Marvell (MRVL) news that moved the stock

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Dell Technologies (DELL) jumped about 14% in Wednesday's afternoon session to around $382.93, after the company announced an expansion of its AI Data Platform with enhanced storage, search and analytics features, and partnered with KIOXIA America to create a 157 petabyte object storage architecture built in a standard 42U rack using Dell ObjectScale on PowerEdge servers with KIOXIA 245.76 TB solid-state drives. The move came as CoreWeave's better-than-expected Q3 results eased fears of cooling AI infrastructure spending and lifted the whole AI hardware complex.

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CoreWeave (CRWV) reported third-quarter 2026 results after Tuesday's close that beat expectations across the board: revenue of $3.66 billion, up 168% year over year and above the roughly $3.55 billion LSEG consensus, with adjusted operating income of $379 million — well above its $200-260 million guidance — and a record revenue backlog of $132.5 billion, up 138% year over year. The company raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $13.0-13.3 billion and lifted its exit-ARR target to $20-21 billion, while forecasting adjusted profitability in the first half of 2028. Shares rose 7.9% in after-hours trading Tuesday to $52.58, then jumped more than 16% in Wednesday premarket trading. The beat ignited a broad premarket rebound in beaten-down AI and semiconductor shares: Nasdaq 100 futures were up 555 points, S&P 500 futures up 71 and Dow futures up 88, with Nvidia rebounding about 4.4% after two sharply lower sessions and Micron and Marvell also advancing.

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The AI-spending selloff extended into a third straight day of tech declines on Monday, November 2. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.07% to 25,164.32 and the S&P 500 slipped 0.51% to 7,541.40, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.41% to 51,983.98 — the only major index to finish higher. Technology was the worst sector at -2.66%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 3.37%. Intel tumbled another 8.8% after its ~30% Friday collapse; Marvell Technology plunged 12.72% and Lumentum 18.59% as the market punished the $115B all-stock merger; Oracle sank 8.85% to $119.10 after filing a $20B stock-and-bond raise; Micron fell 5.7% and Seagate 8%.

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Lam Research (LRCX) tumbled about 11.8% Thursday — far beyond Wednesday's ~5% after-hours dip — after analysts trimmed price targets following the company's warning that near-term supply constraints could push some December-quarter shipments into March 2027, with guidance for adjusted fiscal Q2 earnings slightly weaker than expected. The crash ignited a broad semiconductor selloff: the PHLX Semiconductor Index dropped 6.7%, with KLA and GlobalFoundries down more than 9%, and Marvell, Intel and AMD each falling more than 8%. Motley Fool noted midday that Lam's supply-chain warning had become the catalyst for the day's AI-stock jitters, and the semiconductor rout fed the Nasdaq's worst session since June (-2.6%), its lowest close in over a month, with the S&P 500 falling 1.2% and both dipping below their 50-day moving averages.

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South Korean AI cloud and data-center company Elice plunged 32% on its Seoul trading debut Tuesday — the worst debut for a sizable company in years — reigniting doubts about the sustainability of the AI spending boom. The KOSPI fell 3.7% to close at its lowest level in more than six months, with memory giants SK Hynix and Samsung leading the decline. The weakness crossed into U.S. trading: Nasdaq 100 futures were down 0.4% (S&P 500 futures flat, Dow futures up 0.2%), and chip stocks including Micron, Marvell, and SanDisk each fell more than 2% in U.S. premarket trading. Separately, WTI crude jumped more than 3% and Brent topped $111 a barrel — up 13% in October — on lingering Middle East supply risks.

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Marvell Technology used its investor day on Tuesday, Oct 6, to unveil long-term financial targets of $70 billion to $90 billion in revenue for fiscal 2031. The outlook implies roughly 55% to 60% annual growth over the next half-decade, driven by AI data-center demand for its custom silicon and networking products. Shares advanced about 5% Tuesday, with investors treating the targets as a credible signal that AI infrastructure spending has a long runway.