8 days ago
Micron and Nvidia continue to make headlines, but one tiny AI stock has drastically outperformed them both in terms of growth in 2026. Netlist (OTC: NLST) has more than quintupled year to date, and its rally looks far from over.
Its hardware sales have been surging in recent quarters, and its recent legal wins point to the end of a decade-long battle against tech giants.
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Netlist earned $109.8 million in its second quarter, a 163% year-over-year increase. Net income also flipped from a $6.1 million net loss in Q2 2025 to $1.4 million in net profits in the recent quarter.
Netlist makes most of its revenue by reselling hardware, but it is also developing CXL solutions that could become a major growth driver in the future. Fortune Business Insights projects a 54.48% compound annual growth rate for CXL memory products through 2034. Netlist is already making money from its DDR5 memory controllers, showing that its hardware revenue isn't just from reselling.
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Its hardware sales have been surging in recent quarters, and its recent legal wins point to the end of a decade-long battle against tech giants.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
Netlist earned $109.8 million in its second quarter, a 163% year-over-year increase. Net income also flipped from a $6.1 million net loss in Q2 2025 to $1.4 million in net profits in the recent quarter.
Netlist makes most of its revenue by reselling hardware, but it is also developing CXL solutions that could become a major growth driver in the future. Fortune Business Insights projects a 54.48% compound annual growth rate for CXL memory products through 2034. Netlist is already making money from its DDR5 memory controllers, showing that its hardware revenue isn't just from reselling.
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16 days ago
SMCI fell 4% and DELL dropped 3% after Netlist filed an ITC complaint over DDR5 patents, though SMCI remains up 28% for the week.
Micron rallied 4% despite being named in the Netlist filing, while SOXX gained 2%, both signaling sector rotation rather than fading AI demand.
Super Micro booked over $60 billion in new orders last quarter and guided fiscal 2027 revenue of $65 to $72 billion, driving last week's surge.
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Shares of Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) are down 4% to $38.4 Monday morning, giving back part of last week's rally as a fresh patent complaint over DDR5 memory modules lands on the AI server builders. The complaint names several major hardware vendors alongside memory supplier Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU).
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Micron rallied 4% despite being named in the Netlist filing, while SOXX gained 2%, both signaling sector rotation rather than fading AI demand.
Super Micro booked over $60 billion in new orders last quarter and guided fiscal 2027 revenue of $65 to $72 billion, driving last week's surge.
Act now: the ****** yst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Dell Technologies didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.
Shares of Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) are down 4% to $38.4 Monday morning, giving back part of last week's rally as a fresh patent complaint over DDR5 memory modules lands on the AI server builders. The complaint names several major hardware vendors alongside memory supplier Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU).
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29 days ago
Memory bandwidth and GPU processing power have been a key hardware bottleneck for AI infrastructure advancement. As server designs move to high-density DDR5 standards and High Bandwidth Memory configurations to support AI workloads, specialized memory interface designers like Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) are key to data center design. That said, as semiconductor companies pivot their business models from high-margin IP licensing to direct chip manufacture, investors have started to evaluate gross margin trends and capital intensity instead of just top-line growth.
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) displayed significant top-line performance on July 27, generating the highest quarterly revenue in the company's history for Q2 2026. Total revenue increased by 20% year-over-year and 15% sequentially to $207.4 million, exceeding the ****** yst forecast of $198.3 million. The product revenue segment, which includes memory interface chips related directly to server and AI data center installations, increased 22% year-over-year to $99.2 million, owing to the rollout of complete DDR5 9600 chipsets and growing server-memory content.
Management supported this momentum with optimistic third-quarter 2026 guidance that projected revenue between $210 million and $216 million, and GAAP diluted EPS of $0.59 to $0.67. This outlook was further bolstered by recent operational achievements, including the early commercial adoption of its DDR5 9600 chipsets and a significant HBM IP design win with a Tier-1 hyperscaler.
Despite record revenue and strong forward guidance, Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) shares fell as much as 20% in the sessions following the earnings announcement, with gross margin developments and evolving financial profiles driving institutional selling. Product gross margin landed in the low-60% area during the quarter, within management's 60% to 65% long-term target, though drifting toward the lower end due to product mix variations and supply chain cost pressures. More significantly, the trailing-twelve-month net margin decreased from 35.5% in the previous year to 31.7%.
Valuation multiples bring further scrutiny to these margin worries. Even after the 20% decline, Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) trades at a high forward price-to-earnings multiple of 24.27x. This marks a considerable premium to more mainstream AI semiconductor leaders like Broadcom (19.92x) and NVIDIA (20x). Trading at such a premium multiple leaves no room for execution delays or continued margin erosion, explaining why the market punished the company even with headline gains.
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Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) displayed significant top-line performance on July 27, generating the highest quarterly revenue in the company's history for Q2 2026. Total revenue increased by 20% year-over-year and 15% sequentially to $207.4 million, exceeding the ****** yst forecast of $198.3 million. The product revenue segment, which includes memory interface chips related directly to server and AI data center installations, increased 22% year-over-year to $99.2 million, owing to the rollout of complete DDR5 9600 chipsets and growing server-memory content.
Management supported this momentum with optimistic third-quarter 2026 guidance that projected revenue between $210 million and $216 million, and GAAP diluted EPS of $0.59 to $0.67. This outlook was further bolstered by recent operational achievements, including the early commercial adoption of its DDR5 9600 chipsets and a significant HBM IP design win with a Tier-1 hyperscaler.
Despite record revenue and strong forward guidance, Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) shares fell as much as 20% in the sessions following the earnings announcement, with gross margin developments and evolving financial profiles driving institutional selling. Product gross margin landed in the low-60% area during the quarter, within management's 60% to 65% long-term target, though drifting toward the lower end due to product mix variations and supply chain cost pressures. More significantly, the trailing-twelve-month net margin decreased from 35.5% in the previous year to 31.7%.
Valuation multiples bring further scrutiny to these margin worries. Even after the 20% decline, Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) trades at a high forward price-to-earnings multiple of 24.27x. This marks a considerable premium to more mainstream AI semiconductor leaders like Broadcom (19.92x) and NVIDIA (20x). Trading at such a premium multiple leaves no room for execution delays or continued margin erosion, explaining why the market punished the company even with headline gains.
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