Nvidia's boss hypes optical stocks at Computex — catch the AI-infrastructure ripple
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang went on stage and praised Marvell Technology, predicting it could hit a $1 trillion valuation. His comments lit a fire under the whole optical-components sector — the companies that make the high-speed connections inside AI data centers.
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When the most influential person in AI — Nvidia's Jensen Huang — publicly praises a sector, money follows. Optical component makers like Lumentum and Coherent build the high-speed light-based connections that link thousands of chips together in AI data centers. As big tech companies like Alphabet pour $80 billion into AI infrastructure, these smaller suppliers stand to capture a big slice of that spending. The sector is already surging on Huang's comments, and history shows that when a theme gets this kind of high-profile endorsement, the rally tends to last more than a day or two.