Nvidia stock reversed course Thursday after rallying earlier this week on the back of President Trump’s announcements on artificial intelligence. Investors had been worried about a slow rollout of the company’s advanced Blackwell chips but a flagship $500 billion AI plan is soothing those fears.
The result compared with an 8 trillion won average forecast by LSEG SmartEstimate, which is weighted toward analysts who are more consistently accurate. SK Hynix's quarterly opera
SK Hynix still finds strong demand for AI-related chips even with uncertainty ahead. However, experts caution that artificial intelligence expansion may slow down in 2025, hence lowering the difference between consumer-oriented and AI-oriented semiconductors.
Shares of Micron (NASDAQ:MU) are down about 3.5% on the day. About This Article  Shares of Micron are down about $4.50 on the day thanks to Nvidia supplier, SK Hynix. Granted, SK Hynix did post a record quarterly profit.
SK hynix Inc. reported financial results for 2024, with revenues surging 102% to 66.19 trillion won ($46.34 billion), driven by explosive demand for artificial intelligence memory products.
South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted a record quarterly profit as the Nvidia supplier saw strong sales of advanced chips such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in generative artificial intelligence chipsets.
The company’s Q4 revenue increased by 12%, and its operating profit rose by 15%, making for its best quarter ever, SK Hynix said in a statement. The company also announced that its revenue for the year was 66.1930 trillion won (roughly $46.13 billion). SK Hynix raised its annual fixed dividend for shareholders by 25%.
South Korea’s SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest memory chipmakers supported by strong sales of high bandwidth memory (HBM) used in generative AI.
Texas Instruments Inc. gave a disappointing earnings forecast for the current period, hurt by still-sluggish chip demand and higher manufacturing costs.
Electronic Arts tumbles after cutting guidance because of underperformance in its soccer game titles, while Arm Holdings and Nvidia give back gains following sharp moves higher after the announcement of the Stargate AI initiative.
Shares of Micron Technology ( MU -3.93%) were slipping Thursday. The firm's stock is down 2.9% as of 1:25 p.m. ET, but lost as much as 5.4% earlier in the day. The move down comes as the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC 0.16%) gained 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -0.31%) fell 0.1%.