U.S. chipmaker Intel was once dominant, now struggles to stay relevant

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Seth Wenig | AP Intel’s long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares down 10% on Friday to their lowest level of the … Read more

South Korea GDP, Malaysia CPI, BOJ MPM meeting

Commercial and residential buildings seen from the rooftop of the Lotte Corp. World Tower at sunset in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets took a breather after two straight days of rallies, mirroring moves on Wall Street ahead of first-quarter gross domestic product figures from … Read more

ASML earnings drag semiconductor stocks lower

Workers at Carl Zeiss ZMT are seen outside giant vacuum chambers where optical systems for ASML’s new High NA EUV tool are tested. ASML Chip stocks fell on Wednesday after ASML, a key developer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, said that bookings fell by 61% sequentially during the first quarter, a steeper drop than investors had … Read more

Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI chip as Nvidia competition heats up

Pat Gelsinger, CEO Intel, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chip, called Gaudi 3, as chipmakers rush to produce semiconductors that can train and deploy big AI models, such as the one underpinning … Read more

Google unveils Axion Arm-based chips for energy-efficient computing

Google is trying to make cloud computing more affordable with a custom-built Arm-based server chip. At its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Monday, the company said the new processor will become available later in 2024. With the new Arm-based chip, Google is playing catch-up with rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft, which have … Read more

(RDDT) starts trading on NYSE

Reddit shares jumped as much as 70% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. … Read more

Amazon gets boost from 72% pop in AI company Astera Labs’ IPO

In this photo illustration, Astera Labs logo is seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen.  Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy loves to talk about how much his company is benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom. On Wednesday, Amazon got an AI boost in a … Read more

Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Friday

My top 10 things to watch on Friday, March 8 1. U.S. job growth topped expectations — with payrolls increasing by 275,000 vs. expectations of growing 198,000 — but the unemployment rate rose to 3.9%. Growth from the previous two months was also revised lower, not nearly as hot as initially reported. Wages flat. 2. … Read more

Chip stocks soar — plus, this lagging industrial is due for a catch-up trade

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) Powell speaks: Two days of testimony from … Read more

FTC Chair Lina Khan takes victory lap on blocking Nvidia-Arm merger

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook Summit in New York City on Nov. 29, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan cited the surging stock prices of Nvidia and Arm as an example of how blocking mergers can lead to increased … Read more