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Semiconductors Sector: News Highlight, Sentiment and Fundamentals
Wed. Oct 22, 2025

The price action of Semiconductors (SOXX) sector is shaped by numerous forces, ranging from broad macroeconomic trends to company-specific performance and market structure. The overall sentiment for Semiconductors sector is very positive (overall 1.9, positive 2.7, negative -0.8) on 20251022. The forces of Price Level (2), Sentiment towards Fundamentals (1.8), Option Speculation (1.5), and Broad Market Trend (-0.2) will drive up the price. The forces of Sector Price Trend (-0.4), Valuation Sentiment (-1), and Market Risk Prefrence (0) will drive down the price.

'Buy the dips' is the preferred trading strategy. Hourly SMA 20 trend line is likely to provide a support from any pullbacks. The swing to upside will be significant considering the high positive sentiment forces (2.7).

The sentiment for Broad Market Trend is calculated based on SPY trend. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on SOXX trend. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Prefrence is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale.


DateAttentionAverage
Attention
PricePrice
Level
ChangeSMA10
Trend
Market
Sentiment
Trend
Sentiment
FundamentalsNews
Sentiment
2025-10-223%      4.1%      284.08      57      -2.49%      -0.28%      0.8      -0.3      1.8      2.3     
2025-10-214%      4.7%      291.33      80      -0.56%      0.31%      1.6      0.9      2.2      2.8     
2025-10-204%      4.7%      292.97      88      1.67%      0.18%      1.3      0.7      2.3      2.9     
2025-10-195%      5.1%      1.4      1.1      1.8      4.8     
2025-10-185%      5.4%      1.4      1.1      1.8      4.3     
2025-10-173%      5.3%      288.17      78      -0.28%      0.28%      1.5      1.1      1.9      4.5     
2025-10-165%      5.6%      288.98      83      0.47%      0.28%      0.3      -0.2      1.8      6.5     
2025-10-157%      5.4%      287.64      83      3.09%      0.39%      0.4      -0.3      1.9      6.2     
2025-10-144%      5.4%      279.03      61      -2.13%      0.28%      0.5      -0.2      1.7      5.4     
2025-10-137%      6%      285.1      79      4.82%      0.57%      0.5      0.4      1.9      5.7     
 
Both emotion scores and sentiment scores are calculated in a -10 - +10 scale.
The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band.

 
1 (7) Intel Q3 Preview: Nvidia, US Government Stakes Don't Change Narrative – 'Do Not Believe Valuation Is Justified' Intel stock is up over 80% year-to-date in 2025 helped by stakes in the company by Nvidia and the U.S. government. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
2 (8) OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage to build Stargate data center site in Wisconsin The new Port Washington campus is part of OpenAI and Oracle's partnership announced in July to develop another 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity. The Stargate initiative, a project of up to $500 billion and 10 gigawatts, also includes Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group and is setting up its first AI data center in Abilene, Texas. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
3 (7) Amazon's switch to robots over human warehouse employees will save it up to $4 billion a year, Morgan Stanley says "The market is under-appreciating AMZN's GenAI advances in its Retail business with robotics-driven efficiencies," analyst Brian Nowak said. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
4 (8) Applied Digital signs $5 billion AI factory lease with U.S. based hyperscaler Applied Digital signs $5 billion AI factory lease with U.S. based hyperscaler (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
5 (7) Amazon introduces 'Blue Jay' warehouse robot that performs multiple tasks at once The robotics system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being deployed in one of its South Carolina warehouses. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
 
6 (3) A lot has changed for Intel in three months. Earnings are the next big test. The chip maker’s stock has rallied following multibillion-dollar investments in its business, but not everyone is convinced that will be enough for a turnaround. (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
7 (-8) VW Halts Golf Production In Wolfsburg As Chip Shortage Worsens ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero (https://www.zerohedge.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
8 (-5) Chipmaker Texas Instruments is falling on earnings and guidance miss. What analysts are saying Wall Street analysts were underwhelmed by the latest quarterly report from Texas Instruments. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
9 (2) The S&P 500 is more concentrated with AI than ever. Here's how to manage your risk AI stocks now dominate the S&P 500, raising big questions about diversification and your retirement portfolio. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
10 (-5) Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
 
