Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur (TSM) news and analysis
Tesla (TSLA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are falling hard. The rest of the AI trade isn't (July 23, 2026)
Tesla and Alphabet kept falling through Thursday morning even as chipmakers, neoclouds and photonics stocks held up fine. Oil topped $100 a barrel after Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure over any new attack on shipping.
Alphabet (GOOGL) raised AI capex to $205 billion, its third hike this year. Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO) barely moved after hours
Alphabet raised its 2026 capex guidance to $195-205 billion during Wednesday's call, its third increase this year, and GOOGL fell as much as 5% in extended trading. But the chip and power stocks that are supposed to benefit from that spending, Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC, Micron, Vistra and Constellation, barely moved.
Micron (MU), SK Hynix and AMD just gave chip stocks their first back-to-back gain in two weeks (July 21, 2026)
Micron (MU) closed up about 12 percent, SK Hynix's ADR about 14 percent, and AMD 8 percent Tuesday, chip stocks' first back-to-back gain in two weeks. A Bank of America upgrade on memory demand and a new AMD-Microsoft Azure deal did the heavy lifting.
Microsoft (MSFT) is testing Kimi K3 for Copilot, the same model that dragged Micron (MU) and Intel (INTC) down more than 13% last week
Microsoft is testing Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Azure and Copilot, hoping to cut AI costs by $600 million, the same week the model's launch gave chip stocks a rough ride and its maker began prepping a $30 billion Hong Kong IPO.
I gave five AIs a pretend $10,000 to pick 5 tech stocks. Four bought Nvidia (NVDA). Claude went rogue.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and Claude each picked five tech stocks to hold for six months. Four bought Nvidia. Claude went the other way. Every pick is here and the scoreboard runs monthly.
SK Hynix (SKHY) and Samsung make almost 80% of the world's AI memory. That's why Micron (MU) and US chip stocks crashed again (July 16, 2026)
Chip stocks fell hard again on July 16: SK Hynix's US shares (SKHY) closed down 13.7%, SanDisk (SNDK) 12.6%, Western Digital (WDC) 9.2%, Micron (MU) 5.7%, even after TSMC's record quarter. The reason traces back to Korea, where Samsung and SK Hynix make close to 80% of the world's AI memory, and to China's CXMT pricing an $85.7 billion IPO the same day.
TSMC beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter. The whole chip sector sold off anyway, and health care picked up the money.
TSMC beat Q2 earnings for a seventh straight quarter and raised its own 2026 capex forecast, an unusually bullish print. The semiconductor sector sold off anyway, continuing this week's memory-chip unwind, while health care, led by big earnings beats from UnitedHealth and Abbott, picked up the money instead.
Semiconductors are having their worst day in weeks. Tomorrow, TSMC gets a chance to reverse it.
Semiconductor stocks are having their worst day in weeks, Micron, SanDisk, and SK Hynix's ADR all down double digits. TSMC reports Q2 earnings before the bell tomorrow, scores an 88 out of 100 on our Stock Scorer, and might be the one print that stops the bleeding.
We built a stock score tool. It gave Intel a D, and I bought the stock anyway.
One pick in every layer of the AI hardware stack, each one graded by the SEC-filings scoring tool we just built. Four picks agree with the tool: NVDA, WDC, TSM, VRT. Micron is a partial. INTC and COHR do not agree with the tool at all, and I am holding both anyway.
Inside the AI hardware stack, from Nvidia's chips to the grid that powers them
An AI data center is seven layers of hardware: GPUs, memory, storage, CPUs, networking, manufacturing, and power. Here's the full map, with the public companies behind each layer and where the bottlenecks actually are.
Hyperliquid's Sunday tape shows chip and memory stocks bouncing hard
Western Digital, SanDisk and Micron are all up more than 6% from Thursday's close on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Here is the Sunday snapshot, and why it is not the same as Sunday night's real reopen.
Micron (MU), Nebius (NBIS) and chip stocks jump on Hyperliquid's weekend tape
Real markets are closed for July 4th, but tech and chip stocks are trading green right now on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Micron, Marvell and Nebius lead the bounce, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq perpetuals are up too. Here is the full read, and why Monday could look nothing like this.
Chips had their third worst day of 2026 and the S&P barely noticed (MU, INTC)
The S&P 500 closed within a whisker of flat on July 1 and the chip trade still had its third worst day of the year. Micron fell 10.5 percent, Intel lost 9 percent, and Meta gained almost 9 percent on the other side. Here is the damage report.
Intel's turnaround, AMD's run, and why the CPU still matters in AI
Intel (INTC) was the comeback story of 2026, up about 278% in the first half on a foundry turnaround. AMD (AMD) rose about 171% on the same theme. A deep dive into what changed at Intel, how AMD keeps taking share, and why the CPU still matters in an AI world obsessed with GPUs.
AI's quiet winners: ASML, AMD and Vertiv VRT lead at the June 30, 2026 open
On the last trading day of the first half, the AI suppliers led again. ASML, Arm (ARM) and Vertiv (VRT) each rose about 4%, while Micron (MU) is up roughly 300% in 2026.
The hidden chokepoints behind the AI chip boom
Everyone watches Nvidia and TSMC. But the AI chip boom rests on a few obscure materials, often from one company, country, or town: ABF substrate, photoresist, high-purity quartz, neon and gallium. Who controls them, and how big the risk really is.
The market's closed, but the weekend stock tape is flashing green
The US market is closed, but stocks trade 24/7 on Hyperliquid. As of Sunday night the weekend tape is green, led by the chip names that fell hardest Friday. Our read before Monday's open.
What is a chip foundry? Why almost every AI chip is made by one company, TSMC (TSM)
Nvidia, Apple and AMD design chips but do not make them. A plain-English guide to what a semiconductor foundry is, the fabless model, why TSMC (TSM) makes around 70 percent of the world's chips, and the packaging bottleneck holding back AI.
The AI stock map: every layer of the trade, from sand to software
A top-to-bottom deep dive on the AI supply chain, from the machines that make the chips down to the hyperscalers writing the checks, and how every layer pushes and pulls on the others.