Weekend Dip Dive: The Dips Worth Watching Market closed red across the board today. Nasdaq -1.54%. S&P 500 -1.24%. Dow -1.07%.  Inflation fear, rising yields, oil above $104, no Iran resolution. The headline looks scary. The opportunity list doesn’t. Here’s what got hit and why it matters: $NVDA — down ~4.4% today Hit a 52-week high of $236.54 just yesterday  on reports the US greenlit H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms. Today was pure profit-taking and macro fear — not a fundamental breakdown. The real event is next week. Nvidia reports Q1 FY2027 earnings after the close on May 20.  Street is expecting ~$78B revenue and $1.77 EPS — and Nvidia holds an estimated 75-85% market share in AI accelerators.  The dip into earnings is a gift if you believe in the print. TD Cowen has a $275 PT. Raymond James is bullish heading in. $AMD — down ~5.7% today Hit a daily high of $450.82 before closing near $420 — a -6.8% swing off the peak.  52-week range low was $107. It’s up nearly 4x from its lows. This is a sector-wide flush, not an AMD-specific story. Data center MI300X momentum is intact. $INTC — down ~6-7% today Traded from a session high of $116.22 down to $106.91 — an 8% intraday collapse.  The narrative is complex. Apple foundry partnership chatter is real, but analysts say it’s focused on legacy, lower-end chips. Still — Intel at $106 with a potential Apple relationship is a different story than Intel at $18 a year ago. $MRVL — down ~5% today Hit a 52-week high of $192.15 yesterday on the back of Cisco’s blowout earnings and AMD taking an equity stake in the company.  MRVL reports Q1 earnings on May 21 — same week as NVDA — with RBC at $200 PT and TD Cowen raising to $180 from $90.  Optical networking momentum is the thesis. This dip is pre-earnings noise. The print is the event. $MU — down ~6.6% today Pure macro flush. Retail sentiment stayed heavy on Stocktwits as traders discussed a looming Samsung Electronics labor strike that could divert memory demand directly toward Micron.  That’s a potential positive catalyst hiding inside a red day. $POET — down ~18% today A short-term correction after a meteoric 43% gain yesterday on the announcement of a $500 million+ contract with Lumilens for photonic integrated optical engines for AI hyperscaler data centers.  The contract is real. The deal is structural. The -18% is the market digesting a 43% single-day pop. The thesis is unchanged. $CBRS (Cerebras) — down ~10% today Surged 68% Thursday on its Nasdaq debut, approaching $100B valuation on just $500M in 2025 revenue.  Today’s -10% is the inevitable hangover from a 68% first-day pop. Still a volatile new listing — not a position for the faint of heart, but the AI chip competition narrative is very real. The macro backdrop for next week: The 10-year Treasury yield spiked to 4.55% — the highest in a year — while rate hike odds climbed to 45% for sometime in 2026, up from just 1% a month ago. Kevin Warsh officially takes over the Fed from Powell today.  New Fed chair + high oil + hot inflation = the market will be on edge heading into Monday. The calendar that matters: → $NVDA earnings — May 20 after close. The most important print of the year. → $MRVL earnings — May 21. Optical + datacenter read-through. → Walmart, Home Depot, Target earnings next week — consumer health check. Dips happen. Conviction is built in dips. Do your homework over the weekend.






