Not sure but I like the 1:3:2 call fly 87-90-91.5 @ $0.65 for a low risk play for this week. Lots of OI at the short 90 strike.
The only thing semiconductor stocks do is go straight up. It's been record after record after record after record after record historical highs for so long now....trend is up and away into infinity because they are semiconductor stocks and that's what they do. Just keep going up.
Their product line up is the undisputed leader for retail & server chips so its just a matter of time before goes higher. Seems like the best time to buy AMD is after the earnings sell off which just happened. Intel chips are in perpetual decay since their management has been twiddling their thumbs since at least 2016. The new graphics cards at AMD (Radeon RX 6900 XT) rival even the flagship RTX 3090 from nVidia. The 6900 XT has 99% of the performance at 67% of the cost.
Intel has been struggling with their manufacturing process for a long time now. They're yet to release 10nm desktop chips.
Right, but it goes deeper than that. From 2011 (1155 chipset) to 2017 (1151 chipset) their CPUs were barely any faster. Why did they waste their time doing nothing to improve their CPU speed? The flagship CPU went up in speed 50% in 6 years -- which is a joke. The EPYC server chips by AMD completely obliterate the Xeon Gold CPUs -- twice the performance for 60% of the cost for multi CPU usage. The HEDT market that was once dominated by Intel has been complete usurped by AMD with their latest Threadripper CPUs. The flagship Threadripper CPUs are 250% faster than the LGA 2066 chips. I mean their management is terrible. The last CEO was a paper pushing CFO -- I mean what does he know about CPU lithography? He is going to compete against the likes of Dr. Lisa Su and here years of hardware experience. That is a joke. The strangest thing is the amount faith that wall street has in a company which could be on the verge of collapse like IBM.
Intel didn't have any incentives to improve their products as they used to have a total monopoly on the X86 CPU market. I guess that unwillingness to improve came back to haunt them a few years later. Bob Swan has a background in finance and not in technology while Dr. Lisa Su has a background in technology as she is a electrical engineer.
AMD's future is very much dependent on INTC's game plan under new CEO. Another key dependency is TSMC and it's starting to show on chip supply. AMD and TSMC objectives may not be totally aligned. AAPL's ARMS chip may post a challenge to x86.
Apple only poses a threat if biz migrates to macOS. I have three M1 Macs. I bought the base model Mini yesterday (all they have in stock) at the local Apple Store. Crazy benchmarks in single core. Wait until they launch that 50-core Mac Pro. I don't see (macOS) penetration beyond 20%. Streaming the SB, running TOS, iOS TOS, ProRealTime and BBG anywhere (iOS) and the CPU is at 75% (spiking to 25% utilization) idle on activity monitor. I realize it's only futures but this thing is a M1 with 8GB. The thing is amazing and utterly quiet.