Chip Stock Investor Podcast

There have been a lot of EV shenanigans lately. The VinFast IPO and Wolfspeed debacle are proof of that. Will indie Semiconductor and Navitas add to investor grief? Chip Stock Investor looks at the financials and 10-K annual reports to bring some of the risks in investing in these two hot small-cap stocks to your attention. Microchip is a microcontroller leader that had another stellar quarter. Wh...

In this episode, we address two of our most frequently asked questions: –Why don't we cover more small-cap companies where the stock price has not "skyrocketed" yet? –What should investors consider when consuming news reports that say a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is coming? We then move on to a company analysis of Skywater Technology, the only US pure-play chip foundry business. We d...

Nvidia’s SIGGRAPH event last week held a host of releases and details of upcoming tech. We discuss two of the highlights from the event in this episode of Chip Stock Investor. The first, Nvidia is teaming up with Hugging Face to bring AI infrastructure to the masses, and the second the new GH200 supercomputer with HBM3e memory. What do these two updates mean for investors? Meta will be a huge bene...

Digital Ocean stock is one of our favorite cloud computing infrastructure companies. Last week after the earnings call, the company had a huge drop in stock price, and thus market value. What happened? Chip Stock Investor digs into the nitty gritty and discusses whether we still like this company for the long term. If you feel so inclined please show your support here by fueling our caffeine addic...

Texas Instruments has been an investor favorite for its decades of growth, high dividends, and share buybacks. Will that continue to be relevant with the capital expenditures going from less than $1 billion-a-year just a few years ago to an average of $5 billion over the next few years? Qualcomm has taken a beating in recent quarters with the smartphone market slumping. The company is diversifying...

One of the leading cybersecurity stocks Fortinet (FTNT) crashed 25% following earnings and an update on 2023 guidance. Chip Stock Investor breaks down what happened, why the market reacted so negatively, and what should be looked for going forward. Additionally, Nvidia (NVDA) and AI hype could be at play here. While Fortinet didn’t mention this or blame anyone for its guidance missteps, Nick and K...

The stock market is full of opportunities right now, and Chip Stock Investor is on the lookout for great deals on growing businesses. In this video, we'll be sharing seven stocks that we're buying in August for the long-term. These stocks are all well-established companies with strong fundamentals, and they're all trading at attractive valuations. Watch this video to see what companies...

A new “chip war” is emerging, and energy independence is at the heart of it. The world is facing an energy crisis, and the demand is skyrocketing for semiconductors that more efficiently manage the flow of electricity. This has created a new battleground for chipmakers, as they compete to supply the chips that will power the next generation of energy technologies -- from electric vehicles (EVs) to...

Earnings season continues, and AI continues to be a hot topic! Equally hot stock AMD reported earnings, and it looks like the company's work in AI is not going to narrow the gap with Nvidia like many shareholders had hoped. This shouldn't have come as a surprise. Nick and Kasey explain why, but why AMD is still in great shape anyways. Meanwhile, small chip designer Lattice Semiconductor co...

Social media is on fire in the last week thanks to LK-99, a new superconductor developed and currently being tested by scientists around the globe. Superconductors that can be used outside of specialty applications haven't panned out in the past, but hopes are this time is different. But what exactly is a superconductor? How will it change the world? And is there a way to invest in superconduc...

KLA Corporation and Lam Research are two of the top 5 companies in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry. Their recent financial updates didn't exactly set the world ablaze, but may have indicated that the semiconductor industry is ready to make a turnaround. What are we doing with this information here at Chip Stock Investor? Intel's disaster has been a saga for at least a ye...

Big tech companies such as Meta, Tesla, Microsoft and Alphabet have all reported quarterly earnings, and its been better than we hoped it would be. It looks like the earnings recession is over. If so, what does that mean for investors? Is now the time to invest? Lam Research and NXP Semiconductors both reported earnings, and the reports overall were as expected. Have we reached the bottom for the...

