Cerebras Systems‘ monster debut on Thursday didn’t just place it among tech’s biggest-ever IPOs — it was a crystal clear signal of unstoppable demand for chips to power AI, as tech giants scramble to find alternatives to the costly, sold-out graphics processing units made by Nvidia. Cerebras closed its first day trading on Wall Street…
President Donald Trump on Friday said that he refused to directly answer Chinese President Xi Jinping when asked if the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked it. “That question was asked to me today,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as they flew back to the United States from a two-day summit…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images As South Korea’s and Taiwan’s benchmark indexes surged to record highs this year — powered by Asia’s trillion-dollar titans — it has raised…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, May 11, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the imprisonment of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai…
Late. Late. Late. That’s how I felt when I saw the Roundhill Memory ETF — symbol DRAM, of course — take in more than $5 billion in a month. Super late when I saw it took in $1.1 billion on Thursday alone, all to play what the press is hailing as the memory supercycle. But…
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. Stocks are rallying to another new record high on Friday, capping off a week in which the S & P 500 gained more than 2%. Once…
Apple and Intel are reportedly closing in on a deal that would see Intel make some of the chips for the iPhone maker’s devices, marking a major shift in the chipmaking landscape. Talks between the two companies have been brewing for more than a year, with a preliminary agreement reached in recent months, the Wall…
Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that blew past Wall Street’s expectations, as the struggling chipmaker shows signs of a revival. Shares of the U.S. chipmaker jumped 20% in after-hours…
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Sept. 6, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Marvell Technology gained nearly 6% on Monday amid reports that Google will use the chip design firm for two new chips to power artificial intelligence workloads. Until now, Google has relied on…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Nvidia has cemented itself at the heart of the AI boom with a monopoly on the most powerful chips to train and run models, but a growing crop of startups are set on challenging the company’s supremacy. And…
