Intel reaches $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor

Intel Corp. on Tuesday struck a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor, as it seeks to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. Intel INTC, -0.10% said it’s paying $53 per share in cash for Tower...

Nvidia’s AI Innovation Should Push Stock Higher: Analysts

Text size Chip maker Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence. Dreamstime Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence—in cash and culture—and those expenditures should drive u...

10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now

So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...

George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake

Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...

Nvidia, Walmart, Airbnb, Shopify, Marriott, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s another busy week of fourth-quarter earnings reports, with close to 60 S&P 500 components scheduled to present to investors. Advance Auto Parts and Vornado Realty Trust w...

Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares

Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth

Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

The Chip Shortage Has Made These 4 Stocks a Buy

Text size GlobalFoundries, which makes basic chips for everything from cars and phones to toys and power tools, says chip capacity is growing at half the needed pace. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomber...

AMD Stock Sees Steep Drop Ahead of Xilinx Acquisition

Text size This week, AMD stock saw its biggest two-day decline since October 2018. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Advanced Micro Devices stock has come under severe selling pressure just ahead of the com...

AMD Stock Is Down This Year. Why the Dip Is an Opportunity to Buy.

Text size AMD stock has taken a beating, along with shares of other tech companies. Courtesy AMD Advanced Micro Devices stock looks more attractive following upbeat earnings and a lower share price, m...

Micron, Western Digital Shares Are Surging. Flash-Chip Issues Will Lift Prices.

Text size Western Digital is having production issues at two factories in Japan. Dreamstime Western Digital and Micron Technology shares are both trading sharply higher Thursday on news that flash-mem...

Enphase Energy Stock Jumps. It Has Solved the Solar Supply-Chain Problem.

Text size A general view of solar modules Feng Li/Getty Images Enphase Energy shares were rising sharply Wednesday after the solar energy company’s quarterly earnings and first-quarter guidance barrel...

Enphase Energy’s Earnings and Guidance Top Estimates. The Stock Is Soaring.

Text size A general view of solar modules Feng Li/Getty Images Enphase Energy shares were soaring Wednesday after the solar energy company’s quarterly earnings and first-quarter guidance barreled past...

Nvidia Stock Is in a Bear Market. It’s Time to Buy the Highflying Chip Maker.

Nvidia stock has gotten hit hard. One investor explains why it may be time to buy. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Nvidia (NVDA) stock, like many tech shares, has tumbled from its 2021 high. But...

Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It’s Not a Surprise.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidia fell in premarket trading Tuesday after the graphics chipmaker and Japan’s SoftBank agreed to call off Nvidia’s deal to buy microprocessor desig...

Taiwan Semi Stock Is Rising. An Analyst Sees More Demand From Intel and Apple.

Text size Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Chan upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor to Overweight from Equal Weight. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares are trading higher Monday, ...

Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report

Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...

Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time

Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Giant Pension Sold Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm Stock. It Bought Nvidia.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Apple logo Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images One of the world’s largest public pensions by assets made major changes in its investments in large-cap tech stocks a...

Rising Battery Prices Add Uncertainty to Electric-Vehicle Costs

Surging prices for the metals that make up electric-vehicle batteries have ended a decadelong decline that brought the cost of EVs to within spitting distance of gasoline-powered vehicles. Newsletter ...

Knightscope Stock—Like Its Security Robots—Has Its Ups and Downs

Text size Knightscope’s robots—and shares—have had their ups and downs. Dreamstime Knightscope is a tiny firm that’s familiar to many investors, if only from news reports about its “autonomous securit...

Bitcoin Might Be Rallying but a ‘Crypto Winter’ Could Freeze Nvidia’s Stock

Text size Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptos bounced sharply on Friday with the world’s largest digital currency rallying above $40,000 for the first time in two weeks. But one analyst is warning of...

AT&T’s Dividend Cut Puts It in an Unenviable Club

A company cutting its dividend after a spinoff is uncommon, but not unprecedented. The longer-term outcomes can vary markedly. AT&T (ticker: T) joined this club on Tuesday, when it said it expects...

Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?

Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...

Opinion: Biden borrows too much, while America’s economy hollows out

It’s easy to be distracted by Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and the Federal Reserve’s new war on inflation but as the economy recovers from the delta and omicron variants, difficult post-pandemic c...

Qualcomm stock slips following strong earnings and outlook

Qualcomm Inc. shares slipped in the extended session Wednesday as the chip maker’s quarterly results and outlook topped Wall Street estimates, but certain business segments fell short of expectations....

AMD Reports Earnings This Afternoon. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size An AMD processor. Growth in demand for chips used in PCs is expected to slow, while analysts are upbeat about the outlook for servers. Dreamstime While the recent downdraft in high-price tec...

NXP Semiconductors’ stock volatile as revenue, outlook exceed Street expectations

NXP Semiconductors NV shares were volatile in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s quarterly revenue results and forecast exceeded Wall Street expectations. NXP NXPI, +8.44% shares, whic...