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Semiconductors 5 October 2025 - 19 October 2025

Nvidia reveals $63.44 billion equity holdings, with Intel and SpaceX making up majority share
Qualcomm Stock’s Wild Ride: New Chip Triumphs, China Shocks, and What’s Next for QCOM

Qualcomm Stock’s Wild Ride: New Chip Triumphs, China Shocks, and What’s Next for QCOM

QUALCOMM’s stock price has seesawed in mid-October. It closed Friday at $163.45investor.qualcomm.com per share, down a fraction on the day after a late-week pullback. This caps a volatile stretch: the stock started the week near $155 after a sharp sell-off, then rallied back roughly +6% by week’s end. Over the past five trading days, QCOM logged solid gains, essentially recovering from the prior Friday’s plunge. Year-to-date the stock is little changed, underperforming hotter semiconductor names but reflecting improved sentiment since early 2025’s lows.
19 October 2025
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Intel Stock Soars to Multi-Year High on AI Buzz and Big Backers – Will the Rally Last?

Intel Stock Soars to Multi-Year High on AI Buzz and Big Backers – Will the Rally Last?

Intel’s share price has been on a roller coaster in recent days, reflecting excitement about its prospects tempered by bouts of profit-taking. As of the Oct. 17 market close, INTC traded in the high-$36 rangets2.tech, roughly flat for the week. The stock nearly hit $38 earlier in the month – a new 52-week high – after reports on Oct. 2 that Intel was in talks to have AMD as a chip fabrication customerts2.tech. That headline sent Intel shares up almost 4% intradayts2.tech. However, the rally faded just as quickly when Deutsche Bank warned the stock had climbed “too far, too fast,” reiterating a Hold rating with a $30 price target and urging investors to take profitsts2.tech.
18 October 2025
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Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Soars After $10B OpenAI AI Chip Deal – Analysts Raise Targets

Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Soars After $10B OpenAI AI Chip Deal – Analysts Raise Targets

Broadcom’s stock has surged dramatically in 2023–2025, fueled by the AI boom and strategic dealsts2.tech. After a 10-for-1 split in Feb 2024, retail interest surged along with its fundamentalsts2.tech. By Oct 2025, Broadcom’s market cap surpassed $1.5 trillionts2.tech. The share price peaked around $374 in early Sept 2025, roughly double its level a year priorts2.tech. Even after an early-October dip, AVGO remains up ~70% YTDts2.tech, far outperforming the S&P 500.
17 October 2025
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TSMC Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom — Analysts See More Upside

TSMC Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom — Analysts See More Upside

TSMC’s latest results have been outstanding. In Q2 2025, the company reported revenue of US$30.1 billion, a 44% jump year-over-yearts2.tech, with net profit of roughly T$398.3 billion. Demand for TSMC’s most advanced nodes is exceptionally strong: cutting-edge chips now account for about 60% of revenuets2.techts2.tech, and high-performance computing/AI wafers made up roughly 60% of Q2 sales. TSMC’s pricing power and scale have kept margins very high, underpinning its profit growth.
16 October 2025
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Astera Labs (ALAB) Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom – Nvidia & AMD Partnerships Fuel Frenzy

Astera Labs (ALAB) Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom – Nvidia & AMD Partnerships Fuel Frenzy

Astera Labs has emerged as a hot AI infrastructure stock in 2025. After its mid-2023 IPO at ~$36, ALAB surged through 2024 and 2025, briefly topping $262 before a broader tech sell-off in Octoberts2.tech. On Oct 14 the stock fell roughly 14% intraday amid market volatilityainvest.com. Despite pullbacks, ALAB remains up dramatically YTD. The run-up reflects extreme market enthusiasm for AI “picks-and-shovels” stocks, but also high valuation concerns. Astera now trades at ~347× forward EPS and ~42× forward salests2.technasdaq.com – higher multiples than peers. This lofty pricing leaves it vulnerable to profit-taking: when Federal Reserve commentary rattled markets in late Sept, ALAB dropped ~19% in a single weekts2.tech. Similarly, technical analysts noted bearish signals after the mid-October selloffainvest.com.
14 October 2025
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TSMC’s AI-Fueled Rally: Stock Hits Record High, Earnings Soar Amid Global Chip Race

TSMC’s AI-Fueled Rally: Stock Hits Record High, Earnings Soar Amid Global Chip Race

