Can chips rally without Big Tech?

Global stock markets have just wrapped up their strongest quarter in six years, but is the AI rally beginning to lose its foundations? While Nvidia, Micron and other chipmakers continue to surge, the companies funding the AI revolution are coming under growing pressure. Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon are all facing investor scrutiny over massive AI spending, rising borrowing costs and uncertain returns. If hyperscalers eventually slow their investment, can semiconductor stocks continue climbing on their own? Listen to find out more! Ipek Ozkardeskaya has begun her financial career in 2010 in the structured products desk of the Swiss Banque Cantonale Vaudoise. She worked at HSBC Private Bank in Geneva in relation to high and ultra-high net worth clients. In 2012, she started as FX Strategist at Swissquote Bank. She worked as a Senior Market Analyst in London Capital Group in London and in Shanghai. She returned to Swissquote Bank as Senior Analyst in 2020, and launched her own website ipekScope.com in 2025.