#Ban Bet Lost /u/Icy_Wrongdoer8750 made a bet that IBM would go to 290.0 within **1 week** when it was 307.25 and it did not, so they were banned for a week. Their record is now 0 wins and 1 losses [**Join WSB Discord**](https://discord.gg/wsbverse) | [**⚔**](https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCave/)

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Yes there was, the term you are actually looking for is integrated photonics. Nvidia for example uses their acquisition of mellanox and its iteration into what nvlink became as a fabric, but it still isn't on chip. More recently companies like ayar labs and Intel have been making larger actual strides in the integration of the laser source being on/through the chips themselves. IBM has had numerous acquisitions and internal research groups around the tech for awhile.

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Yeah I agree with that, there’s only a few companies that will actually thrive in the AI boom. The data / compute companies and chips like amd and nvidia benefit the most now since they’re selling the “shovels” that huge scalers like meta, OpenAI, crwv, orcl etc need. I think smaller AI companies are essentially cooked since if they’re trying to compete at scale with the big boys. In terms of quantum, I think IBM and Google, and maybe infleqion are the only real companies in play. I think shrkeli is right that RGTI and QBTS and Ionq are way too overvalued when they don’t have a product or anything to show. Nuclear wise, I think OKLO is just ridiculously overvalued, multi billion valuation when expected revenue 10 years from now is in the millions, and that’s optimistic assuming they capture most of the market. Nuclear can’t even power a full scale data center, so it’s unseen how well it would actually work

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Now imagine needing 8 floppy discs to install an 8-bit chess game on your IBM PC.

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This was my mom’s trading strategy lol. From the 90’s until she retired, every year she would take a few hundred bucks from her tax return or bonus and just buy shares of companies she liked. Her biggest winners were dominos, chipotle and Apple. These three alone allowed her to retire at 55. IBM was her lowest gain, something like 3% over 25 years lol. Biggest losers were Polaroid and BlackBerry. I adopted her approach for my personal investment account but just buy ETF’s in my ROTH and never sell as I am hoping I get as lucky as she did.

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Something something, eggs in one basket. another tech super star IBM would give you 6% annually if you held since 1985

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Like IBM? Why

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#Ban Bet Lost /u/LiamPhlegmsworth made a bet that IBM would go to 350.0 within **3 weeks** when it was 294.25 and it did not, so they were banned for a week. Their record is now 2 wins and 10 losses [**Join WSB Discord**](https://discord.gg/wsbverse) | [**⚔**](https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCave/)

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