Breaking out: Taiwan’s TSMC has ridden a wave of AI demand to record results. The company’s stock and revenues are surging as it churns out advanced chips for customers like Nvidia and Applebloomberg.comreuters.com. Q3 sales beat estimates, and management expects ~30% growth for all of 2025ts2.tech. “We have fully booked production lines in the U.S. for the next three years,” CEO C.C. Wei told reporters, even as he vowed to keep investing heavily at home. Industry analysts note TSMC’s unique position: IDC’s Mario Morales says “TSMC will continue to outperform… given the ongoing exponential growth of AI infrastructure investments.”reuters.com That AI-driven tailwind is pushing TSMC’s share price to new heights and underpinning record-high valuationsts2.techbloomberg.com.
14 October 2025
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Nvidia’s AI Power Play Sends Navitas Semiconductor Stock Soaring – Here’s Why It Matters

Nvidia’s AI Power Play Sends Navitas Semiconductor Stock Soaring – Here’s Why It Matters

On Oct. 13, 2025 Navitas Semiconductor announced it had “developed advanced 800 VDC GaN and SiC power devices” for NVIDIA’s forthcoming AI data center architecture Navitassemi. The market reacted immediately. NVTS stock closed ~21% higher on Oct. 13 and surged to ~$12.71 after hours ts2.tech. Analysts noted the trigger: Navitas’s press release confirmed it would supply GaN/SiC chips to enable NVIDIA’s new 800V DC “AI factory” power system Navitassemi Gurufocus.
14 October 2025
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Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Stock Skyrockets 27% on Nvidia AI Breakthrough – Is a Major Rally Just Beginning?

Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Stock Skyrockets 27% on Nvidia AI Breakthrough – Is a Major Rally Just Beginning?

In-Depth Analysis: Navitas Semiconductor is a fabless chipmaker specializing in wide-bandgap power electronics. It pioneered “GaNFast” ICs that monolithically integrate GaN transistors with control circuits ts2.tech. These allow much smaller, more efficient power supplies because GaN can run at higher frequencies with lower losses. In 2022 the company also acquired GeneSiC, adding high-voltage SiC diodes and MOSFETs for EV and energy applications. By mid-2025, Navitas’ revenue mix was split among fast chargers, industrial, solar, EV, and data centers finviz.com ts2.tech.
14 October 2025
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Broadcom’s AI Windfall: Inside AVGO’s Trillion-Dollar Surge, $10B Chip Deal & 2025 Outlook

Broadcom’s AI Windfall: Inside AVGO’s Trillion-Dollar Surge, $10B Chip Deal & 2025 Outlook

Broadcom’s stock has been on a meteoric rise in 2023–2025, riding the twin waves of AI chip euphoria and strategic acquisitions. Even after the recent market volatility, AVGO is up dramatically year-to-date and over the past 12 months. At the start of 2024, Broadcom’s market cap was around $300 B; by October 2025 it ballooned past $1.5 trillion ts2.tech. The company’s decision to enact a 10:1 stock split helped spur retail interest, while its fundamental performance justified the climb.
11 October 2025
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TSMC’s AI-Fueled Surge: Record Highs, Big Risks, and Bold Predictions (Oct 2025 Update)

TSMC’s AI-Fueled Surge: Record Highs, Big Risks, and Bold Predictions (Oct 2025 Update)

TSMC is riding a wave of investor enthusiasm as of October 2025. Its Taipei-listed shares hit record highs this month – reaching NT$1,370 on Oct 2 ts2.tech – and the U.S. ADR likewise surged to all-time highs, briefly trading above $300. In fact, TSMC’s U.S. stock spiked to an intraday $307 on Oct 7 amid frenzied buying ts2.tech. Even after a bit of profit-taking, TSMC hovers around the mid-$290s per share as of Oct 11, reflecting a dramatic upswing from roughly ~$200 at the start of the year ts2.tech. Year-to-date, the stock has climbed on the order of 30–45% – vastly outperforming the broader market and semiconductor index. For context, TSMC’s Taipei shares are up 34% in 2025 vs ~18.5% for the Taiwan market reuters.com. This rally has elevated TSMC’s market capitalization to around US$1.1 trillion ts2.tech, cementing its status as one of the world’s most valuable tech companies.
11 October 2025
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Up 150% YTD: Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Rides the GaN Power Wave into AI’s Future

Up 150% YTD: Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Rides the GaN Power Wave into AI’s Future

Navitas Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2014 that specializes in next-generation power electronics. It pioneered the integration of gallium nitride transistors with drive, control, sensing, and protection circuits into single “GaNFast” power ICsnavitassemi.com. These GaN power chips switch much faster than traditional silicon, enabling smaller, more efficient chargers and power converters. Navitas’s technology can increase energy efficiency by up to 40% and switch speeds 100× faster than legacy silicon solutionsnavitassemi.com, allowing power systems to be significantly lighter and more compact.
10 October 2025
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Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Juggernaut vs AMD’s OpenAI Jackpot – Inside 2025’s Epic AI Stock Showdown

Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Juggernaut vs AMD’s OpenAI Jackpot – Inside 2025’s Epic AI Stock Showdown

