Meta's Pivot to Cloud Leasing Sparks Concerns of Computing Power Oversupply. Micron Falls Nearly 10%, Marvell Plunges 7%: Is the Logic Behind AI Hardware Stocks Shaken?
TradingKey - On July 1, Eastern Time, AI hardware stocks came under pressure, with memory and optical communication stocks plummeting across the board. SanDisk (SNDK) fell 10.82%, Micron Technology (MU) dropped 9.7%, Corning (GLW) fell over 13%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) slid over 7%, and Lumentum (LITE) declined more than 6%. Reportedly, Meta plans to enter the cloud computing market, transitioning from a pure buyer of computing power to a computing power leasing provider. According to media reports, Meta is officially planning its AI cloud infrastructure business, transforming from a pure purchaser of computing power into a market participant with supply capabilities. It is simultaneously developing two business lines—model services and bare-metal computing power leasing—to directly compete with the three traditional cloud giants, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, while posing a disruptive threat to vertical AI computing power providers such as CoreWeave.