Roughly 96 million dollars in call premium hit four semiconductor names at the same time, all expiring on the same day about two weeks out. The bulk of it, around 85 million, landed in the two names most exposed to memory pricing, which is the DRAM, NAND and high bandwidth memory scarcity story this show has been tracking for months. The rest broadened it into a foundry name and a custom silicon and networking name.
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Chapters
00:00 A big buyer back in chips
00:15 Where the rumor came from
00:54 Why to treat it with caution
01:15 The Micron ticket
01:26 The SanDisk ticket
01:50 Why memory is the focus
02:11 Intel and Marvell broaden it
02:46 A wager on the AI buildout
02:55 Paying a fortune for time
03:33 Four ways to read the structure
04:00 Why t...