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Chip Stock Investor Podcast
Semiconductors are the heart of the modern economy. These small devices that manipulate the flow of electricity run everything from our PCs and smartphones to our cars to manufacturing. The semiconductor industry is at an inflection point of renewed growth, powering new movements like generative AI and electric vehicles. The Chip Stock Investor Podcast explores how semiconductors work, and especially the business of chips. Follow Nicholas and Kasey to learn how chip technology has become the…
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Chip Stock Investor PodcastThe Market Isn’t Wrong About Micron -- Here’s Why
Join our weekly live Q&A for exclusive sessions like this one! https://chipstockinvestor.com/features-and-pricing#pricingMicron stock: why does a memory maker…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastIs Amkor a Buy After Nvidia’s $3 Billion Deal?
Amkor (AMKR) stock: a solid Q3 2026 and a bigger Nvidia deal, so why are we still passing? In this video: what Amkor actually does in advanced packaging, what…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastThe Next AI Breakthrough Isn't Chips — It's What They're Made Of (with Shalini Sharma, Ph.D.)
Is chip materials science, not just GPUs, becoming the next AI bottleneck? In this video: what large quantitative models (LQMs) are and how they differ from…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastHow to Value Unprofitable Businesses: Ouster (OUST Stock) Example -- Normalized Profit Calculator
Ouster stock: what has to go right over the next 10 years to justify ~$41 a share? In this video: Ouster’s (OUST) Q2 2026 results, why plunging LiDAR sensor…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastCoreWeave Bond Crash: Why CRWV & Neocloud Stocks Are Tumbling
CoreWeave’s 9.75% senior notes saw yields surge past 15% as bond prices slid, dragging equity down with them. In this episode, we break down why rising…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastWix at 7.5x Free Cash Flow: Deep Value or Value Trap?
Wix took on $1.1B in 0% convertible notes priced near $210/share, then bought back $1.6B of stock, all with shares trading around $75. Is management seeing…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastIs the Neocloud Bubble Popping? What TSMC Q3 Tells Us
TSMC just beat the high end of its own guidance, and on the same day CoreWeave’s debt traded at a 15% yield. Here’s how to square the two, and why we’ve been…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastASML Q3 2026 Earnings: Sold Out Through 2028 & The New WFE Cycle
ASML just reported Q3 2026 earnings, and management delivered a major update: the company cannot fully meet customer demand for the next two years. With net…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastSpaceX (SPCX): Neocloud Giant or Overhyped AI Data Center Play?
SpaceX (SPCX) is down from its post-IPO highs, and it’s quietly become one of the biggest neoclouds in the AI data center buildout. Is it hype, or is there a…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastAI Agent E-Comm "Disruption," and Agent CPU Demand Is Helping Intel Turn Its Business Around
The arrival of AI agents like Meta Muse is poised to reshape e-commerce platforms and trigger a ripple effect upstream across data center silicon. In this…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastOnsemi Buys Synaptics for $5.7B Cash: Balance Sheet Risk & ON Stock Outlook
Onsemi shifted its acquisition of Synaptics to a $5.7B all-cash transaction following competing bid pressure. While markets initially cheered the move, the…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastWill Humanoid Robots Really Be in Every Home? (with Ankur Saxena)
Will we actually see humanoid robots in every home? While viral demos grab headlines, the real investing story in physical AI comes down to unglamorous…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastAre AI Data Centers a Bubble? Navigating the Neo-Cloud Boom
Hundreds of billions are pouring into GPU-based AI data centers. We break down who the real structural winners are — and who's just riding peak hype. The…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastWhy Synopsys Lagged Cadence (And Why It May Be Cheap)
Synopsys (SNPS) and Cadence (CDNS) own the chip design software duopoly that every designer relies on, yet both have badly lagged the semiconductor rally since…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastAxon vs. Motorola: The Public Safety Stock Battle (MSI, AXON)
Axon seems to come up in a lot of investing discussion, but its largest competitor often doesn't. Motorola is more than three times the size of Axon. We've…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastIs the AI Bull Market Moving Past Semiconductors?
Neoclouds like Nebius, CoreWeave, and IREN are showing the signs of a micro bubble, and we trimmed our Nebius position. This episode covers where we think AI…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastMeta Muse: The AI Agent Era Has Arrived!
