10 Fastest-Growing Semiconductor Stocks to Buy

5. Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB)

Revenue Growth (YoY): 136.51%

3Y Revenue Growth: N/A

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 57

Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) is one of the fastest-growing semiconductor stocks to buy. On November 18, 2025, Astera Labs said its Leo CXL® Smart Memory Controllers are enabled in preview on Microsoft Azure M-series VMs. That allowed customers to evaluate CXL memory expansion for their own workloads. The company framed Azure M-series as the industry’s first announced deployment of CXL-attached memory, aimed at tackling the “memory wall” in data-hungry use cases like in-memory databases, AI inference, KV-cache for LLMs, and big-data analytics.

Astera highlighted that Leo supports CXL 2.0 and up to 2TB per controller, allowing cloud providers to scale server memory capacity by >1.5×. The firm points readers to technical resources for the Azure preview and to product specs that outline how Leo handles memory expansion and pooling to relieve capacity bottlenecks in modern servers.

Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) builds semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure, with its Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers positioned to extend and pool memory for cloud and AI workloads.