From $1.3 Trillion Wipeout to Record High: VanEck Chip ETF Looks to Micron for Next Move
19.06.2026 - 17:15:48 | boerse-global.de
Just weeks after one of the deepest one-day selloffs in memory, the VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF has clawed its way to within striking distance of a new high. The fund’s net asset value hit €107.24 after a 22 percent surge over the past 30 days, bringing its year-to-date gain to a staggering 95 percent. A snapshot from twelve months ago — when the ETF was priced at just €38.20 — underscores how radically the landscape has shifted for semiconductor investors.
The catalyst for the latest leg higher came on June 18, when President Trump took to Truth Social to announce a partnership between Apple and Intel to design and manufacture chips on American soil. Intel shares rocketed 10 percent in a single session, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index — the benchmark that underpins the ETF — jumped 6.3 percent to close at an all-time high. The rally swept through the sector: Applied Materials gained more than 4 percent, Lam Research climbed above 5 percent, and Micron Technology and Broadcom were among the strongest performers in the S&P 500.
That record sits in jarring contrast to the chaos that engulfed chip stocks less than two weeks earlier. On June 5, Broadcom’s third-quarter AI revenue forecast of $16 billion fell short of analyst estimates of roughly $17.2 billion, triggering a 10 percent plunge in the PHLX index — the worst one-day drop since March 2020. Broadcom shares had already tumbled 14 percent the day before. In total, some $1.3 trillion in market value evaporated across the semiconductor universe in a 24-hour span.
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The speed of the rebound has been remarkable. Intel, which had already more than doubled in 2026 before Thursday’s pop, bolstered its foundry ambitions by revealing at the VLSI Symposium on June 16 that its next-generation 18A-P process node had entered risk production. Meanwhile, AMD signed a deal with Rackspace Technology on June 17 to deploy 30 megawatts of AMD-powered AI compute capacity across Rackspace’s global data centers. AMD shares have surged over 130 percent year to date, making it the second-largest holding in the ETF at an 11.52 percent weighting.
Micron Technology commands the top slot with a 14.61 percent allocation, and all eyes are now on the memory-chip giant’s quarterly report due June 24. In the prior quarter, Micron beat profit forecasts by a third, and analysts are betting on another strong showing. Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips — essential for AI accelerators from Nvidia and AMD — has left the company entirely sold out for the coming quarters. Twenty-seven of 30 analysts rate the stock a buy, with UBS and Cantor Fitzgerald both citing substantial upside over the next twelve months.
Elsewhere in the portfolio, KLA Corporation provided a further lift after executing a 10-for-1 stock split in mid-June. The equipment maker’s shares hit a fresh all-time high ahead of the split, and analysts have responded in kind: Barclays lifted its price target to $2,250, while Cantor Fitzgerald sees fair value at $2,500. Yet geopolitical headwinds remain. KLA expects revenue headwinds of up to $350 million this year from tightened US export controls on advanced chipmaking tools to China, a risk that runs across the fund’s holdings as well.
The VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF now manages $9.4 billion in assets. With Micron’s earnings looming as the next hard data point, the broader AI hardware trade will once again be tested. A strong report could validate the current valuation levels; a miss could rekindle the volatility that defined early June.
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