META is above $740, and the market is pricing Meta Muse as an automatic win. Meta is a top-five CSI holding and we've owned it for years. We're holding, not…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastThe AI Agent Problem That Is Priced In
We trimmed Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and CrowdStrike (CRWD).This episode covers the secular trend behind cybersecurity spending and why both names stay core to…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastWhy We're Hedging AppLovin's 80% Margins
AppLovin (APP) runs a 77.7% operating margin, but its revenue growth is slowing, and that combination draws competition. We just took a position in Unity…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastTwist Bioscience Soared — We're Still Not Buying
Twist Bioscience (TWST) just had a massive run-up after Anthropic's protein design results put its DNA synthesis platform in the spotlight. Here's what's…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastThe Fastest-Growing Chip Stock Is Also the Most Hated
We compare Credo (CRDO) against Broadcom (AVGO), Marvell (MRVL), and Astera Labs (ALAB) on revenue growth, gross margin, operating margin, and free cash flow…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastAI Data Center Spending Means Good Times For Semiconductors Continue -- Oracle ORCL Stock Analysis
We break down the takeaways from Oracle's (ORCL) Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings call — what to expect through 2026 and into 2027–2028 as hyperscaler CapEx stays high…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastNvidia's Biggest Acquisition Ever: $12.9B for Hugging Face (Can It Survive Regulators?)
Nvidia just proposed its largest acquisition ever — $12.9 billion for Hugging Face. But regulators in the US, EU, and China may have other plans. Nvidia has…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastPure Storage Is Now Everpure — and Free Cash Flow Just Went Negative (P Stock)
Pure Storage just rebranded to Everpure — and in the same stretch, free cash flow went negative 20% in a single quarter. Here's what's really going on. Pure…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastProcept Is Down 80% and the Tech Works — So Why Won't We Buy PRCT?
Procept BioRobotics is down roughly 80% from its 2025 highs but the technology behind its Aquablation system genuinely works. So why won't we put PRCT in our…
Chip Stock Investor PodcastWhy Oscar Health's 'Great Quarter' Isn't What It Looks Like
Oscar Health looks like a screaming buy — growing revenue, growing members, positive free cash flow. So why does the market keep discounting it? We ran the…
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Palo Alto Is Up 1,400% in a Decade — What Comes Next? (PANW FY2026)
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) has been flying high into the end of FY2026. After a decade-long 1,400% run — capped by a broader cybersecurity rally following the…
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Nokia Surged on Nvidia's Investment — Then Gave It Back. Buy the Dip? (NOK Q2 2026)
Nokia stock surged on Nvidia's investment and AI RAN hype — then gave much of it back. We ran the numbers on NOK's Q2 2026 earnings to see if the sell-off is a…
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AppLovin Fell 38% — Broken Thesis or Buying Opportunity? (APP Stock Deep Dive)
AppLovin (APP) stock fell 38% after earnings — but is the digital advertising thesis actually broken, or is this a buying opportunity? Shares dropped roughly…
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ENVX Stock: CEO Quits Days After Q2 Earnings Miss
Enovix stock just hit an all-time low — and then the CEO abruptly resigned. We break down the Q2 2026 earnings, the cash runway, and whether this small bet is…
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Why We're NOT Buying Fastly (Even at 22% Growth)
Fastly's revenue just re-accelerated into the mid-20% range — but our reverse DCF says the stock still needs 22%+ FCF growth for a decade to justify $26…
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What Is Cloudflare's Biggest Risk? Hyperscaler Vertical Integration -- CSI Supply / Value Chain Demo
Cloudflare is growing 30%+ a year — but our supply chain mapping shows a warning sign most investors are missing. In this deep dive, we map the entire CDN…
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The CDN Stocks Compared: Cloudflare vs. Akamai vs. Fastly | New Dashboard Preview
CDNs have quietly become one of the most important layers of internet and AI infrastructure, moving everything from website traffic to large-scale AI data…
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SMCI: Everyone's Bullish Again — The Numbers Say Otherwise
Super Micro Computer is trending on social media again. Before you follow the hype, here's what the actual numbers say. CSI breaks down SMCI's most recent…
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Applied Materials (AMAT): Record Quarter, China Recovery & the Selloff Explained
Applied Materials just guided toward its first ever quarter exceeding ten billion dollars in revenue, with year-over-year growth above fifty percent at the…
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DigitalOcean Sold Off After Earnings — Buy the Dip?
DigitalOcean just raised its 2026 growth guidance to 30–31%, and the stock sold off anyway. In this episode we work through what DigitalOcean's (DOCN) Q2…
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The Healthcare Bubble No One's Talking About (with Dr. Bradley Gibson)
A practicing pathologist explains why DaVita, UnitedHealth, and Natera are playing fundamentally different games — and why one of them could break first…
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SanDisk (SNDK) Crashed 40% — Buy the Dip or Falling Knife?
