15 AI Stocks Trending on Financial Media

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In this article, we discuss the 15 AI stocks trending on financial media.

The AI revolution has disrupted the technology industry, propelling memory chip firms into the spotlight after decades spent in the shadows of semiconductors and software giants. In order to understand the importance of memory chips to AI, investors should reflect on the centrality of data storage to AI technology. Memory chips store data that is used by AI firms for training models and storing parameters. News agency Reuters recently reported that Kioxia, a Japanese memory chip firm, is set to debut on the stock market with an initial valuation of close to $5 billion. In October, the firm had postponed plans for an IPO at double this valuation.

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Private equity firm Bain Capital is one of the most prominent backers of Kioxia. The latter is among the largest makers of NAND flash memory in the world. NAND quality directly affects the processing speed and overall performance of AI models. Bain led a consortium to acquire Kioxia from Toshiba for $18 billion in 2018. The private equity firm has tried twice to get the memory chipmaker listed on the stock exchange, once in 2018 and then again earlier this year.

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For this article, we selected AI stocks by combing through news articles, stock analysis, and press releases. These stocks are also popular among hedge funds.

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15 AI Stocks Trending on Financial Media

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AI Stocks Trending on Financial Media

15. GlobalFoundries Inc. (NASDAQ:GFS)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 22    

GlobalFoundries Inc. (NASDAQ:GFS) provides a range of mainstream wafer fabrication services and technologies worldwide. On November 22, Lightmatter, a photonics computing firm, announced that it would be extending a manufacturing partnership with GlobalFoundries. Tech news platform Data Center Dynamics reports that Lightmatter takes compute units or networking chips and builds them directly onto silicon photonics. Per the platform, this allows for improved escape bandwidth, the data transfer rate at which information can leave a computing component and connect to other components outside of its package.

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