Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

20 years experience researching capital markets across Asia and the USA.

Managing Director, Zero One

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Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

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Himax Technologies Inc Adr / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Himax's CPO entry is a manufacturing story: it supplies the precision optics — lenses, prisms, V-grooves — inside the fiber array unit, built on 15 years of nanoimprint wafer-level optics.</li>
<li>Third-Party research (Hunterbrook, Ming-Chi Kuo) ties those optics to TSMC's COUPE engine behind NVIDIA's CPO switches, but Himax, TSMC, and NVIDIA have not confirmed it.</li>
<li>Gen 1 (1.6/3.2 Tbps) ships in small quantities from 2H26 and Gen 2 (6.4 Tbps) nears validation; lower volume, higher value than displays, funded by automotive.</li>
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Himax's CPO entry is a manufacturing story: it supplies the precision optics — lenses, prisms, V-grooves — inside the fiber array unit, built on 15 years of nanoimprint wafer-level optics.
Third-Party research (Hunterbrook, Ming-Chi Kuo) ties those optics to TSMC's COUPE engine behind NVIDIA's CPO switches, but Himax, TSMC, and NVIDIA have not confirmed it.
Gen 1 (1.6/3.2 Tbps) ships in small quantities from 2H26 and Gen 2 (6.4 Tbps) nears validation; lower volume, higher value than displays, funded by automotive.


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