You mean this?: https://www.techpowerup.com/348229/...warranties-in-2025-compared-to-2024?type=News I have hated those damn 12VHPWR connectors from the beginning. Too small. Too much current. They need to ditch it fast and move on to something more robust.
I have been listening to the markets since before the open. AND.....we are now RED in all the big averages. When I saw what the big tech stocks were doing at the open it did not look good for the early day......and...now we are there. We are probably also seeing some profit taking off the new all time highs in the SP500 and NASDAQ. No doubt after the past 7-10 days we are due for a market pause or at least a weak day or two. Although.....how we close today and tomorrow are totally up in the air....as usual with the short term. S&P 500 and Nasdaq pull back after hitting fresh record highs https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Some good data and advice in this little article. Understanding Market Volatility: What History Teaches Us About Turbulent Times https://larryswedroe.substack.com/p/understanding-market-volatility-what ....."Volatility is not an aberration—it’s a fundamental feature of equity markets and the reason stocks command a premium return over safer investments. The key is understanding that while high volatility often accompanies short-term pain, it has historically been followed by recovery. The current market turbulence may be unsettling, but six decades of data suggests that staying the course with a well-diversified, factor-based approach is likely to serve long-term investors better than making dramatic changes in response to market swings.".....
What else is new.......if GREAT earnings no longer matter short term.....do they still matter medium and long term? AND...depending on the answer....do fundamentals in general matter anymore.....and.....if this evolves over time....what supports the markets? SORRY....I have no MAGIC ANSWER. We will have to wait till about 10-20 years from now to see....in hindsight...what the answer is. But basically I do know that if earnings and fundamentals do not matter......NOTHING....supports the markets. They are disconnected from REALITY. TSMC and ASML post-earnings stock moves could be a sign of what’s to come from chip companies https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/taiwan-semi-tsm-asml-stock-earnings-ai-chips.html "Key Points Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and ASML both reported strong earnings this week, but saw their stocks sink. It is the latest example of how astronomical expectations have weighed on chipmakers, as Nvidia’s last blowout report was met with a sell-off. Both TSMC and ASML showed robust demand continuing for AI chips."
I find this data amazing and significant. It shows the progress in our culture and society. Back in the late 1970's my....SINGLE SISTER......wanted to buy her first home. She was unable to get a mortgage as a single female without our parents co-signing for her. Even though she was fully qualified she was rejected for being a.....single female. 35% of Gen Z homebuyers are single women, research shows. Here’s why they need an estate plan https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/gen-z-homebuyers-single-women-estate-plan.html Of course....with how our family works and refusing to take no for an answer....she refused to give up and did get the loan with a different company. She lived in that house for the next.....35 years.....till moving back to Texas.
Depending on your family....this might be a good strategy. Man, 51, Says He Retired With $4M But Told Wife To 'Pretend That We Are Dead Broke' So Family Wouldn't Ask For Help —They're 'Livid' After Finding Out https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/man-51-says-retired-4m-131605619.html
LOTS of good POSITIVE content in this little article regarding PLTR. It is rare to see anything about the people that are the GUTS of this company.....and have been since it's founding. Peter Thiel's Billion‑Dollar Bet on Palantir: What His Roughly 4% Stake Really Means for Investors https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/peter-thiels-billion-dollar-bet-225131155.html ....."When a founder stays heavily invested in their own creation, it carries unusual weight. Moreover, a 4% stake in a company the size of Palantir, which boasts a market cap of $330 billion, amounts to more than $13 billion -- around half of Thiel's net worth. That keeps him incentivized to focus on the company's long-term performance.".....
WELL, well......we are seeing a bit of a come-back in the markets right now. The SP500 is now slightly green. AND....as I type this......the NASDAQ is now slightly green. AND.....AMZN, AAPL.....are now my ONLY red stocks. NVDA is on the bubble....bouncing back and forth between red and green.....but I believe it is now going to establish itself solidly in the green.....at least for now. YES.....the day is far from over. RIDING THE WAVE.
It looks like AMD has caught some wind in it's sail! Up over 6% today and nearly 40% in the last month! It's nice to see NVDA start recovering some of it's loses but it's a slow journey. It will be interesting to see where PLTR ends up in the next couple months after getting decimated.
NO....and I don't want it to be. My index....SP 500 Index Fund.....is dominated by the big tech companies that I also own as individual stocks. That is the way I like it. I want any index that I own to be dominated by and reward...the greatest companies in the world. Let the winners run. Is Your Index Fund Really Diversified? Market concentration is making even the total market index funds top-heavy. https://www.morningstar.com/funds/is-your-index-fund-really-diversified
OK.....another green day for my stocks. BUT....a very small gain. I also got beat by the SP500 by...0.23% today.
