Buy TSM by Aug 9, 2026.

Spent the last month going through every layer of the AI infrastructure stack. Power, cooling, networking, optical, memory, foundry, packaging, equipment. Roughly 30 companies. I wanted to find value somewhere in the chain… I mostly failed. Power and cooling names like Vertiv are trading at 70x trailing earnings. Optical networking companies like Coherent, Lumentum, and Ciena are up 200-400% in 12 months with gross margins that don’t justify the multiples. Fabrinet is a great business but runs on 12% gross …