Taiwan Semiconductor cleared its June 30 peak by 1.99% with a new 52-week high at $485.80, a fresh record for a $2.5 trillion foundry that anchors the entire AI chip supply chain. The next test is whether it holds above the old ceiling.
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Nearly two years in Eric Bleeker's AI Portfolio, and the foundry that makes almost every leading AI chip has more than doubled: $1,000 at the October 2024 call is worth about $2,326 today. Anyone waiting for the geopolitical discount to close first has paid for the wait.
Two years in Eric Bleeker's AI Portfolio turned $10,000 into roughly $26,400 on the world's most indispensable chipmaker. The position cleared the double mark long ago and keeps extending as AI foundry demand compounds.
Two years in Eric Bleeker's AI Portfolio, and Taiwan Semiconductor has turned a $10,000 stake into roughly $26,420. The foundry that makes nearly every leading AI chip is still the cleanest way to own the buildout.
- AVGOBroadcom Inc. - Common Stock (AVGO)Buy$1K – $15KAug 12
- ROLRollins, Inc. Common Stock (ROL)Sell$15K – $50KAug 12
- TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSM)Buy$1K – $15KAug 12
A House member just rotated out of a defensive pest-control name and into the two chipmakers at the center of the AI buildout, all on the same August day. The sale was the biggest leg of the three, and the filing landed 41 days later, so the repositioning only becomes public now.
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/14/26
- Tim Cook, from Harrodsburg, Kentucky: Apple is putting $600 billion to work over four years across 79 US factories
- Cook credits the Corning glass partnership dating to the first iPhone in 2007 for reviving the town
- Cramer pushes back that the $2.5 billion Corning commitment is a drop in the bucket
- Cook argues the reshoring creates a domino effect pulling foreign suppliers onshore
Apple's capital now decides which US manufacturers get scale: Cook has put $600 billion behind the reshoring pledge, with Corning the first proof point. Cramer's challenge is whether that is anywhere near enough for holders of the supplier names.
- SNDKSANDISK CORP28%
- MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY INC27.5%
- BEBLOOM ENERGY CORP9.4%
- TSMTAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC6.2%
- NBISNEBIUS GROUP N.V.6.1%
As of Jun 30, 2026 · disclosed Aug 14, 2026 · ~45 days stale — long positions only.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness had 77.3% of its long book in five names as of June 30, with memory alone accounting for more than half. That is the portfolio behind the roughly $15 billion hit Jane Street took in July, disclosed only now and before the forced sale to Citadel.
- NVDANVIDIA CORPORATION19.2%
- CEREBRAS SYSTEMS INC16.2%
- METAMETA PLATFORMS INC7.8%
- TSMTAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MFG LTD6.9%
- CRWVCOREWEAVE INC6.2%
As of Jun 30, 2026 · disclosed Aug 14, 2026 · ~45 days stale — long positions only.
Brad Gerstner's Altimeter had 56% of its 20-stock book in five names as of June 30, with NVIDIA and Cerebras alone making up more than a third. That is an undiluted AI hardware bet, spanning chips, foundry, and cloud compute, disclosed roughly 45 days after the fact.
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