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A wave of selling swept through semiconductor stocks Friday as investors began questioning whether the AI spending boom can justify chip valuations built on optimism alone. The forces driving this rotation reveal cracks in the narrative that sent some semis up triple digits this year.
The PHLX Semiconductor Index is on track to enter a technical bear market. Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said the dramatic downturn is "a summer reset, not a fundamental reversal." The AI chip maker's market capitalization fell to $4.8 trillion, below Apple's $4.9 trillion valuation.

The stock market (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) is feeling the mid-summer heat with semiconductors and tech names getting especially burned amid this week's chip sell-off. Crossmark Global Investments chief market strategist Victoria Fernandez and BD8 Capital Partners CEO and CIO Barbara Doran discuss what to make of this sell-off and how accepting investors should be of this rotation from chipmakers.
LITE's record laser-chip shipments, expanding InP capacity and CPO push position it to capture surging AI optical-networking demand.
Jim Cramer just crowned a single semiconductor stock the market's early warning system, and after a brutal week for that name, traders are scrambling to figure out whether the signal already fired.
News of the Day for July 17, 2026
Palomino Laboratories has signed a binding Letter of Intent to acquire Vega Links Inc., aiming to transform itself into a comprehensive AI interconnect company. This acquisition will expand Palomino's market reach from approximately $6 billion to over $60 billion by integrating systems architecture and advanced interconnect technologies, such as copper, MicroVCSEL, and MicroLED solutions. As AI infrastructure advances rapidly, the demand for high bandwidth, low latency, and energy-efficient...
19% That's how much the PHLX Semiconductor Index has tumbled from its June high. The index's biggest components include AI heavyweights including Nvidia, Micron Technology, Broadcom and Applied Materials, all of which have come under pressure in recent weeks.
Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors carried on ditching chip makers, putting the market on track to extend its slump from the previous session. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.8%. The three major indexes all closed in the red on Thursday, dragged down by a selloff in semiconductor heavyweights including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, and Micron.
Asian shares skidded Friday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 down 5% as heavy selling of computer chipmakers and other AI-related shares dragged markets lower. Stocks related to artificial intelligence have been under pressure for weeks because of worries that their prices have shot too high and that voracious demand for computer memory and processors may not be sustainable if AI ends up not producing as much profit and productivity as promised. Oil prices surged as fighting in the Middle East intensified, while U.S. futures slipped.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after TSMC paired topline strength with a free cash flow-compressing capital expenditure reset, compounding a sector-wide selloff that began with ASML the day before.
Broadcom is set for major expansion next year.
The Nasdaq, the S&P 500, and the Dow ended Thursday's session lower, but if you take a closer look, most of the market is actually holding up all right. The tech-heavy Nasdaq saw the most dramatic declines since tech stocks led the selloff, down 1.5%. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% and the Dow dropped 0.2% or 105 points.
IREN stock has shed 41% in a single month alongside every major miner-turned-AI-infrastructure name, but a $3.4 billion NVIDIA contract and zero idle GPUs tell a very different story than the price action suggests.
Bank of America just flagged a hidden revenue engine inside Nvidia that the market is still ignoring, and the numbers suggest Wall Street has been pricing the wrong business this entire time.
AI infrastructure spending has turned three chip suppliers into the biggest beneficiaries of the largest buildout in human history, and the math behind where their stocks land by 2029 is more surprising than the headline numbers suggest.
Advanced Micro Devices' market cap has more than doubled this year to around $840 billion.
Marvell has surged over 100% this year, but a sudden wave of AI spending fears is now erasing billions in market value across the entire chip sector. Whether this is a brief shakeout or the beginning of a deeper unwind depends on one crucial question.
Marvell shed a third of its value in a single month while its AI data center business posted record revenue and management flagged an all-time high in design wins. One Wall Street analyst just set a target that would roughly double the stock, and the reasoning centers on a program most investors have not priced in.
I keep hitting the buy button on NVIDIA because of one policy decision, and I want to be blunt about it: the 25x quarterly dividend jump from $0.01 to $0.25 paired with a fresh $80 billion buyback authorization on top of the roughly $39 billion still remaining is the single clearest signal a management team ... This Single Nvidia Policy Keeps Me Hitting The Buy Button
NVIDIA prints 75% margins while TSMC bets tens of billions on new fabs, and both companies insist they are winning the AI race. Only one business model can claim the better long-term edge, and the answer depends on which number you trust more.
MaxLinear's 31% pullback tests whether booming AI data-center demand can outweigh supply constraints, rising costs and a stretched valuation.
Broadcom just handed investors a rare discount while the rest of Wall Street chases flashier AI names, and at least one Morgan Stanley heavyweight thinks the crowd is making a serious mistake.