Key Takeaways ALAB shares are down 33% YTD, trailing Broadcom and Credo despite sector growth. Strong demand for Aries and Taurus products supports Q2 revenue guidance of $170M-$175M. ALAB eyes 2026 UA Link launch and boosted RAstera Labs (ALAB) shares have dropped 32.8% year to date (YTD), outperforming the Zacks Internet Software industry’s return of 14.1% and the Zacks Computer and Technology sector’s growth of 7.5%. Shares of this semiconductor company have underperformed close peers, including Broadc ...

Group 1 - The core viewpoint of the article is that PCIe 6.0 x4 SSDs for PCs will not be available until 2030, with current interest from PC OEMs being minimal [1] - Silicon Motion's CEO, Wallace C. Kuo, stated that both AMD and Intel are not planning to implement PCIe 6.0 solutions in the short term [1] - The complexity of implementing PCIe 6.0 and the lack of interoperability testing by PCI-SIG are significant barriers to adoption in the client PC market [1][2] Group 2 - As data rates increase with PCIe, signal loss, noise, and impedance will reduce the allowable copper wire length between the root complex and endpoints [2] - At 64 GT/s (PCIe 6.0), the maximum wire length is reduced to 3.4 inches, which may not be sufficient for high-performance graphics cards in consumer PCs [2] - The data center market may utilize PCIe 6.0 retimers to address these issues, but the costs are too high for consumer-grade PCs [2]

Astera Labs (ALAB) Q1 2025 Earnings Call May 06, 2025 04:30 PM ET Company Participants Leslie Green - Investor RelationsJitendra Mohan - Co-Founder, CEO & Executive DirectorSanjay Gajendra - Co-Founder, President, COO & DirectorMike Tate - CFOHarlan Sur - Executive Director - Equity ResearchBlayne Curtis - Managing DirectorRoss Seymore - Managing DirectorThomas O'Malley - Director - Equity ResearchJoseph Moore - Managing DirectorTore Svanberg - Managing DirectorSrini Pajjuri - Managing Director Conference C ...