On July 24, POET Technologies Inc fell 8.09% in regular trading, trading at $7.0475/share, with turnover of $34.28 million. The decline came amid sustained selling pressure across the semiconductor and optical communication sector, driven by a combination of fund style rotation, leveraged ETF position reductions, and supply-demand headwinds.

Within the Semiconductors sector, broad weakness was evident. Among major names, SK hynix fell 6.15%, Micron Technology dropped 5.59%, Intel declined 3.46%, and Advanced Micro Devices slipped 1.14%, while NVIDIA edged up 0.45%. POET Technologies has now declined for consecutive sessions after briefly rallying on July 21 on GPU cluster expansion and optical interconnect momentum.

Adding to fundamental uncertainty, the company continues to face a securities class action lawsuit filed on behalf of investors who purchased shares between April 1 and April 27, alleging the company failed to disclose its potential classification as a Passive Foreign Investment Company and that its CFO made misleading public statements in violation of commercial agreements.

POET Technologies designs and develops photonic integrated circuit solutions based on its proprietary Optical Interposer platform, targeting data center transceiver optical engines for AI and high-performance computing applications.

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