📈 #TexasInstruments# has flagged July price hikes, with industry pointing to 5–15% increases in select products. Beyond auto and industrial recovery, AI—driven by 800V HVDC, GPU clusters, and liquid cooling—is rapidly lifting power demand.💡More: 🔗
📈 The chip price hike wave is gaining steam in 2H26. After #TexasInstruments# raised prices in July, #AnalogDevices# is reportedly gearing up for its second 2026 increase, set to take effect in mid-September.💡More: 🔗
Texas Instruments, the biggest maker of analog and embedded processing chips, gave a forecast that topped estimates but failed to excite investors, who have bid up the company’s shares this year
One of the painting series I've been most obsessed with recently is Albert Oehlen's computer paintings.
In the early 90s, Oehlen was intrigued by the idea of the computer's aura of futurity.
So he got a laptop from Texas instruments, having the desire to create computer paintings without having any visual idea of what it might be.
A lot of it now appears obvious in hindsight but imagine how novel this approach and aesthetic was more than 30 years ago!
Just got to see one of the earlier ones in Berlin this weekend :)
DELL $DELL CLOSED +12.0% TODAY, THE BEST PERFORMER IN THE S&P 500
Nine of eleven sectors finished green. Technology led at +1.1%, with 34 of its 50 names higher.
Hardware and semis came all the way back:
- Dell $DELL +12.0%
- Arista Networks $ANET +5.6%
- Analog Devices $ADI +4.9%
- Amphenol $APH +4.6%
- Cisco $CSCO +4.4%
- Marvell $MRVL +4.0%
- Texas Instruments $TXN +3.8%
- Intel $INTC +2.6%
- Advanced Micro Devices $AMD +2.5%
Google $GOOGL +1.8% carried Communication Services. Apple $AAPL +1.8%, Amazon $AMZN +1.9%, Netflix $NFLX +1.8%.
Utilities and Healthcare were the only red sectors. UnitedHealth $UNH -2.4% was the weakest large name, and Oracle $ORCL fell another -1.7%.