#Semiconductors

Applied Materials expanded its Besi partnership, but disclosed no new orders. TECHi tests the October AMAT outlook against Q4 guidance and valuation.

Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback plan. TECHi calculates the share reduction, EPS benefit and limits of the $235 billion remaining authorization.

Nvidia rises as Tesla slides. Compare valuation, margins, cash flow and fresh AI catalysts to see which stock offers the stronger risk-adjusted setup now.

Intel stock jumped 11.6% to $121.21. See the INTC forecast, $110-$145 analyst targets, Q3 catalysts, risks and price levels after the rally.

Intel, Micron and AMD fell about 6% premarket and Nvidia 2.7% as the AI slowdown call met a 3% oil spike; ServiceNow and Adobe rose. Nasdaq futures -1.6%, Fed odds 89%.

South Korea's ICT exports hit a record $59.98B in August, over 60% of all exports. Chips were 47.5%, and outside ICT Korea ran a $6.6B trade deficit.

SanDisk enters the S&P 100 on Sept. 21. The announcement pop is already gone, and July showed what price-insensitive flows do to a stock down 28% this quarter.

We ranked 41 US-listed AI stocks by Q3 performance. Enterprise software is up 33.5% at the median, semiconductors down 14.6%, and no chipmaker made the top nine.

Intel announced a $15 billion stock offering and INTC fell 3.5%. Why sell after a 175% rally — the dilution math, the foundry bet, and what happens next.

AI agents logged 526 chip-material candidate rows representing 193 formulas. One BC4N deposition recipe passed an automated screen, not lab validation.

AMD and Cerebras will split AI inference across Helios racks and the Wafer-Scale Engine. The 5x per-watt claim is modelled against Cerebras-only hardware.

TSMC’s 2nm node reached 3% of wafer revenue as HPC hit 66%. The Q3 test is whether demand and utilization can offset a 3–4 point ramp drag.

NVIDIA says its 32GB Jetson T3000 can match T5000 inference. TECHi examines the missing methodology, memory economics and 2027 hardware timeline for buyers.

A field guide to the four companies selling the machines behind AI memory — ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA — and how the capex cycle pays them.

TSMC’s June sales support an ASML demand read-through, but ASML’s H2 delivery bridge, mix and margins still determine the setup.

Lumentum jumped 12% to $794.30 on Meta's 14-gigawatt compute memo and is up ~115% in 2026. Inside the optics maker turning AI's bandwidth crunch into records.

Lam Research closed July 9 at $353.17, up 6%, as four banks raised targets to $400–$475. Up 154% in H1, LRCX sells the tools every memory fab must buy.

Apple will spend over $30 billion with Broadcom through 2031 on US-made RF chips — a year after replacing Broadcom's Wi-Fi chip with its own N1. Here's why.

SK Hynix ADRs start trading July 10 under ticker SKHY after a 7x-oversubscribed record listing — priced days after memory stocks entered a bear market.

Micron posted the biggest quarter any standalone memory maker has reported — and days later the stock closed below its pre-earnings price. What the disconnect means.

SanDisk gained 858% in H1 2026, the best in the S&P 500, then fell 23% in two sessions. The backlog, the bears, and what to watch into the August report.

Memory and chip-equipment stocks crashed on AI glut fears while the Dow hit a record. The new supply lands in the 2030s — here is the math the selloff skipped.

AMD stock dropped 6.9% on July 1, erasing $65 billion, after Meta's cloud plan raised questions about the 6GW MI450 deal that powered AMD's 2026 breakout.

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.