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Micron Technology, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Broadcom are all major players in the AI realm.

Investors have faith that a US-Iran peace deal could be within reach even as oil prices climb

This semiconductor company remains deeply embedded in the AI supply chain.

A WSJ columnist says Nvidia is a bargain even at $5.4 trillion. Polymarket traders aren't so sure, pricing real risk into the AI bellwether's year-end reign.

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FEATURE Stock futures pointed higher Friday as investors remained cautiously optimistic a deal to end the stalemate between the U.S. and Iran could be reached. These stocks were moving in premarket trading: Estee Lauder rose 10%.

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Shares of computer processor maker Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) jumped 5.4% in the afternoon session after the stock continued to rally following news of a preliminary chip-making deal with Apple, a significant analyst price target increase, and reports of potential acquisition talks.

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Walmart confirmed to CNBC it has sought a tariff refund and plans to use any money it receives back to invest in lower prices for shoppers.

As the AI trade broadens, investors rotate from Taiwan Semiconductor to emerging winners like MediaTek and Samsung.

Google partners with Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster for new Android XR glasses to challenge Meta's market lead.

Europe's push to curb its dependence on U.S. payments giants Visa and Mastercard has driven a wedge between the European Central Bank and financial firms keen to shield revenues, hobbling efforts to build a home-grown system, several people involved said. A surge in cashless payments since the COVID-19 ‌pandemic has increased the euro zone's reliance on U.S. firms, which handle nearly two thirds of card payments in the bloc. European policymakers have made payments sovereignty a strategic priority, as a fragmenting global order raises the risk of access to payments systems being weaponised and new forms of money challenge the euro's role.

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Advanced ‌Micro Devices ‌CEO Lisa ​Su said on Friday in Taipei ‌that ⁠the company was asking ⁠its partners to ​ramp ​up ​production given ‌strong demand for AI. AMD is a major customer ‌of ​TSMC, ​the ​world's ‌largest contract chipmaker. (Reporting ​by ​Wen-Yee Lee; Writing ​by ‌Ben Blanchard; Editing ​by Jacqueline ​Wong)

Major U.S. markets look set to end the week in the green despite a rocky start to the week's trade with bond market jitters still a concern.

Despite Lenovo's record $83 billion in revenues and a 26-year stock high, Counterpoint Research's Ivan Lam warns that surging memory costs remain the key risk ahead, which may squeeze margins and force price hikes that could dampen consumer demand, just as Lenovo pushes for $100 billion in two years.

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Nvidia (NVDA) started as a video game chipmaker. It invented the term Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Used the crypto boom to its advantage. And it is now the king of AI, thanks to its CUDA software moat. The stock is down 2.34% at $218.23 at the time of writing, Thursday morning, May 21, according ...

The Trump administration paused a $14 billion Taiwan arms sale over U.S. munitions concerns tied to the Iran conflict.

Apple asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review a lower court ruling that held ‌the iPhone maker in civil contempt over fees it was charging on ‌some outside purchases made by customers of its App Store. The petition to the Supreme Court escalates ​a years-long legal battle with “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games, which sued Apple in 2020 seeking to loosen its control over transactions in applications that use the company's iOS operating system and its restrictions on how apps are distributed to ‌consumers. A judge mostly dismissed Epic's ⁠lawsuit but issued an injunction in 2021 requiring Apple to let developers include links in their apps directing users to non-Apple ⁠payment methods.

Global markets rally as investors continue to price in Middle East de-escalation.

Large online streaming services must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content, the country's federal broadcast regulator said Thursday. The CRTC made the decision as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which the U.S. has identified as a trade irritant ahead of trade negotiations with Canada. “The total contributions are expected to stabilize the funding at more than $2 billion in support of Canadian and Indigenous content, such as French-language content and news,” the regulator said in a press release.

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Boosted by accelerating first-quarter earnings and sales, Amazon stock has bounced back into buy range while flashing telltale clues.

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Amkor Technology is working with Advanced Micro Devices on packaging AMD's chips, ‌Amkor said on Thursday. Earlier this week, Amkor said it ‌had secured 67 additional acres of land in Arizona next to a 104-acre ​parcel where it is developing a new campus where it plans to start production in 2028. Modern data center chips such as those from AMD and Nvidia consist of multiple chips packaged together, and ‌those packaging steps have ⁠become a key bottleneck in chip production.