At AMC, no more “preferred” stocks
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
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Summary
Some companies have preferred and common stock options — sorta like the difference between cushy reserve-ahead recliners and run-of-the-mill seating at a movie theater. AMC has both types, but just worked out a deal to consolidate them all to the regular kind. We’ll dive into why. Plus, chip companies want to integrate AI and China thwarts U.S. semiconductor ambitions.
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to the stock of some companies, you can get the middle seat back in |
| 0:05.2 | codes like everyone else, or you can go business class. |
| 0:08.9 | We'll explain. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm David Brinkhacho in New York. |
| 0:12.0 | First, it's not just everyone else's content that fuels generative artificial intelligence. |
| 0:17.6 | The computer processing for AI requires powerful semiconductor chips. |
| 0:22.1 | That need for silicon is in turn fueling what's expected to be the biggest launch of a new |
| 0:26.5 | stock in about two years. |
| 0:28.5 | A microchip company called ARM has just unveiled to investors what they would be buying. |
| 0:33.0 | The prospectus for its big stock sale, ARM is based in Britain, but is owned by the |
| 0:37.4 | Japan-based conglomerate soft bank. |
| 0:39.9 | ARM's initial offering of stock could shape the next leg of this artificial intelligence |
| 0:43.8 | boom we're living. |
| 0:45.5 | Marketplace's Henry Epp joins me now. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, David. |
| 0:48.5 | So ARM has been around for over 30 years, and it designs chips that make all kinds of |
| 0:52.8 | things run, smartphones, PCs, cars. |
| 0:55.6 | The company estimates 70% of the world's population uses devices with ARM technology |
| 1:00.7 | inside them, but it's the potential of AI that could determine the company's future. |
| 1:05.2 | You might have heard of another AI chip company in Vidia. |
| 1:08.1 | They've been the high-flying tech stock this year thanks to their technology's support |
| 1:12.0 | of chat GPT. |
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