I Was Wrong. This Is a Historic Buying Opportunity.
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One month ago, the market was panicking
over the Iran war and broken [music]
supply chains. Today, it's verging on
extreme greed. But below all the
headlines, big institutions are quietly
building cash because they see a massive
opportunity ahead. My name [music] is
Alex and I spent eight years as an
electrical engineer and AI researcher at
MIT, which helped me find stocks like
Nvidia, Micron, Vertiv, and Coreweave
long before the rest of the market.
[music] In this video, I'm going to show
you the major market stories already
changing which stocks are about to win
big. And I'll show you a huge mistake
that I made along the way. Your time is
valuable, so let's get right into it.
The CNN Fear and Greed Index has been
stuck near extreme greed for the last
three weeks, the longest stretch so far
this year. And it's easy to understand
why everyone's so greedy, at least on
the surface. During earnings, the
biggest tech companies on Earth
announced over $700 billion in AI
infrastructure spending this year alone.
That's up 77% from last year, even with
their supply chains at a standstill. But
here's the signal that made me make this
video. Just last week at Berkshire
Hathaway's annual meeting, Warren
Buffett said the stock market is in a
mood for gambling, calling this
investing environment like going to a
church with a casino attached. Berkshire
Hathaway, under their new CEO Greg Abel,
is currently sitting on almost $400
billion in cash. That's a whopping 32%
of their entire portfolio. That's an
all-time record for Warren Buffett's
firm. That means they're holding more
cash than they did at the start of the
dot-com bubble, the global financial
crisis, and the pandemic. Warren Buffett
coined the phrase be fearful when others
are greedy and greedy when others are
fearful. And that's exactly what he's
doing right now. The question isn't why,
that part is obvious. War, broken supply
chains, and rising costs. The real
question is where that money goes when
he buys back in and when other massive
institutions follow his lead. Here's
where I think the biggest opportunities
in the market are right now.
Accountability is important to me, so
let's talk about my big mistake, because
I owe you a real apology here. Let's
talk about CPUs. Traditional AI data
centers run roughly one CPU for every
eight GPUs. The GPUs do the heavy math,
and the CPUs keep the traffic moving.
But a Jentick AI flips the script. When
a coding agent runs for 30 minutes
straight, it's making tons of separate
tool calls. It's spawning hundreds of
sub agents, and its memory usage can 10x
over the course of a session. None of
that orchestration, the tools, the sub
agents, and the context management runs
on GPUs. It all runs on CPUs. Jensen
Huang showed specific numbers at GTC
2026. 12,000 GPUs running at scale need
400,000 CPU cores running next to them.
That sounds like a 33 to 1 CPU to GPU
ratio, which is one reason why I think
stocks like AMD and Intel are running so
hot right now. But let me spend 30
seconds walking you through the real
math, and not the hype, and I'll show
you the mistake that made me miss a lot
of easy money. There are 72 Rubin GPUs
per rack. So 12,000 GPUs would need
about 167 racks. Each Vera rack has 256
CPUs, and each CPU has 88 cores. So one
rack of Vera CPUs has almost 23,000
cores. That means for every 167 GPU
racks, you actually only need 18 CPU
racks, or a ratio of 9 to 1 GPU to CPU
racks, not the other way around. In chip
terms, a data center wants 4600 Vera
CPUs for every 1200 Rubin GPUs, or one
CPU for every 2.6 GPUs. Now, here was my
mistake and why I owe you an apology. In
my opinion, investors should care about
the racks. After all, data centers are
built and priced in terms of racks. And
like I just showed you, a Gentex AI
needs nine times more GPU racks than CPU
racks. But, I didn't think about it in
terms of chips. And AI data centers only
need three times more GPUs than CPUs if
you count by chips instead of racks.
Said another way, there are roughly
three times more CPUs in AI data centers
than I realized. That's a big difference
and I really should have caught it
sooner. I didn't cover AMD enough and I
really should have. I didn't cover Intel
enough and I really should have. I
didn't listen to your feedback in the
comments and I really should have. I
apologize, full stop. So, let me put my
ego aside and cover AMD and Intel now.
AMD just reported earnings last week.
Revenues came in at $10.3 billion for
the quarter, which is up 38% year over
year. Data center revenue came in at
$5.8 billion,
which grew by a much higher 57%. Most of
that revenue comes from data center
CPUs, not GPUs. And their CPU sales are
growing a lot faster. But, like I just
said, those CPUs are much more important
in AI data centers than I realized. Meta
Platforms recently committed to 6
gigawatts of AMD's Instinct GPUs with 1
gigawatt for fully customized MI450s
built exclusively for Meta's workloads.
