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Cadence Stock Rises After Hours: Beat-and-Raise Quarter, Record Backlog and a New AI Design Launch

2026-10-26

The short answer: Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS) stock rose more than 2% in after-hours trading on Monday, October 26, 2026, after the chip-design software company beat third-quarter estimat...

SK Hynix May Hand Shareholders $12 Billion: Inside the Reported 16 Trillion Won Special Dividend From Its Kioxia Windfall

2026-10-25

The short answer: SK Hynix is reportedly preparing a special dividend of about 16 trillion won — roughly $12 billion — paid out of the gains from selling down its stake in Japanese memory-chip make...

They Bought the Dip With 3x Leverage — Then the Dip Kept Dipping: SOXL's Record $6.1 Billion Bet Is Down 43% in October

2026-10-24

Investors poured a record $6.1 billion into SOXL last week, betting that beaten-down chip stocks were about to bounce. Instead the dip kept dipping: the 3x leveraged semiconductor ETF fell another...

Chip Stocks Just Had Their Worst Day Since June — The Meta Shock That Sparked a Global AI Selloff

2026-10-23

Chip stocks just suffered their worst day since June. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged 6.7% on Thursday, October 22, as investors abruptly turned on the artificial intelligence trade af...

Texas Instruments Just Gave Chip Stocks a Clean Signal: $6.06B Quarter, Guidance Above Wall Street, and a Dividend Hike

2026-10-21

Texas Instruments beat Q3 on both lines — and guided Q4 above Wall Street Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) reported third-quarter revenue of $6.06 billion, up 28% from a year earlier, and earnings o...

Record Revenue, Falling Stock: Lam Research Beats Earnings — and Drops 6% After Hours

2026-10-21

Lam Research just posted record numbers — and investors sold anyway Direct answer: Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX) reported record revenue of $8.22 billion and adjusted earnings of $2.20 a share for it...