Gulf output shut in by Hurricane Isaias.
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Market Radar →Samsung's next-year memory supply is reported 75–80% covered by long-term contracts
Korean media reports say Samsung Electronics has secured long-term agreements covering 75–80% of next year's memory supply volume, including high-bandwidth memory, with most contracts reportedly finalized with Nvidia, Google and Microsoft. SK hynix and Micron are also reported to be locking in large volumes, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics is near a KRW 700 billion MLCC supply agreement with Delta Electronics.
[EXCLUSIVE] 80% OF SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS’ SUPPLY VOLUME FOR NEXT YEAR IS COVERED BY LONG-TERM CONTRACTS According to Korean media reports,
If the reported coverage holds, memory revenue becomes tied to multi-year contracts rather than spot pricing alone — a structural change for the memory cycle.
Watch Confirmation of the agreements in company disclosures and any further detail on volumes and counterparties.
Source →Lumentum's CEO says the company is 'effectively sold out through nearly 2029'
The post relays Lumentum CEO comments on Bloomberg that the company is 'effectively sold out through nearly 2029,' with hyperscaler demand visibility carrying into 2030–2031, and argues the implications are enormous for remaining laser suppliers with capacity coming online — Sivers, Sumitomo Electric and AAOI.
Woooow... $LITE CEO went out on Bloomberg today and stated: Lumentum is "effectively sold out through nearly 2029".
A sold-out incumbent points to pricing power and qualification openings for second-source photonics suppliers.
Watch Whether capacity from Sivers, Sumitomo and AAOI gets qualified into hyperscaler supply chains.
Source →Looking likely Nvidia won’t hit its revenue targets next year.
Could be a great short. Unless they buy all my inventory of gas turbines. They might struggle quite a bit.
Looking likely Nvidia won’t hit its revenue targets next year. Could be a great short.Source →
Hurricane Isaias shuts in 62.9% of Gulf oil as Brent tops $104
The storm update says Isaias will make landfall late Friday near Pensacola as a near-Category 3 system, with 62.9% of Gulf oil production (about 1.28 million barrels a day) shut in, the Pascagoula refinery in the path and still running, and Brent up 4.1% to $104.28.
HURRICANE ISAIAS, 10:30PM ET: Cat 2, 100 mph, landfall late Fri near Pensacola as near-Cat 3 (110 mph).
Shut-ins of most Gulf output plus a refinery in the storm's path tighten near-term crude supply while Brent already trades above $104.
Watch Landfall late Friday, the next shut-in tally, and refinery restart timelines.
Source →Duke Energy and hyperscalers propose upfront payments for grid costs
A proposed North Carolina settlement among Duke Energy, the Public Staff, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other parties would require nonrefundable upfront payments for customer-specific grid facilities and deposits or security for shared upgrades; it remains subject to North Carolina Utilities Commission approval.
Duke and hyperscalers propose upfront grid-cost protections in North Carolina.
Establishes a template for allocating grid-upgrade costs to data centers, changing project economics and ratepayer risk.
Watch The NCUC decision and whether other utilities adopt similar upfront grid-payment terms.
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