Market Vectors® Semiconductor ETF

AMD stock has a consensus rating of “hold” and an annual price target of $2.43. The most bullish estimate is $5.00. The most bearish estimate is $1.50.

PC gaming and accelerated computing played strong roles in the expansion of margins for Nvidia.

With the development of 7-nm chips, IBM has surpassed Intel, which is still working on 10-nm chips.

The United States is the biggest supplier and China is the biggest consumer of semiconductors in the world.

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.

October started with a sharp drop in the stock markets as the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 25 basis points to 2.25%.

Despite recent declines, the SMH ETF has risen over 41% in the last 12 months. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has risen a whopping 186.7% in the same period, while AMD has returned 15.5% in that period.

The semiconductor sector is set to report its weakest earnings in more than two years.

Applied Materials, the world’s largest chip manufacturing equipment vendor, reported strong fiscal Q3 2018 earnings but lowered its fiscal Q4 2018 guidance.

The companies were asked about the takeover premium and the background to the transaction on the conference call, but they refused to comment.

ADI’s Consumer segment is made up of its computing and mobile businesses, and Apple (AAPL) is its biggest customer.

Most semiconductors stocks had risen more than 2% as of midday today, with several factors having raised investors’ optimism about the sector’s growth.

Moore’s Law holds an important place in the semiconductor space. It’s a law that was based on an observation by Gordon Moore. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

Since GPUs are installed into every system or PC before they’re shipped, they indicate the PC market’s health. The Gaming PC segment requires higher-end GPUs.

NVIDIA and Applied Materials published their latest earnings results on August 16. Their weaker guidances have spooked investors.

Broadcom has been making many acquisitions in the software industry. The semiconductor giant seems to be drifting away from its core chip business.

Micron Technology (MU) reported impressive fiscal 2020 first-quarter earnings results on December 18 after the market bell.

AAPL and other tech stocks are trending! Let’s take a look at what drove revised price targets, downgrades, and upgrades for today’s top tech stocks.

Microchip stock rose in pre-market trading today after the company updated its financial guidance for the third quarter of fiscal 2020.

The market share for 3D NAND is expected to reach 20% in 2015, and this technology is expected to account for the majority of total flash shipments by 2017.

This year, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) have risen 19.2% and 35.5%, respectively. What’s driven this rally?

In August, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC) suggested that investors not buy just yet. Their opinions are now changing.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reportedly agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit related to the false advertising of its processors.

Gold hit a fresh six-year high on Friday as trade tensions between the US and China escalated. The SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) closed up 2%.

JPMorgan Chase suggests waiting until September before returning to stocks. The markets will likely make new all-time highs in the first half of 2020.

Technology IP (intellectual property) is the center of the US-China trade war.

China manufactures only 13% of the world’s ICs. The nation imports more than $200 billion in chips annually, which created an estimated annual trade deficit of $150 billion in 2014.

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.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock fell 9.4% in the week ended January 20, 2017. Shares of the firm have fallen 14% since the start of 2017 after an incredible run last year.

The overall DRAM market is slowing and despite this, Micron increased its exposure in this space from 54% in fiscal 2Q16 to 60% in fiscal 3Q16.

NVIDIA (NVDA), a popular name among PC gamers, made news at the GTC (GPU Technology Conference) 2016 from April 4 to 7, 2016.

Intel (INTC) completed its acquisition of Altera on December 28, 2015, for $16.7 billion. The Altera acquisition will make Intel the second largest semiconductor supplier after Texas Instruments.

Toshiba is looking to start an evaluation system for the CEO and president of the company, in which 120 senior managers will hold a vote of confidence in January 2016.

DDR4 (double data rate 4) has been consistently gaining market share in overall DRAM (dynamic random access memory) production.

Samsung’s market share for the quarter was 45.2%, a gain of 1.1 percentage point YoY compared to 2Q14. It was Samsung’s best ever quarterly performance.

Since 2014 when a slowdown in PC shipments hit its revenue, Intel has shifted its focus toward chips for smartphones and tablets.

Applied Materials’s management is hopeful that the Wafer Fab Equipment spending is expected to increase to 20% in fiscal 2014, with much higher spending in 2015.

Integrated device manufacturers and foundries use Applies Materials’s semiconductor manufacturing systems to build and package memory, logic, and chips.

In accordance with its mobile strategy in 2010, Intel acquired McAfee for ~ $7.7 billion. Intel acquired McAfee with the intent of integrating its security solutions into Intel-manufactured chips.