Aeluma: Optical Bottleneck Platform Market Still Misprices- Supply Chain Bet, Not Science Bet

Aeluma (~$230M market cap) is mispriced as a science project, yet positioned at the manufacturing-constraint layer of AI optics. The bottleneck is not device performance—it is packaging, qualification, and multi-fab portability, where most photonics platforms fail to scale. Aeluma's III-V-on-silicon platform enables silicon-native manufacturing and packaging compatibility, addressing the core scaling constraint.