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By missmula, May 27, 2016

An Investor’s Guide to Cashing in on the Next Evolution of Technology
Dear Forward-Looking Investor,
Some ideas are so earth-shattering that they strike you like a bolt of lightning—stopping you dead in your tracks.
Just how BIG of an idea are we talking about?
Here’s how the World Economic Forum describes this emerging behemoth:
”We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before.”
As an investor, when you see flashes of lightning, you owe it to yourself to take a few minutes and figure out what’s going on.
How will the Tier Zero revolution impact the companies in your portfolio?
Check this out (from Forbes):
”the effects of this technology will change the economics of virtually every industry.”
Read on to discover how you can hitch your portfolio to this rocket ship before it lifts off.
What is Tier Zero?
This transformative technology goes by many names, here at the Fool it’s known as Tier Zero.
We’ve been following the progress of Tier Zero for quite some time…waiting for the perfect moment to pounce.
And it’s easy to understand why Forbes has finally come to recognize that this technology will ”change the economics of virtually every industry.”
We have only begun to scratch the surface of Tier Zero’s applications , but already signs of its incredible power have begun to appear:
The technology has already been used to identify potential treatments for Ebola, multiple sclerosis, and various types of cancer.
The Director of Research at Microsoft said ”everything we do now is influenced, one way or another” by this technology.
Credit card companies have already begun to use this technology to identify suspicious transactions in real time.
Vehicle manufacturers can use this technology to predict mechanical failures BEFORE a part fails.
The list goes on and on, but I don’t want to keep you too long.

This is a discussion topic or guest posting submitted by a Stock Gumshoe reader. The content has not been edited or reviewed by Stock Gumshoe, and any opinions expressed are those of the author alone.

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R vandenbroek
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R vandenbroek
May 30, 2016 6:06 pm

What’s the company referring to?

Alexander
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Alexander
May 31, 2016 5:20 am

Not sure what company but this the technology has to be quantum computing. Anyone take this any further? I know IBM are getting heavily involved with the tech but the teaser can’t be for IBM.

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Mike
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August 29, 2016 8:51 pm
Reply to  Alexander

What about CERN

PV Buckles
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PV Buckles
October 24, 2016 10:59 pm
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“Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire”

derek
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derek
October 23, 2016 4:36 pm
Reply to  Alexander

google, people. people.

Nate
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Nate
November 29, 2016 8:36 pm
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Its not Google directly! Its D-wave, which is funded by Google, Goldman Sachs, the CIA and top companies.

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sm217
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sm217
January 11, 2017 8:54 pm
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you can buy d-wave thru harris and harris symbol tiny they have a piece

Dalet
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Dalet
December 5, 2016 2:25 pm
Reply to  derek

New version – Magog-le.. Or skynet – Daleth

Nate
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Nate
November 29, 2016 8:35 pm
Reply to  Alexander

D-wave! Am I wrong?

eric
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eric
December 18, 2016 11:25 am
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It’s not quantum computing.

Alexander
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Alexander
May 31, 2016 10:17 am

Actually, on reading their latest email they may just be punting that tired “Internet of Things” pitch they’ve done for a while now. If so, Sierra Wireless was one of their favourites in the past I believe.

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Colin
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Colin
June 2, 2016 4:20 am

If it is quantum computing then the Canadian company D-Wave is probably the leader. Google and NASA are using their technology.

Colin
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Colin
June 2, 2016 4:25 am

This is the D-Wave website. http://www.dwavesys.com/

Powerpip
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Powerpip
June 3, 2016 11:08 am

D-Wave is a private company, how can we invest on it?

Colin
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Colin
June 4, 2016 4:22 am

Harris & Harris Group NASDAQ TINY is a venture capitalist with a stake in D-Wave; their shares have had a dismal performance but I might be tempted to punt a small amount! Other start-up companies in the field see here: http://www.nanalyze.com/2016/01/2-quantum-computing-companies-that-are-not-d-wave/. Plus indirectly via Cisco, Lockheed, Google, IBM and Intel as the biggest potential players in quantum computing… probably? Anyone know what the Motley Fool tease was actually promoting to complete the list?.

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David Wright
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October 19, 2016 1:06 am
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It has to do with “Deep Learning” techno… that progressively increases the performance functionality of computer driven cars. So, it is a system capable of causing real time progress with analyzing comp/elec car systems for potential problems before those occur, rewrite existing data and/or create new apps – applying all of those as necessary before any glitch occurs. Well, you wanted techno… that will turn the world “as you know it” on its ear.