11 (6) Palantir Vs. OpenAI: The AI Underdog That Might Be The Smarter Bet In the battle between OpenAI Vs. PLTR, Palantir could be the underdog AI-focused company with $4.16B in real revenue and 45% growth. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
12 (8) 3 Reasons to Buy Taiwan Semiconductor Stock Like There's No Tomorrow The company is the leading manufacturer of AI chips, and spending in this space isn't slowing down yet. (https://www.fool.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
13 (8) UK data centre spend to soar to £10 billion a year - Barbour ABI LONDON (Reuters) -Spending on new UK data centres is set to rise to 10 billion pounds a year by 2029, a more than five-fold increase from 2024, analysis by construction data firm Barbour ABI has found. A total of 1.75 billion pounds was spent on data centres in the UK last year, with 2.38 billion forecast to be spent in 2025. AI-driven demand is fuelling data centre investment. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
14 (-6) Why Texas Instruments’ stock is seeing another big drop after earnings The analog chip company’s latest results suggest a more subdued path to recovery. (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
15 (-3) Amazon sees 'blind spot' in identifying new AI startups as future cloud customers Amazon Web Services struggles to find AI solopreneurs and bootstrapped startups, highlighting a blind spot in its customer discovery process. (https://www.businessinsider.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
 
16 (7) Tesla's earnings report means another chance to transition it from EV to AI Tesla has been subtly pivoting its strategy for years to be considered an AI company, but it's now reaching a tipping point. (https://www.businessinsider.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
17 (5) AI Agents Create Enormous Opportunity — and Risk Agentic AI can help consumers drive, shop and control their homes. (https://www.thestreet.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
18 (6) Intel CEO-Backed Startup Seeks Role as AI Chip Matchmaker Gimlet is building software that will chop up AI tasks and send them to the most cost-effective chips (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
19 (-7) Auto giant Volkswagen warns of output stoppages amid Nexperia chip disruption Volkswagen on Wednesday warned of temporary production outages citing China's export restrictions on semiconductors made by Nexperia. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
20 (7) Intel results to show if barrage of investments in chipmaker paying off Multi billion-dollar investments from Nvidia and Japan's SoftBank as well as an unprecedented U.S. government stake during the September quarter provided bright spots in Intel's long-running turnaround. The investments have helped its shares double in value this year and outpace gains in AI darling Nvidia, setting a high bar for the company expected to report a 1% drop in third-quarter sales to $13.14 billion according to LSEG data. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
 
21 (-7) TI shares slide as bleak outlook signals delayed industry recovery (Reuters) -Shares of Texas Instruments sank more than 8% on Wednesday in premarket trading, after the chipmaker's downbeat fourth-quarter profit and revenue outlook deepened worries over a drawn-out recovery in the analog chip market as tariff uncertainty plagues the wider industry. While TI has reduced some of its business exposure to the Trump administration's tariffs through trade deals, uncertainty over additional levies and trade negotiations has weighed on investor sentiment and delayed the pace of recovery. "The recovery pace is much more gradual than anticipated," said J.P. Morgan analysts, adding the wider industry "could still be muted by tariff/trade and sluggish auto recovery". (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Oct 22, 2025
22 (5) OpenAI Launches Its Own Web Browser—ChatGPT Atlas—As Alphabet Shares Fall The browser will be immediately available on MacOS and come to Windows, iOS, and Android soon. (https://www.forbes.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
23 (8) Anthropic, Google in Talks on Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal Anthropic PBC is in discussions with Alphabet Inc.’s Google about a deal that would provide the artificial intelligence company with additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
24 (-5) Are we in an AI bubble? Here's what analysts and experts are saying The euphoria is drawing comparisons to the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s and the 2008 financial crisis. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
25 (6) OpenAI launches AI browser Atlas in latest challenge to Google OpenAI launches AI browser Atlas in latest challenge to Google (https://www.investing.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
 
26 (4) Germany's Northern Data withdraws 2025 forecast Northern Data said in a statement that the forecast withdrawal is partially offset by improved utilization of its GPU capacity driven by customer traction after the second-quarter technology upgrade. The company said that its Taiga cloud business initiated an upgrade of its infrastructure in March to enable access to its GPU estate, which led to improving the company's ability to serve existing customers and added a new and diversified customer base. Currently, more than 15,000 GPUs of Northern Data's 22,000 H100 and H200 GPU estate have been allocated to customers, Northern Data added. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
27 (8) Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
28 (6) Anthropic, Google in talks on cloud deal worth tens of billions, Bloomberg News reports The deal, which has not been finalized yet, includes Alphabet's Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic, according to the report. Google declined to comment, while Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Anthropic, which counts Google and Amazon.com as its major investors, is the creator of the Claude chatbot and competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT for AI dominance. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
29 (5) Anthropic, Google in Talks on Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal The plan, which has not been finalized, involves Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the information is private. Google is a previous investor in, and cloud provider for, Anthropic. Anthropic and Google declined to comment. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
30 (7) Tesla Q3 preview: Robotaxi, AI ambitions on the agenda following high-water mark in sales Tesla stock went on a tear to end the third quarter, erasing early 2025 losses with investors betting on the firm’s AI-related ambitions. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
 
