Semiconductors

Intel Stock Forecast After INTC’s 12% Rally Clears $120

Intel shares did something on Monday that changes the near-term forecast more than another upbeat semiconductor headline: they jumped through…

3 days ago

Premarket: Intel, Micron and AMD fall 6% as the AI slowdown call meets $108 oil

The AI chip chain is being sold before the bell and the software that sits on top of it is…

1 week ago

South Korea’s ICT exports hit a record. Without them, it ran a $6.6 billion trade deficit

South Korea exported a record $59.98 billion of information and communications technology products in August, up 162.6% from a year…

2 weeks ago

SanDisk joins the S&P 100 on Sept. 21. Its own July shows what forced flows do

On September 21, index funds tracking the S&P 100 will be obliged to buy SanDisk. They will not be consulted…

2 weeks ago

The 9 best-performing AI stocks of Q3 — and not one is a chipmaker

We ranked 41 US-listed AI stocks by how they actually performed this quarter. Not one of the nine best is…

2 weeks ago

Intel Just Asked Investors for $15 Billion. The Timing Is the Whole Story

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Intel announced a $15 billion underwritten stock offering Monday, with a $2.25 billion overallotment option —…

2 months ago

AI agents logged 526 chip-material candidates. One recipe passed the screen

Material Discovery Bench logged 526 candidate rows from seven AI models. Its synthesis panel gave one recipe a “would attempt”…

2 months ago

AMD and Cerebras Split AI Inference in Two — Read the Footnote

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The deal-AMD and Cerebras will split AI inference across two machines: AMD Helios racks process prompts…

2 months ago

TSMC 2nm revenue starts a 3–4 point margin test

TSMC has moved 2-nanometer manufacturing from a roadmap slide to a revenue line, and the economics are arriving in the…

2 months ago

NVIDIA’s 32GB Jetson Claim Needs the Missing Benchmarks

NVIDIA has introduced two smaller Jetson Thor computers with a claim that deserves more scrutiny than the raw specifications: the…

2 months ago

Who Gets Paid When AI Needs More Memory? A Field Guide to the Toolmakers

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The setup-Four companies — ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA — sell nearly all the…

2 months ago

ASML Stock Faces an €18B–€23B Second-Half Delivery Test

ASML stock has plenty of reasons to draw an AI-demand slogan. The useful fresh evidence sits one layer below it:…

2 months ago

Why Lumentum Stock Is Up 115% in 2026 — and Jumped 12% on Meta’s AI Memo

Market BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The move-Lumentum closed July 9 at $794.30, up 12.33% — about eight times the Nasdaq's gain…

3 months ago

Why Lam Research Stock Is Up 154% Without Selling a Single Chip

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The move-Lam Research closed July 9 at $353.17, up 6%, after TD Cowen, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley…

3 months ago

Apple’s $30 Billion Broadcom Deal Rewards the One Chip Apple Can’t Copy

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The deal-Apple will spend more than $30 billion with Broadcom through 2031 on US-made RF components…

3 months ago

SK Hynix’s Record Nasdaq Debut Collides With a Memory Bear Market

Market BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The debut-SK Hynix ADRs begin trading Friday, July 10 on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY —…

3 months ago

Micron Passed Its $41 Billion Test. The Stock Failed Anyway.

On June 24, one minute after the closing bell, Micron reported the largest quarter any standalone memory company has ever…

3 months ago

SanDisk Was the S&P 500’s Best Stock of H1 2026. Now Comes the Hard Part

SanDisk ended the first half of 2026 as the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, up 858% — from a…

3 months ago

The Glut Scare: What Broke the AI Memory Trade — and What the Math Says

Thursday's selloff priced in an AI memory glut that, on every published construction timeline, does not exist yet. SanDisk closed…

3 months ago

AMD Stock’s $65 Billion Day: The Meta Deal Cuts Both Ways

AMD set its all-time record close, $580.91, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. It got to keep the record for exactly…

3 months ago

NVIDIA’s Real Moat Is CUDA. Qualcomm Just Paid $3.9B to Attack It.

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The deal-Qualcomm is buying AI-software startup Modular for about $3.9 billion in all stock, closing in…

3 months ago

Wall Street Doubled Its Micron Targets. June 24 Is the Test.

Micron walks into its fiscal third-quarter report on June 24 carrying something unusual for an earnings night: a stock that…

3 months ago

Washington Thinks China Has ASML’s Best Machine. ASML Says It’s Impossible.

The headline that crossed on June 19 was the kind that moves a stock: US officials suspect China may have…

3 months ago

Behind Every AI Chip Is a Quieter Trade. It Just Surged.

The most-owned trade in the market is the AI chip — Nvidia, the accelerators, the names every investor can recite.…

3 months ago

The AI Memory Crunch Reached Your iPhone. Sandisk and Micron Cashed In.

For two years, the AI memory boom was a data-center story — a fight over high-bandwidth chips most consumers never…

3 months ago

The AI Memory Crunch Reached Your iPhone. Sandisk and Micron Cashed In.

For two years, the AI memory boom was a data-center story — a fight over high-bandwidth chips most consumers never…

3 months ago

Cerebras’s First Earnings Test Isn’t Profit — It’s Who’s Buying

When Cerebras Systems posts its first quarterly report as a public company after the closing bell on June 23, the…

3 months ago

The Real AI Bottleneck Is Memory — and Nvidia Just Locked It Up

$205.42· 0.00 (0.00%)Market Cap$4.97TDay Range$203.44 – $207.0752-week range$141.84 – $236.26Consensus target$298.93 · Buy (61 analysts)Forward P/E≈23×Next earningsAug 25, 2026As of…

3 months ago

Intel’s Foundry Finally Has Real Customers — Its Stock Is Priced for More

$124.57▲ +7.61 (+6.51%)Market Cap$626.1BDay Range$115.33 – $127.6052-week range$18.96 – $132.75Consensus target$93.12 · Hold (48 analysts)Forward P/E≈147×Next earningsJul 22, 2026As of…

3 months ago

Onto Innovation Is the AI Chip Buildout’s Yield Layer

Article BriefKey Takeaways3 Points18s Read01Infrastructure angle-Onto Innovation is an AI-chip infrastructure name because HBM, 2.5D packaging, gate-all-around logic, and chiplet…

4 months ago