#Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surges 6.85%—will AI compute coins follow this time?

U.S. chip stocks went wild last night. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged 6.85% in one go—a gain that would normally take a whole month to rack up. The reason is simple: demand for AI computing power keeps climbing, and investors are snapping up chipmakers in Nvidia’s supply chain one by one.

The crypto market is unusually quiet. $FET is trading at 0.1443 USDT, up 1.76% in 24 hours; $RNDR is at 7.03 USDT, up 2.58%; and $TAO is trading at 222.1 USDT, up just 0.91%. U.S. stocks are up 6%, while the three AI tokens are up one or two percent. The contrast is so awkward, I almost feel bad for them.

Put simply, money hasn’t shifted over from stocks, and AI tokens have no new story of their own. U.S. market sentiment alone can’t lift them. Of the three, RNDR is doing the best, since rendering is most closely tied to GPUs.

With chip stocks soaring like this, are AI tokens playing dead—or just waiting to catch up? What do you think?