Nvidia has become one of the world’s largest strategic tech backers as the value of its equity investments soared more than tenfold in the past year to $99 billion, with the chip giant increasingly looking to leverage its huge capital reserves to bolster the AI sector. The company has ramped up dealmaking for financing rounds…
Nvidia shares rose on Thursday after the chip giant’s revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand will remain strong. Shares were last up 7.2% in premarket trading. Investor bullishness suggests Nvidia could buck the trend of its stock dropping the day after reporting earnings in all of the previous four quarters, despite meeting or beating…
Nvidia‘s near-monopoly over the most advanced AI chips is under “threat” as OpenAI’s and other tech giants announce custom-built semiconductors, analysts told CNBC. Follow CNBC’s live coverage of Nvidia’s 2027 second-quarter earnings OpenAI announced that its first AI chip, the Jalapeño, had “industry-leading speed and efficiency,” as it unveiled the semiconductor on Tuesday. Google, AWS…
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra did plenty to quiet the bears. That’s our conclusion from Jim Cramer’s extended interview with Mehrotra, which aired Thursday night on “Mad Money.” Mehrotra’s pioneering career in the volatility-prone memory industry spans more than four decades, beginning at Intel in the early days of the personal computing era, before going on…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech during a keynote event at COMPUTEX on June 02, 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. Cheng Chia Huang | Getty Images Nvidia’s massive head start in artificial intelligence turned the chipmaker into the world’s most valuable company. Now, almost four years into the generative AI boom, competitors like Advanced Micro…
So many things have never happened before. That’s what’s so amazing about this market. Everywhere we turn, we see changes made that aren’t believed and yet are totally true. Take, for example, the following unbelievable year-to-date performances: SanDisk up 496%, Seagate up 238%, Club name Micron up 208%, and Western Digital up 171%. All four…
No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq both dropped modestly Friday but managed to post their third straight winning weeks. The S & P 500 rose above 7,800 during Thursday’s session for the…
In South Korea, where a mountainous landscape makes building huge projects an incredible undertaking, the world’s leading maker of high-bandwidth computer memory is investing $720 billion on what it says will be the largest network of memory factories in the world. SK Hynix, whose market cap has jumped more than fivefold in the past year…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on May 14, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras Systems raised its full-year guidance in the second earnings report following the chipmaker’s IPO in May. But the stock tumbled about…
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bitcoin miner Riot Platform has struck a $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic, CNBC’s David Faber has confirmed. The agreement would lease 191 megawatts at Riot’s Rockdale, Texas computer campus, giving Anthropic access to scarce, grid-connected power as demand surges for computing power that can…
