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Qualcomm agreed to acquire the AI software company Modular for about $3.9 billion, in a bid to make artificial intelligence faster and cheaper for its customers.
Investors are looking forward to another week of chip-stock reveals. Qualcomm has its investor conference, and Micron reports earnings a day after a sharp decline in its stock. The Federal Reserve meanwhile will get another data point on the inflation picture, with the PCE (price consumption expenditures) index.
Qualcomm is in talks to provide chip-design services to China's ByteDance, four people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. company seeks to reduce dependence on the smartphone market, its biggest revenue source. If successful, the negotiations would make ByteDance, the parent of short-video platform TikTok, an early customer of Qualcomm's chip-design services operation. Qualcomm is the world's largest supplier of smartphone modem chips, which manage cellular communications.
Investing.com -- Bank of America has raised its price target on Qualcomm (QCOM) from $165 to $195, though the firm is maintaining its "Underperform" rating ahead of the company’s Investor Day on Wednesday, June 24. The revised target is the result of BofA rolling its valuation forward to calendar year (CY) 2028 estimates, applying a 15x price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple. The bank’s underlying financial estimates remain unchanged, which includes projecting roughly $2.5 billion in CY 2028 AI revenu
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Investors are looking forward to another week of chip stock reveals. Qualcomm is expected to give more details about its business at its investor conference. Micron, the latest trillion-dollar semiconductor company, reports earnings, as do FedEx, Cerebras and Carnival.
Qualcomm is reportedly closing in on a multi-billion-dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Modular as part of an aggressive strategic shift to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI infrastructure market.
Qualcomm is in advanced discussions to acquire Modular Inc in a transaction valuing the AI chip company at about $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. A global supplier of smartphone chips, Qualcomm has been working to reduce its reliance on the volatile handset market by branching out into fast-growing areas like data center processors and autonomous vehicle chips. • A deal could be announced in the coming weeks, though talks could still fall through or the details could change, Bloomberg said.
(Bloomberg) -- Qualcomm Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire Modular Inc. in a transaction valuing the artificial intelligence chip startup at about $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergIran Says Hormuz Closed Again as Talks With US Set to OpenUS and Iran Make ‘Progress’ in Talks, Aim to Keep Hormuz OpenStocks Fall as SpaceX’s Rout Offsets US-Iran Hopes: Markets WrapMeta Taps New WhatsApp Boss as Part of $900 Million InvestmentSpaceX Falls for Third Da
Investors are looking forward to another week of chip stock reveals. Qualcomm is expected to give more details about its contract with a major data-center customer at its investor conference. Micron, the latest trillion-dollar semiconductor company, reports earnings.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Thursday closed up +1.08%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +2.48%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +1.15%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.15%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.30%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.17%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
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Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC this week that AI agents will displace apps as the primary way consumers interact with their devices. That is not a modest claim. It puts Qualcomm in direct opposition to the app store model that has defined mobile computing for nearly two decades. Amon ...
Bernstein maintained its Market-Perform rating on Qualcomm following the report, making no changes to its financial model. Rasgon wrote: "We make no changes to our model at this time, and await any further newsflow that might be forthcoming into the company's analyst day in a couple of weeks. We rate Qualcomm Market-Perform."
Smartphone exposure haunts the stock despite diversifying into cars and data centers.
It’s far from certain that Qualcomm can become a force in the data-center chip business. Qualcomm’s share price has surged more than 40% since the company disclosed a major data-center customer during its last earnings call in late April. Qualcomm’s stock has returned an anemic 5% over the past two years even with the recent jump.
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At $342.23, Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) appears fairly valued, with a more attractive entry point sitting at or below $310 on any macro-driven technical consolidation. The stock has become the cleanest pure-play on agentic AI infrastructure, but the round trip from $100 to $428 and back to the mid-$300s in six months argues for patience over ... Buy, Hold, or Sell: Arm Holdings Shed 25% to Clear the Air as the Warsh Fed Digs In. Is It a Buy at $342?
Investing.com -- Bank of America has raised its 2030 server CPU total addressable market estimate to more than $170 billion from $125 billion, arguing that agentic AI is driving a near-fivefold expansion in CPU demand and lifting price objectives across several semiconductor names.
Germany’s Neura Robotics said it secured up to $1.4 billion in funding to build a physical artificial intelligence platform, backed by Amazon Nvidia and the European Investment Bank. The robotics company on Wednesday said the funding aims to scale production to several million robots by 2030 as demand for physical AI expands across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and consumer applications. The company, which reports an order backlog exceeding $1 billion, said it received backing from technology and financial players, including Tether, Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank.
U. S. equity futures traded lower on Wednesday as investors assessed renewed military action between the United States and Iran while awaiting a closely watched inflation report and quarterly results from software giant Oracle (NYSE:ORCL).
Investing.com -- Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) shares climbed 2% in after-hours trading on Monday following comments from NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang recommending investors purchase the chipmaker's stock.
The selling in computer-chip and hardware manufacturers is getting ugly this afternoon after Broadcom's forecast disappointed late Wednesday. Higher bond yields, which decrease the value Wall Street assigns to companies projecting high profits far into the future, aren't helping either.
Major stock indexes fell sharply after a strong jobs report set the stage for the Federal Reserve to hike rates.
Qualcomm's stock was under pressure on June 1 after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise move that rattled the PC chip market. At Taiwan's annual Computex conference, Huang shared that Nvidia (NVDA) is entering the personal computer processor market with a new chip developed in partnership with ...
Microsoft will hold its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, where the company is expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software for PCs and the cloud. In a keynote address in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete both in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped Microsoft's longtime rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools are also risky for most businesses to use.
By Medha Singh and Twesha Dikshit June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures climbed on Monday, supported by gains in Nvidia and Microsoft following their latest AI initiatives as investors looked
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