Dennis Singleton
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Dennis Singleton

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Dennis Singleton has spent years following the markets, but what keeps his attention is how AI is built. He writes about the companies behind the technology, from semiconductor designers and advanced packaging to photonics, memory, networking, and the hardware powering modern AI. His approach starts with filings, earnings, and industry research, then translates the important details into clear, straightforward analysis without unnecessary hype.

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Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat by 53%, dropped overnight on Iran news, then exploded 21% this morning
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Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat by 53%, dropped overnight on Iran news, then exploded 21% this morning

Penguin Solutions crushed Q3 earnings Tuesday night, then the stock faded, dropped below its pre-earnings price overnight as Iran ceasefire news hit futures market-wide, and finally broke out once regular trading opened Wednesday.

Jul 8, 2026
Oil spikes and stocks slide after new US strikes on Iran, but Nasdaq futures are already clawing back
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Oil spikes and stocks slide after new US strikes on Iran, but Nasdaq futures are already clawing back

New US strikes on Iran sent oil surging and helped drag the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower on top of a Samsung-driven chip selloff. Hours later, Nasdaq futures were already recovering some of the loss.

Jul 7, 2026
What are stock futures, and what do they actually predict?
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What are stock futures, and what do they actually predict?

S&P and Nasdaq futures trade almost around the clock and set the tone before the opening bell. What a futures contract actually is, why tech futures swing harder, and how much you should trust them.

Jul 7, 2026
IBM (IBM) is up almost 12% this week while chip stocks get hit. Here's why.
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IBM (IBM) is up almost 12% this week while chip stocks get hit. Here's why.

IBM has closed higher four straight sessions and is up again today, even as Samsung's earnings reaction and a broader chip selloff hit Micron, SanDisk, and Penguin Solutions. A BofA upgrade, a quantum computing milestone, and a new mainframe launch all landed within 48 hours.

Jul 7, 2026
Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter and raised its outlook
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Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter and raised its outlook

Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter, posting record $479 million in sales and $0.84 EPS, and raised its full-year outlook again. Shares fell in the regular session before jumping in after-hours trading on the beat.

Jul 7, 2026
What is the VIX? The market's fear gauge, explained
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What is the VIX? The market's fear gauge, explained

The VIX measures how much movement options traders expect in the S&P 500, not which direction it moves. Here is what counts as low or high, how investors actually use it, and the real risks in trying to trade volatility directly.

Jul 7, 2026
SK Hynix's $28 billion Nasdaq debut names Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund as a cornerstone investor
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SK Hynix's $28 billion Nasdaq debut names Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund as a cornerstone investor

SK Hynix's record roughly $28 billion Nasdaq listing (SKHY) drew a cornerstone commitment from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. The twist: the fund's single biggest disclosed position is a bet against the chip sector, which makes an anchor check into a memory chipmaker the story worth watching.

Jul 6, 2026
Samsung's record beat couldn't stop a memory stock selloff, and Micron (MU) is caught in it
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Samsung's record beat couldn't stop a memory stock selloff, and Micron (MU) is caught in it

Samsung posted a record 89.4 trillion won ($58.5 billion) Q2 operating profit, up 18-fold year over year, and the stock still opened lower. Memory names like Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital are down sharply while the broader Nasdaq 100 barely moved. This is still developing after-hours and can change fast.

Jul 6, 2026
TeraWulf (WULF) spiked 18%, then gave most of it back: sell the news, buy the rumor
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TeraWulf (WULF) spiked 18%, then gave most of it back: sell the news, buy the rumor

TeraWulf (WULF) opened up 14% and spiked as high as $25.04 on a $19 billion Anthropic lease, then gave back nearly 70% of that gain by early afternoon. Here is how the short interest and the deal math explain the fade.

Jul 6, 2026
What is HBM? The memory chips powering the AI boom
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What is HBM? The memory chips powering the AI boom

Only three companies make high bandwidth memory, the chips every AI accelerator depends on, and supply is sold out through 2026. What HBM is, who makes it, and how to invest in it.

Jul 6, 2026
Astera Labs (ALAB) rallies again, and Wall Street's targets can't keep up
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Astera Labs (ALAB) rallies again, and Wall Street's targets can't keep up

ALAB surged again as chip stocks rallied broadly on July 6, extending a two-week run built on a Q1 beat and Nasdaq-100 inclusion. Even Bank of America's Street-high $450 target, set nearly two weeks ago, can't keep pace with the stock.

Jul 6, 2026
Broadcom (AVGO) and Apple (AAPL) extend their chip deal through 2031, and AI is part of it now
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Broadcom (AVGO) and Apple (AAPL) extend their chip deal through 2031, and AI is part of it now

Broadcom filed two sentences with the SEC about extending its Apple chip deal to 2031. The 3.7% pop came from reporting about an unconfirmed AI chip, not from anything Broadcom actually said. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.

