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Acer's Predator Helios Neo 16 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti and Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX is on sale for $1,979.99 at Newegg, a $220 discount. The deal offers a high-performance 50-series GPU and top-tier CPU for unde…
Asian shares mostly rose on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, while the Japanese yen hit a 39-year low against the U.S. dollar, trading near 162 yen. South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan rebounded from earlier losses, with …
Ferrari and BMW have begun replacing copper wiring with aluminum in their electric and hybrid vehicles, challenging the demand thesis that has driven copper prices to record highs. The shift, driven by aluminum's lower c…
Han Seong-sook, Korea's soon-to-be prime minister, is expected to accelerate the country's AI transformation as President Lee Jae Myung pushes to make Korea a top-three AI power. The parliamentary committee approved her …
China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June 2026, beating expectations as AI-driven demand boosted high-tech manufacturing to 53.5, while the broader economy remained fragile due to a sluggish property market…
President Lee Jae Myung traveled to Gwangju to launch South Korea's 'artificial intelligence industrial revolution,' backed by massive investments from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in chips, AI data centers, and rela…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced JPY387.3 billion in funding for a five-year project to develop a domestic multimodal foundation model for physical AI controlling robots, led by a METI-backed con…
South Korea's KOSPI surged 68% in Q2 2026, its best quarterly performance since 1998, driven by semiconductor giants Samsung and SK Hynix riding the AI wave. However, volatility spiked with 20 single-day moves exceeding …
South Korea unveiled three flagship megaprojects—semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers—backed by over 1,350 trillion won in planned investment, but faces challenges in securing workforce and infrastructure out…
S&P Global Ratings reported that South Korea's corporate earnings are increasingly dependent on semiconductors, with an AI-driven memory supercycle expected to extend through 2028. The combined operating profit of Korea'…
A proposed US class-action lawsuit accuses Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Micron Technology of restricting DRAM supply during the shift to AI memory products, but analysts expect little immediate impact on the compan…
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestic chips, claiming it as the country's first trillion-parameter model built on home-grown hardware. Th…
Samsung Electronics shares surged up to 6.51% on June 1 after reports it began shipping samples of its next-generation HBM4E high-bandwidth memory chips to global customers, driven by strong AI demand. The stock closed a…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at the Microsoft Build conference on June 2, a desktop PC with 20 CPU cores, 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop of AI compute, enabling developers to r…
Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, with South Korea's Kospi rebounding 1.3% after recent tech-led losses. Oil prices stabilized as the U.S. and Iran agreed to send delegations to Qatar for talk…
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding window that was shu…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 454 billion-won ($293 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to a U.S. customer, likely a major cloud provider. The single-year deal reflects tightenin…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warned that China's abil…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secured a $294 million contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to an unnamed U.S. Big Tech firm, likely a cloud service provider. The one-year deal, starting January 2025…
Taiwanese authorities raided Supermicro's Taiwan office and eight other locations as part of a U.S. federal probe into alleged AI chip smuggling to China, signaling a potential shift in Taiwan's enforcement of U.S. expor…