Hey everyone, QCOM just pulled off a staggering rally, exploding from the low $120s to flirt with historical highs near $230-$250. The market is clearly waking up to the "Edge AI" narrative, betting that the rise of local AI agents will trigger a massive smartphone and PC replacement supercycle. Between their Snapdragon processors running AI workloads locally and their sneaky-good expansion into automotive and data center silicon, the bulls think this is a structural shift away from cloud-only AI.However, looking at the actual numbers, a lot of this feels like standard market euphoria getting ahead of reality. Qualcomm’s core handset revenues actually dropped year-over-year recently, and the semiconductor supply chain is still dealing with smartphone memory constraints that could cap near-term growth. It is one thing to hype up a future where everyone has an AI-native phone, but it is another to justify a 50% surge in a single month when those revenues are still years away from moving the needle. Are we looking at the start of a multi-year semiconductor supercycle, or is the stock simply overextended and due for a sharp pullback?