That's roughly the size of all the AI
compute on Earth combined outside of
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. And Meta
just committed all of that to AMD. This
is a huge win for AMD, but it comes at a
huge cost that investors need to know
about. In order to make it happen, AMD
gave Meta a warrant, the right to buy
roughly 10% of the entire company at one
penny per share. Now, Meta only gets
those shares if AMD stock hits $600,
which would be around a trillion-dollar
valuation. But today, AMD already trades
over $450.
So, it's already 75% of the way there.
That means Meta gets almost a hundred
billion dollars in AMD stock essentially
for nothing. And AMD shareholders will
get diluted by 10%. But wait, they
actually get diluted by 20% because AMD
has the same deal with OpenAI. So, the
moment AMD stock touches $600 per share,
you take 20% off the top, and it's
actually only worth $480,
just $30 more than its current price.
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on their latest earnings call, Lisa Su
said that the data center CPU market
will nearly triple in size by 2030.
That's a compound annual growth rate of
35% or roughly three times faster than
the S&P 500. So, even with that 20%
dilution coming up, AMD's future is
looking pretty bright. But, while AMD
designs CPUs, Intel actually builds
them. For years, everyone said the same
thing about Intel, including me. Intel
needed a huge customer to prove that
they could still build chips and no big
company would take that risk. Until
then, Intel's foundry was a gamble, not
a business to invest in. But, everything
changed in April when Intel landed three
huge customers back-to-back-to-back.
First, Intel joined Terafab, a $25
billion chip factory being built in
Austin with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI using
Intel's most advanced manufacturing
technology. For the first time, Intel
has a flagship customer lined up before
the factory was even finished. Then,
Intel signed a multi-year deal with
Google to build custom chips for their
internal cloud infrastructure. And just
a few days ago, Bloomberg reported that
Apple is in early talks with Intel and
Samsung about manufacturing their chips
in the US. That way, they can reduce the
risks of all their chips being made at
TSMC in Taiwan. If you didn't know,
Apple used Intel's chips in every Mac
from 2006 to 2020 when they switched
over to their own M1 chips made by TSMC
and Intel lost their biggest customer.
So, Apple coming back would be one of
the biggest comebacks in market history.
This is not a done deal, but it is the
first serious signal that Apple is
looking at chipmakers beyond TSMC for
the first time in over a decade. Intel
reported earnings a few weeks ago. Their
revenue came in at $13.6 billion,
which is up 7% year-over-year. And
earnings per share came in at 29 cents,
up from 13 cents last year. Those
numbers aren't too crazy, but the
market's reaction sure was. Intel stock
jumped 24% the next day, marking their
single best day since the dot-com era.
Two years ago, I said that Intel was a
value trap. Today, they're the only
American-owned and operated factory that
can build some of the world's most
advanced chips, and they might finally
have the customers to prove it. But, the
battleground for AI CPUs just got a lot
bigger. For the last 35 years, ARM was
the arms dealer that never picked a
side. They sold blueprints to Nvidia and
AMD, Apple and Qualcomm, and they
collected royalties while everyone else
fought the actual chip war. That is,
until now. A few weeks ago, ARM launched
the AGI CPU, the first chip they've ever
designed and sold themselves in the
history of the company. And right off
the bat, the specs are pretty serious.
ARM's AGI CPU has up to 136 cores per
chip and 60 chips per rack. So, let's do
the same math we just did a few minutes
ago and compare it to Nvidia. Remember,
according to Jensen, it takes around
400,000 CPU cores to support 12,000
Rubin GPUs. 136 cores per ARM chip * 60
chips per rack is just under 8,200 cores
per rack. So, it would take around 49
racks to support those GPUs compared to
just 18 racks of Nvidia Vera CPUs. That
sounds way worse, but let me fix the
mistake I just showed you I kept making
instead of falling into the same trap.
If we look at the actual chip counts
instead of just the racks, it takes
4,600 Vera CPUs to support those 12,000
Rubin GPUs. That's one CPU for every 2.6
GPUs, just like I showed you before.
But, you only need 3,000 ARM AGI CPUs to
support that same amount. That's one CPU
for every four GPUs, or around 54%
better performance than Nvidia's Vera.
Said another way, arm's new CPU is
actually much more powerful than
Nvidia's. So much so that you need
almost 40% fewer to run the same data
centers. And that's just versus Nvidia.
