EOW Phase 0a refresh: the hardware layer beneath the cloud is where money rotated out this week; the equipment leg upstream mostly held its long trend
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EOW Phase 0a refresh: the hardware layer beneath the cloud is where money rotated out this week; the equipment leg upstream mostly held its long trend
- Type: refresh (subtype: layer-distinction sharpened)
- event_id:
2026-08-22-ai-power-delivery-eow-phase-0a-refresh - Source: 2026-08-22-optical-supply-chain (contract-manufacturing/board-adjacent names reopening the collapse pocket); 2026-08-22-wfe-test-metrology (semicap/equipment leg's book-wide but mostly-intact pullback).
- Shift: This week's broad cooldown across the wider optical/EMS complex landed hardest on the board/contract-manufacturing layer — several names sitting alongside this cohort's board-power-delivery peers froze into fresh collapse regimes on both a short- and mid-window read. The semicap/equipment leg one layer further upstream (AMAT, LRCX, ASML, KLAC, ONTO) posted a uniformly rough week sitting on top of a uniformly strong trailing year — a violent, book-wide pullback inside intact trends, not a break, with only one name in that book showing genuine long-horizon damage. That is the cleanest evidence yet for this perspective's own layer distinction: the board/rack power-delivery layer is where capital rotated out, the equipment/foundry layer beneath it mostly held.
- Effect on thesis: HOLD, unchanged directionally, reinforced on the layer split. AMAT's own print remains the next real gate for whether the equipment leg's strength broadens.
- Per-ticker: MPWR/AOSL/VICR/POWI — read through the board-layer rotation, not directly named in this week's cited scans. AMAT/LRCX/ASML — deep pullback, intact long trend. No numeric tape reads restated in this Phase 0a entry.
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