31 (-5) OpenAI’s new browser puts Google in the hot seat, and Alphabet’s stock drops OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser is the latest in a series of new products that are challenging Alphabet’s ecosystem. (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
32 (8) Meta, Blue Owl and AI: Here are the details of Wall Street’s biggest private-credit deal ever Meta and Blue Owl struck a record $27 billion joint venture for the tech giant’s Hyperion data center, signaling a pivot in how Big Tech is funding its AI ambitions. (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
33 (3) Halliburton Is Branching Into Data-Center Power Supplies as Frack Demand Stagnates Halliburton Co. is diversifying into data-center power generation amid slackening worldwide demand for oilfield fracking. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
34 (8) Pimco Lands $2 Billion in Paper Gains From Meta Data Center Pacific Investment Management Co. is already cashing in on the $27 billion debt package it led for a Meta Platforms Inc. data center. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
35 (8) HIVE targets 35 EH/s by 2026 with 100 MW hydro expansion HIVE plans a 100 MW hydro-powered expansion in Paraguay and a fivefold increase in its AI and HPC operations. (https://www.thestreet.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
 
36 (0) Analysts update Broadcom stock forecast Analysts updated their model for semiconductor industry and AVGO stock. (https://www.thestreet.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
37 (-7) China Says Dutch Nexperia Seizure Places Supply Chain at Risk China’s Commerce Minister warned that the Dutch state’s move to take control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia has “seriously affected” the stability of the global supply chain. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
38 (5) Engaged Capital urges cost cutting at Cognex to boost share price NEW YORK (Reuters) -Activist investor Engaged Capital has built a sizable stake in Cognex and is urging the maker of machine vision systems to cut costs and use cost consultants, arguing this could help the stock price nearly double in the next two years. "This is an AI company without the AI valuation," Engaged's founder and chief investment officer Glenn Welling said on Tuesday at the 13D Monitor Active-Passive Investment Summit in New York. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
39 (8) Broadcom left investors with a mystery. This analyst thinks he’s cracked the case. The custom chip maker added a fourth customer that is expected to deliver $10 billion in revenue, and Mizuho analysts believe it could be OpenAI rival Anthropic. (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
40 (2) Amazon Web Services finally recovers after major outage The AWS outage affected sites from Amazon to Disney + to Coinbase. (https://www.thestreet.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
 
41 (-3) Amazon's Reputation At Risk After 15 Hours Of Disruptions; May Spark Customer Demand For 'Cloud Diversification' ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero (https://www.zerohedge.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
42 (-2) AWS Outage: What To Know As Amazon Says Cloud Service Is Back To Normal Reports of outages were slowly rising again Tuesday morning. (https://www.forbes.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
43 (-6) Amazon Cloud Reputation Hit After Outage Lasting 15 Hours Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to McDonald’s Corp. to Epic Games Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
44 (2) AI set to be a boon for emerging markets — but some investors aren't convinced Venture capitalist told CNBC that AI-generated code cannot replace good technical talent. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
45 (8) Navitas (NVTS) Climbs to All-Time High Ahead of Earnings, Strong Optimism We recently published 10 Big Names Beating Wall Street at its Own Game. Navitas Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:NVTS) is one of the best performers on Monday. Navitas rebounded on Monday to hit a new all-time high as investors began loading positions ahead of the results of its earnings performance, supported by strong optimism for the booming […] (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
 
46 (7) Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
47 (-6) Europe Auto Industry Braces For Chip-Linked Output Curbs in Days Europe’s auto industry is preparing for production disruption within days because of China’s export restrictions on semiconductors made by Nexperia. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
48 (-6) Amazon Cloud Reputation Takes Hit After Outage Lasting 15 Hours Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to McDonald’s Corp. to Epic Games Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
49 (8) We're initiating a position in a company that is a key player in the AI buildout The rise of artificial intelligence is driving strong demand for the company's fiber and connectivity products used inside data centers. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025
50 (7) Veeam acquires data security company Securiti AI for $1.7bn Veeam plans to offer Seucriti's data command center product alongside its existing data resiliency products. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Tue. Oct 21, 2025


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