Wall Street Buys SaaS, Sells Chips as AI Slowdown Fears Hit Marvell 5.5%
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 14
Wall Street Buys SaaS, Sells Chips as AI Slowdown Fears Hit Marvell 5.5%
2 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 14
Summary
Enterprise software stocks rose sharply in Monday premarket trading while semiconductor names sold off, marking one of the clearest expressions yet of Wall Street’s “long software, short chips” AI rotation.
Dario Amodei’s weekend call to “pace the frontier” added to worries that AI development and model-training investment could slow, reinforcing concerns already stirred by safety-staff departures at major labs.
Marvell fell 5.5%, Intel 4.9%, Applied Materials 4.6% and Micron 4.4%, with AMD, Broadcom and Nvidia also lower as investors questioned hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending.
CrowdStrike gained 4.5%, while ServiceNow and Atlassian rose 3.5%, reflecting a view that recurring enterprise software revenue can keep benefiting from AI adoption even if data-center capex plateaus.
The shift suggests investors are breaking the two-year pattern that lifted both chips and software together, separating hardware exposure from downstream software beneficiaries.