Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.  Apu Gomes | Getty Images Shares of Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer jumped Thursday after Elon Musk revealed that the two hardware … Read more

The best and the worst sectors in the stock market during this recording-setting week

The best and the worst sectors in the stock market during this recording-setting week

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.) Market wrap: It’s day two of … Read more

Dell stock surges 9% on optimism company has big AI server orders

Dell stock surges 9% on optimism company has big AI server orders

Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, is speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 27, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Dell shares rose more than 11% on Wednesday to an all-time high after Morgan Stanley raised its price target and predicted that the company would … Read more

Nvidia-backed GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is worth $19 billion

Nvidia-backed GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is worth  billion

Nvidia-backed startup Coreweave is based in Roseland, New Jersey, with 160 employees. CoreWeave CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure startup that rents out graphics processing units to companies, said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1 billion in funding. The new investment values the company at $19 billion, up from $7 billion months ago, a person familiar with … Read more

Super Micro stock plummets 18% after posting revenue miss

Super Micro stock plummets 18% after posting revenue miss

The Super Micro Computer logo is seen on a smartphone screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Super Micro Computer shares plunged 18% on Wednesday morning after the server company upped its top-line guidance but reported third-quarter revenue that slightly missed estimates. The company on Tuesday posted revenue of $3.85 billion, … Read more

Super Micro (SMCI) Q3 earnings report 2024

Super Micro (SMCI) Q3 earnings report 2024

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, left, and Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro Computer, speak at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro shares slipped as much as 12% in extended trading on Tuesday after … Read more

Intel dominated U.S. chip industry. Now struggling to stay relevant

Intel dominated U.S. chip industry. Now struggling to stay relevant

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Seth Wenig | AP Intel’s long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the stock down 10% on Friday to their lowest level of the … Read more

Investing in the AI theme for the long haul. How to pick the winners

Investing in the AI theme for the long haul. How to pick the winners

Fotografielink | Istock | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has shaken up the investing landscape since the groundbreaking launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Since then, investors have poured money into all things related to AI as they hunt for the next big winners. In 2023, a group of major technology players dubbed the Magnificent Seven … Read more

The cause of Super Micro’s 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8

The cause of Super Micro’s 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8

At law school, we learned about “proximate cause,” one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It’s about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The current stock market lends itself to proximate causes, as in, “We have to find a cause for the pronounced … Read more

Super Micro plunges ahead of third-quarter earnings later this month

Super Micro plunges ahead of third-quarter earnings later this month

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer shares plunged 18% on Friday as investors scaled back their holdings of one of the market’s hottest stocks ahead of earnings later this month. Shares of Super Micro, which joined the S&P 500 in March, are still up about 168% this year after climbing … Read more