“Tech pin action is back,” Cramer said during Tuesday’s Mad Money, “and indeed it’s bigger than ever.”

“Pin action” is Cramer’s preferred phrase for one piece of good news ricocheting out to the rest of the market. In this case, he was referring to Altera raising its fourth-quarter revenue guidance. While recent positive announcements from Xilinx , Intel and even Microsoft weren’t enough to catalyze the sector, Altera’s bullish statement apparently was. Everyone from Novellus to Applied Materials to AMD to Cypress Semi went higher.