It is a make-or-break week for the AI trade. After the market shrugged off strong results from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ:WDC) last week, a smaller but no less volatile group of names takes the spotlight between Monday and Friday.
The headliner is Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), one of the best performing chip names of 2026 with a triple-digit rally of about 110%.