Apple Hikes Mac and iPad Prices; Micron Soars 14% on Beat
Apple fell 5% after raising Mac and iPad prices on memory costs. Micron jumped 14% to $1,195 on Q3 FY26 beat — same AI memory squeeze, both sides.
Apple fell 5% after raising Mac and iPad prices on memory costs. Micron jumped 14% to $1,195 on Q3 FY26 beat — same AI memory squeeze, both sides.
The Nasdaq fell 2.2% Monday and the VIX jumped 13% as semis cracked nearly 8%. Mag 7 fractured: NVDA -4%, Alphabet hit hard, MSFT and AAPL held.
Chip stocks closed last week with double-digit pops in SNDK, INTC, and MU. Micron’s fiscal Q3 print Wednesday is the next test of the AI memory trade.
Intel jumped 10.64% Thursday after naming Seok-Hee Lee EVP of Intel Foundry to lead advanced packaging, as chip stocks rallied.
Intel said its 18A-P node entered risk production at the VLSI Symposium, but INTC fell 8.45% to $117.05 as a 217% YTD run met a stretched consensus.
ARM jumps 12% to $384 as Bank of America’s $170B agentic AI thesis lifts the chip trio. NVDA, AMD, INTC ride the same wave.
Marvell Technology joins the S&P 500 on June 22, 2026, replacing Pool Corp. The AI chip designer is up 230% YTD with a $246B market cap.
A hot May payrolls print pushed Fed rate cuts off the table and triggered a 10.4% single-day SOXX collapse, dragging Nasdaq to its worst week in a year.
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told the June 4 AGM AI demand still outpaces supply, signaling pricing power as Arizona buildout hits $165 billion.
Nvidia returned $20B in Q1, added an $80B buyback authorization, and lifted its dividend 25x – even as it zeroed China out of its outlook.