** Super Micro Computer SMCI.O , Arm Holdings ARM.O and
some other AI-related names rise in extended trading after
industry bellwether Nvidia's NVDA.O qtrly report
** NVDA's shares rising >8% post-market after it forecasts
fiscal Q1 rev of $24 bln, topping consensus of $22.17 bln, per
LSEG
** SMCI rallies 9% in extended trading. Service provider,
which buys chips from NVDA, fell 6.8% on Weds with the stock
suffering 3rd straight session of losses
** ARM up ~6%. British chip designer's stock had gained 1.3%
on Weds after announcing new offering to speed creation of
custom data center chips
** Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies PLTR.N up >3%
** Shares of SoundHound AI SOUN.O , which offers voice for
AI businesses, up 6%
** Recursion Pharma RXRX.O , which beefed up its AI focus
last year by acquiring two firms in AI-driven drug discovery
space, up 6%
** Israeli medical imaging tech provider Nano-X Imaging
NNOX.O up 4% post-market after tumbling 10.6% on Weds
** Other names on the rise: C3.ai Inc AI.N , BigBear.ai
Holdings BBAI.N , Guardforce AI Co GFAI.O all up about 3%
** Global X Robotics and Artificial Intelligence ETF
BOTZ.O up 1.7% after the bell. The ETF had declined 1.2% in
the regular session
** NVDA is the top BOTZ holding as of Feb 20 with ~19%
weighting, per the fund's website
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com
lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))