I expected much more market impact from this but....whatever. It is just a matter of time....how long these terror groups and Iran wish to be punching bags. Dow rises, S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch fresh records as war resolution hopes grow https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/a...s-as-war-resolution-hopes-grow-230116826.html "President Trump said Israel and Lebanon agreed to a temporary ceasefire, which has been a key sticking point in US-Iran negotiations."
Thank you.....DUH. An AI economic boom may be underway, and economists say the US is best positioned to benefit https://finance.yahoo.com/news/an-a...-is-best-positioned-to-benefit-182949936.html
AMD has been on a nice little run for sure. You still have some TireSmoke? If I remember correctly, TB16 kind of mentioned this back some time ago as a possibility. Maybe that is where NVDA money has been going.
There are so many announcements coming out daily and then changed. The media is reporting every little hope they can and conflicting reports. I observed a newscast earlier with this story as breaking news. At the same time they had a live shot of the city on a split screen as they were reporting. You could clearly see anti-aircraft fire being launched in the background…lol. I think collectively all sides should agree to call this whole deal Operation Liar, Liar. Nobody is being upfront and everybody is trying to save political face at this point. I think the market is starting to realize everybody involved is full of BS.
Smokie, here is what I know about AMD/nVidia. There has been conflicting reports about AMD's next gen. One said world beating, the other said underwhelming. AMD's next gen will be amazing and a significant step forward. nVidia has announced a bunch of stuff, some of which looks interesting. nVidia has performance and efficiency problems. I heard, some months ago, that nVidia had solved their bus speed issue with firmware (PCIe v4 and PCIe v5 performing identical on a PCIe capable board... Even PCIe v3 being close). It was a credible source in a CUDA group. That hasn't shown up at street level and it should have, given how important this fix is. Efficiency problems will have to be solved with process node advancement and that is coning but AMD will also be on leading edge nodes. At this point, AMD has the better GPU while nVidia has the better platform. CUDA scales like no other platform. AMD Helios promised to solve that but I don't see the uptake I was expecting. I don't know enough about it to call it a success or failure but every claim in this space needs to be scrutinised, as we live in a post truth era. Long term, neither AMD nor nVidia GPU platforms are the future of AI. Once the software gets more stable, ASICs will provide a 4 to 6 factor of efficiency step forward. Because the future is neither AMD or nVidia current platforms, its questionable if AMD's current efficiency lead is enough to sway many customers from CUDA. I wouldn't want to call that race but I think AMD will continue to make gains on the short term. AI time frames: When a company makes a big investment in nVidia CUDA, they aren't going to throw that out and switch to AMD a month later, regardless of benefit. They may choose AMD for expansion nodes, however. There are cases in which this makes sense. We are seeing this now. Helios has been around on paper for 6 months. If it proves to be popular, it will start gaining traction over the next 12 months, or so. Its a long game due to the massive capital inertia involved.
Nice little article. It is actually the opposite of what the headline suggests after reading it. We have seen this used by the financial media a number of times as a "concern." This changes overtime in the general index. It always has. People seem to forget what was in the top years ago, but somehow it wasn't an issue then. Sure enough, this will change again at some point down the road. For example, NVDA joined the party not that long ago in terms of time. From the article: Morningstar’s review of Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF says it suffers from high turnover and high volatility because it assigns the same weight to every S&P 500 stock. The higher volatility is exactly counter to the purpose of diversification. Higher fees and higher costs from turnover also increase risk because costs reduce the probability of getting total market returns. So, nothing to see here. The index continues to be one of the best inventions in the investing world for people to use. Extraordinarily low cost, passive management, and a great addition to a portfolio. Simple.
I will jump right to the BOOMING markets today. Dow surges 700 points after Iran signals shipping may resume through Strait of Hormuz https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/stock-market-today-live-updates.html RIDING THE WAVE.
I like this little article. Anatomy of a (Near-)Correction Underlying trends—and countertrends—show March’s sentiment-driven downturn reversing. https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/insights/market-commentary/anatomy-of-a-near-correction '......."But what you can take from this downturn that has lasting influence is this: When markets move so quickly, patience is your best asset. We don’t think trying to time mini-corrections or chase countertrends that reverse with no warning is a path to ongoing investment success.".....
