** Shares in European semiconductor and tech firms fall after U.S.-based company Oracle's ORCL.N quarterly results missed market expectations
** STOXX Europe Technology index .SX8P is down 0.8%, among the worst performers on the wider STOXX 600 .STOXX index, which slides 0.2%
** A local trader says Oracle's figures has stoked worries that corporate demand for its AI-cloud services is cooling
** "Should burden AI related names today," the trader adds
** Equipment manufacturers ASML ASML.AS and ASMI ASMI.AS fall around 1.2%, while Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics STMPA.PA is down 1%
** French chip materials supplier Soitec SOIT.PA, Belgian semiconductor firm Melexis MLXS.BR and German software developer Teamviewer TMV.DE are down around 1%
** Europe's largest software maker SAP SAPG.DE falls 2.9% to the bottom of Germany's blue-chip index .GDAXI
(Reporting by Ozan Ergenay)
((ozan.ergenay@thomsonreuters.com))