SanDisk (SNDK) fell from $2,000 to $1,200 as memory stocks sold off hard — but is the panic justified? In this episode, Chip Stock Investor breaks down what…
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Palantir Q2 2026: What's Really Driving 149% Growth
Palantir just reported Q2 2026 earnings, and the headline number, revenue nearly doubling year over year, only tells part of the story. We go beyond the…
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Rocket Lab's 8 Billion Dollar Bid for Iridium
Rocket Lab has proposed acquiring Iridium Communications in an eight billion dollar deal combining new stock issuance and cash. We break down why this move…
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Alphabet Earnings: The Conglomerate Discount Explained
Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings show a company with two different stories depending on where you look, and we break down the conglomerate discount hiding in the…
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$900B in AI CapEx, $1.5T Coming in 2027 — Is the Semiconductor Cycle Still Intact?
Nearly $580 billion in trailing twelve-month capital expenditure across Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, Tesla, and SpaceX. Full year 2026 approaching…
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Seagate (STX): HDDs Roar Back on AI Storage Demand
Seagate's latest results show hard disk drives making a real comeback as NAND and SSD prices rise and hyperscalers turn to HDDs for flexible, massive AI…
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ServiceNow (NOW): Down 60%, But Now a Cybersecurity Player
ServiceNow has been hammered in the software selloff, but our Q2 2026 earnings breakdown reveals a business quietly repositioning itself for the AI edge. CEO…
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Honeywell Technologies (HON): Buy After the Breakup?
Honeywell has completed its long-awaited breakup, separating Honeywell Aerospace from the newly focused Honeywell Technologies. CSI walks through Honeywell's…
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Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Stock Down 40%: Buy the Dip?
Intuitive Surgical posted double-digit growth in revenue, procedures, and installed base but ISRG stock is down over 40% from its highs. We dig into why the…
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Mycronic Raises Guidance: Why We're Still on the Sidelines
Mycronic just raised full-year guidance after a surprise rebound in equipment orders, and the stock already popped on the news. Here's what's actually driving…
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Netflix Stock: Is the Q2 Sell-Off a Buying Opportunity?
Netflix just posted its slowest revenue growth in over a year, and the stock got hammered. We break down why the sell-off might be mispricing what's actually…
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Intel's Packaging Edge: EMIB, Foveros vs. TSMC CoWoS
Intel's recent rally has investors asking whether the turnaround is real, but the answer may have less to do with wafer manufacturing and more to do with…
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Solstice's $4.5B Element Solutions Deal: Why It Sold Off
Solstice Advanced Materials is acquiring Element Solutions (NYSE: ESI) in a $4.5 billion deal that would create a combined semiconductor and electronics…
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Hyperscaler CapEx Hits $800B: Why Memory & Optical Stocks Are Booming
Hyperscaler capital expenditure is on pace to hit $800 billion in 2026, up from $482 billion just a few quarters ago, and the trajectory points toward $1…
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Qualcomm Is Quietly Becoming an AI Data Center Stock
Qualcomm just held its 2026 Investor Day, and the headline number is a new $15 billion AI data center revenue target for 2029 — up from essentially zero two…
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IBM NanoStack CFET: Turning Patents Into Chip Royalties
IBM just unveiled NanoStack, its take on the CFET transistor architecture that succeeds gate-all-around as the next step in chip scaling — and it could turn…
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Jensen Called Marvell a $1T Stock — We're Not Buying It
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) stock has surged since Jensen Huang called it the next trillion-dollar company — we ran a reverse DCF on the Q1 FY2027 earnings to see…
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Memory & Optical Stocks Up 100%+ in 2026: Why We're Not Selling (Micron, SK Hynix, SanDisk, Lumentum)
Memory and optical semiconductor stocks have been the standout trade of 2026, with holdings like Micron, SK Hynix, and SanDisk up well over 100% year-to-date…
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Cybersecurity & Capital Allocation: Is Rubrik (RBRK) a Buy?
Rubrik (RBRK) stock is down near $70 after peaking above $89 — but its subscription ARR is still growing over 30%. Here's the reverse DCF and margin math…
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Micron's $100 Billion Backlog: Are Take-or-Pay Agreements Changing the Memory Cycle?
The memory chip industry has historically been plagued by vicious boom-and-bust cycles, but Micron is taking aggressive steps to rewrite the rules. In this…
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AppLovin Stock: Is It Time to Buy the Dip?
AppLovin stock posted 59% revenue growth and a 70% free cash flow margin in Q1 2026—numbers that look more like cheat codes than a real business. We break down…
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AI Data Center Supply Chains & Indium Phosphide: A Look at Oxford Instruments
In this episode, CSI is cutting through the social media noise to bring you a vintage Chip Stock Investor breakdown of the semiconductor supply chain. Today…
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SpaceX IPO, Orbital Data Centers & Investing in Quantum Computing | CSI with Simon Erickson of 7investing
In this episode of CSI Live, Nick sits down with Simon Erickson from 7investing to unpack the latest breakthroughs in high-tech infrastructure. The…