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If You'd Invested $1,000 in SMH 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Investing in semiconductor stocks before the start of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution would have produced huge returns over the past decade.

If You'd Invested $1,000 in SMH 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Published July 28, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Ten years ago, the semiconductor industry looked nothing like it does now. The artificial intelligence (AI) boom was still years away, and there was no talk of megacap tech companies spending tens of billions of dollars on AI development.

Investors in the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ: SMH) 10 years ago may not have known that was coming. But their brokerage account balances sure benefited from it.

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