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Seventy percent. That's the share of global memory chip production that artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are expected to absorb in 2026. Set aside what that means for the companies supplying it for a moment and consider what it means for everything else in the tech realm. Smartphones, laptops, cars, medical devices, and televisions are all competing for the remaining 30% of a supply base
2026-06-26
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For years, Qualcomm (
QCOM
+3.65%
) has been seen as a premium smartphone chipmaker that raked in billions from the mobile revolution. However, investors may be witnessing the beginning of a new chapter.
At yesterday’s investor day, the company unveiled ambitious plans to more than double its non-handset sales in just three years, to $40 billion. While total revenue growth doesn’t seem significan
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Nvidia (
NVDA
1.87%
) and AMD (
AMD
+1.34%
) are the two largest producers of discrete GPUs. They both produce data center GPUs for the booming AI market.
However, Nvidia often attracts more attention than AMD because it controls more than 90% of the discrete GPU market. AMD, which tries to compete against Nvidia with its cheaper chips, only holds a single-digit share. Nvidia also generates most
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Micron Technology (
MU
+15.36%
) had a very good day on Thursday. Apple (
AAPL
5.74%
) did not. Those two facts may sound unrelated, but one move inspired the other quite directly. And they pulled the major market indexes in opposite directions today.
Micron surged 16% on Thursday after reporting blowout earnings, but the memory chipmaker's gain came at a cost for many other tech stocks. Micron s
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In June 2022, I made what was likely a mistake by choosing to buy Advanced Micro Devices (
AMD
+1.51%
) stock over Nvidia (
NVDA
2.24%
). It was a cheaper stock in terms of valuation, and this was before Nvidia's "ChatGPT moment," when the market discovered the power of Nvidia's AI accelerators.
Also, buying AMD is only a mistake in a relative sense. It is still up around 560% from my initial buy
2026-06-25
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In recent weeks, the market has shown artificial intelligence fatigue, as concerns have mounted and investors wonder whether the rally can continue without a pullback first.
However, some of the AI-bottleneck trades remain as strong as ever.
The AI memory maker Micron (
MU
+16.97%
) just reported blowout third-quarter earnings results. Earnings per share of $25.11 beat Wall Street consensus esti
2026-06-25
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Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, may have captured the attention of many investors, but I think several stocks are far better investments today. One of the best may be sitting right under investors' noses.
Although it's the largest company in the world, I think Nvidia (
NVDA
1.73%
) is a far better buy, especially if 2027's artificial intelligence (AI) spending dwarfs 2026'
2026-06-25
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Computer memory specialist Micron (
MU
+12.42%
) stock surged 19.2% Thursday morning after crushing analyst forecasts for fiscal Q3 earnings.
Wall Street had expected Micron to earn $20.78 per share, adjusted for one-time items, on $35.8 billion in quarterly sales. Micron actually earned $25.11 per share, and its sales quadrupled year over year to $41.5 billion.
Image source: Micron.
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2026-06-25
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Coming into Micron's (
MU
1.32%
) fiscal third-quarter earnings report, investors were expecting another round of smashing results, and the memory chip stock delivered.
Revenue jumped 346% year-over-year to $41.5 billion, ahead of estimates at $35.3 billion, and adjusted earnings per share surged from $1.91 to $25.11, topping the consensus at $20.28.
However, what's more important than the third
2026-06-25
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Nvidia (
NVDA
0.93%
) finds itself in an enviable but challenging position. Due to its $4.9 trillion market cap, growth investors seeking gains of tenfold or more are now more likely to seek smaller companies that could increase by such multiples without reaching record sizes.
Fortunately, that high market cap, along with Nvidia's growth and valuation, could attract a new group of investors who w
2026-06-25
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Nvidia (
NVDA
0.93%
) has built an artificial intelligence (AI) empire, offering graphics processing units (GPUs) that power essential tasks like the training of AI models and providing a wide range of related products and services. All of this has sent earnings soaring in recent years -- and the stock price has followed.
Customers flock to Nvidia for these top AI products, and the company has co
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Micron
(
MU
1.32%
)
did it again.
The memory chip superstar blew past results in its third-quarter earnings report, sending the stock up 15% after hours on Wednesday as the company both smashed third-quarter expectations and gave much better guidance than expected.
The results showed that the AI boom isn't slowing down and that memory shortages are expected to persist at least through 2028. Manage
2026-06-25
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The sell-off in semiconductor stocks has been brutal. An artificial intelligence (AI) chip forecast from Broadcom in early June that was lower than expected set off a rout that erased more than $1 trillion in chip-stock value in a single session, and the selling has flared up again since. Two of the biggest names caught in it are AI chip leader Nvidia (
NVDA
0.93%
) and its closest challenger, Adv
2026-06-25
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Shares of memory specialist Micron Technology (
MU
1.32%
) jumped about 16% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, climbing from about $1,049 at Wednesday's close to about $1,215, after the company reported a fiscal third quarter that topped even the most optimistic expectations on Wall Street.
The move snaps a fear-driven artificial intelligence (AI) sell-off that had weighed on chip stocks earlie
2026-06-25
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Nvidia (
NVDA
0.93%
) is the most valuable company in the world, and the only one with a market cap of more than $5 trillion. If you had invested $25,000 in it 10 years ago and held on through the ups and downs that followed, you'd have a stake worth more than $4 million today.
However, the stock has been growing at a more modest pace recently. It's up just 7% this year -- almost precisely as muc
2026-06-25
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After years of being the wallflower, Micron Technology (
MU
1.32%
) has taken center stage. The company's flash memory and storage chips are critical to the processing of artificial intelligence (AI), which continues to drive unrelenting demand.
Ahead of Micron's financial release after the market close on Wednesday, investors were sitting on the edge of their seats to see if there was any truth
2026-06-25
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Chipmaker Nvidia (
NVDA
0.93%
) stands at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure supercycle. The world's most valuable company supplies essential hardware and software that enables the training, inference, and scaling of ever more sophisticated AI models.
Insatiable demand for the company's Blackwell GPU architecture, record capital spending by the hyperscalers, and the deb
2026-06-25
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As of midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI
+0.42%
) rose 0.89% to 52,125.67, the Nasdaq Composite (
^IXIC
0.59%
) gained 0.65% to 25,753.08, and the S&P 500 (
^GSPC
0.22%
) edged up 0.61% to 7,410.55 as falling oil prices and stabilizing technology shares helped markets recover from yesterday’s losses.
Gold futures fell 3.09% to $4,021.20, and the 10-Year Treasury yield slipped 0.08% t
2026-06-25
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from the training phase to the production phase, as enterprises, users, and governments that have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this technology are looking to unlock its productivity gains.
This process of deploying trained AI models into production, where they execute tasks in the real-world by ingesting fresh inputs, is known as inference. Deloi