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Fed Chair Jerome Powell likely has something to do with stock futures and tech stocks dropping, but why? Will tech stocks rebound?

Calendar 2017 was a turnaround year for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as it moved from losses to profits.

Broadcom’s profitability In the previous part of this series, we saw that Broadcom (AVGO) is likely to witness seasonal revenue decline as demand in its wireless segment, its second largest, falls. While revenue depends significantly on external factors such as customer demand, the pricing environment, and competition, profitability depends on internal factors such as cost control and product […]

AMD stock has hit a 12-year high, rising 182% year-to-date. In contrast, the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) has risen 6.7% YTD.

Walmart (WMT) is editing its corporate name. The retailer wants to be known simply as Walmart Inc., not Wal-Mart Store Inc. as it is currently legally known.

In the cloud computing industry, Google is behind market leaders Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) and it is trying many strategies to bolster its position.

Groupon (GRPN), eBay (EBAY), Baidu (BIDU), Square (SQ), and Twitter (TWTR) have the highest debt-to-equity ratios among industry players.

While smartphone makers such as Apple, Huawei, and LG are already shipping handsets featuring dual cameras on the back, Samsung has been conspicuously missing in that space.

Yesterday, Goldman Sachs’ strategist warned of high volatility in October. Based on Goldman Sachs’ data, since 1928 volatility in October is 25% higher.

AMD’s Computing and Graphics revenue has risen in the double digits on a YoY (year-over-year) basis from fiscal 2Q16 when AMD launched its first Polaris GPU.

On January 25, six out of the S&P 500’s 11 major sectors moved higher. Strength in the utilities and health care sectors pushed the market higher.

For fiscal 2Q18, Micron expects to improve its gross margin to 56.0% at the midpoint.

This would be the first time since 1980 that AMD and Intel have entered into a strategic business collaboration to develop products.

AI city NVIDIA (NVDA) is looking to expand the application of AI (artificial intelligence) and put it at the core of the future data-centric economy. The company is thus exploring the possibility of using AI in city management. In May 2017, it announced its Metropolis Edge-to-Cloud platform, which is a compilation of several hardware products—like Jetson, […]

AMD is barely breaking even because of its high operating expenses and high leverage. However, the company is currently in the midst of multiple product launches in various markets.

The performance of SME suppliers is a bellwether for the overall semiconductor industry’s outlook because these serve foundries and IDMs.

AMAT expects demand for OLED displays to remain high for the coming few years as the market faces a supply shortage.

PayPal (PYPL) processed $99.3 billion in payment volumes in 1Q17, up 23% year-over-year.

For the last two years, Micron reduced its DRAM production cost 15.0%–25.0% by transitioning to a 20 nm node and starting mass production of the 1X node.

Broadcom (AVGO) is bidding for Toshiba’s (TOSBF) NAND (negative-AND) Flash business in order to expand in the network storage market.

Applied Materials’ Applied Global Services segment Applied Materials’ (AMAT) Semiconductor Systems segment has seen strong growth as chipmakers transition to new material-intensive 3D NAND technology and 10-nm (nanometer) and 8-nm process nodes. The chipmakers may take some time to ramp up new technology and improve yield rates. Applied Materials’ AGS (Applied Global Services) team works in sync with […]

Intel’s (INTC) gross margin hasn’t improved much over the last two years because it’s been manufacturing chips on the same 14nm (nanometer) node since 2014.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is looking to improve its gross margin by entering the high-end market and ramping up Global Foundries’ (or GF) 14nm (nanometer) process node.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is growing beyond the game console market toward PC (personal computers), virtual reality, and data center technology with its new Ryzen CPUs.

Cypress Semiconductor (CY) aims to increase its gross margin from 40.0% currently to 43.0% by fiscal 4Q17 and 47.9% by fiscal 4Q18.

The emergence of the data economy is creating new growth drivers for Micron Technology (MU) in every end market.

Intel (INTC) missed out on the mobile revolution, so now it’s trying to catch up, investing in areas such as autonomous cars and artificial intelligence.