Citi analyst Christopher Danely points out that Fudzilla last week published an article claiming that Intel (INTC) had signed a licensing agreement with AMD (AMD) for use of AMD's GPU intellectual property. AMD made no mention of such an agreement at its analyst day and Intel subsequently denied the story, Danely tells investors in a research note. He believes such a deal is unlikely and reiterates a Sell rating on AMD with a $4 price target.

HSBC analyst Frank Lee upgraded AMD to Buy from Hold with a $225 price target.

Evercore ISI initiated coverage of Intel with an In Line rating and $40 price target. The firm views the risks for Intel as balanced. On the negative side, the center of gravity of computing is drifting away from Intel's x86 standard, the company is seeing competition not just from traditional processor companies, but also its own customers, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm noted, however, that on the positive side, Intel is one of only three companies in the world that can make leading edge transistors at scale, and the only one in the U.S. that can.

Friday's total option volume of 58.8 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 5.70 million calls and 5.17 million puts. Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 95k Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META) 6/18 weekly 1030 calls, 42k Tesla (TSLA) Apr-24 177.5 calls, 40k V F Corp (VFC) Mar-25 10 puts, 30k Alphabet Class A (GOOGL) Apr-24 165 calls and 30k Tesla (TSLA) 6/18 weekly 100 calls.