Nvidia's CEO hails Marvell as a future $1 trillion company — ride the optical-component wave
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang publicly predicted Marvell Technology will reach a $1 trillion valuation, and praised the company on stage at a major tech conference. His comments are lifting the entire optical-component sector — the companies that make the high-speed connectors AI data centers depend on.
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When Nvidia's CEO singles out a company on stage at a major conference, it moves entire supply chains — not just that one stock. Optical-component makers like Lumentum and Coherent are the picks-and-shovels behind AI data centers: they make the high-speed light-based connectors that link thousands of chips together. With Alphabet announcing an $80 billion AI buildout and HPE citing 'massive AI-fueled demand' for its servers, the order pipeline for optical parts is accelerating. These smaller suppliers tend to move faster than the tech giants, giving traders a leveraged way to play the AI infrastructure boom.