Navitas Semiconductor Corp. witnessed a surge in message volume among retail investors on Stocktwits last week. One of the reasons for the rise in retail interest is an upcoming announcement from the company – Navitas is scheduled to reveal a “breakthrough in power conversion” that includes

Nvidia sells the lion’s share of the parallel compute underpinning AI training, and it has a very large – and probably dominant – share of AI inference.

The hardest thing about making custom AI chips for large, demanding customers might be the expectations that go with it. Shares of Marvell Technology slid Thursday morning following its quarterly report.

"While unwelcome, volatility is common in semi stocks and does not always presage a fundamental shift," Bank of America said.

The AI chipmaker offered an upbeat second-quarter outlook that was a silver lining in the otherwise downtrodden AI trade.

The chipmaker fell sharply early Thursday as its slight earnings outlook failed to impress investors looking for a boost to the AI trade.

Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) stock is losing ground today. The company's share price was down 5.8% as of 2:30 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index was down 2% at the same point in the day's trading, and the Nasdaq Composite index was down 2%.