Two Theories of the Face Wearables | Meituan, Even Realities & How the Post-Smartphone Interface Gets Funded

A $150 million round at a $1 billion valuation is the least interesting fact about Even Realities. Read together, the company’s cap table and its product philosophy map two competing theories of how the post-smartphone interface gets built — and who is willing to pay for it.

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Micron's Record Print, Read Twice | The Contract Wall and the China Memory Split

One blowout quarter, two structural reads. Micron is converting a shortage into contracted revenue; China is converting the same scarcity into market share, IPO capital, and capacity. The print validates the supercycle, but the durable signal is the conversion of scarcity into position — contractual on Micron's side, structural on China's. Neither wrapper repeals cyclicality; both raise the normalized base around which the next cycle oscillates.

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