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33 articles tagged semiconductors, newest first. Every price call in these articles was recorded when published and later checked against market data — see the track record.
Two More Hikes Priced In: AMD's $30.64 Gap Was Nearly All of Its 5.89% Loss
A CNBC survey showing at least two Fed hikes over the next year coincided with AMD gapping down $30.64 and NVIDIA losing 3.28%, while Microsoft and Visa closed...
Apple's Foldable Is a Packaging Problem, and TSMC Sells the Package
The hinge gets the headlines. The economics sit in silicon area, display drivers and memory content per handset — the parts of the stack sold by content, not by...
Broadcom's AI Targets Lifted NVDA $6.81. AMD Lost $3.10 on the Same Headline.
An AI demand signal that moves the incumbent and not the second source is a statement about who captures the incremental dollar. NVDA closed $224.25; AMD closed...
Crypto Sold the Rate-Hike Odds. Equities Didn't — NVDA Closed $224.25, Up 3.13%
Bitcoin and Ethereum fell on rising rate-hike odds and Iran risk. Large-cap equities ignored it — NVDA closed $224.25, up 3.13%, and seven of ten names finished...
A Record S&P Close With Seven of Ten Mega-Caps Red — AMD Took the Whole Bid
Flat July PPI pushed the S&P 500 to a record 7,798.99. AMD ripped 6.5% to $514.40 and closed on its high. Almost everything else faded.
Flat PPI Was Supposed to Lift Everything — Instead AMD Took All of It and Seven of Ten Closed Red
Wholesale prices were unchanged in July and the disinflation trade delivered exactly one winner: AMD closed +6.50% at $514.40 while the rest of the megacap comp...
CPI Wednesday Is the Only Binary — NVDA Closed at $223.89 With 18.1M Shares Behind It
July CPI Wednesday, PPI Thursday, retail sales Friday. Friday's close was a bet on a cool print — high beta bid, payments and Alphabet sold near their lows.
Chip and Software Beats Are Being Sold: Six of Seven Gap-Up Opens Closed Below the Open
Western Digital and Sandisk raised forecasts and the S&P 500 went nowhere. Alphabet surrendered $20.92 a share from its open, and only NVIDIA held its gap.
AMD Beat and Still Lost $36.83 a Share — 93% of It Before the Opening Bell
AMD cleared consensus on the quarter and the outlook, then gapped down 6.6% and closed in the lower third of its range. NVIDIA took the other side, +3.34% to $2...
AMD Gapped Up $24.89 and Closed 39 Cents Off the Low. NVIDIA Didn't.
AMD opened $510.28, printed $515.62, and finished at $476.15 — a $39.47 per-share giveback. NVIDIA closed up 2.93% at $200.75 in the upper third of its range.
A $24B AI Fund Unwound. NVIDIA Closed at $190.01 — the Dead Low.
Situational Awareness liquidated its book after leveraged AI bets failed. AMD lost 5.51%. NVDA closed at the exact low of its range on 136.6M shares.
The Fed Held and the Long End Tightened Anyway — Microsoft Gave Back $9.78 From Its High
Three hawkish dissents, a steeper curve, and eight of the ten largest US equities lower. Microsoft printed $401.24 on unchanged capex guidance and closed at $39...
Seoul Tripped a Circuit Breaker. AMD Lost 8.13%. NVDA Closed Green.
South Korea's Kospi sank nearly 11% on chip selling and triggered a circuit breaker. The contagion hit AMD for $40.22 — and stopped there.
Meta Closed at $595.19 Into Q2 Earnings — Weakest Print on the Board
Alphabet set the bar July 22 with revenue up 24% to $119.76 billion. Meta closed down 1.80% at the low end of its range heading into its own print.
Tariff Inflation Is a Power-and-Silicon Tax on AI Infrastructure
New tariff rounds aren't just a consumer-price story. For hyperscalers building AI campuses, they reprice every layer of the hardware stack simultaneously.
The Chip Rebound Is a Bet on Earnings — and Agentic AI Is What Earnings Must Prove
Chip stocks rose a second straight day into an earnings season that will test the AI trade. The demand case now rests on agentic workloads — and agents burn mul...
Rambus Fell 28% From Its June High — The Memory-Interface Toll Booth Is On Sale at 24x
Wall Street is warming back to Rambus at $100.85 with a $109.40 target. Every DDR5 module and HBM stack in an AI server pays its interface silicon — and memory...
Asia's Chip Rebound Targets Mega-Cap Dispersion: Apple Near Highs, Microsoft 29% Below Its Peak
Tokyo surged 3.26% and Seoul snapped its losing streak as chips rebounded worldwide — and the widest quality-versus-AI spread in the mega-cap complex is now the...
China's Largest Shipbuilder Is Automating Design With AI — the Rally's Real Signal
Beijing's support measures sent Shenzhen up 4.81%, but the durable story is China State Shipbuilding putting AI into hull design. Industrial adoption is where t...
Beijing Backstops Tech, Chips Rally Worldwide — NVDA $206.65 Decides If It Travels
China's support measures sent Shenzhen up 4.81% and global chips extended their rebound. The rally reaches our board only if NVDA clears $206.65 — below $197.97...