On Friday (April 17), the US stock market's storage chip and hardware supply chain index closed up 1.90% at 139.09 points, with a cumulative increase of 5.94% for the week.

On Friday, constituent stock Rambus closed up 5.75%, Teradyne (TER) rose 3.95%, Seagate Technology gained 3%, Western Digital and Lam Research were up at least 2.54%, Applied Materials rose 1.81%, SanDisk increased 0.17%, while Micron Technology fell 0.47%. The Information Technology Index rose 1.21% to 323.02 points, with a weekly gain of 10.44%, continuing its steady upward trend. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Winners Index gained 1.34% to 340.68 points, up 8.26% for the week. The AI Software Pioneer Index climbed 0.70% to 97.60 points, with a weekly increase of 15.83%.