US chip stocks hit by China trade worries; Intel bucks trend
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** Chipmakers' shares tumble amid concerns about U.S.-China trade tensions and rout in the tech sector in the United States
** The U.S. has told its allies it is considering using the most severe trade restrictions available if companies continue giving China access to advanced semiconductor technology, Bloomberg News reported
** Nasdaq Composite index .IXIC falls 1.7% .N
** AI chipmaker Nvidia's NVDA.O shares fall 4.1%, memory chipmaker Micron Technology MU.O drops 4.5%
** Networking chipmakers Broadcom AVGO.O and Marvel Technology MRVL.O slide more than 4% each, while smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm QCOM.O loses 5.8%
** Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O, which makes AI chips as well as semiconductors for personal computers and servers, declines 5.7%
** U.S.-listed shares of contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing TSM.N down 5.9% after report U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump says Taiwan should pay U.S. for its defense
** Chipmaker Arm Holdings ARM.O falls over 4.6%
** Shares of chip-making equipment companies such as Applied Materials AMAT.O, Lam Research LRCX.O and KLA Corp KLAC.O fall between 5.6% and 6.5%
** The iShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX.O and the VanEck Semiconductor ETF SMH.O down more than 4% each
** Outliers include Intel INTC.O and contract manufacturer GlobalFoundries GFS.O, up 5.6% and 10.9%, respectively
** Analysts say TSMC's aspiring competitor INTC benefits from efforts to build plants in the U.S.
** Philadelphia Semiconductor index .SOX down 3.4% at a two-week low; as of last close SOX had risen 39% YTD vs 18.8% rise in benchmark S&P 500 .SPX
Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru
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