Carousel Studio

Vinod

@BoxTraderVK

Six themes the street is sleeping on for H2 2026. Everyone's chasing the AI chips. The alpha is in the physical bottlenecks and the next frontiers. 1/ CPO — Co-Packaged Optics** Optics moves onto the chip package — less power, less heat. Market still prices these as boring telecom names. SV is privately funding optical startups right now. That's the signal. $LITE $COHR $AVGO $MRVL $MTSI $CRDO $ALAB $TSEM $FN $POET **2/ 800VDC Power Semis** NVIDIA is killing the 48V bus entirely. Direct 800V-to-rail. The GaN + SiC makers who enable it become critical infrastructure. $NVTS $MPWR $ON **3/ Physical AI — Humanoids & Robotics** OEMs are private, actuators sit in China/Japan. The US owns the picks and shovels — brain, eyes, motion, magnets. 🧠 $NVDA $QCOM $AMBA 👁 $CGNX $INVZ ⚙️ $NOVN $MOG.A 🧲 $MP 🤖 $TSLA $TER $SYM **4/ Glass Substrate / Advanced Packaging** Organic substrates are dead for next-gen. Glass is the only path to HBM4 + CPO at scale. 2026 is year one of production. $ONTO $GLW $CAMT $FORM **5/ Space** Launch costs cratered 90%+. Defense budgets pivoted to orbit. SpaceX IPO is the gravitational pull for the whole sector. $RKLB $LUNR $PL $KTOS $TDY **6/ Quantum** The inflection year — labs to real revenue. IonQ just became the first $100M+ revenue quantum name. ⚠️ Highest beta here by far — speculative sleeve only, size accordingly. These names move 10-15% on no news. $IONQ $RGTI $QBTS $QUBT $IBM The component layer reprices first — always. $VPG tripled before anyone talked humanoids. Same pattern plays out across every one of these. Not financial advice. Do your own work. Ride the Vertical. Short the Blowoff.