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In today's video, I discuss recent updates affecting Nvidia (
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Shares of Micron Technology (
MU
+19.54%
) climbed to record highs on Tuesday, following bullish analyst remarks.
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AI needs enormous amounts of memory
The booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications has created a shortage of ultra-fast memory chips required to process the massive amounts of data needed for AI model training and inference.
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Micron's stock surged 19.29% on Tuesday, closing above $1 trillion market capitalization, with a 184% year-to-date gain. UBS raised its price target to $1,625, citing a shift in valuation logic driven by long-term agreements (LTAs). These LTAs, spanning 3-5 years with fixed pricing and prepayment, secure supply for buyers and provide revenue visibility for sellers. UBS expects LTAs to reshape Micr
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Micron Technology (
MU
+19.54%
) crossed a milestone on Tuesday that few would have predicted a year ago: a market value north of $1 trillion. Shares of the memory chipmaker jumped about 19% to a record high, lifting the company into 10th place among America's most valuable businesses -- ahead of even Walmart and Eli Lilly.
The spark for the stock's big gain on Tuesday was a bold call from UBS, w
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SK Hynix shares surged over 10%, pushing its market cap past $1 trillion, becoming the third global memory chip company to achieve this. Driven by high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demand for AI servers and its role as a core Nvidia supplier, SK Hynix's stock has gained significantly. Full-year 2026 HBM capacity is sold out, with shortages expected through 2027. Potential labor disruptions at Samsung El
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Computex 2026 is set to officially open in Taipei, and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) Chairman James C.F. Huang has stated that the combined market capitalization of foreign companies participating in forums and keynote sessions at this year's event exceeds US$10 trillion. He also said that TAITRA has allocated the entire Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) exclusivel
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Revenue, profits, and cash flow keep increasing, while the stock price lags their performance.
Nvidia (
NVDA
0.38%
) delivered its highly anticipated investor update.
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The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… a
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The most important takeaway everyone missed at the 2026 Google I/O Conference.
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The artificial intelligence (AI) build-out continues. AI hyperscalers will spend an estimated $725 billion this year, much of it on data centers and the chips and hardware that power them.
In discussions about AI stocks, Nvidia gets a lot of the credit, and for good reason. The graphics processing unit (GPU) juggernaut has been the runaway leader, selling the overwhelming majority of the AI GPU c
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Nvidia (
NVDA
0.65%
) released its fiscal 2027 first-quarter results (for the three months ended April 26) on May 20, and the company's numbers make it clear that its grip on the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market remains as strong as ever.
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market since the technology gained prominence in November 2022, following the launch of ChatGPT. Since then, companies
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Micron (
MU
+19.70%
) has been one of the biggest stories on the stock market, and it just hit a major milestone.
Shares of the memory chip superstar just topped the $1 trillion market cap threshold for the first time in its history, joining top chip stocks like Nvidia, Broadcom, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Samsung in the club.
An unusually aggressive price target hike from UBS was the catalyst fo
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In midday trading, the S&P 500 (
^GSPC
+0.41%
) rose 0.57% to 7,516.11, the Nasdaq Composite (
^IXIC
+0.81%
) climbed 1.00% to 26,606.90 on AI strength, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI
0.38%
) slipped 0.23% to 50,463.03 as non-tech blue chips lagged.
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Micron Technology (
MU
+18.32%
) jumped roughly 18% toward a $1 trillion valuation after UBS (
UBS
+1.45%
) tripled its
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Jowi Morales
Some Chinese AI industry leaders must get the green light from Beijing before they can take that international vacation.
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Precision medicine depends on two fundamental capabilities: understanding disease at the genomic level and identifying treatments at the molecular level.
NVIDIA’s contributions to precision medicine extend far beyond accelerated computing, delivering a full-stack platform that translates hardware and software advancements directly into healthcare outcomes.
Sequencing the human genome initially
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Micron Technology (
MU
+16.00%
) supplies some of the world's best high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for data centers, which is critically important for processing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Demand for this hardware far exceeds supply, which is why Micron stock has exploded higher by 700% over the past year.
But another company is also benefiting from the blistering demand for memory. Axce
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This year’s Computex Taipei trade show will feature keynote addresses by the CEOs of Qualcomm Inc, Intel Corp, Marvell Technology Inc and NXP Semiconductors NV, the event’s organizer said yesterday.
The event will also host four “heavyweight forums” on robotics, automation and physical artificial intelligence (AI) featuring senior executives from ABB Ltd, Nvidia Corp, Qualcomm and NXP, Taiwan Ext