{"slug": "nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off", "title": "Nasdaq 100 slides into correction as global chip and memory stocks sell off", "summary": "The Nasdaq 100 briefly entered correction territory Tuesday as global chip and memory stocks sold off sharply, with shares of Sandisk, Western Digital, Seagate, Micron, and AMD all falling around 10% in early trading. The sell-off followed a report that a Chinese state-backed firm had begun mass production of domestic chip-making tools, and comes ahead of major earnings reports from Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft this week. JPMorgan said AI-related spending by companies is set to approach about $870 billion by year-end 2026, up 77% from a year ago.", "body_md": "Chip stocks around the world sold off sharply on Tuesday, the latest chapter in the months long jitters surrounding artificial intelligence, memory and chip stocks.\n\nThe sell off briefly pushed the Nasdaq-100 index into correction territory, which is a drop of 10% or more from its most recent record high. The influential index tracks the top 100 non-financial companies traded on the Nasdaq exchange.\n\nShares of several chip and memory giants, including Sandisk, Western Digital, Seagate, Micron, and AMD all fell around 10% in early trading.\n\nDell Technologies, which produces servers that use chips and memory made by those firms, tumbled 13%. Intel shares slid 7%.\n\nThe selling kicked off overnight in Asia, with stocks traded on markets in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.\n\nBoth Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the primary manufacturers of memory used in AI data centers, plunged more than 15%. Kioxia, another computer storage maker, plummeted 18%.\n\nThe latest wave of investor unease followed a report on Monday that a Chinese state-backed firm was beginning mass production of domestic chip-making tools.\n\nHowever, the report did not name the company. NBC News was not able to verify the report.\n\nStill, shares of established firms that make chip manufacturing equipment such as ASML, Canon and Nikon fell sharply on the news.\n\nTuesday’s moves also come ahead of major earnings reports later in the week from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and other companies that are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data centers. Those results could prove pivotal to the trajectory of the market.\n\nLast week, Alphabet shares plunged 7% after the company reported its own results and increased its projected capital expenditures[ to as much as $205 billion](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjW0sWW4PWVAxUyFlkFHf7iFCsQFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusiness%2Fgoogle-quarterly-cloud-revenue-growth-beats-expectations-2026-07-22%2F&usg=AOvVaw3GMOIm5dlCMx8A0arbiMPt&opi=89978449). Most of that will go to building and expanding data centers.\n\nEvercore technology analyst Mark Mahaney said last week that Alphabet would likely set the stage for Microsoft and Amazon to do the same when they report this week.\n\n“The Capex increase increases the odds of similar behavior from AWS and Azure,” he wrote in a note on Wednesday, referring to capital expenditures, or money companies spend on building physical infrastructure.\n\nStill, despite investor jitters, “cloud demand appears relentless,” he added.\n\nOn Friday, JPMorgan said that artificial intelligence-related spending by companies is set to approach “about $870bn by year-end 2026.” That’s 77% higher than the same spending a year ago.\n\nSo-called hyper scalers like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet represent “about $750bn of that total,” said JPMorgan head of cross-asset strategy Fabio Bassi.\n\nApple, which is not spending hundreds of billions of dollars building its own data centers, rallied about 1% Tuesday to a more than $5 trillion market cap for the first time. Apple has also surpassed Nvidia as the world’s largest public company.\n\nNvidia shares were slightly higher mid-morning.\n\nBeyond the rout in chip stocks, U.S. markets overall continued to power higher.\n\nIn mid-day trading, the S&P 500 traded higher, while the Russell 2000 was only slightly lower.\n\n“Nothing seems to shake this market,” wrote HSBC’s Max Kettner in a Monday note.\n\nPart of that has to do with positive earnings results so far this quarter. “Even when excluding the blockbuster numbers from Alphabet, the average earnings surprise is well in excess of the post-COVID-19 pandemic average,” he wrote.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off", "canonical_source": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/nasdaq-100-correction-tech-stocks-rcna589630", "published_at": "2026-07-28 16:17:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 16:25:41.295041+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Nasdaq 100", "Sandisk", "Western Digital", "Seagate", "Micron", "AMD", "Dell Technologies", "Intel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasdaq-100-slides-into-correction-as-global-chip-and-memory-stocks-sell-off.jsonld"}}