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Nasdaq jumps amid revived confidence in the AI trade, as Fed-favored inflation print keeps rate hikes in play.

Shares of chipmakers surged late on Wednesday, adding over $400 billion in market ‌value after strong forecasts from Micron Technology and Qualcomm ‌breathed fresh life into Wall Street's recently waning AI stock rally. Micron surged ​12% in extended trade after forecasting quarterly earnings above analysts' estimates, signaling that heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for its memory chips. Also after the bell, Qualcomm ‌said it expects $15 billion ⁠in sales from its data center business by 2029 as it moves beyond its core smartphone ⁠chip business and shifts its focus to AI.

Investing.com - Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) delivered the strongest quarterly results in its history after Wednesday's close, posting fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion against a Wall Street consensus of $35.69 billion, a 16.2% beat, and earnings per share of $25.11 versus the $20.49 estimate, a 22.6% upside surprise. The print sent Micron shares up roughly 12.6% in extended trade to around $1,180.97, recovering from a regular-session close of $1,047.20.

Micron Technology, which has seen its value triple this year, said revenue quadrupled in the second quarter and forecasted that rapid growth will continue due to near-insatiable demand for its memory chips. Shares surged by more than 15% in after-hours trading after the company beat Wall Street expectations in virtually every financial metric watched closely by investors, including sales, earnings per share, adjusted gross margin and the company’s forecast. Micron and its peers make chips that have become a central component in the artificial-intelligence boom, helping to facilitate the high-powered computing needed by top AI models.

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Investing.com -- Memory-chip maker Micron Technology topped Wall Street expectations in its fiscal third quarter and issued significantly stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, sending shares up about 9% in after-hours trading as investors cheered continued AI-driven demand for memory chips.

The lesson from Micron's blowout Q3 earnings is that AI customers are treating memory like a bottleneck they cannot afford to leave to chance.

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Micron Technology forecast quarterly revenue above Wall Street ‌estimates on Wednesday, signaling that ‌insatiable demand for AI-related infrastructure will continue ​to drive strong demand for its memory chips. Shares of the company rose around 4% in extended trading. The ‌company expects ⁠fourth-quarter revenue of $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, compared with ⁠analysts' average estimate of $43.58 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

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Qualcomm is expected to use its investor day on Wednesday to lay out a push beyond its core smartphone business into ‌the fast-growing, but highly competitive, market for AI data center chips. Analysts ‌expect the San Diego-based company to name new customers for its AI chips as it tries to ​gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The shift reflects mounting pressure in the smartphone market, where Qualcomm is one of the world’s largest chip suppliers to Android device makers.

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Amazon stock climbed Wednesday afternoon as tech stocks more broadly bounced back from a rough start to the week.

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Qualcomm said on Wednesday it would buy AI ‌startup Modular for an ‌undisclosed sum, as the chipmaker looks to ​diversify beyond its core smartphone business. The company was in advanced discussions to acquire Modular in a deal ‌valuing it at ⁠about $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Buying Modular pits ⁠Qualcomm against CUDA, the software platform that has helped underpin Nvidia's ​AI dominance ​by tying ​millions of developers ‌to the $5 trillion company's chips.

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