What happened
Many major semiconductor companies enjoyed strong share price gains on Tuesday, starting their climbs near 10 a.m. EDT, and peaking two hours later. The moves mirrored similar price trends across the stock market, amplified as each of these stocks bounced back from
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) broke out more specs for its next-generation Xbox hardware on Monday, and the system will likely be the most-powerful video game console ever when it releases. The Xbox Series X is slated to launch this holiday season, but manufacturing issues stemming f
Chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) may be losing market share to its top CPU rival Advanced Micro Devices, but it's just assured itself commanding control of the digital nose market. The company's Loihi neuromorphic chip has just proven itself capable "smelling" certain chemicals pr
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) came into 2020 with solid momentum in the PC processor market thanks to its technological advantage over main rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). As it turns out, Intel's supply-related bottlenecks and the failure of its 10-nanometer (nm) CPUs (cent
The coronavirus pandemic recently killed the 11-year-old bull market and opened the floodgates for the bears. Bear markets are inevitable, but buying dividend growth stocks that regularly raise their payouts can help you weather grizzly times -- especially if you reinvest those
The novel coronavirus pandemic is disrupting supply chains and consumer spending worldwide, and many companies are postponing new product launches until the crisis ends. Those headwinds could impact Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ahead of their planned gaming cons