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Micron stock was surging as the company delivered reassurance the memory-chip boom can last for longer than expected.
Marvell (MRVL) has gained about 215.72% year to date at the time of writing, Wednesday afternoon, June 24. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 7.41% in the same period. The semiconductor giant has rallied thanks to its role in the AI boom. Strong fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 ...
Investing.com - Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) delivered the strongest quarterly results in its history after Wednesday's close, posting fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion against a Wall Street consensus of $35.69 billion, a 16.2% beat, and earnings per share of $25.11 versus the $20.49 estimate, a 22.6% upside surprise. The print sent Micron shares up roughly 12.6% in extended trade to around $1,180.97, recovering from a regular-session close of $1,047.20.
The companies inside this popular semiconductor fund are signaling a clear direction for their earnings, and it's worth paying attention.
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Intel’s stock has been in the spotlight in 2026, surging over 250% in the first half of the year. The chipmaker’s epic run came after its current CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, took the helm from prior CEO Pat Gelsinger in the spring of 2025. With the stock trading near all-time highs, some investors ...
Apple turning to Intel for chips, as Washington announced last week, has the neat logic of necessity meeting ambition. A deal - which neither company has formally announced - would pair Intel's effort to rebuild its credibility as a contract chipmaker with Apple's search for more manufacturing capacity, as its supplier TSMC struggles to meet surging AI chip demand from the likes of Nvidia. Supply constraints at the contract manufacturer have held back iPhone sales, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in April.
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The spotlight is on chipmaker Micron Technology as it prepares to report earnings, with investors bracing for further volatility following sharp market swings fueled by large flows tied to SpaceX and a two-day boom-bust in semiconductor stocks. Last June, Micron was a well-known if somewhat obscure company with a market value of $136 billion and a long history, but not necessarily one whose quarterly earnings reports caught investors' fancy. Fast forward a year, and Micron is one of the stars of the technology rally that has sent chipmakers around the world soaring, igniting a fresh trading frenzy even after a dozen or more months of AI excitement.
One of the market's bright spots in 2026 sold off sharply in Tuesday's decline. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, packed with high-flying names like Nvidia, Intel and Micron, was down today by about 7.
Its share price has plunged about 21% since second-quarter earnings were released on June 3.
Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.
Investing.com -- Piper Sandler upgraded semiconductor design software maker Synopsys to Overweight from Neutral and raised its price target to $550 from $450, citing improving prospects for the company's intellectual property (IP) business as Intel's foundry ambitions gain traction.
June 23 (Reuters) - Contracts tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2%, leading declines among Wall Street futures on Tuesday, as concerns around imminent rate hikes in the United States and debt-backed
Tuesday's catalysts include flash PMIs, Richmond Fed data, ADP weekly employment, Treasury bill and 2-year note auctions, and May money supply.
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AI stock investors have essentially been trained to follow a rule to invest in businesses closest to GPUs, data centers, and hyperscaler spending. Intel (INTC) CEO Lip-Bu Tan just flipped that script on the June 18 episode of No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups. Tan believes ...
Micron Technology led other AI hardware stocks higher to start the week, ahead of the memory chipmaker's earnings.

Memory giant Micron (MU) will report its third quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, providing another update on the broader AI build-out.
June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures started the week on a subdued note, after Friday's public holiday, with investors monitoring developments in U.S.-Iran talks following a tense start.