Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Cleanspark, Vaxcyte, Unity Software and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Cleanspark – The crypto miner’s stock plunged more than 13%. Cleanspark released its mining update for August, which showed that it mined 478 bitcoins last month. That marks a drop from 494 in July and 659 in August last year . Vaxcyte – Shares were recently […]
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Nvidia shares down 3% in premarket trade despite market-beating earnings
A binary code is displayed on a laptop screen in the background, while the Nvidia logo is showcased on a phone on April 28, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nvidia shares dipped in U.S. premarket trade on Thursday, as the company’s fiscal second-quarter gross margin dipped slightly, and its revenue beat was eclipsed […]
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Tech stocks in Asia fall amid broad declines in the region after Nvidia results
Samsung Electronics’ fourth-generation high bandwidth memory or HBM3 chips have been cleared by Nvidia for use in its processors for the first time, three people briefed on the matter said. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech and chip-related stocks in Asia fell on Thursday, after U.S. chip darling Nvidia reported its second-quarter results […]
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Morgan Stanley says a global tech downturn is a ‘near certainty’ — and shares how to position for it
Morgan Stanley says a cyclical downturn in global tech is almost certain next year. “Our base case is that a cyclical downturn is a near certainty in 2025,” it said in an Aug. 20 report, adding that it will be caused by a “likely reversal” in the rate of change of revenue growth and tight […]
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How Google makes custom chips used to train Apple AI models and its own chatbot, Gemini
Inside a sprawling lab at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of server racks hum across several aisles, performing tasks far less ubiquitous than running the world’s dominant search engine or executing workloads for Google Cloud’s millions of customers. Instead, they’re running tests on Google’s own microchips, called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Originally […]
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S&P 500 will be closer to 6,000 by year-end, Morgan Stanley’s Slimmon says, naming stocks to buy
Markets have been very rocky lately, but Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Andrew Slimmon has an idea of how they could go from here. He says the market could “be consistent with 2023,” after much volatility in the past few weeks. In late July, both the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq dived to a […]
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Philippe Laffont’s Coatue entered into Paramount last quarter amid weakness
Philippe Laffont’s Coatue built a position at Paramount Global amid tumultuous times for the storied media company. The technology-focused investor opened a stake of more than 3 million shares in the legacy entertainment giant during the second quarter, according to regulatory fillings. That amounts to a holding worth more than $38 million. Laffont is one of […]
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Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts
A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel has sold its 1.18 million share stake in British chip firm Arm Holdings, according to a regulatory filing, as the California chip designer shores up its balance sheet […]
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Podcast: Japan’s quest for the most powerful microchip leads semiconductor revival
In the 1980s, Japan was the dominant player in the semiconductor market. But huge shifts in the way the chip supply chain operated eroded that leading-edge. Countries like Taiwan with TSMC, the world’s largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturer, began to dominate in the production of chips. The U.S. is key in areas like design. […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Taiwan Semiconductor, Insulet, Paramount Global and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Taiwan Semiconductor — Stock in the chipmaker rose about 1% before the opening bell after the company reported strong July revenue, which showed an increase of nearly 45% year-over-year, according to a StreetAccount report. The Trade Desk — Shares gained nearly 4% after the ad-buying company […]
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