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Texas Instruments recently approved a 7% increase in its quarterly cash dividend to US$1.52 per share, or US$6.08 annualized, payable on November 10, 2026 to shareholders of record on October 30, 2026, marking 23 consecutive years of dividend raises. This latest dividend hike underscores management’s emphasis on returning all free cash flow to shareholders over time, reinforcing Texas Instruments’ identity as a cash-generative analog and embedded semiconductor producer with a long-running...

ON Semiconductor (ON) and Micron Technology (MU) are owned for the same reason. AI data centers need more silicon than the industry can make, and both sell into that shortage. The resemblance stops there. Micron has signed part of its peak pricing into multiyear contracts. ON Semiconductor is climbing out of a trough, still rationing parts between its AI customers and its car customers. Same shortage, opposite ends of a cycle.

Applied Materials (AMAT) trades at about $472 today. Over roughly the coming twelve months, the options market prices a two-thirds-likely band for the stock, from a floor near $270 to a ceiling near $827. That band is the number a holder should be working with. It prices how far the stock can travel, never which way.

Texas Instruments and Broadcom both raise their dividends every year, but the gap between their yields and growth trajectories forces a choice that retirement investors rarely think through carefully enough.

Corning, Cisco Systems, and Texas Instruments are repositioning around AI infrastructure needs, showing earnings growth, steady margins, dividends, and Moderate Buy analyst ratings with notable upside targets.

MCHP gains 17% YTD as demand, inventory normalization and data-center growth improve, but supply, debt and valuation risks remain.

TXN pairs broad chip-demand recovery, margin expansion and strong cash flow with a lower P/S multiple than fast-growing, loss-making CBRS.

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Qualcomm (QCOM) stock is up about 37% over the past six months, even after falling 21% over the past three. The case for the next leg rests outside phones, where management expects growth fast enough to cover a shrinking Apple business. The first real test arrives in the December quarter, when management expects its two custom data center wins to start producing revenue.

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The Philadelphia semiconductor index, known as SOX, rose for a fourth consecutive day on Friday, with a new batch of chip stocks leading the charge.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is down by -0.11% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.39%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.09%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are down -0.15%, and December E-mini...

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ON Semiconductor (ON) stock trades near $67, about 50% below its 52-week high. It lost 43.7% over the trailing three months, ending with a 9.0% fall on September 16. Yet it is still up 38.4% over the trailing twelve months, against 15.5% for the S&P 500. The company's latest results show a business still shrinking but recovering, not one in trouble.

Texas Instruments (TXN) slipped 1.07% in the latest session, trailing broader indices as attention shifts to its next earnings report and what it might reveal about demand across industrial, automotive, and data center markets. Over the past few months, momentum in Texas Instruments has cooled, with the share price down 7.86% over 30 days and 19.26% over 90 days, even though the year-to-date share price return of 46.84% and 1-year total shareholder return of 48.32% still reflect a strong...

Microchip Technology expands its edge-AI push as AnalogAI adopts SST's memBrain SAGE IP for ultra-low-power processors in robots, drones and vehicles.

On August 11, Silicon Labs (NASDAQ:SLAB) reported second-quarter results for the period ended July 4, posting revenue of $228 million, up 18% from a year earlier. The wireless chip maker swung from a wide non-GAAP loss to $0.71 in non-GAAP earnings per share, a jump of 545% over the same quarter last year. That combination […]

Texas Instruments (TXN) closed the most recent trading day at $260.62, moving 1.07% from the previous trading session.

Applied Materials (AMAT) has fallen about 21% from its August high, and the question is whether to buy it. Its own history says dips this size have usually been worth buying, and its valuation argues the other way. The history is specific, so start there.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.18% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.68%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.29%, and September E-mini...

Texas Instruments' data center sales double in Q2'26 as AI spending, rising chip content and capacity support growth.

NVIDIA, Texas, STMicroelectronics and Intel have been highlighted in this Industry Outlook article.

Qualcomm (QCOM) stock rose 40% between mid-March and mid-September 2026, from near the bottom of its 52-week range, while the S&P 500 gained 15.5%. The market was paying for a data center business moving from talks to purchase orders. That timeline had already been public and had moved earlier, across three quarterly reports.

Applied Materials (AMAT) stock fell 7.1% in its latest session, to about $424. It sits 41% below the high it set within the past year, after a twelve-month run in which it returned 151% against 17% for the S&P 500. It did not fall on a bad quarter, and that is what makes the next leg hard to size.

Semiconductors are the core infrastructure powering the Information Age. The amount of data we ingest is also increasing exponentially, leading to elevated demand for chips with more processing power. This secular trend bodes well for the industry, which has posted a six-month gain of 51.8% and beaten the S&P 500 by 38.5 percentage points.

A static dividend yield quietly loses ground every month inflation climbs, but five companies have been raising their payouts fast enough to fight back. The question is which ones have the cash flow to keep doing it.

A number of stocks jumped in the morning session after macroeconomic relief from declining Treasury yields and lower oil prices, coupled with robust artificial intelligence demand projections, boosted sentiment across the chip industry.

Qualcomm (QCOM) grew revenue just 1.9% over the last twelve months, against a compound pace of about 6.2% a year over five years and 4.5% over three. The quarterly path is worse. Across the last four quarters, year-over-year growth slid from 10.0% to 5.0%, then to declines of 3.5% and 4.0%. That turn to shrinking quarterly sales is the risk to weigh.

Qualcomm's handset business is shrinking while its automotive and data center ambitions are scaling fast, and the tension between those two forces will determine whether the stock revisits its highs or stalls out entirely.