It has roughly double the performance
per watt versus Intel and AMD. And arm
says it can save around $10 billion in
construction costs per gigawatt of data
center compute. So let's bring
everything full circle. Meta just
committed to building 6 gigawatts in
data center infrastructure using AMD's
chips. If they used arm's AGI CPUs
instead, they would have saved $60
billion on this project alone, which is
pretty close to what AMD paid Meta to
win that deal in the first place. And
I'm not the only one who caught that
math. Meta did, too. That's why they're
arm's first and flagship customer for
the AGI CPU. And early demand for this
chip is through the roof. As soon as arm
started taking orders, their demand
doubled in the first six weeks. And on
their earnings call just a few days ago,
arm's CFO said they expect to sell over
a billion dollars worth of these CPUs in
the first year alone, and hit $15
billion in annual chip revenue by 2031.
The entire company makes less than $5
billion a year today. So arm is
expecting this chip to quadruple their
annual revenue over the next five years.
So arm didn't just enter the CPU
battleground. They dropped a tactical
nuke on it. And the AGI CPU is only one
part of their story. Arm's royalties
from data center chip designs more than
doubled year over year, beating every
estimate. And these royalties have
insane 95% gross margins, much higher
than even the best software companies,
let alone hardware firms. The reason the
stock dropped 10% after their earnings
goes back to what I said at the start of
this video. Supply chain issues are
stopping them from growing even faster.
Arm's problem isn't that nobody wants
their chip, it's that they can't build
those chips fast enough and the smart
money knows it. But if you think demand
for AI infrastructure is insane right
now, there's one more bombshell I need
to walk you through. Now, to be clear,
what I'm about to show you isn't
verified, so it could be nothing or it
could change everything. And if you
found this video valuable, consider
hitting the like button and subscribing
to the channel. It really does help and
it tells me to make more content like
this. All right, let's talk about what
could be the single biggest breakthrough
in AI efficiency since the original
Transformer paper. Last week, a Miami
startup called Subquadratic announced a
new model called SubQ 1M preview. The
research version of this model has a 12
million token context window, which is
up to 12 times bigger than most frontier
models today. The version they plan to
actually ship matches everyone else at 1
million tokens, but it claims to be over
300 times cheaper to run. Said another
way, if you spent $2,500 doing work on
Claude, you could do that same work on
SubQ's model for the price of a cup of
coffee. They raised $29 million in seed
funding and launched at a $500 million
valuation. But here's what makes this
announcement pretty hard to judge. It
didn't come with a peer-reviewed paper,
it didn't come with a public model to
test, and it didn't come with any
benchmarks that anyone outside the
company could reliably reproduce. So,
I'm watching what happens next. If
Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google publish
their own work on subquadratic attention
in response, that means these claims are
being taken seriously. But if there's
crickets, this is probably just smoke
and mirrors. But either way, investors
need to understand what happens next if
this turns out to be real or there's
another breakthrough just like it. When
Dwave came out, AI got dramatically
cheaper overnight, but instead of demand
falling, it exploded because every
dollar of compute went a lot further.
When the cost of something drops, you
get much more bang for your buck. So,
overall demand goes way up. Cheaper
smartphones don't mean people use less
data. It means more people, more apps,
and more content being consumed every
single day. And more data centers had to
be built to handle it. So, if sub Q
turns out to be real, every piece of the
AI revolution becomes even more
valuable, including all the CPUs I made
the mistake of ignoring before this
video. A mistake I won't make again. At
the start of this video, I pointed out
that CNN's Fear and Greed Index has been
close to extreme greed for the last 3
weeks, the longest stretch so far this
year. But, Warren Buffett is sitting on
record levels of cash. Warren Buffett
coined the phrase "Be fearful when
others are greedy and greedy when others
are fearful." And that's exactly what
he's doing right now. The question isn't
why. We already know that. War, supply
chains, and rising costs. The question
is where that money goes when big
institutions buy back in. And now, you
know that, too. And if you want to see
what else I'm investing in, check out
this video next. Either way, thanks for
watching and until next time, this is
ticker symbol U. My name is Alex,
reminding you that the best investment
you can make
is in you.
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This video, presented by Alex, examines the current AI investment landscape against a backdrop of 'extreme greed' in the market, contrasting this with Warren Buffett's record-breaking cash reserves. Alex highlights his past mistakes in underestimating the demand for CPUs relative to GPUs in AI data centers, specifically for companies like AMD and Intel. He also explores the potential industry-shifting impact of ARM's new AGI CPU and touches on the speculative but potentially disruptive 'subquadratic' AI efficiency breakthrough.
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