Daniel
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Daniel
December 18, 2016 12:47 pm
Reply to  David Wright

More specific NVDIA and NXP

Kristi Pattison
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Kristi Pattison
January 19, 2017 9:42 pm
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Bought NVDIA when it was only $20.00 a share, sold at $88.00 a share, kicking myself!!!!!!!!

Paul Jenks
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Paul Jenks
June 6, 2017 2:04 pm

I bought NVDA at $28 but only 100 shares. You could get back into the market my selling Puts at near the money and stay engaged until the next correction brings the price to a more affordable level. This will happen probably sooner than later as we’re late in this cycle. If it is as big of a deal as the Mot. Fools say you probably haven’t missed the action.

Paul Jenks
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Paul Jenks
June 6, 2017 1:56 pm
Reply to  Colin

My question too!

T
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T
July 25, 2016 10:41 am
David Wright
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David Wright
October 19, 2016 1:06 am
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thanks!

James Moore
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James Moore
July 28, 2016 11:31 am

give me more information

Tesoro
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Tesoro
July 30, 2016 7:52 pm

Forbes was writing about “Deep Learning And Machine Intelligence ” in an article dating to 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/12/29/tech-2015-deep-learning-and-machine-intelligence-will-eat-the-world/#34331ac1282c
The article has a graphic listing all of the companies involved two years ago in each aspect of these technologies. There are well over 100 listings. Many are the giants, but there are just as many private and startup companies. That makes a large field. The Forbes article mentions BloombergBETA as an early stage investment/financing venture capital firm for companies in these fields, that currently is closing its first fund and opening a second.

I’d be interested to know what specific companies MF is touting at this point. There must have been some dropouts by now.

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Guest
Guest
August 22, 2016 10:52 pm

Technological snake oil. It’s just fast data storage.

http://searchsolidstatestorage.techtarget.com/definition/tier-0

The hype is extremely exaggerated and borderline fraudulent, because the capabilities they’re claiming are actually provided by applications that have little or nothing to do with tier zero. Those applications would become a bit faster by using fast storage, but they certainly don’t depend on that speed. They already achieve the speeds they need by utilizing multiple machines in a cluster. Tier zero would simply allow them to reduce the number of machines necessary to achieve the same speeds.

I’m not necessarily saying it’s a bad investment. Enterprise will want this technology. It will sell. But it’s not a miracle or a game-changer. Don’t believe the hype.

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Kristi Pattison
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January 19, 2017 9:56 pm
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The hype is about deep learning technology. NVIDIA is working on a deep learning system that will allow your car to learn as you drive. It will be able to communicate with other cars on the road and determine weather or not there is an accident ahead by how the other cars are traveling. I have also heard about systems that are used in construction of buildings, roads, and bridges that will allow inspectors to be able to see whether or not they will fail and where the failure is coming from. I have done a lot of research to find companies that would play a part in this and they are start ups that are supported by Google. NVIDIA seems to have a good start to deep learning on their gaming platform.

TechGeek
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TechGeek
August 29, 2016 7:09 pm

Hello, I happened across your discussion and noted that most are misunderstanding what the Tier 0 actually is. Here is a link to a simple explanation of tier zero. I said simple explanation so don’t expect all the tech-no geek talk terminology that allows me to get the paycheck I get. Its just simple lingo with a simple table showing how the Tier 0 structure is set up.

http://searchsolidstatestorage.techtarget.com/definition/tier-0

atomly
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December 26, 2016 11:27 am
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I also just happened upon this and, while I agree that this is what Tier Zero actually is, I just read the article they’re actually referencing and it’s clear that Motley Fool is just misappropriating terms willy nilly. They appear to be referring to AI (or possibly IoT) with their description:

https://www.fool.com/investor-alert/the_motley_fool/theroadtotierzero/

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August 30, 2016 11:31 am

IBM for sure and its Watson – Cognitive business strategy initiatives and offerings

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jim
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jim
August 30, 2016 4:23 pm

Deep learning is the technology and FEYE is the company.

