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Chinese authorities have imposed new barriers on Western Digital’s Sandisk unit, adding fresh constraints on its China operations in 2026. These measures come as China ramps up state-backed initiatives and competitive efforts that weigh on foreign chipmakers’ supply chains and market access. The developments coincide with a wider chip sector selloff that has pushed the Nasdaq 100 into correction territory. Western Digital, traded as NasdaqGS:WDC, sits at the crossroads of flash storage,...
Seagate Technology stock jumped late Tuesday after the hard-disk drive maker reported quarterly results that beat expectations. A recent pullback for top performing AI stocks was weighing on Seagate's shares coming into the report. The results represent Seagate's fiscal fourth quarter.
Seagate Technology topped Wall Street’s earnings and revenue estimates and issued stronger-than-expected guidance as demand for AI-related data storage continued to surge.
The Dow left the Nasdaq in the dust again on Tuesday. The Nasdaq fell 0.2%. The Dow was led by a wave of strong earnings performances including Sherwin-Williams, but a majority of S&P 500 stocks were up all day.
Sandisk and Western Digital are outpacing NVIDIA as AI demand boosts memory and storage growth. See what's fueling their momentum.
Micron stock was among the sharpest fallers Tuesday after being spared the worst of the selling in the previous session. Micron stock was down 9% by midafternoon, while Sandisk Western Digital and Advanced Micro Devices were down around 15%, 8.2%, and 7.9%, respectively. The Nasdaq Composite was mostly flat despite the chaos.
Seagate Technology (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) supply high-capacity hard drives used by cloud providers to store the growing volumes of data produced by artificial intelligence workloads. The companies have become two of the market’s most closely watched AI infrastructure stocks as hyperscalers ...
Columbia Threadneedle Investments, an investment management company, released its “Columbia Seligman Global Technology Fund” second quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. During the quarter, the Fund’s Institutional Class shares returned 50.34%, outperforming the MSCI World Information Technology Index’s 33.65% gain. Stock selection in semiconductors, technology hardware and software, […]
Memory stocks are cratering for the second straight session with no company-specific bombshell to blame, and Big Tech earnings due Wednesday could either end the pain fast or send the group into a deeper spiral.
Wall Street is heading for another mixed session on Tuesday, with blue-chip gains offset by concerns about AI spending and Chinese competition weighing on some technology stocks. Dow Jones futures were up 317 points, or 0.6%, but the Nasdaq has been called 1% lower, with S&P 500 futures...
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Kioxia got destroyed overnight in Asia, and the shockwave hit US memory and storage stocks hard in premarket trading Tuesday. Three overlapping catalysts are forcing traders to rethink whether the AI memory trade was built on shakier ground than anyone admitted.
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Investing.com -- U.S. chip stocks extended losses in premarket trading Tuesday, building on Monday’s declines after a broad selloff swept through Asian semiconductor names overnight as investors pulled back from AI-linked stocks amid growing worries about how the industry’s infrastructure buildout is being financed and rising competitive pressure from China.
Memory and storage stocks came under pressure on July 27 after China’s leading semiconductor manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), delivered a blockbuster Shanghai stock market debut to surpass a $500 billion valuation. Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) shares fell 5%, Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) declined around 12%, while Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) also traded sharply lower on […]
SIMO is set to report Q2 earnings with rising estimates, a modest surprise track record and growing enterprise and embedded storage momentum.
In recent days, Western Digital reported strong fiscal third-quarter results powered by cloud demand tied to AI-related products, while investors broadly rotated back into higher‑risk technology names. Beyond the near-term optimism, Western Digital’s improved operating margins, stronger free cash flow, and growing AI-focused cloud revenue have become central to how investors assess its longer-term potential and risks. Now we’ll examine how this renewed focus on AI-driven cloud demand and...
FEATURE China threw up a couple of roadblocks for chips stocks Monday, forcing Sandisk ASML Holding and a host of others into the ditch. The obstacles: a massive Chinese IPO and a state-backed company’s mass production of chip-making machines.
The AI memory supercycle has emerged as one of 2026’s most defining stories, and also one of its most contested. Hyperscaler capital expenditure is expected to reach $750 billion this year, with Goldman Sachs forecasting $7.6 trillion in total AI infrastructure spending through 2031, resulting in a supply shortage of NAND and DRAM memory as […]
China's CXMT just pulled off one of the most explosive stock market debuts in history, and memory giants with triple-digit gains on the books are now facing a sector-wide reckoning that could upend the entire bull case for DRAM and NAND.
While strong cash flow is a key indicator of stability, it doesn’t always translate to superior returns. Some cash-heavy businesses struggle with inefficient spending, slowing demand, or weak competitive positioning.
American Superconductor heads into Q1 results with revenue growth expected, driven by Grid demand, data centers and Comtrafo business integration gains.