Weekly Top Ten Tech Hardware and Semiconductor - Mar 29, 2026

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1. Elon’s TeraFab. Genius Move Or Epic Nonsense?

Elon Musk announced his intention to build a leading edge, so-called TeraFab, in Austin Texas because TSMC & Samsung are unwilling to expand capacity quickly enough
He intends to produce terrestrial chips for his Tesla cars and Optimus robots and space chips so that he can offer free flights to Saturn when the time comes
No timeline, no process technology, no experience, no employees no worries. He’s got new physics & will do a bunch of wild and crazy things along the way. For sure…

SNPS & CDNS currently trade at the same levels they were at three years and two years ago respectively.
Both companies were namechecked twice by Jensen Huang last week as example of companies whose products are needed now more than ever. NVIDIA recently invested $2 billion in SNPS
The WSJ is now reporting that Elliott has taken a multi-billion dollar stake in SNPS. We all know what that means!

Arm has formally entered the chip-making business with the Arm AGI CPU, for agentic AI infrastructure, delivering more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 platforms
Developed with lead partner Meta, with other customers and leading ODMs committed for production, the Arm AGI CPU is backed by strong support from the global ecosystem
Arm was up over 16% in overnight trading. There’s officially a new CPU kid on the block.

Management has adjusted FY July 2026 guidance after 2Q results that were in line with our expectations. Sales guidance has been lowered slightly while profit guidance has been raised.
In 2Q, sales growth accelerated, selling expenses were reduced and the company got out of the red. Profits should increase further in 2H.
The upward revision to profit guidance has cut the projected P/E ratio for this fiscal year from 20.4x to 13.6x.

Automotive core: ~40% global display driver IC share; automotive now 50% of revenue, with TCON growing ~50% YoY and double-digit 2H26 growth guided from new project ramps.
Non-Driver expansion: WiseEye edge AI, LCoS microdisplays, and co-packaged optics nano-optics target AI PCs, AR glasses, and data center silicon photonics – meaningful revenue contribution expected from 2027.
Solid financial foundation: $258M net cash, $140M operating cash flow, ~31% gross margins; structural margin upside expected as high-value non-driver mix grows over the medium term.