Semiconductor stocks have made their best start to a year since the dotcom bubble at the turn of the millennium as enthusiasm for AI and relentless demand for hardware power a historic Wall Street rally.
A roughly 75 per cent gain since the start of the year has left the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which tracks 30 of the world’s biggest US-listed chip manufacturers, on track for its largest annual return since 1999, according to Bloomberg data.
The index has gained more than $5tn in market value over the past two months — about 1.5 times the value of the UK’s flagship FTSE 100 index — on the back of increasingly optimistic bets on chip manufacturers’ future earnings.
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