The US government acquired a 10% stake in Intel in August 2025 at $20.47 per share, investing $8.9 billion. Since then, Intel's stock price has surged nearly 290%, reaching around $80 after a strong Q1 earnings beat fueled by AI-driven demand. This investment, aimed at boosting domestic semiconductor manufacturing, now holds an unrealized gain of about $26.5 billion. While some caution about Intel's high valuation, the company's turnaround highlights the growing impact of AI on the semiconductor industry and marks a successful government investment so far.
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...
Bank of America highlights a divergence in earnings outlooks for CPU makers AMD, Intel, and ARM amid a mixed market. While PC and smartphone sales are declining, AI server chip demand is surging, benefiting AMD with expected earnings beats and raised...
