Markets and Equities

Qualcomm is buying Chris Lattner's Modular for $3.9B to attack NVIDIA's CUDA moat with a hardware-agnostic AI layer. Why it's the right target, and so hard to crack.

M&A advisory explained - what advisors do across due diligence, valuation, negotiation and post-merger integration, and how AI is reshaping deals in 2026.

Chamath Palihapitiya is taking the CEO job at AI coding startup 8090 Labs on a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. Why the SPAC-era investor is going operator.

Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium for $8 billion - gaining L-band spectrum, 2.55M subscribers and a captive launch customer. Here's why RKLB jumped 16%.

Micron reports fiscal Q3 on June 24. Why Wall Street doubled its price targets on a triple-digit DRAM surge — and what the print must deliver to justify it.

US officials suspect a top ASML EUV machine reached China; ASML denies it. What the export-control overhang means for ASML stock and the semicap rally.

Entegris and KLA jumped as the semiconductor-equipment complex ripped. Why the deepest layer of the AI trade is booming — and the catch after the run.

Apple's Tim Cook calls memory price hikes 'unavoidable' as AI demand spikes NAND and DRAM. Why Sandisk and Micron jumped — and the risk after a huge run.

Vertiv's AI data-center cooling business has a $15B backlog and rising guidance — but VRT trades near $128B and ~48x forward earnings. The bull and bear case.

Cerebras reports its first results as a public company on June 23. The per-share loss matters less than its $24.6B backlog and ~86% UAE revenue mix.

CrowdStrike's 4-for-1 split starts trading July 2. Here's what the split changes, the Q1 beat behind it, and why CRWD still fell about 10%.

Do data centers raise your electricity bill? The truth about the viral 267% figure, the state moratorium fight, and the utility stocks (CEG, VST, NRG) exposed.

Robinhood cut ~10% of staff at record volumes. We run the operating-leverage math the wires skip — is the HOOD layoff bullish or bearish for the stock?

A fresh TECHi ranking of Nvidia, Alphabet, and Palantir for a $1,000 AI-stock basket, with AMD and Broadcom folded in as watchlist context.

Eos Energy (EOSE) jumped ~15% as its second battery line went live and it entered Europe, with Needham starting at Buy. The ramp is real — and so is the cash-burn test.

SpaceX just pulled off the largest IPO ever, and Anthropic ($965B) and OpenAI ($852B) have filed to follow. Inside the AI IPO supercycle — and how to play it.

Nvidia and SK hynix signed a multiyear HBM4 memory pact for Vera Rubin. Why memory is AI's real bottleneck — and what it means for NVDA and Micron (MU).

Google reportedly ordered 3 million TPUs from Intel for 2028 and Nvidia is testing 18A. What the foundry wins mean for INTC stock — and the valuation gap.

A deep editorial read on how Elon Musk moved from high-end billionaire status to the trillion-dollar valuation conversation, with a focus on cash-generating base, optionality discipline, and valuation proof points.

Ciena stock shows how AI infrastructure is shifting from chips to bandwidth, with record revenue, a bigger backlog, HyperRail demand, and valuation risk.

Onto Innovation is an AI chip infrastructure stock tied to metrology, inspection, HBM packaging, and gate-all-around process control.

Tesla drew the market's attention after JPMorgan upgraded TSLA, but the stock still fell as investors demanded proof on robotaxi, Optimus, and AI.

Broadcom's post-earnings drop shows AI demand is still real, but investors now want infrastructure bottlenecks, cash flow, and power access.

SanDisk stock is no longer just a NAND pricing trade. TECHi quote data and SanDisk filings show a $41.6B performance-obligation floor, AI data-center demand, and real valuation risk.