Labour unions across South Korea are rallying after Samsung Electronics agreed to hand out bonuses of more than US$400,000 to some employees, with workers at Hyundai Motor, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries…
MSCI:s Asien-Stillahavsindex steg över 1 procent med det halvledartunga Kospi-indexet upp 3,7 procent, drivet av Alphabet som guidade för investeringsutgifter på upp till 205 miljarder dollar i år, vi…
South Korean labour unions across multiple industries are pushing for higher bonus payouts after Samsung Electronics agreed to bonuses exceeding US$400,000 for some employees amid the AI boom. Hyundai…
Asian stocks rose on Thursday after US technology firms outlined significant capital spending plans that are likely to benefit chipmakers in the region, with South Korea's Kospi jumping 3% led by Sams…
Asian shares rose 0.8% on Wednesday as regional chipmakers climbed on expectations of benefiting from billions of dollars flowing into artificial intelligence buildout, with South Korea's Kospi adding…
AI infrastructure demand is moving so fast that hardware makers must constantly rewrite supply chain plans, according to Vik Malyala, chief business officer of Super Micro Computer Inc. Malyala told t…
Harbor Capital has coined the term "Memi" (memory semiconductors) to describe a new $3 trillion sector dominated by Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung, which are essential to AI infrastructure due to high-…
A new $3 trillion sector dubbed 'Memi'—a portmanteau of memory and semiconductors—is transforming global equities markets, fueled by AI's demand for memory chips, according to asset manager Harbor Cap…
The iPhone 18 Pro range launching this September could cost $200 to $300 more than current models, driven by a global shortage of memory chips that are also in high demand for AI data centers, accordi…
South Korea's daily crypto trading volume has plunged 89% year-over-year to about 2.7 trillion won ($2 billion) as retail investors shift to equities, with the KOSPI surging 114% to peak above 8,800 i…
The PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOX) has pulled back roughly 20% from its mid-June peak, erasing more than a third of its 2026 gains in about three weeks, according to market analysis. The selloff was t…
GlobalData.TS Lombard says South Korea's tech rally is losing momentum as memory-chip pricing cools and Chinese capacity expands, favoring Taiwan and Japan as better long-term AI investment plays. The…
SK Hynix completed the largest U.S. share sale by a foreign company in history, raising $26.5 billion as its American depositary receipts began trading on Nasdaq, with shares surging 13% on the first …
SK Hynix now generates 65% of its revenue from the United States, driven by AI infrastructure demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips, not crypto mining. The South Korean chipmaker posted 97.1 tril…
TSMC posted its fifth consecutive record quarter on July 16, with revenue hitting $40.2 billion (up 36% year-over-year) and net profit surging 77%, as CEO C.C. Wei flagged that agentic AI is creating …
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won warned that demand for AI memory chips, specifically high-bandwidth memory (HBM), is exceeding supply by 60% to 100%, and governments are beginning to treat memory acces…
US stock futures climbed on Monday as Asian equity markets staged a sharp recovery led by semiconductor stocks, with South Korea's Kospi surging 3.6% and Japan's Nikkei 225 rallying 3.3%. Samsung Elec…
South Korea plans to build the Honam semiconductor complex, an 800 trillion won ($540bn) chip hub in the rural southwest, by 2030, but the region lacks the electricity and water to support it. The clu…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 AI model on Jul 17, delivering performance that rivals top-tier offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the Beijing-based firm. The news sent…
Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical aims to deploy 10 specialized AI agents per employee to double its R&D output by 2030, shifting the domestic enterprise AI playbook from generic productivity tools to pro…