Your Financial Advisor Will Want To See This Info On Ai Hardware Stocks

An Introduction

There are 5 steps in developing and producing computer chips, part of the Ai hardware category. They are grouped into 5 portfolios below with information on how each of their constituents performed w/e December 13th, as follows:

1. The EDA ( electronic design automation) Software Chip Design Stocks Portfolio constituents are involved exclusively (i.e. pure-play) in the custom design of complex semiconductor chips using sophisticated software. The Portfolio was DOWN 1.3% w/e December 13th as were its 2 constituents, Cadence Design Systems (-0.2%) and Synopsys (-1.7%).
2. The Pure-Play Semiconductor Supplier Stocks Portfolio constituents provide essential equipment for manufacturing chips such as lithography machines, etching, test and packaging equipment, automation and inspection systems and production materials such as chemicals, gases, wafers and packaging. The Portfolio was UP 0.5% w/e December 13th with its 5 constituents performing as follows: ASML Holding (+1.4%); KLAC Corp. (+0.8%); Lam Research (-0.4%); Applied Materials (-2.1%); and Entegris (-2.5%).
3. The Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundries Portfolio consist of factories (called foundries in semiconductor jargon) that concentrate all their efforts in the manufacturing of chips based on the designs provided by other semiconductor companies. The Portfolio was DOWN 1.1% w/e December 13th with its 4 constituents performing as follows: Tower Semiconductor (+0.3); Taiwan Semiconductor (-1.0%); Global Foundries (-2.2%); and United Microelectronics (-4.9%).
4. The Pure-Play Fabless Semiconductor Stocks Portfolio consists of companies that outsource the fabrication (or fab) of chips to specialized foundries while designing and selling the chips themselves. The Portfolio was UP 3.9% w/e December 13th primarily on the back of Broadcom (+25.4%); Marvell (+6.6%); Monolithic Power Systems (+3.2%); followed by Qualcomm (-0.4%); Nvidia (-5.5%); and Advanced Micro Devices (-8.4%).
   • Why Broadcom went up so much:
     • beat Wall Street’s expectations for earnings and showed strong artificial intelligence revenue growth. Below is a comparison of its valuation statistics and price trends with the other constituents.

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  • a live chart (updated minute-by-minute) of the portfolio and each constituent;

5. The Pure-Play Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test Stocks Portfolio consists of companies that assemble chips into finished semiconductor components, tests for defects and do the very specialized packaging of the chips for shipping assembly. The Portfolio was UP 1.4% w/e December 13th with its 2 constituents performing as follows: Amkor Technology (+2.0%) and ASE Technology (-0.3%).

In addition, there are 2 other portfolios in the Ai hardware category:

1. The Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDM) Portfolio of 8 companies that do everything themselves, i.e. are not pure-play, to control the entire production process. The Portfolio was DOWN 0.2% w/e December 13th with its constituents performing as follows: Micron Technology (+1.3%); Microchip Technology (+1.1%); Infineon Technologies (+0.7%); NXP Semiconductors (-0.1%); STMicroelectronics (-0.5%); Analog Devices (-0.7);  Texas Instruments (-0.8%); and Intel Corp. (-2.8%).
2. .The Pure-Play Quantum Computing Stocks Portfolio consists of companies involved exclusively in the research and development of quantum computers. The Portfolio was DOWN 4.7% w/e December 13th with its 4 constituents performing as follows: Rigetti Computing (+64.2%); D-Wave Computing (-1.2%); IonQ (-10.9%); and Quantum Computing Inc. (-15.4%).

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