$34.9B in one quarter. @Meta 's capex hit a record and free cash flow turned negative (-$2.1B) despite 26% revenue growth. The guide implies $49-59B in Q4 alone. Muse is shifting compute from training to inference.
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NVIDIA's biggest launch at GTC Berlin wasn't a chip. It was a container.
DSX POD: 7 NVL72 racks + 17 km of Spectrum-X cabling, integrated and tested at the ODM. Deployment: months → days.
Optics sourcing just moved to the factory floor.
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This does not mean it's shipping in high volume. You can have CPO for scale out but you could also have it for scale up if you don't care about the growing pains of early adoption. HVM is still not there yet imho. OCP just repeated the sentiment heard at ECOC that NPO is here for the near-term and Nvidia et. al. will adopt it first for scale up.
The most fucking valuable slide at OCP: Rubin Ultra NVL576 uses CPO for scale-up.
High-volume production remains uncertain, but it looks like they’ll try to make it happen.
OCP's 294-page open silicon photonics vision has a counterintuitive answer: the switch, not the GPU, runs out of copper first. A 102.4T switch needs 4x what copper can escape from its package edge. At 204.8T it is 8x.
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NVIDIA and Cisco's USFP fits 6.4T into an OSFP-sized pluggable, the first built natively for 400G/lane. Our math: 32 ports per 1U = 204.8T, matching Arista's 200G-gen XPO without in-module liquid cooling. The catch: 3.2 kW per 1U.
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5 new optical interconnect MSAs were founded in 2026 — 3 of them on the same day (12 Mar): OCI, XPO, Open CPX. We tracked all 16. Copper-only camp: 13 companies. Light-only: 3 — Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI. v1, corrections welcome. simpletechtrend.com/en/msa-tracker#CPO#SiPh#AIInfra
Same week, two clocks: China A-share laser-chip names went limit-down on an FCC 3.2T scenario, while Taiwan's LandMark posted +190% YoY September revenue. Lumentum says some capacity is booked into early 2029. Supply, not policy, sets 2027.
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Marvell just guided FY31 revenue to $70–90B — 10x FY26.
The swing factor? Scale-up optics, a business with "virtually zero" revenue today.
Copper reach at 200G: ~2.5m. Optics per XPU: thousands of dollars.
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Thank you, ECOC, for an incredible event in Málaga! Inspiring talks, visionary tech, and great reconnections with the optical community. See you next year! #ECOC2026
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