Jul 6, 2026
Ondas (ONDS) buys DZYNE for $875 million: bigger platform, more dilution
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Ondas (ONDS) buys DZYNE for $875 million: bigger platform, more dilution

Ondas (ONDS) is buying DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 million, mostly in stock, and raised its 2026 revenue guidance to at least $525 million. It's also the biggest dilution event yet in a year of stock-funded acquisitions. Here's what the deal means and what to watch next.

Jul 6, 2026
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber AI rack is delayed to 2028: what it means for NVDA, AMD, and the photonics trade
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SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber AI rack is delayed to 2028: what it means for NVDA, AMD, and the photonics trade

SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 rack is delayed more than a year to 2028, its backup design was scrapped, and Rubin Ultra was quietly cut in half. NVDA barely moved and AMD jumped instead. Here's what it means for the wider photonics trade, from Coherent and Lumentum to POET Technologies.

Jul 6, 2026
TeraWulf (WULF) stock jumps 18% on a 20-year, $19 billion Anthropic data center lease
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TeraWulf (WULF) stock jumps 18% on a 20-year, $19 billion Anthropic data center lease

TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion in contracted revenue at its Kentucky data center campus, and sold its Abernathy, Texas stake to a Fluidstack-led group for about $530 million the same day. WULF stock jumped as much as 17%, reversing a hard slide, right after Anthropic's reported $15 billion Australia data center plan.

Jul 6, 2026
Oracle (ORCL) stock crashed 59%: is it near the bottom?
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Oracle (ORCL) stock crashed 59%: is it near the bottom?

Oracle keeps beating earnings and keeps falling anyway, down from $345.72 to around $140. Here is why, the debt and cash burn behind it, the $638 billion bull case, and whether the stock is bottoming.

Jul 5, 2026
Hyperliquid's Sunday tape shows chip and memory stocks bouncing hard
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Hyperliquid's Sunday tape shows chip and memory stocks bouncing hard

Western Digital, SanDisk and Micron are all up more than 6% from Thursday's close on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Here is the Sunday snapshot, and why it is not the same as Sunday night's real reopen.

Jul 5, 2026
Uber's $20 million Lime (LIME) buy is now official, and its stake tops 23%
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Uber's $20 million Lime (LIME) buy is now official, and its stake tops 23%

A July 2 SEC filing confirms Uber Technologies bought $20 million of Lime stock at its $25 IPO price, following through on a pre-IPO commitment. The same filing shows old convertible notes converting into equity too, taking Uber's total Lime stake to about 23 percent of the company.

Jul 5, 2026
How to buy SK Hynix stock (SKHY), the leveraged tickers, and two symbols that no longer work
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How to buy SK Hynix stock (SKHY), the leveraged tickers, and two symbols that no longer work

SK Hynix trades on the Nasdaq under SKHY, and any US brokerage account can buy it. Here is how to place the order, which stocks actually give you this trade, the six leveraged tickers, and why the leveraged ones lost more than double.

Jul 5, 2026
Anthropic's $15 billion Australia data center plan, and why Leopold Aschenbrenner's real bet might be SharonAI (SHAZ), not IREN
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Anthropic's $15 billion Australia data center plan, and why Leopold Aschenbrenner's real bet might be SharonAI (SHAZ), not IREN

Anthropic is reportedly weighing a $15 billion, 1.4 gigawatt data center buildout in Australia. Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund owns both IREN and SharonAI (SHAZ), but his SharonAI stake, nearly 20 percent of the company, dwarfs his roughly 3 percent stake in IREN, and he's engaged to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's chief of staff.

Jul 5, 2026
Made in America stocks: how to build a reshoring portfolio
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Made in America stocks: how to build a reshoring portfolio

A plain-English guide to the reshoring trade: the steel, machinery, power, automation, and chip stocks behind the Made in America push, and the catch the headlines skip.

Jul 4, 2026
Micron (MU), Nebius (NBIS) and chip stocks jump on Hyperliquid's weekend tape
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Micron (MU), Nebius (NBIS) and chip stocks jump on Hyperliquid's weekend tape

Real markets are closed for July 4th, but tech and chip stocks are trading green right now on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Micron, Marvell and Nebius lead the bounce, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq perpetuals are up too. Here is the full read, and why Monday could look nothing like this.

Jul 3, 2026
AI's water problem: real towns, real complaints, and the stocks built to fix it
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AI's water problem: real towns, real complaints, and the stocks built to fix it

Residents near data centers in Georgia and Oregon have raised real water complaints, one reaching Congress, but Meta and Amazon both dispute that their data centers are the cause. Here is each side, the numbers, and the stocks positioned to profit from fixing the bottleneck.

Jul 3, 2026
Bullish Watch, week of July 6: four oversold names, and one that already bounced
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Bullish Watch, week of July 6: four oversold names, and one that already bounced

This week's Bullish Watch: CleanSpark (CLSK), Nokia (NOK), Teradyne (TER), and Ondas (ONDS) are oversold; AeroVironment (AVAV) already bounced on a beat-and-raise plus a fresh Army contract.

Jul 3, 2026