The news reinforces Tower's growing footprint in AI-driven optical networking demand, coming just days after the company showcased its silicon photonics and silicon-germanium technology roadmap at the ECOC 2026 conference in Spain.
Continued technical validation is also supporting the stock, with IonQ reporting a strong showing at IEEE Quantum Week 2026, including nine research papers and four Best Paper Awards, alongside progress on its Superion platform and its manufacturing partnership with SkyWater (NASDAQ:SKYT).
Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) shares surged in Thursday's session on bullish analyst commentary and new AI-infrastructure partnerships ahead of the company's October 6 analyst day. One analyst said Marvell may be underestimating its custom AI chip opportunity, estimating the addressable market for custom silicon and XPU …
Micron (NASDAQ:MU) shares surged in Thursday's session after Intel's Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan warned that the global memory chip shortage could worsen into 2027, with DRAM prices already up more than 500% amid AI-driven demand. Micron is one of only three major DRAM …
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares rose in Thursday's session after CEO Jensen Huang forcefully pushed back against calls for an AI development slowdown, telling attendees at a Salesforce event that safety concerns should be addressed through engineering rather than new regulation. Huang separately told an AI …
The Lektra deal helps the stock rebound sharply from this week's AI-slowdown-driven selloff, which was sparked by several AI executives' public calls for a deliberate pause in frontier model development, a selloff that also pressured semiconductor names including Kulicke and Soffa (NASDAQ:KLIC) and Qorvo …
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) shares surged in Thursday's session, rebounding sharply after last week's AI-slowdown-driven selloff, as chip stocks broadly rallied on renewed confidence in AI infrastructure spending. The rebound follows bullish analyst commentary reaffirming that CPU and GPUDemandcontinues to outpace supply, alongside AMD's own AI …
The rally helps the stock recoup ground lost during this week's broader AI infrastructure selloff, which was triggered by AI executives publicly calling for a slowdown in model development and exacerbated by rising Treasury yields following the Federal Reserve's rate hike. Shares had briefly …
The comments, welcomed publicly by Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong, are helping stabilize sentiment after the stock plunged more than 10% on Tuesday following the bill's defeat, as investors weigh whether agency-led rulemaking can substitute for the regulatory certainty legislation would have provided.
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) shares extended their AI-driven rally in Thursday's session, trading near record highs as investors continue to reward the company's blowout fiscal second-quarter results and raised fiscal 2027 guidance of $192 billion in revenue, including $74 billion in AI server revenue.