Citadel's Ken Griffin Warns AI Chip Glut Could Match Airline Seat Pricing Plunge
Ken Griffin said an AI chip glut could send GPU prices into freefall, comparing them to airline seats. He also questioned AI hardware returns.
Ken Griffin said an AI chip glut could send GPU prices into freefall, comparing them to airline seats. He also questioned AI hardware returns.
Nvidia is negotiating a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment in AI cloud firm Firmus after it scrapped its IPO, showing vendor support for the neocloud…
Chip stocks lost $2 trillion in eight days, their worst since 2008, as yields above 5% and AI spending doubts weighed; a CNBC panel debated whether the bounce…
The KOSPI slid 3.5% at Tuesday's open, cutting its 2026 gain to about 31% from 116%; AI-spending worries and chip-stock losses have weighed on the index.
Katie Stockton outlines three cautionary signals—a broad support breakdown, rising credit spreads, and a VIX breakout—that could deepen the stock selloff.
The CSI 300 fell for a 10th straight week, its worst run since 2005, as AI and semiconductor stocks led the decline.
A steep weekly drop in chip stocks, the worst since 2025, prompts warnings from BTIG and others of a drawn-out downturn.
Chip stocks fell for an eighth straight session, the longest such run in 16 years, leaving SOXX nearly 14% below its October high.
TSMC's profit surge contrasts with Barclays' Dell downgrade, showing AI spending is concentrated among top cloud firms.
Elon Musk says China will produce a LOT of RAM by 2028, adding to worries that Korea's memory chip boom could face oversupply from 2029.
ASML posted record third-quarter sales of €11.7bn and warned that its planned 2027-2028 supply will not fully cover customer demand.
Elon Musk backed Micron's reasonable memory pricing as the stock fell a fourth straight session, while JPMorgan highlighted a $150B contracted backlog.
BofA's monthly survey shows global semiconductors as the most crowded trade, short US Treasuries second, with investors' tech overweight near six-year highs.
At Saturday's X Takeover event, Elon Musk said his companies would master chipmaking though he doesn't know how, with a $15 billion Terafab plant underway.
Renting Nvidia H100 chips now costs 60% more than a year ago as the AI compute crunch tightens, forcing startups and big tech alike into urgent capacity deals.