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The artificial intelligence (AI) trade has thus far been largely restricted to data center infrastructure. Companies selling AI hardware, such as chips, servers, and networking components, have witnessed a remarkable increase in revenue and earnings in recent years.
Nvidia (
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Memory has emerged as one of the biggest bottlenecks in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure space. Also known as the memory wall, this bottleneck occurs when the performance of an AI accelerator, such as a graphics processing unit (GPU), is constrained by slower memory.
As a result, companies designing AI accelerator chips have been turning to high-speed, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) c
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Nvidia (
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Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Oracle committed to spending nearly $700 billion on capital expenditures for 2026, an 81% increase over the prior year. The majority of that spending will help these companies meet semiconductor demand.
There are two primary exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that compete in this sector: the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (
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In the weeks ahead of its June 12 initial public offering, SpaceX racked up a couple of big deals to rent out parts of its data center capacity; one with artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Anthropic and one with Alphabet-owned Google. Both agreements will help SpaceX offset its AI infrastructure costs with recurring revenue streams.
In the background, however, these deals highlighted the AI in
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Nvidia (
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) and Micron Technology (
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) each have seen revenue soar amid this artificial intelligence (AI) boom. This is because these companies offer something that is crucial for the development and performance of this hot technology: compute power, and memory and storage.
Nvidia is the compute expert, designing the fastest graphics processing units (GPUs) around, while Micron
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Companies have been making memory and storage solutions for decades, but it was artificial intelligence (AI) that recently woke up the sleepy sector. That's allowing specialized memory and storage providers like Micron Technology, Samsung Electronics, and SK Hynix to cash in.
Unfortunately for investors, owning those companies isn't the most straightforward. It costs nearly $1,000 to own a full s
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Few companies have ever defined a technology shift the wayNvidia(NVDA+0.15%)has defined the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Its chips sit at the center of nearly every major AI project, and the stock has been one of the market's best performers over the past few years. A run like that keeps one question permanently in the air: at nearly $5 trillion in market value, is there still room for th
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Memory specialist Micron Technology (
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) is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter results on Wednesday, June 24, after the market closes. And expectations heading into the report are about as high as they get. Shares have surged 244% in 2026, crossing a $1 trillion market capitalization along the way -- a milestone only two other memory companies have reached.
That run has been pow
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So far this year, Nvidia (
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From a valuation perspective, the world's most valuable company boasts a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 22. Moreover, Nvidia's forward P/E has spent much of 2026 locked in a narrow corridor between roughly 18 and 25.
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Nvidia (
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The company's GPU strengths and its portfolio of related products a
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Navitas Semiconductor (
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) stock posted a day of strong gains in Friday's trading, rising 5.3% in the session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 closed out the day up 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.6%.
The stock market enjoyed broadly positive momentum in today's session, and the recent SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) likely played a role in the bullish backdrop. Navitas stock is no