With the advent of 2025, the benchmarks for investors in the stock market have not changed, many of them are still watching the activity of companies in the artificial intelligence sector with hope. Since Foxconn was one of the first to report preliminary fourth-quarter results, its earnings pushed shares of many other technology companies higher.
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Let’s remember that in the fourth quarter, Foxconn’s revenue grew by 15% to $63.9 billion, exceeding analysts’ expectations, and in December separately there was a revenue growth of more than 42%, driven primarily by demand for Foxconn’s services for the contract assembly of server systems for artificial intelligence infrastructure . In addition, the company’s management spoke quite positively about the prospects for revenue growth in the current quarter and the year as a whole.
In trading in Taiwan, shares of TSMC, which is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, rose 1.9% and updated a historical record. This dependence is natural, because TSMC is a contract manufacturer of chips for Nvidia and AMD, which are the largest suppliers of computing accelerators. SK hynix shares rose 10% as the company is the largest supplier of HBM memory for Nvidia accelerators, and even laggard Samsung Electronics saw its shares rise 4%.
Shares in ASML, the world’s largest supplier of lithography scanners, rose 6% in Europe, while German chipmaker Infineon saw its shares rise by almost the same amount. Franco-Italian STMicroelectronics, due to a proportional increase in the share price, increased its own capitalization by the same 6%. In fact, even Nvidia shares rose in price by a couple of percent before the opening of trading in the US. In addition, the stock market was fueled by Microsoft’s recent announcements of its intentions to spend about $80 billion in 2025 on developing its own artificial intelligence infrastructure. AMD shares rose 3% in pre-market trading, while Qualcomm and Broadcom shares rose nearly 2%.