US stocks fell on Friday as the tech sell-off extended: the Nasdaq closed down 2.1% at 26,140.03 for its first weekly loss in five weeks and worst since June, and the S&P 500 lost 1.1%.
Apple opened pre-orders for the foldable iPhone Duo at 8:00 a.m.
TSMC reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of about US$46.7 billion, up 41.2% year over year, with gross margin of 66.4%, operating margin of 58.7% and net income of NT$763.06 billion (diluted EPS NT$29.43).
Tesla unveiled the long-delayed next-generation Roadster at an event at a SpaceX test site in Texas on October 15.
Supermicro filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on Oct 15, 2026, 9:08 AM ET, reporting an event dated Oct 14, 2026.
ASML reported record third-quarter 2026 net sales of €11.7 billion and net income of about €5.0 billion, up from €9.3 billion of sales in the second quarter.
SK hynix's Seoul shares closed 10.09% lower at 1,443,000 won on October 13, Samsung Electronics fell 7.39%, and the KOSPI closed down 5.46% at 6,035.35.
Marvell expanded its AI scale-up connectivity line with the Alaska E 3.2T protocol-aware retimer and a second-generation Alaska A 1.6T active electrical cable DSP, both now sampling to customers.
Marvell, Microsoft and Oracle founded a new Open Compute Project working group to define an open specification for an integrated hardware security module at the server level.
Microsoft's lifecycle table lists October 13, 2026 as the end-of-support date for the Office 2021 family, including Publisher 2021 and Word 2021, and for Office LTSC 2021.
IonQ filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on Oct 13, 2026, 6:03 AM ET, reporting an event dated Oct 9, 2026.
Palantir announced on October 12, 2026 that it will release third-quarter 2026 results after the close of US markets on Monday, November 2.
Intel said on October 12, at the OCP Global Summit, that it is contributing to the Open Adapter Card workgroup.
Applied Materials unveiled its EPIC Center on October 12, 2026, at its Sunnyvale, California campus.
IonQ agreed to acquire Elisity, a zero-trust security company, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3 billion, including up to $150 million in performance earnouts.
Cerebras shares fell about 10% on October 12, a post-IPO low well below the $185 IPO price, while the iShares Semiconductor ETF fell 2.5%.
Wells Fargo analyst Michael Turrin moved Adobe from Overweight to Underweight and cut the price target to $225 from $270.
Bloom said it will report third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close on October 22, 2026.
Marvell announced second-generation Structera X 3406 and 3506 CXL 3.2 memory expanders, which it calls the industry's first six-channel CXL 3.2 memory expanders for AI inference.
NVIDIA's GTC Berlin page, posted October 12, says the event runs October 20 to 22 and that Jensen Huang gives the keynote on October 21 at 11 a.m.
On October 12, at the Open Compute Project Global Summit, Texas Instruments introduced three data-center power products.
NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans for USFP, a high-density 400 Gb/s-per-lane optical module timed to the OCP Global Summit.
At the OCP Global Summit NVIDIA contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs through the open MGX architecture and released four open-source DSX AI Factory components.
Arista said it will demonstrate its new rack-scale AI portfolio at the OCP Global Summit, October 12 to 15, 2026, at Booth E61.
Broadcom shares reversed from a $380 resistance zone and moved toward $350 on October 12, 2026, trading around $357 at the time of the FX Leaders report.
NVIDIA's October 12 France post says Altair-1, the first satellite in a $1 billion, 50-satellite constellation run by Loft Orbital and Orbitworks, has reached orbit.
Apple launched App Store Indie Games Week on October 12, 2026, featuring seven indie titles making their App Store debut, among them Sifu, Vampire Crawlers and No Man's Sky.
Micron fell about 4% on Monday, October 12, 2026, in the morning session.
AMD unveiled Helion, an open blueprint for agentic AI infrastructure built on the Helios rack approach and contributed to the Open Compute Project.
Strategy said on October 12 that it bought 250 bitcoin at an average of $86,194 for the period October 5 to 11, lifting holdings to 848,250 BTC.
CXMT's chief executive said at the 4th Integrated Circuit and Chiplet Conference in Shanghai on October 9 to 10 that the company has made progress on a 4F² DRAM cell design using vertical surround gate transistors.
Cisco filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on Oct 9, 2026, 4:08 PM ET, reporting an event dated Oct 7, 2026.
The jury in Qualcomm's breach-of-contract case against Arm began deliberating on October 9 and had not announced a verdict when the reporting was published.
Apple shares fell more than 2.5% in early trading on October 9, 2026 after Nikkei Asia reported that Apple cut iPhone 18 Pro component orders by at least 15% for October on weaker-than-expected demand.
Palantir shares rose 5.17% to a record close of $209.05 on Friday, October 9, 2026, above the prior high of $207.18 set in November 2025.
China's CPCA data, as reported by Newsquawk on October 9, 2026, put Tesla's September sales of China-made vehicles at 95,366.
IonQ reported a photonic link between a trapped-ion system and a silicon-vacancy quantum memory that produced more than 1,000 entanglement events per second.
Barclays raised its price target on Strategy to $175 from $160 on October 9, 2026, and kept its Overweight rating.
On October 9, 2026 Shopify began sharing compare-at prices with agentic shopping channels through Shopify Catalog.
Micron filed its annual report on Form 10-K with the SEC on Oct 9, 2026, 8:21 AM ET, covering the fiscal year ended Sep 3, 2026.