South Korea proposed a record 821 trillion won (US$596.9 billion) budget for 2027, a 12.8% increase from 2026, to strengthen its technological edge in the global AI race, with 2.6 trillion won earmark…
FinBridge, a new MCP-based data service, launched on Hacker News to provide AI agents with normalized Korean and U.S. stock market data, covering 11,920 listings and 1,354 Korean ETFs. The service pul…
Goldman Sachs warns that South Korea's rapidly aging population may prevent the country from fully benefiting from the AI-driven semiconductor boom, as the nation entered 'super-aged' status in 2024 w…
Goldman Sachs reports that South Korea's rapidly aging population may prevent its AI-driven economic boom from reaching ordinary households, as retail sales remain near 2019 levels despite surging chi…
XCENA and Samsung Electronics demonstrated MX1, a CXL memory expansion card with 3,072 RISC-V cores and up to 2TB of DDR5, at Hot Chips 2026 on August 25, targeting production in late 2026. The card, …
Lam Research has begun construction on a new R&D center in Oregon to develop advanced processes for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and other AI-specific chip components, aiming to speed up supply for Sam…
SK Hynix has begun construction of a $4 billion memory fab in Indiana, its first US AI memory hub, with plans to begin packaging and testing High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) products from the production li…
Vietnam is urging Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics to expand investment in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and R&D, aiming to become a regional innovation hub. Senior officials met with execu…
Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary and President To Lam urged Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to expand investment in AI, semiconductors, robotics, 5G/6G, data centres and next-generation connect…
SK Hynix broke ground Thursday on a $4 billion advanced chip packaging and research facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, with cleanroom operations slated for the second half of 2028, aiming to localiz…
Samsung Electronics unveiled its next-generation P9 and P7 portable solid-state drives featuring USB4 connectivity at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany, held Aug. 26-30. The P9 targets professional us…
Nvidia has begun mass production of its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, with Samsung Electronics manufacturing the key chips on its 4-nanometer process, raising expectations that Samsung's loss-maki…
Seoul stocks turned higher Wednesday, with the KOSPI up 0.9 percent to 6,803.74, as chipmakers gained ahead of Nvidia's earnings release. Samsung Electronics rose 2.14 percent and SK hynix advanced 1.…
Samsung Electronics presented its LPDDR5X-PIM processing-in-memory solution at Hot Chips 2026, claiming it is the world's first LPDDR-based PIM product for AI inference. The chip delivers 614 GB/s PIM…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is arranging separate meetings with Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun and Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong this week to advance his three f…
Nvidia's upcoming earnings report will test whether the AI rally can regain momentum, as Asian equities drifted lower on Tuesday amid Alibaba's $10.2 billion share sale and a 45% slump in Unitree's st…
Seoul shares opened sharply lower Tuesday, with the benchmark Kospi trading 244.84 points, or 3.66 percent, lower at 6,452.12 as of 9:15 a.m., following overnight losses in US technology shares and re…
The Roundhill Memory ETF (CBOE:DRAM), launched April 2, 2026, has become the fastest asset gatherer in ETF history, crossing $25 billion in assets in roughly four months, but its 73% concentration in …
NVIDIA Corp., Apple Inc., and Amazon.com Inc. are raising prices as AI-driven memory chip shortages push server DRAM prices to double in Q1 2026 and overall memory costs up 80% to 90% quarter-over-qua…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is likely to meet Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong this week to discuss the country's three mega projects centered on semiconductors and artificial intell…