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What’s missing is the real weight of the hardware revolution—not just Ethereum’s bounce or Zircuit’s surge after Binance added perps. Skild’s new AI engine that can power anything from humanoids to desktop arms (pymnts.com) is a game-changer. Those headlines mask the fact that real industrial automation is set to rip through labor costs and reshape entire sectors, yet most investors are fixated on crypto volatility. That’s a blind spot few are calling out.

Look at Procter & Gamble’s tariff-driven price hikes (Al Jazeera English) and the forecasted expansion of the Global NOR Flash market (GlobeNewswire) and you’ll see the same supply-chain squeeze. Tariffs are budging consumer-goods prices upward at the same time memory producers are scrambling to meet demand, which could throttle tech rollouts and bump margins across the board. It’s a mismatch few analysts are threading together, but it’s the very reason hardware stocks could either soar or crater depending on who navigates this bottleneck.

Here’s the deal: if you’re not combing through those 10-Qs for supply-chain disclosures and mapping ETF flows into both commodities and tech, you’re flying blind. Rotate part of your thesis toward companies with transparent sourcing strategies, and keep tabs on institutional stake builds in memory and robotics plays. Do that, and you’ll be positioned to capitalize when the smoke clears—and believe me, it will.

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