Wall Street has spent much of 2026 rewarding cybersecurity stocks for the risks created by AI. Bernstein now thinks the easy part of that trade is over, with one major exception. Bernstein analyst Peter Weed raised his target on Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZS) to $298 and maintained an Outperform rating on September 17. The target implied […]
Author: Habib Ur Rehman
Intel sold control of Altera last year. Now the programmable-chip company is heading back toward the public market just as AI gives investors a new reason to care about FPGAs. Altera said on September 15 that it confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO. Reuters previously reported that the offering could raise more than $2 billion. […]
When AI stocks rebounded last week, optical networking companies did not rebound equally. Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) jumped nearly 10% in Wednesday trading and led the S&P 500, while Coherent rose 6.9%. Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) managed only a 0.4% gain and remained down sharply for the week. All three sit inside the same broad AI-connectivity […]
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is backing a startup that thinks AI’s next bottleneck is not the accelerator. It is everything waiting for data to arrive. Delos Data announced on September 15 that it raised more than $100 million to develop networking chips and software for increasingly heterogeneous AI data centers. Playground Global, where Gelsinger […]
MACOM Technology Solutions is suddenly giving investors two numbers to think about: its stock has more than doubled over the past year, and its newest optical components push data rates toward another doubling. MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MTSI) announced a 3.2-terabit optical chipset on September 17 built around eight 448-Gbps PAM-4 channels. A day […]
SK Hynix is exploring something it has never done before: manufacturing memory chips in the United States. Reuters reported on September 16 that the Korean memory giant is discussing several possibilities with Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), including leasing part of Intel’s long-delayed Ohio complex or forming a venture involving Intel and large cloud customers. SK Hynix […]