The Circuit Brief — CPI Cools, Now Cisco, Coherent, and Applied Materials Test the Buildout
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Episode notes
Thursday morning edition. Yesterday's cooler CPI gave AI infrastructure stocks room to breathe. Cisco and Coherent showed networking and optics demand is real. Today, PPI and Applied Materials test whether the AI buildout still has cost discipline underneath it -- the bottleneck is moving from chips to the systems around chips.