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Slate Path Capital’s $6.7B Book Bets $518M on Texas Instruments as Its Biggest New Buy

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  1. 01 David Greenspan's Slate Path Capital, a $6.7B Tiger Cub fund seeded by John Griffin of Blue Ridge in 2012, filed its Q1 2026 13F-HR on May 15 showing a sharp pivot into analog and power semiconductors.
  2. 02 The portfolio shrank from $7.4B to $6.7B in three months, a 9 percent drop, with 17 full exits and 13 cuts trimming the holdings count from 51 to 44.
  3. 03 The biggest new buy was Texas Instruments at $518M, which jumped to the No. 2 stake, alongside fresh adds to Nokia, GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics, Qnity Electronics, and a new Wolfspeed bet.
  4. 04 Greenspan funded the chip pivot by selling GitLab, Corning, Western Digital, Ambarella, and Navitas Semiconductor, and by cutting ON Semi by 26 percent, EQT by 38 percent, and Twilio by 52 percent.
  5. 05 The next 13F will show whether Texas Instruments stays a $500M-plus conviction bet or trims back, and whether Nokia and STMicroelectronics keep building toward top-five positions.
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How Slate Path Moved Last Quarter

Money In

25 positions

Texas Instruments

makes the everyday chips inside cars and factories
$518M
new buy
Nucor

largest US steelmaker
$345M
added (+23%)
Nokia

networking gear for telecom carriers
$288M
added (+6%)
Qnity Electronics

DuPont spinoff that makes chip-packaging materials
$287M
added (+30%)
United Airlines

US legacy passenger airline
$287M
added (+65%)
Knight-Swift Transportation

largest US trucking company
$266M
added (+8%)
Unity Software

game-engine and 3D content software
$249M
added (+38%)
GlobalFoundries

contract chipmaker for older process nodes
$224M
added (+4%)
STMicroelectronics

European chipmaker for cars and industry
$212M
added (+16%)
Transocean

deepwater oil-rig contractor
$199M
new buy
Delta Air Lines

top US passenger airline
$197M
added (+1%)
AerCap Holdings

largest aircraft-leasing company
$134M
added (+4%)
International Paper

containerboard and packaging
$121M
added (+31%)
Saia

less-than-truckload freight carrier
$108M
new buy
Wolfspeed

silicon-carbide chipmaker for EVs
$68M
new buy
Figure Technology Solutions

blockchain-based home equity lender
$68M
added (+8%)
Paramount Skydance

post-merger media company
$68M
added (+48%)
Coinbase Global

largest US crypto exchange
$46M
added (+5%)
SolarEdge Technologies

rooftop solar inverters
$38M
new buy
Whirlpool

home appliance maker
$36M
added (+53%)
Enphase Energy

rooftop solar microinverters
$34M
new buy
Snap

parent of Snapchat
$34M
new buy
T1 Energy

solar module assembler, formerly FREYR
$28M
new buy
XPO

less-than-truckload freight carrier
$20M
new buy
Smurfit WestRock

global paper-packaging maker
$7.4M
new buy

Money Out

17 exits + 13 cuts

Full Exits
GitLab

code repositories and developer tools
$224M
exited
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals

RNA-interference drug developer
$168M
exited
Corning

glass and optical fiber maker
$76M
exited
Nike

sportswear brand
$70M
exited
Pan American Silver

silver and gold miner
$69M
exited
Aptiv

auto-parts maker for EVs
$68M
exited
Ambarella

video and AI vision chips
$58M
exited
Western Digital

hard-drive and storage maker
$55M
exited
Fiserv

payments processing
$49M
exited
Navitas Semiconductor

gallium-nitride power chips
$21M
exited
Lululemon Athletica

athletic apparel
$18M
exited
Ouster

lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles
$18M
exited
CSX

eastern US railroad
$17M
exited
Barrick Mining

gold miner
$11M
exited
Newmont

world’s largest gold miner
$11M
exited
The New York Times

national news publisher
$9.7M
exited
SPDR Series Trust

index ETF wrapper
$8.4M
exited
Major Cuts
Expand Energy

US natural-gas producer
-91%
$15M remains
Twilio

cloud communications software
-52%
$93M remains
Humana

health insurer
-52%
$80M remains
EQT

largest US natural-gas producer
-38%
$247M remains
Amrize

Holcim’s North American building-materials spinoff
-36%
$210M remains
Freeport-McMoRan

copper and gold miner
-33%
$204M remains
American Airlines

US legacy passenger airline
-28%
$70M remains
ON Semiconductor

power chips for EVs and renewable energy
-26%
$483M remains
Cleveland-Cliffs

US flat-rolled steelmaker
-14%
$163M remains
Rocket Companies

online mortgage lender
-10%
$330M remains
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

makes servers and networking gear for AI data centers
-5%
$554M remains
Union Pacific

western US railroad
-2%
$178M remains
GE Vernova

GE spinoff for gas turbines and grid
-2%
$102M remains

Still The Biggest

Top 5, ~33% of portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

makes servers and networking gear for AI data centers
$554M
trimmed 5%
Texas Instruments

makes the everyday chips inside cars and factories
$518M
new this quarter
ON Semiconductor

power chips for EVs and renewable energy
$483M
trimmed 26%
Nucor

largest US steelmaker
$345M
added 23%
Rocket Companies

online mortgage lender
$330M
trimmed 10%

What to watch

1. Texas Instruments showed up as a $518M new buy at the March 31 cutoff, the biggest single deployment of the quarter and a straight jump to the No. 2 stake. Watch the next filing to see if Slate Path holds the full $518M or trims into any rally, because that tells you whether this is a long-term cycle bet on analog semis or a tactical entry sized for a fast exit.

2. The supplier pair underneath Texas Instruments is the real tell. Nokia, GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics, Qnity Electronics, and a fresh Wolfspeed bet read as a deliberate package of older-node chipmaking and silicon-carbide power exposure. Watch whether any of these climb past the $300M mark, since that would put them inside the top five and confirm the rotation is structural rather than a one-quarter trade.

3. The exit list points the other way. GitLab and Ambarella are full sell-outs from software and advanced-driver chips, and the 26 percent cut to ON Semi means the older-cycle ON bet is shrinking even as TXN ramps. Watch whether ON Semi returns to the buy list next quarter or drops out of the top five entirely, because that decision will fix whether Slate Path is rotating within power semis or stepping away from them.

Verified as of May 28, 2026.

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