June 25, 2025
Intangible Assets

Inventory headwinds weigh on top 5 enterprise SSD vendors in 1Q25

TrendForce’s latest investigations reveal that several negative factors weighed on the enterprise SSD market in the first quarter of 2025. These include production challenges for next-gen AI systems and persistent inventory overhang in North America.  As a result, major clients significantly scaled back orders, causing the ASP of enterprise SSDs to plunge nearly 20%. This

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Tech giant posts massive 69% increase in revenue despite $4.5bn inventory writedown

Shares in Nvidia rose nearly 5% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company posted first-quarter earnings that beat market expectations, despite a substantial revenue loss stemming from tightened US export restrictions on chip sales to China. For the fiscal first quarter of 2026, Nvidia reported total revenue of $44.1 billion (£34.8 billion), up 69%

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2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks I’m Buying If the Market Crashes

Nvidia’s stock has soared thanks to its dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware. SoundHound AI is in the early innings of exploring a huge target market. Both stocks are promising but also expensive, and they could use a quick price correction. 10 stocks we like better than SoundHound AI › I don’t know where the

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Kantar crowns Apple world’s most valuable brand in 2025

Apple has once again claimed the top spot as the world’s most valuable brand, with Kantar estimating its worth at a staggering $1.29 trillion— 12% of the value of the entire top 100 list. According to Kantar’s 20th annual BrandZ report, Apple remains the most valuable brand for the fourth year running. Kantar has assigned

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Google Seizes Lead in Patents for Generative & Agentic AI

Google now spearheads innovation in artificial intelligence patent applications, leading in both generative AI and the burgeoning field of agentic AI, a significant shift in the IP landscape. This ascent, detailed in an analysis by IFI Claims Patent Services, places Google ahead of previous frontrunners like IBM. It highlights an accelerated pace of research and

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Nasdaq notches 6th day of gains as Nvidia, chips lead tech rally

Shares of AI leaders and chipmakers moved higher on Wednesday morning as easing trade tensions and new chip deals with Saudi Arabia lifted hopes for the tech sector. Here’s a look at some of the top tickers trending in premarket trading: Super Micro Computer (SMCI) stock soared more than 17% on Wednesday, adding on to

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Nasdaq edges higher as Nvidia, AMD lead chip gains

Shares of AI leaders and chipmakers moved higher on Wednesday morning as easing trade tensions and new chip deals with Saudi Arabia lifted hopes for the tech sector. Here’s a look at some of the top tickers trending in premarket trading: Super Micro Computer (SMCI) stock soared more than 17% on Wednesday, adding on to

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Touchscreen Macs, folding iPads due by the end of the decade

A folding iPad could bring much larger screens to Apple’s tablet lineup. Rumors claim foldable Apple products could dominate the second half of the 2020s, leveraging new screen technology to make devices such as the iPad even more portable. Analyst Jeff Pu has been a leading advocate for a foldable tablet, expecting to see the

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Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq smoked as Powell warns of ‘challenging’ tariff impact, Nvidia plunges 7%

Wall Street economists are tweaking their GDP growth estimates as new data trickles in, with Trump’s tariff whipsaw still firmly in the background. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tool, which uses already released data to forecast the quarterly pace of economic growth, now projects that GDP fell by 2.2% in the first three months of the

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Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq smoked as Powell warns of ‘challenging’ tariff impact, Nvidia plunges

Wall Street economists are tweaking their GDP growth estimates as new data trickles in, with Trump’s tariff whipsaw still firmly in the background. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tool, which uses already released data to forecast the quarterly pace of economic growth, now projects that GDP fell by 2.2% in the first three months of the

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