Amazon gets boost from 72% pop in AI company Astera Labs’ IPO

In this photo illustration, Astera Labs logo is seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen.  Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy loves to talk about how much his company is benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom. On Wednesday, Amazon got an AI boost in a … Read more

Intel awarded up to $8.5 billion from CHIPS Act, with loans available

U.S. President Joe Biden listens to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as he attends the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility in New Albany, Ohio, U.S., September 9, 2022. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The White House said Intel has been awarded up to $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding, as the Biden administration ramps … Read more

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang takes page out of Apple playbook to lead AI’s future

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage Monday at the chipmaker’s hyped-up artificial intelligence conference, he joked to the thousands of attendees packed into the arena that this was “not a concert.” In a literal sense, Huang was right. But that didn’t stop him from using his two-hour keynote address to cement Nvidia’s status … Read more

Jim Cramer’s plans when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks this week

We convened a Club meeting at Palm Beach Gardens on Saturday. We just didn’t know it. My wife, Lisa, and I were signing bottles of her finest Fosforo mezcal at Total Wine & More, and I can’t believe how many people showed. It reminds me that Florida has to be the venue for our next … Read more

Chip stocks soar — plus, this lagging industrial is due for a catch-up trade

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) Powell speaks: Two days of testimony from … Read more

AMD reportedly hits U.S. regulatory roadblock for Chain-tailored chip

A smartphone with a displayed AMD logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters American semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices has failed in getting a made-for-China AI chip past U.S. regulators and will need to apply for an export license, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The report … Read more

Here is Eli Lilly’s competitive edge in GLP-1 obesity drugs and Abbott’s secondary play

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) Inflation relief: The stock market was … Read more

AI and semiconductor stocks surge after Nvidia’s earnings beat

A microchip and the Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this photo taken in Krakow, Poland, on April 10, 2023. Nurphoto | Getty Images Artificial intelligence and semiconductor chip stocks rallied after U.S. chip design firm Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations for fourth-quarter earnings and revenue on Wednesday and projected “continued … Read more

Arm’s post-earnings pop leaves stock trading at premium to Nvidia, AMD

The logo of semiconductor design firm Arm on a chip. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Exactly two years ago, Nvidia’s attempt to purchase chip designer Arm from SoftBank came to an end due to “significant regulatory challenges.” Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s billionaire founder, has never been so lucky. That agreement would have involved selling … Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise tops the 2024 JUST 100 list

Antonio Neri, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, at the NYSE, Oct. 19, 2023 Source: NYSE Technology stocks have taken back the No. 1 spot in the JUST 100, an annual ranking of large public companies on issues of key importance to the American public, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise topping last year’s No. 1 Bank of America. … Read more