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Jim Cramer took a hard pass on one buzzy photonics name while steering investors toward two stocks already hauling in NVIDIA investment and posting triple-digit gains. Find out which companies made his short list and why their order books tell a very different story.

Ideal Power Inc (NASDAQ:IPWR, FRA:5ILA) said it continued to advance commercial development of its B-TRAN bidirectional semiconductor switch technology in the second quarter, including work with a lead Asian customer and an industry partner on prototypes tied to Nvidia's Rubin Ultra 800V DC data...

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IREN co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts said that IREN looks forward to “building on this momentum with Microsoft” as the remaining Horizon deployments come online.

IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) shares gained 6% on Thursday morning after the company completed delivery of its Horizon 1 AI infrastructure deployment to Microsoft and secured NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status for its GB300 NVL72 installation. The milestones mark further progress in IREN’s large-scale AI Cloud expansion strategy and its five-year agreement with Microsoft.

Vantage Data Centers (AMEX:VNTG) and Nebius (NASDAQ:NBIS) have agreed to deploy Nvidia-powered artificial intelligence infrastructure at Vantage’s CWL1 data centre campus in Newport, Wales, expanding the region’s role in the UK’s growing AI infrastructure market. The agreement represents the first announced commercial capacity commitment within the South Wales AI Growth Zone.
Cerebras stock fell on Thursday after the chip maker's latest quarterly results failed to impress investors.

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Cerebras Systems slumped over 18% premarket on Thursday after it missed key estimates despite soaring cloud revenue, raising doubts about the ability of its AI chips to challenge Nvidia. Expectations were high for AI-linked companies including Cerebras and networking equipment maker Cisco, given the strong run-up in shares driven by Big Tech's ballooning spending, set to cross more than $740 billion for this year. Here are some details: • Cerebras, in its second earnings report as a public company, offered a mixed picture as it increasingly derived revenue from cloud computing rather than its AI chips.
Investing.com -- Bank of America raised its forecast for the server CPU market, saying the rise of AI agents is expanding the opportunity for central processing units in data centers.
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Two AI infrastructure stocks both erupted on earnings day, but the businesses behind those moves share almost nothing in common. Picking the right one means understanding which trade-off you can actually live with.

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External factors have been weighing on Sandisk stock lately, but the memory specialist can still step on the gas.
SpaceX's post-earnings collapse wiped out a fortune most billionaires never accumulate, and then the rebound did something almost no one expected in the days that followed.

Upstart stock is down almost 35% this year, but investors might be too pessimistic.

Decart AI specialises in creating world models, which are simulations designed to mirror the physical world.

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NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Marvell each report within days of each other this August, and what they say about the second half of the year could either extend the AI infrastructure boom or stop it cold.

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