
Applied Materials Falls 7% as AI Stocks Hit Chip Tools
Applied Materials (AMAT) fell 7% for a sixth day as Lam Research and KLA lost 4%, with profit-taking and no WFE forecast hitting AI stocks in chip equipment.
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Applied Materials (AMAT) fell 7% for a sixth day as Lam Research and KLA lost 4%, with profit-taking and no WFE forecast hitting AI stocks in chip equipment.

ASML posted record Q3 2026 sales of €11.7 billion and said EUV supply for 2027 and 2028 will trail customer demand, yet its shares fell in New York trading.

The FBI arrested a Saudi national and OpenAI engineer on Oct. 9 for allegedly planting a covert recording device in a San Francisco executive conference room.

Fermi (FRMI) shares rose about 14% after AMD agreed to provide credit support for the 222 MW Phase 1 of Project Matador, its AI power campus in Texas.

Apple stock reached a record high near $347 and a $5 trillion market cap after the $299 HomeView launch, a HomePod mini refresh and a JPMorgan target hike.

Western Digital (WDC) fell 7.7% and Seagate (STX) 7.3% as memory stocks sold off and UBS cut its WDC price target to $470 from $525 on supply concerns.

Taiwan's September exports jumped 60.9% to a record $87.22 billion on AI server demand, with US shipments up 106% and growth set to continue in October.

SoftBank fell about 8.8% and Japan's Nikkei 2.6% on Oct. 13 as an AI stocks selloff spread across Asia on worries over AI financing and chip competition.

Micron Technology stock fell about 4% and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index lost 2.7% after CXMT flagged a denser 4F² DRAM chip design aimed at servers.

Microsoft's Maia 300 chip promises about 40% more output per unit of power than leading GPU systems, pressuring Nvidia and AI stocks as 2027 deployment nears.

IonQ (IONQ) fell more than 8% after agreeing to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock, putting dilution in focus for shareholders.

Lumentum and Ciena fell about 10% and Coherent 7% on Oct. 12 as profit-taking hit AI stocks tied to optical networking after a sharp multi-week rally.

Meta shares rose about 4% on Monday after it launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, to rival OpenAI and Anthropic.

Apple (AAPL) told suppliers to trim iPhone 18 Pro component orders by at least 15% for October as a $100 price rise and costly memory chips weigh on demand.

Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are syndicating a record $60B debt package for Anthropic's Google TPU lease, with Broadcom as guarantor.

Google and Constellation Energy signed a 20-year deal for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity, a $4.3 billion upgrade plan that sent CEG up 12% on October 6.
SoftBank is seeking up to $100B from Gulf investors for an AI acquisition fund while its roughly $65B OpenAI stake faces scrutiny over returns and leverage.
Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, AMD and Micron fell after OpenAI's annualized revenue was put near $50 billion, not $70 billion, reviving AI spending doubts.
Lumentum shares rose about 6% after its CEO said optical components are sold out through early 2029, with up to 70% of some demand unmet through 2027.
Apple shares fell about 2% on Oct. 9 after Nikkei Asia reported 15-20% cuts to iPhone 18 Pro component orders as memory-driven price hikes hit demand.
Wolfspeed shares jumped more than 15% before the open after the Pentagon offered a conditional 30-year, $1.5 billion loan with warrants for up to 7.5% of the company.
OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50 billion, not $70 billion, sending Oracle down over 5% and the Nasdaq down 1.3% as AI stocks reprice growth bets.
Palantir shares rose about 3% after Goldman Sachs upgraded the AI software stock to Buy with a $230 target, citing sovereign AI demand and vertical sales.
Broadcom (AVGO) is arranging over $50 billion in private financing with Apollo and Blackstone to fund OpenAI's custom AI chips, and shares slipped premarket.
Marvell Technology stock rose about 6% after investor day lifted its fiscal 2028 revenue goal to $20 billion and set a $70-90 billion fiscal 2031 target.
D.A. Davidson lifted its Micron price target to $3,000 from $2,100, saying AI memory demand will exceed supply through 2028; MU shares rose about 3% Wednesday.
OpenAI's GPT-6 brings Intelligent UI to ChatGPT's Free and Go tiers, turning text answers into interactive charts, calculators and diagrams for free-tier users.
Samsung Electronics pre-announced a record Q3 2026 operating profit of 107.4 trillion won (about $80 billion), as AI memory-chip demand lifted margins above 55%.
Terafab will be built and run by Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk said, leaving TSMC at most a sublease as Intel shares rose on its continued role in the project.

Nvidia (NVDA) trades at a record $238.90, about 4% short of a $6 trillion market cap, after a record $150 billion buyback; options price even odds by Oct. 30.
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