The big dogs of the dot-com era are barking again, 25 years later. Will they suffer the same fate?
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Former dot-com darlings Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments are all hitting record highs — some for the first time since their heyday
Published: May 15, 2026 at 12:31 p.m. ET
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The big dogs of the dot-com era are barking again, some for the first time in many years.
As a rapid rally in semiconductor stocks reignites comparisons with 1999 — when the dot-com frenzy went into overdrive, eventually peaking in March 2000 — some investors have noticed another troubling parallel.
