Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its quarterly portfolio update revealed on
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: An AI-linked company crushed earnings forecasts, but investors weren’t impressed and the stock sank anyway. It turns out that the market was more focused on the company’s extravagant spending plans. A tough shot, right? Well, it’s been happening with some regularity, including twice this month. Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC
The budget smartphone market will shrink as the reality of memory shortages continues to take hold. Rising RAM prices amid memory shortages are putting serious pressure on the economics of low-end smartphones, according to a recent analysis published this week by global technology research firm Omdia. “Memory costs have become a serious burden for low-end
