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I. Macro & Market Sentiment(Market Data)· BTC Price: $63,429 (24h -0.51%)· Funding Rate: +0.0067%· Fear & Greed Index: 37 (Fear)(Key Events Ahead)· U.S. July CPI data will be released tonight at 8:30 PM. Headline CPI is expected to rise 0.1% MoM, while core CPI is projected to increase 0.2% MoM, bringing their respective YoY increases to 3.4% and 2.5%. The market is currently pricing in a roughly 50% probability of a September rate hike.II. Trading Signals / Hotspots(BTC · Extreme Sentiment)· BT

Overview RIOT stock surged after Riot Platforms disclosed a long-term AI data center agreement that could materially change how investors value a company historically viewed primarily as a Bitcoin miner. According to Riot Platforms' Q2 2026 results, the company signed a 20-year data center lease and services agreement with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale campus in Texas. Riot expects approximately $9.1 billion of contract revenue over the initi

Executive SummarySuper Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) surged as much as 9.9% on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, trading between $30.92 and $35.10 before settling near $33.99.The move came after Tuesday's after-hours earnings report, where SMCI missed revenue estimates but crushed EPS expectations and issued a fiscal 2027 revenue forecast of $65 billion to $72 billion, far above the roughly $53 billion Wall Street consensus.Trading volume hit 95.52 million shares, more than double the stock's 44.13 mil

Overview CoreWeave stock surged after its latest earnings report because investors saw more than a modest quarterly revenue beat. The results provided fresh evidence that demand for AI computing infrastructure remains strong and that available capacity is still struggling to keep pace. According to CoreWeave's second quarter 2026 results, revenue reached $2.575 billion, up approximately 112% from $1.212 billion a year earlier. Revenue backlog stood at approximately $104 billion at the end of Jun

Overview Applied Materials is scheduled to report its third quarter fiscal 2026 financial results on August 13, 2026, after the U.S. market close. As the world’s largest provider of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the performance and guidance from Applied Materials serve as a primary indicator for global semiconductor capital expenditure. Accelerated deployment of artificial intelligence infrastructure is pushing major chipmakers to expand capacity across leading edge logic, high bandwidt

Overview As hyperscalers and artificial intelligence enterprises scale compute clusters to unprecedented levels, traditional copper interconnects are reaching physical limits in bandwidth and energy efficiency. The latest financial results from optical communications leader Lumentum Holdings Inc. provide concrete evidence of this structural transformation. Driven by surging demand across AI data center networks, Lumentum achieved a milestone in its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, crossing on

Overview A company known for assembling iPhones saw cloud and networking revenue surpass smart consumer electronics for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2025, during the traditional consumer electronics peak season. Apple's orders did not shrink. Another business line simply grew faster. Per Hon Hai's full-year and fourth quarter 2025 results, revenue from cloud and networking products surpassed smart consumer electronics for the first time even during the traditional peak season for ICT

Overview A company with $2.575 billion of quarterly revenue spent $9.4 billion on capital expenditure in that same quarter. That is a ratio of 3.6 times, and next quarter's guidance says it is not coming down. After reporting second quarter 2026 results on August 11, CoreWeave raised its full-year capital expenditure outlook to $35 billion to $39 billion. Per CNBC's report, the prior forecast had been $31 billion to $35 billion, and the company called for more than 1.85 gigawatts of active power

Overview A company reported a 17.5% quarterly gross margin and guided the next quarter to 10.4% to 10.8%. Both numbers came from the same earnings call, and that is the most direct way into this report. Super Micro Computer reported fiscal fourth quarter and full-year 2026 results after the close on August 11, 2026, for the period ended June 30. Per Yahoo Finance, the company projects fiscal 2027 revenue of $65 billion to $72 billion, well above the $54.4 billion analysts had expected, sending t

Overview A company grew revenue by roughly 40% and net profit by 35%. The roughly five percentage point gap between those two figures is where this report starts. Hon Hai Precision Industry held its second quarter investor conference on August 12, 2026. Per the company's filing announcing the call, the online session was scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Taipei time. Net profit attributable to the parent company came in at approximately NT$59.97 billion, up roughly 35% year over year and ahead of market e