My pick is ①: Inference / AI Agents.
Selling off Asian chip stocks just because AI leaders said "slow down" is a knee-jerk overreaction. Slowing down frontier training doesn't mean stopping construction. Foundation models are already big enough. The money is shifting from chasing model benchmarks to monetizing inference and agents.
High-frequency inference consumes HBM and DRAM even more persistently. The memory logic is intact. ASICs and networking will benefit as demand diversifies.
Today's broad sell-off is a textbook headline-driven panic. Don't hand over your core chips. Let Micron's Sept 30 earnings show the real demand numbers. I'm watching for dips, not joining the bears.
AI Giants Call for Slowdown — Can Chip Stocks Hold?
Chips closed Friday strong: SOXL +5.23%, Marvell +4.03% to $236.10, Intel +2.61% to $102.94, AMD +2.49%, Nvidia flat at −0.03%. Over the weekend Anthropic's Amodei called publicly for slowing frontier model development, and Altman and Musk both backed him, all three endorsing independent safety evaluations. By Monday's pre-open the sector had turned: SOXL −6.94%, Intel −3.68%, Marvell −3.49%, Nasdaq-100 futures −1%, the Nikkei −2%. Nobody has announced halted training or cut capex — this is a shock to expected demand, not to orders. Safety testing and inference burn compute too. Buy this dip?
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