DeepSeek, the New AI Economy Is Totally Normal, and Risks For Chip Stocks Like Nvidia
The launch of DeepSeek’s models led to a “market meltdown” on January 27th, 2025, driven by uncertainty and heightened risk perception among investors. The article emphasizes the importance of measured, long-term investment strategies over knee-jerk reactions to market fluctuations.
Who Really Wins In the Legal Battle Between Arm & Qualcomm? Maybe Not Who You Think
Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) earnings were good, as per usual. Nothing we felt like we needed to specifically address. But there were some management comments made regarding an expanded relationship between Cadence and processor technology licensor and IP leader Arm Holdings (ARM). It seemed pertinent given Arm and Qualcomm‘s (QCOM) tit-for-tat legal battle. The court […]
Impinj PI Stock – Up 200% In A Year
We wanted to do a one-year-later review on Impinj (PI), but October came and went, and we ran out of time. Here’s our original article from October 2023: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/10/03/1-top-small-cap-chip-stock-that-could-be-poised/ Impinj is up some 200% since then! We didn’t buy (there was no room in our small-cap and small-bets basket), but maybe a few of you […]
A Pure-Play Bet On Nvidia Blackwell Growth? Astera Labs Deep Dive
We’re coming up on the six-month-anniversary of Astera Labs’ (ALAB) initial public offering (which occurred in March 2024, if you’re reading/watching this installment later than September). Since Chip Stock Investor has yet to do a deep dive (the CSI way is to let the dust settle on hot IPOs for at least six to 12 […]
AMD AI Is Not the Same As Nvidia AI, and That’s OK For Chip Stock Investors
Lot’s of wild volatility in July, and it’s continued in August. Chip stocks got hit especially hard, some of them even after posting solid earnings. And so we’re going to revamp our thesis that we started on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) late last year: AMD AI is never going to create an “Nvidia moment,” but […]
The TRUTH About the AI Bubble, Alphabet GOOGL Stock, and What It Means For Nvidia
Chatter about the “AI bubble” continues, and what it all means for Nvidia’s (NVDA) meteoric rise to one of the world’s most valuable and important companies. Meanwhile, Alphabet (GOOGL/GOOG) – a top Nvidia customer – just had its Q2 2024 financial update. AI made a nearly every-other-sentence appearance on the earnings conference call. There’s serious […]
Nvidia vs Arista Networks: Ethernet, InfiniBand, and the AI Battle
Rosenblatt Securities analysts “double downgraded” Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) in April 2024 from a buy with stock price target of $330, to a sell with price target of $210, on rising competition from Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). In the wake of this, there have been some highly unqualified opinions on what’s happening, and some atrocious “reporting” that is […]
Qualcomm Vs. Apple: Will History Be Changed As Two New Chips Target The Laptop Market Giants
A new competition is unfolding in the laptop arena. Apple (AAPL) unveiled its latest chip, the M3. Qualcomm (QCOM) is readying its Snapdragon X Elite, a rival to the dominant X86 processors, in mid-2024. Before delving into the latest advancements, let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. Our previous videos on Moore’s Law (linked […]