After a turbulent 2024, both Nvidia and AMD have staged massive rallies in 2025 amid the AI frenzy. Nvidia’s share price has climbed roughly 30% year-to-datets2.tech, while AMD’s stock has risen a similar ~30% YTDts2.tech – and much more if measured from its early-2025 lows. In fact, AMD’s late surge in the first week of October pushed it to about +50–60% for the year overallts2.tech.
10 October 2025
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OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

OpenAI’s new partnership with AMD, announced on October 6, 2025, is staggering in scope – even by the outsized standards of the AI industry. OpenAI will buy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct data center GPUs over the next several years ts2.tech. To put that in perspective, 6 GW of computing is on the order of hundreds of thousands of high-end chips, enough to fill multiple giant data centers devoted entirely to artificial intelligence workloads ts2.tech. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said AMD will be a “core strategic compute partner” providing the massive capacity needed to scale future AI models ts2.tech.
8 October 2025
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Mystery $75M Bet Propels POET Technologies – Tiny Optical Chipmaker Rides AI Gold Rush

Mystery $75M Bet Propels POET Technologies – Tiny Optical Chipmaker Rides AI Gold Rush

POET’s $75 million capital raise – a non-brokered private placement of ~13.64 million shares – marks a major vote of confidence in the company’s technology ts2.tech. “This is the largest single investment in POET’s history,” noted CEO Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, adding it boosts POET’s balance sheet to $150 M+ cash and no debt ts2.tech ts2.tech. The deal was funded by a single institutional backer, sparking speculation of a potential strategic partner behind the scenes ts2.tech.
8 October 2025
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AAOI Soars in the Race for the AI‑Powered 800 Gbit Data Center: Can Applied Optoelectronics Keep Up?

AAOI Soars in the Race for the AI‑Powered 800 Gbit Data Center: Can Applied Optoelectronics Keep Up?

Applied Optoelectronics’ share price has been on a roller‑coaster ride in 2025. After rocketing from below US$10 early in the year to a high above US$44.50, the stock pulled back to the US$27–33 range by early October. The company’s beta of 2.91 and a one‑year return of 115.6 %, far exceeding the 17.3 % return of the S&P 500, underline both the stock’s explosive gains and elevated volatility Yahoo. Five‑year returns, however, are a more modest 195.7 % versus the index’s 100.8 % Yahoo, reflecting earlier under‑performance.
6 October 2025
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AMD’s Massive OpenAI Deal Shakes Up the AI Chip Race

AMD’s Massive OpenAI Deal Shakes Up the AI Chip Race

On October 6, 2025, OpenAI and AMD unveiled a blockbuster agreement that instantly reshaped the AI hardware landscape. OpenAI committed to purchase 6 gigawatts of AMD’s AI accelerators over multiple chip generationsir.amd.comreuters.com. For perspective, six gigawatts of computing is roughly the output of three Hoover Dams or the electricity used by 5 million U.S. householdsreuters.com. It reflects the sheer scale of compute that OpenAI believes it will need for training future models and serving users.
6 October 2025
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TSMC’s 2025 Crossroads: AI Boom, 2‑nm Chips and Geopolitical Headwinds – What It Means for Investors

TSMC’s 2025 Crossroads: AI Boom, 2‑nm Chips and Geopolitical Headwinds – What It Means for Investors

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is the world’s largest pure‑play foundry and a pillar of global supply chains. In late September and early October 2025, its stock and strategic decisions drew significant attention, reflecting booming demand for artificial‑intelligence chips, ambitious global expansion and mounting geopolitical risks.
6 October 2025
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Nvidia’s Meteoric October: $4 Trillion Milestone, Mega AI Deals, and Unstoppable Momentum

Nvidia’s Meteoric October: $4 Trillion Milestone, Mega AI Deals, and Unstoppable Momentum

Nvidia entered October 2025 riding an extraordinary financial high. The company’s Q2 FY2026 earnings showcased staggering growth: $46.7 billion in quarterly revenue – up 56% year-over-yearnvidianews.nvidia.com – with data center AI chip sales accounting for the vast majority. This marked one of the largest year-over-year quarterly jumps ever seen in the semiconductor industry, underscoring insatiable demand for Nvidia’s GPUs as the backbone of modern AI computing. “Blackwell is the AI platform the world has been waiting for, delivering an exceptional generational leap… demand is extraordinary,” CEO Jensen Huang said, referring to Nvidia’s latest chip architecture ramping at full speednvidianews.nvidia.com. The company’s margins swelled above 72%, and it aggressively returned cash to shareholders while authorizing an additional $60B repurchase programnvidianews.nvidia.com – a sign of confidence in its future.
5 October 2025
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