๐ The Daily Semi-Cap โ September 30, 2026
๐ SMH: $609.00 (+0.35%)
๐ Earnings:
โข MU โ $54.23B rev (est $51.07B), $33.42 adj. EPS (est $31.61). Adj. GM 87.0%, revenue +379% YoY. Guided Q1 to $61.5B rev and $38.15 EPS at the midpoints, both above consensus; shares were roughly flat after hours.
๐ฅ Major Developments:
โข Synopsys and OpenAI signed a multi-year agreement to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys, with OpenAI licensing Synopsys EDA tools and the companies sharing revenue and taking the product to market together.
โข AWS signed a multi-year Synopsys silicon-IP agreement worth more than $1B covering custom chips including Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro, with Amazon becoming the lead customer for Synopsys' application-optimized IP business.
โข Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon coding, enterprise, and cybersecurity workflows, expanding maximum output to 1M tokens and initially rolling it out to trusted testers.
โข Micron confirmed it is working with Nvidia on NVHBM, described as the industry's first custom HBM4E implementation, for next-generation GPUs and NVLink Fusion platforms.