Colin
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Colin
August 30, 2016 5:54 pm
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FEYE… really? Have a look at what The Fool says here@ http://www.fool.com/quote/nasdaq/fireeye/feye

Gerry G
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Gerry G
August 31, 2016 3:12 pm

I don’t think Tier Zero has to do with fast storage; it’s just a term that MF uses to distinguish it’s latest Rule Breaker offer. Rather, I think it has to do with “deep learning” and AI. There’s lots of reasearch going on in this area and lots of startups are being acquired by bigger companies (eg. Intel buying Nervana). I thought the stock might be Nvidia but they have been around for awhile going back to their graphics chip. But maybe it is as they have grown lately and maybe acquiring one of the private deep learning companies. Thaought on this anyone?

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Merry M
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Merry M
November 30, 2016 3:44 pm
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you are exactly right Gerry. Tier Zero is a new-ish technology that will allow data to be transferred more efficiently. however, MF is using that name – Tier Zero – as just that. A name for yet another service that they want us to consume.

Nonetheless, you are correct about the company being Nvidia…

Richard
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Richard
October 24, 2016 3:11 am

It´s none of the above, the top two companies are NVIDIA and NXP Semiconductors.

John S
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John S
December 5, 2016 12:30 pm
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NXPI is being bought by QCOM.

Christopher Harte
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Christopher Harte
October 24, 2018 1:32 pm
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It is actually Xilinx semiconductor, symbol XLNX. Trust me on this one

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October 24, 2016 5:08 pm

Reading these comments are about as boring as listening to the sales pitch. They state Tier Zero is compromised of 9 stocks one of which is NVDA. To get the other 8 you must pay not 299… only 99.

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steve
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November 1, 2016 12:26 pm

Tier Zero refers to zero-touch technologies or those that don’t require a human to operate. Driverless cars, Internet-of-Things devices, Robotics, etc.

Refer to their video disclaimer (at the bottom) that lists the stocks they own to get clues:
Stocks owned by Motley Fool’s board of directors. David Gardner owns shares of Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Amazon.com, Apple, Baidu, Chipotle Mexican Grill, FireEye, Intuitive Surgical, IPG Photonics, MercadoLibre, and Tesla Motors. Eric Bleeker owns shares of Alphabet (A shares), Apple, Baidu, Cisco Systems, FireEye, IPG Photonics, Nvidia, and Tesla Motors. Tom Gardner owns shares of Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Baidu, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Tesla Motors. The Motley Fool owns shares of Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Amazon.com, Apple, Baidu, Chipotle Mexican Grill, eBay, FireEye, Intuitive Surgical, IPG Photonics, MercadoLibre, Nvidia, Tesla Motors, Time Warner, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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borne0fan
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November 3, 2016 10:17 am
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NVDA is their hardware play, since ganged GPU’s are being used for neural network processing of video/audio.

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Keith B.
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Keith B.
November 6, 2016 12:21 pm

It involves NVDA, to get the other names it costs $. Hopefully someone who has purchased it will be kind enough to share the list here.

macYoda
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macYoda
November 18, 2016 2:25 am

I see you guys are having a bit of difficulty with this discussion. When I saw this article from MF and it’s mention of Intuitive Surgical, “Early investors in this revolution (I know a few more!) made a killing on companies like Intuitive Surgical”, I realized that “Tier Zero” is referring to a zero latency network.

Then it was easy to find this website that gives one example of what’s up with that …
http://www.zerolatencyvr.com

So the car thing would be about if one could gather real time data from a sensor laden auto, one thing happens here, unexpected things go wonky over here, thus, they can see problems coming in the future and if that data came from real users rather than a prototype then new car design could be sped up and recalls could be avoided by fixing bad parts at tune-ups before anything goes wrong or anyone finds out and an embarrassing recall gets issued.

Tier Zero could actually refer to a portion of a high performance network being set aside to communicate with fast servers high priority events that provide timing and actions to be preformed in real time and to do so without this portion of the network being overloaded so that maximum performance, near zero latency, is always maintained.

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goransv
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November 22, 2016 5:07 pm
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I just listened to the very annoying sales pitch (38 min no player controls…) and for MF, Tier Zero is Deep Learning and technologies such as sensors, storage, processing and systems you need to make it work and the progress is fast, but probably not as fast as MF would like you to think it is (psychological urgency trick).

They mentioned Nvidia. I could also see Ambarella (AMBA) http://www.fool.com/quote/nasdaq/ambarella/amba (develops systems-on-chips, codecs, and other software for high-def cameras (GoPro)).

PS! There is nothing such as zero latency networks unless you have invented time travel.

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vic
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vic
November 27, 2016 8:16 am
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It’s all 100% BS

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