SpaceX's decision to build its AI infrastructure on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform, claiming 20% of NVIDIA's next-gen capacity, signals NVIDIA's advantage in allocation control rather than AMD's decline. Despite losing SpaceX, AMD reported strong Q2 results with 50.1% revenue growth and major AI customer deals including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Microsoft. AMD's data center segment is growing rapidly, and management remains optimistic about long-term targets. The AI chip market competition is intense but not one-sided, with AMD still securing significant multi-gigawatt commitments from leading AI companies.
The Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF (XLG) reduces the S&P 500 to its 50 largest companies by market cap, resulting in a fund dominated by mega-cap tech stocks, especially semiconductors which make up about 26% of the portfolio. The top five holdings—NVIDI...
Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful laptop ever, powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark CPU instead of Intel processors. This marks a significant shift as Intel, which still dominates PC chips by volume, loses the top-tier marke...
