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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, May 11 (Reuters) - As the artificial intelligence boom accelerates, stock market concentration is reaching historic proportions – and not just in the U.S. where

Microsoft Meta Platforms Alphabet and Amazon.com collectively plan capital spending of $725 billion this year, much of it on artificial-intelligence chips. But that is another good reason for TSMC to spend.

Apple and Intel have reached a ‌preliminary agreement for Intel ‌to manufacture some of the chips ​that power the iPhone maker's devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people ‌familiar with ⁠the matter. Intensive talks between the two companies have ⁠been underway for more than a year, and they ​hammered out ​a ​formal deal in ‌recent months, the report said. Apple shares were up about 2%, while Intel's stock extended gains and was last up ‌about 14%.

The majority Sony-owned venture will set up production lines in Kumamoto Prefecture, with potential Japanese government backing

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Sony Semiconductor Solutions said on Friday ‌they plan to form a new joint venture ‌in Japan to develop and manufacture next-generation image sensors. The venture will combine ​Sony’s sensor design expertise with TSMC’s manufacturing and process technology strengths, deepening a long-standing partnership of the two companies. It will be majority-owned by Sony, and will set up development and ‌production lines in ⁠the Japanese company's new fabrication plant in Koshi City in the Kumamoto region.

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Investing.com -- Semiconductor equipment giant ASML is expected to benefit more from strong demand for existing EUV lithography systems than from the industry’s next-generation High-NA technology over the next several years, according to a new research report from BofA Securities.

Samsung reaches $1 trillion market cap on booming demand for high-bandwidth memory for AI.

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The South Korean company is only the second Asian company with a market valuation above $1 trillion, aside from TSMC.

Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) executives said the company made progress across several customer engagements during its first-quarter 2026 earnings call, highlighting momentum in advanced logic, memory, RF, power devices, and gallium nitride (GaN) applications for its Mears Silicon Technology (MST). Gate-Al

Investors are no longer just chasing the GPUs that train AI models. They're also chasing the memory and storage needed to keep those systems running.

Apple has held exploratory discussions about using Intel and Samsung Electronics to produce ‌the main processors for its devices, Bloomberg ‌News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the deliberations. Apple executives ​have made visits to a Samsung plant under development in Texas and, separately, also held preliminary talks with Intel about enlisting the company's chipmaking services, Bloomberg reported. While ‌the move would ⁠offer Apple a secondary option beyond its longtime partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the ⁠iPhone-maker is also concerned about using non-TSMC technology, the report said, citing worries about reliability and scale.

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Moby summary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation's Q1 2026 earnings call

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Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) opened 2026 with first-quarter results that management said were in line with the financial guidance issued in February, supported by higher transmission revenue, weather-driven demand, and continued customer growth in Arizona. Management points to Arizona growth an

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Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek said it has appointed former ‌TSMC executive Douglas Yu as a part-time ‌adviser as it steps up advanced packaging work and expands ​into the AI chip market. • Yu joined TSMC in 1994 and retired in 2025, holding a range of roles in backend ‌research and development. ⁠He played a key part in developing TSMC's advanced packaging technologies, including its ⁠CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate).

Apple is facing supply constraints for its latest iPhones because of a shortage of advanced processors from TSMC.