Semiconductor stocks soar on AI sentimentBloombergGlobal semiconductor stocks advanced yesterday, as comments by Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) at Davos, Switzerland, helped reinforce investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI). That came after the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose more than 3 percent to a fresh record on Wednesday, with a boost from Nvidia. Currency traders at the foreign exchange dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul yesterday celebrate as the KOSPI surged past 5,000 points. He told delegates that today’s AI boom “has started the largest infrastructure buildout in human history.”“We’re now a few hundred billion dollars into it... “Davos is all about AI Revolution,” Wedbush Securities Inc analyst Dan Ives wrote in a note.


Source:   Taipei Times
January 22, 2026 16:15 UTC