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Contracts to supply computing power for artificial-intelligence calculations have become such a fixture of the craze that whole industries have begun reorganizing around them. AI suppliers say these arrangements give them unprecedented visibility into their future revenue, allowing them to wow investors with promises of bumper sales and profits ahead. Memory suppliers and their customers have sought out longer-dated deals in recent months.

Chip and AI-linked stocks have whacked in recent weeks after a sharp run-up, while inflation concerns, the U.S.-Iran conflict, and stretched valuations have also weighed on sentiment.

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A week of tech stock crashes!

Wall Street is looking to earnings season for evidence that the AI trade is tact.

The tech selloff has spread beyond semiconductor stocks to many of this year’s biggest listings, even as some Wall Street analysts argue the pullback is a healthy reset rather than the end of the AI boom.

Micron Technology has become a key artificial-intelligence trade bellwether. Now analysts are trying to game out what peak earnings will look like for Micron if the AI cycle continues. A Trivariate Research analyst team, led by Adam Parker, on Thursday called Micron “the most important stock in the market,” writing that shares of the memory-chip maker have become a “proxy for the AI cycle and risk-taking.”

International Business Machines (IBM) has spent three years quietly convincing Wall Street it belonged in the artificial intelligence trade. However, on July 14, the market decided otherwise in a single session. IBM shares closed at $217.07, falling 25.21% that day alone. This came ...

The S&P 500 has been hitting all-time highs this year. Retail traders are piling into Micron and the SpaceXIPO. One-day options trading is at record levels. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are pulling in money alongside traditional stocks. By almost every measure, people are ...

Chip stocks fell hard for the second straight trading session on Thursday, led by declines for memory-chip makers such as SK Hynix.

Micron Technology on Thursday signed long-term agreements with automotive suppliers, including chip designer ‌Qualcomm and audio products maker Harman, to secure ‌memory and storage components that powers AI-enabled vehicles. The agreements come as ​the industry races to expand manufacturing capacity to meet the booming demand for memory chips due to the rapid adoption of AI tools. These chips are used in data ‌centers, consumer electronics ⁠and vehicles, where they support AI-enabled features such as ADAS and digital cockpits.

U.S. stocks remain deep in the throes of a major rotation heading into the teeth of the second-quarter earnings season, and the traditional August lull that follows, as investors take money from highflying tech sector and spread that cash across a host of old-economy bets. What’s happening alongside that “great rotation,” however, is also interesting, and likely keeping stocks afloat amid the broader tech declines.

Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.

U.S. stock futures were lower, with Nasdaq hurt by weakness in such names as Sandisk, Western Digital and Micron.

July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Thursday as investors paused after a two-day rally, while chip stocks remained under pressure ahead of fresh economic reports and another

China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) expects to raise at least $8.6 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai's STAR Market in ​what would be Asia's largest share sale so far this year. CXMT is China's leading manufacturer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, ...

Investing.com -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) reported a 77% year-on-year surge in Q2 2026 net profit to a record T$706.6 billion ($21.99 billion) on Thursday, blowing past Wall Street's EPS estimate of $3.80 with a print of $4.31, yet the stock was indicated about 4% lower in premarket trading as investors weighed a sharply expanded capital spending plan against near-term margin pressure.

Memory chip stocks continued to yo-yo in Asia, with Korea Exchange briefly suspending trading as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics cratered.

While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.

Dell, Sandisk and Micron led an AI sell-off, masked by megacaps such as Apple. SpaceX undercut its IPO price. Taiwan Semi, GE Aerospace earnings are due.

FINANCE U.S. stocks edged higher Wednesday as gains in megacap technology names offset weakness in chip stocks. PayPal surged on reports of a takeover offer and another round of strong bank earnings kept Wall Street in an upbeat mood.

A spectacular run for chip makers, server suppliers, and memory and storage names seems to have investors on edge.

Anthropic is looking to kick off meetings for its blockbuster initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to a Bloomberg report. The move could help put the AI chatbot maker's IPO firmly ahead of rival OpenAI's. The banks leading Anthropic's much-anticipated IPO are setting up meetings for the company with investors, according to the Bloomberg report, which cites unnamed sources.

Memory stocks plunged on Wednesday along with shares of other hardware providers for AI data centers.

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ASML, the world's biggest supplier ‌of equipment used ‌to manufacture computer chips, ​on Wednesday reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and profit, as demand from ‌makers of ⁠artificial intelligence chips offset uncertainty over ⁠sales to China. Revenue for the three months ​ended June ​30 ​was 9.33 ‌billion euros ($10.90 billion), compared with the 8.80 billion euros expected by analysts, according to LSEG ‌median estimates. Net income was ​2.92 ​billion euros, ‌compared with the 2.62 ​billion ​euros expected, according to LSEG data.

AI cloud computing company CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge ‌against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, according to ‌a person familiar with the matter. To lock in supply amid soaring demand, thanks to a surge in AI infrastructure construction, cloud operators including CoreWeave have signed long-term agreements with memory and storage makers such as Micron and SanDisk. But the arrangement cuts both ways: it protects chipmakers from a downturn, but leaves cloud ⁠companies like CoreWeave exposed if prices fall and they are stuck paying well above the going rate.

Micron Technology (MU) just took a financial stake in a wafer supplier that most investors have never heard of. On paper, it reads like a routine line item inside a much larger spending announcement. Wedbush Securities says it’s something else: an early signal that the AI memory boom is about to ...

ASML stock has surged this year and Wall Street thinks it could raise its sales guidance when it reports earnings Wednesday.

Chip stocks continued to whipsaw in volatile trading on Tuesday. But several semiconductor stocks were holding above a key support level.