In the biotech world, Cathie Wood and Ark Invest stock Quantum Si has been hot. The company has created a novel application for semiconductor technology, with a way to sequence proteins in the lab faster and at lower cost. Is this stock worth your attention? And in self-driving cars, Ambarella has shifted its focus and has new chips ready to go for automakers. If only the pesky semiconductor marke...

Chip Stock Investors Nick and Kasey circle back to one of their top holdings, and their largest healthcare technology stock holding, Intuitive Surgical. The company has posted surprisingly good earnings so far in 2023, and could have many years of growth still ahead of it and is develops new procedures for its flagship "da Vinci" robots and continues to expand its new Ion robot. Intuitiv...

AI stocks started to falter as second quarter 2023 earnings season kicked off. Investors were disappointed by financial updates provided by Tesla, ASML, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. But were things really as bad as they appeared on the surface? Chip Stock Investor doesn't think so. In this update, Nick and Kasey discuss implications for the AI and semiconductor market following comm...

Earnings season is bearing down on us. But before we start treading water in the sea of new earnings reports, Chip Stock Investor wanted to discuss a stock we just bought. Nick and Kasey talk about AI stock and EV stock hype. They then review the iShares Global Metals & Mining ETF (PICK), and a few small companies in the mining industry, both in lithium mining and in rare earth elements. With...

Aehr Test Systems is signalling massive growth in the year ahead, forecasting at least 50% revenue growth and at least 90% earnings growth for its new fiscal year. Silicon carbide (SiC), especially for the automotive market, is driving this trend. But Applied Materials is worth paying attention to as well. It announced new equipment for chiplets packaging, as well as a significant upgrade to its f...

In this video, Chip Stock Investor discusses why Broadcom (AVGO) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) are not the cyclical semiconductor stocks the market seems to think they are. These two companies have business models that are well-positioned to withstand the ups and downs of the semiconductor market. At a recent investor event, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan explained how his company manages some of the ups-a...

NVIDIA is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, embodied by its work to power generative AI services like ChatGPT. But Nvidia is also making fast headway in the automotive industry. NVIDIA's solutions are helping to make cars smarter, but extends far beyond that in the actual development and manufacturing process, as well as the future of the in-vehicle experience. In...

Apple's Vision Pro announcement was met with a lot of excitement last month. But, Apple stock has already priced in a lot of the hype. So how do you invest in the madness of Apple fans without investing in Apple itself? Enter Universal Display (OLED). This company has been behind the makings of all great OLED screens for years and they will have a hand in the micro-OLED technology that will be...

Investing can be a daunting task. It can feel overwhelming to look at the stock market and try to decide which stocks you should buy for your portfolio (and when). How do we sift through all the public companies out there? In this video, Nick explains his investment process, and runs through an example of how we use it here at Chip Stock Investor. Also, in this video, Nick explains why we recently...

Intel released news that it's planning on restructuring its business by reporting its chip design and manufacturing businesses as separate entities. This may be a humble admission that things have not gone exactly as planned in the IDM (integrated device manufacturing) business as the semiconductor industry has rapidly shifted out from under the feet of Intel over the last decade. Does this me...

We have been getting a lot of requests for coverage of small-cap chip stocks. While we truly believe "small" does not automatically equal exponential growth and market outperformance, there are a few companies that interest us for their long term potential, especially in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. In the recent months, we added KLA Corp and Onto Innovation stock to our portfo...

Nvidia isn't just a semiconductor company anymore. The company has been transforming itself into a full-stack developer, running the gamut from chip to end-user software design. This strategy has Chip Stock Investor feeling bullish on Nvidia's long-term prospects. Nick interviewed Manuvir Das, Nvidia VP of Enterprise Computing, to discuss how the company is taking on the cloud and AI indus...

The chip manufacturing market has been in a slump this year, but that is definitely not going to last long. All indications are pointing to chip manufacturing equipment sales skyrocketing in the next several years to support new chip fab projects around the world. What companies will benefit the most? What stocks are we investing in? Elon Musk has been traveling the globe talking with country lead...