Chip Stocks Slide as AI Leaders Call for Slowdown in Frontier Model Development

Price ActionIndustry Impact 4
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Seagate, Skyworks Solutions, Semtech, Nova, and FormFactor shares fell after the chief executives of Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX publicly united to call for a deliberate slowdown in the development of frontier AI models over escalating safety risks. According to CNBC, the sell-off was triggered by an essay published over the weekend by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who urged a more cautious approach to frontier model advancement and called for independent safety monitoring. The proposal was quickly endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Citigroup shifted to a neutral stance on broader equity risk, cautioning that any institutional pause or deceleration in AI deployments could temper corporate earnings growth and pressure chipmakers reliant on rapid infrastructure expansion. Among the decliners, Seagate fell 3.3%, Skyworks Solutions fell 9.3%, Semtech fell 10.4%, Nova fell 8.7%, and FormFactor fell 7.6%.

Impact on stocks 11

Semiconductors▼ · 4 stocks
FormFactor Inc
FORM
▼ NegativeDemandrelevance

AI leaders' call to slow frontier model development could temper chip infrastructure demand, sending FormFactor down 7.6%.

Semtech Corporation
SMTC
▼ NegativeDemandrelevance

Proposed AI development slowdown threatens demand for Semtech's chip-related products; shares fell 10.4%.

Skyworks Solutions Inc
SWKS
▼ NegativeDemandrelevance

Slower AI deployment could reduce demand for Skyworks' semiconductor solutions; shares fell 9.3%.

Artificial Intelligence▲ · 2 stocks
Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▼ · 1 stocks
Seagate Technology PLC
STX
▼ NegativeDemandrelevance

A pause in AI infrastructure expansion would curb demand for Seagate's storage products; shares fell 3.3%.

Digital Finance & Tokenization▲ · 1 stocks
Information Technology▲ · 1 stocks
Space Economy▲ · 1 stocks
Others▼ · 1 stocks

Off-coverage companies 2

AnthropicPrivate± Mixed
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OpenAIPrivate± Mixed
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