A week's worth of items that look unrelated on the surface — a financing structure in Ohio, a stalled funding round in Hangzhou, a vessel count in the southern Red Sea — resolve into the same underlying question. Who is absorbing the risk, and what happens when the entity absorbing it is not the entity that appears in the headline? The Financing Is the Story, Not the … [Read more...] about OSINT Digest: Nvidia’s $250B Ohio Guarantee, DeepSeek’s Paused Round, and Bab al-Mandab Down to 11 Vessels
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SanDisk and Micron Fell Friday Because Google Raised Capex, Not Because It Cut It
I'm long this complex. Long the equipment names, long the memory names, long through leveraged vehicles that punish me twice whenever I'm wrong. So discount everything below by whatever factor you apply to a man defending his own book. I'm not going to argue the chips are cheap, either. After the half they just had, that argument doesn't survive contact with a price … [Read more...] about SanDisk and Micron Fell Friday Because Google Raised Capex, Not Because It Cut It
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026: The Stock Fell 14.5% but Only 4% of It Came From the Earnings Release
Tesla reported after the close on Wednesday and the stock fell about 4% in the extended session, settling near $358.86 against a $374.05 regular-session close. By Thursday's bell it had closed at $319.69, down 14.52% on volume of 114.2 million shares — roughly 131% above the three-month average of 49.4 million. Somewhere between $200 and $210 billion of market capitalization … [Read more...] about Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026: The Stock Fell 14.5% but Only 4% of It Came From the Earnings Release
Intel Q2 2026: $16.1 Billion in Revenue and $293 Million in External Foundry Sales
Intel Foundry booked $5.8 billion of revenue in the second quarter. Two hundred ninety-three million of it came from customers other than Intel. That single ratio — ninety-five percent internal transfer pricing — is the argument the entire half-trillion-dollar market capitalization is resting on, and it barely moved this quarter. Everything else in the print was … [Read more...] about Intel Q2 2026: $16.1 Billion in Revenue and $293 Million in External Foundry Sales
Super Micro Computer Q4 FY26: Gross Margin Guide Nearly Doubles to 15%-17%
Super Micro Computer's preliminary Q4 FY26 update, released after market close on July 21, gives investors a data point that reframes the past year's narrative around the company. Revenue for the quarter ended June 30 will land near the low end of the $11.0 billion to $12.5 billion guidance range — a continuation of the demand softness that has weighed on shares through 2026. … [Read more...] about Super Micro Computer Q4 FY26: Gross Margin Guide Nearly Doubles to 15%-17%