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These 6 stocks could be major winners of an upcoming optics ‘supercycle’

March 11, 2026

Altman Solon’s Anthony Milovantsev is featured in MarketWatch discussing how the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads is driving a potential “optics supercycle” across the semiconductor and networking ecosystem.

The article highlights how hyperscale data centers are increasingly relying on high-speed optical connectivity to link large clusters of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) used for AI training and inference. As AI compute environments scale, the ability to move data efficiently between processors is becoming a critical performance bottleneck. Anthony notes that once training spreads across hundreds or thousands of GPUs, networking speed becomes essential to maintaining system performance. The piece explores how this shift could benefit optical component suppliers as demand for high-bandwidth data center infrastructure accelerates.

Read the full article from MarketWatch .

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