Intel's stock has outperformed the market year-to-date, experiencing only a modest 5.5% pullback, which reflects a reset in investor expectations rather than a decline in fundamentals or demand. The company is benefiting from strong server demand, supply constraints, and emerging pricing power, indicating a tightening CPU market for the first time in years. Intel is advancing its 18A node into high-volume manufacturing, improving yields but facing margin pressures during early scaling. Despite uncertainty, the valuation suggests that a full recovery is not yet priced in, with high price-to-earnings ratios projected for 2026 and 2027.
Asian semiconductor stocks experienced a significant decline following a sell-off in US chipmakers, with SK Hynix shares dropping over 9% in Seoul after an earlier 8% rally. The sell-off reflects concerns over AI spending and profit-taking after a st...
Sanjeev Sharma forecasts the S&P 500 will finish 2026 slightly below its starting point due to weak consumer fundamentals like stagnant wage growth, high inflation, elevated gas prices, and rising interest rates. His disposable income-based model hig...
The Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF (TECL) is rated Buy due to easing inflation and a positive outlook for the Nasdaq-100, driven by growing AI infrastructure investments and increasing influence of smaller AI-related companies beyond the major...
Intel Foundry has begun high-volume manufacturing of select Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, known as Panther Lake, using ASML's High NA EUV lithography on the Intel 18A process node. This marks a key milestone in semiconductor manufacturing, de...
The Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL) surged nearly 293% year-to-date but recently fell about 30% in the last month, including a sharp 16% drop in one day. SOXL uses leverage to triple daily semiconductor index returns, but this also...
