TSMC’s $100 Billion Investment In Advanced U.S. Chip Making

TSMC is injecting $100 billion into U.S. chip-making infrastructure, aiming to revolutionize the semiconductor landscape with new fabs and R&D facilities in Arizona. This monumental move is poised to attract tech giants and solidify America’s position in the global chip race.
Is This Huge Nvidia & Broadcom Customer a Buy In 2025?

Google’s gearing up to supercharge its cloud services with a colossal $75 billion investment in infrastructure for 2025, signaling lucrative times ahead for chipmakers like Nvidia and Broadcom. Even with a minor dip in growth pace, Google’s cloud remains a profit powerhouse, making Alphabet a stock worth watching.
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.
Too Late to Buy Netflix Stock In 2025?

Netflix stock soared 80% in 2024. Will it continue in 2025? Here are the key metrics to watch.
Will AI Eat Software Stocks? Salesforce’s AI Bets For 2025

Over on Semi Insider, and later in the video here https://youtu.be/aEcd5uVYkww, we discussed with our members some changes we made to our enterprise SaaS stock portfolio for 2025. This includes a small change with our long-time holding in Salesforce (CRM). Here are those research notes in blog form. Let’s get you up to speed if […]
CyberArk-Plus-Venafi — Adding A New Cybersecurity Leader to the Basket In 2025?

The following is a thread we posted last week on Semiconductor Insider. And for reference, this is a follow up to the video we did on CyberArk (CYBR) a couple months ago, as well as one back in spring 2024, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/KZNef6PbrBo https://youtu.be/DAjstoo-SK4 CyberArk vs. Okta — what’s the difference, in […]
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 […]
Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) Stock – More Patience Required From Investors

With Q1 fiscal 2025 earnings in hand (for the three months ended in August 2024), investors are feeling a bit more optimistic about Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) stock once again. We won’t spend a lot of time on that today. The market is particularly fickle on this one, likely reflecting the high amount of trader […]
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 […]