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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Arista Networks managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street.</li><li>The company generated $1.46 billion in revenue for the quarter and $1.58 in non-GAAP earnings per share.</li><li>Arista is adjusting to these developments and increasing its investments in AI as its biggest cloud customers reassess their conventional cloud and AI networking plans.</li></ul>

Arista Networks managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street.The company generated $1.46 billion in revenue for the quarter and $1.58 in non-GAAP earnings per share.Arista is adjusting to these developments and increasing its investments in AI as its biggest cloud customers reassess their conventional cloud and AI networking plans.

Arista Networks Inc.: Capitalizing on Strong Growth Outside the Cloud Domain! - Major Drivers

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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Learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

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<ul><li>To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update.</li><li>I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.</li><li>The specific things I am interested in are Marvell’s ZR and custom silicon.</li></ul>

To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update.I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.The specific things I am interested in are Marvell’s ZR and custom silicon.

Optics Earnings (FN, ANET, COHR, LITE, AAOI)

<ul><li>Let’s first talk about Intel. Intel reported earnings last week, and what a surprise; they managed to have a beat and raise!</li><li>I wrote about this in “<a href="https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/is-this-the-intel-inflection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is this the Intel Inflection</a>,” noting that, for once, they had low enough hurdles to jump over.</li><li>Most of this quarter’s strength came from Client computing, while Datacenter looked better than feared. There is a slight restocking event with the back-to-school season, which implies that the worst is done for PC CPU inventories.</li></ul>

Let’s first talk about Intel. Intel reported earnings last week, and what a surprise; they managed to have a beat and raise!I wrote about this in “Is this the Intel Inflection,” noting that, for once, they had low enough hurdles to jump over.Most of this quarter’s strength came from Client computing, while Datacenter looked better than feared. There is a slight restocking event with the back-to-school season, which implies that the worst is done for PC CPU inventories.

Earnings: Intel, AMD, ANET, ON, RMBS, SITM, QCOM, QRVO

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<li>This is the first edition of a quarterly summary piece to highlight my ideas and best pieces quarterly.</li>
<li>This is one of the 16th-best quarters in SOXX since 2002. While it’s a pretty solid showing at a 17% quarterly return, this doesn’t compare to the incredible returns in 2020 and 2023.</li>
<li>Now, the misleading thing is that SMH, a broader ETF, is up 30%.</li>
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This is the first edition of a quarterly summary piece to highlight my ideas and best pieces quarterly.
This is one of the 16th-best quarters in SOXX since 2002. While it’s a pretty solid showing at a 17% quarterly return, this doesn’t compare to the incredible returns in 2020 and 2023.
Now, the misleading thing is that SMH, a broader ETF, is up 30%.


<ul><li>Lattice is just too expensive for what it is. It’s one of the highest multiples in the space, but I acknowledge we are closer to the trough than the peak.</li><li><p>Tokyo Electron continues to be bullish high aspect etch and reports that they are winning in DRAM and hopefully in NAND in the future.</p></li><li><p>Arista says that AI revenue is yet to come, and 800G will mostly be in 2025, not 2024. The market got ahead of itself.</p></li></ul>

Lattice is just too expensive for what it is. It’s one of the highest multiples in the space, but I acknowledge we are closer to the trough than the peak.Tokyo Electron continues to be bullish high aspect etch and reports that they are winning in DRAM and hopefully in NAND in the future.Arista says that AI revenue is yet to come, and 800G will mostly be in 2025, not 2024. The market got ahead of itself.

Earnings (LSCC, ANET, GFS, Tokyo Electron, SITM, ENTG, AMAT)

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Arista Networks Inc. provides cloud networking solutions for data-centers and computer environments. The Company offers ethernet switches, pass-through cards, transceivers, cards, and enhanced operating systems. Arista also provides host adapter solutions and networking services and markets its products globally.

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Arista Networks Inc.: Capitalizing on Strong Growth Outside the Cloud Domain! - Major Drivers

Arista Networks managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street. The company generated $1.46 billion in revenue for the...

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Optics Earnings (FN, ANET, COHR, LITE, AAOI)

To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update. I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.

Fabricated Knowledge

Earnings: Intel, AMD, ANET, ON, RMBS, SITM, QCOM, QRVO

Let’s first talk about Intel. Intel reported earnings last week, and what a surprise; they managed to have a beat and raise! I wrote about this in...

Fabricated Knowledge

Fabricated Knowledge Quarterly Review

This is the first edition of a quarterly summary piece to highlight my ideas and best pieces quarterly. This is one of the 16th-best quarters in...

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Earnings (LSCC, ANET, GFS, Tokyo Electron, SITM, ENTG, AMAT)

Lattice is just too expensive for what it is. It’s one of the highest multiples in the space, but I acknowledge we are closer to the trough than...

Fabricated Knowledge

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