The AI chip boom is intensifying patent, antitrust, and geopolitical risks for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which face a US class action alleging they coordinated DRAM supply cuts, according to J…
Kioxia announced the GP1 Series PCIe 6.0 NVMe SSD on August 3, claiming up to 10 million random-read IOPS at a 512-byte block size using second-generation XL-FLASH. Evaluation samples are due to selec…
Kioxia has announced its GP1 SSD, a Gen 2 XL-FLASH drive delivering 10 million IOPS and sub-5μs latency, nearly eight times faster than Intel's Optane DC P5800X in IOPS terms, targeting AI memory exte…
Kioxia launched its CM10 series PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSDs ahead of FMS 2026, featuring direct liquid cooling for AI infrastructure and up to 92% higher sequential read and 85% higher random read perfor…
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude AI model accessed real companies from an evaluation environment in three separate incidents, highlighting persistent weaknesses in AI security protocols. The events…
Kioxia has launched the CM10 PCIe gen 6 SSD for AI inferencing and KV caching, offering up to 28.4 GBps sequential reads and 6.29 million random read IOPS, and a UFS 5.0 fingernail drive for edge AI w…
SK Hynix reported record quarterly revenue of 79.32 trillion won and operating profit of 60.54 trillion won for the second quarter, both missing consensus estimates by roughly 5%, sending shares down …
SK Hynix reported second-quarter 2026 revenues of ₩79.32 trillion ($54.54 billion), up 257% year-over-year, but missed revenue expectations, causing its stock to slump 9.6%. The company's operating pr…
SK hynix reported record second-quarter revenue of 79.32 trillion won ($54.8 billion), up 256.8% on-year, and operating profit surged 557.2% to 60.54 trillion won, with an operating margin of 76%. The…
Kioxia has launched its first PCIe Gen 5 liquid-cooled SSD, the NX1 Series, designed for GPU-enabled servers and hyperscale data centers. The E1.S form factor drive uses Kioxia's 218-layer BiCS Gen 8 …
Kioxia has launched the NX1, the first PCIe Gen 5 liquid-cooled SSD, designed for GPU-enabled servers and hyperscale data centers. The E1.S drive uses 218-layer BiCS Gen 8 3D NAND and offers capacitie…
SK Hynix shares plunged 14.65% to 1.55 million won in Seoul on Tuesday, their second-largest decline of 2026, as a global semiconductor sell-off hit South Korea's memory-chip producers amid fears over…
Japan's Nikkei share average fell 3.95% to 62,364.92 on Tuesday, its lowest close since May 21, as chip-related stocks followed US peers lower ahead of big tech earnings. The broader Topix fell 2.52% …
Asian chip stocks tumbled on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi falling as much as 11% and Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix losing up to 13% and 14%, respectively, as investors pulled back from AI trad…
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has fallen more than 20% from its late June high, entering bear market territory as the AI rally unravels. The index dropped 11% in a single week, its worst since …
Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged 4% to 64,141 on Friday, entering correction territory more than 10% below its June 25 peak, as a Wall Street sell-off in AI and semiconductor stocks spread across Asian mark…
Asia's AI chip rally is unraveling as Japan's Kioxia has lost half its value since its June peak, wiping about 30 trillion yen ($185 billion) off its market value, while Samsung Electronics and SK Hyn…
Kioxia's market cap dropped roughly 50% from its June 2026 peak, erasing approximately 29.5 trillion yen ($181.7B), after the stock surged more than 600% year-to-date on AI memory demand. The decline …
Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s market value has nearly halved from its June peak, with shares falling roughly 38.7% after reports that Meta Platforms Inc. plans to sell excess AI computing capacity and that …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo to announce a partnership with Noetra Corp, a consortium of SoftBank, NEC, Sony, and Honda, to build a 27,500-GPU supercomputer serving as Japan's national AI hub…