US premarket: semiconductor stocks broadly higher, Intel up nearly 4%

A broad premarket bid across chip names, from Intel to ASML, points to sector-wide sentiment rather than a single company catalyst — notable because these firms sit at different points in the supply chain, from equipment to memory to logic. For crypto and RWA watchers, semiconductor strength matters as a proxy for risk appetite and for the compute capacity underpinning AI and tokenization infrastructure. Whether the gains hold through the regular session, or fade like many premarket moves, is the open question.