Nasdaq slips as AI trade splits chip makers and buyers; SanDisk jumps 22% The Nasdaq Composite ended Thursday down 0.46%, giving up 118.03 points to finish at 25,358.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed a 71.72-point gain, or 0.14%, to close at 51,920.62, while the S&P 500 was flat, down just 0.73 point at 7,357.49. Memory-chip stocks ran higher, but the broader tech index still fell as some companies raised prices for hard-to-find AI parts and others paid up. SanDisk Corp soared 22.0%, Micron Technology Inc climbed 15.7%, and Applied Materials Inc rose 13.4%. Apple Inc lost 6.1%, and Dell Technologies Inc dropped 5.8%.