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By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (Reuters) - Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion.

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (Reuters) - Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion.

In 2019, while researching a book on the U.S.-China competition, I visited Huawei’s sprawling new R&D campus in Dongguan, a city about an hour’s drive from the company’s Shenzhen headquarters. A Huawei executive explained the design to me with a straight face: “We’re doing well in Europe.” In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.

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The chairman of South Korea's SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip ‌unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity ‌over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference ​in Taipei, where executives from some of the world's top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. He added that he hopes his company can be a major high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supplier for Nvidia's Vera Rubin system.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hosted top South Korean tech executives including the boss of chipmaker SK Hynix at ‌a boisterous dinner on Monday, as he looks to deepen ties with key partners ‌ahead of what he called an "incredibly busy" stretch for the AI boom. SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung, executives from Samsung ​Electronics, LG Electronics and Naver were among those at the "Korean Partner Night", held at a traditional Taiwanese restaurant in Taipei on the sidelines of the Computex trade show. "Korea is a critical part of our ecosystem."

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South Korea’s exports grew at the fastest pace in more than four decades in May, as artificial intelligence-driven demand for chips pushed the value of shipments to a record.

Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are cheap despite their $1 trillion valuations if long-term contracts stabilize the sector.

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Samsung Electronics said on Friday it has started shipping ‌samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) ‌chip, or the 12-layer HBM4E, marking what it said ​was the industry's first shipment of such products. Samsung said the chip uses its latest ⁠1c DRAM process technology, or sixth-generation 10-nanometer-class DRAM, alongside Samsung's 4-nanometer foundry logic base die. The move comes just three months after Samsung began shipping its HBM4 chips to customers in February, underscoring Samsung's ‌efforts to strengthen its ​position in the next-generation ​AI memory market ​by proactively supplying samples of ‌its latest products.

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The company’s unionized workers have approved a tentative bonus-pay deal reached last week with the company, averting a strike at the world’s largest memory-chip maker.

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Memory-chip maker SK Hynix is the latest company to ride the AI chip boom into the elite $1 trillion market-cap club. Shares in the company—the world’s second-largest memory-chip maker—have more than tripled this year.

By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters) - Unionised workers at Samsung Electronics have approved a highly contentious deal on bonus pay - one that averts a massive strike but also exacerbates deep

Samsung Electronics workers have approved a landmark profit-sharing agreement that is expected to award employees in the booming memory chip...

The deal Samsung Electronics struck with its union averts a massive strike and gives its memory chip workers eye-popping bonuses. It also opens a Pandora's box for companies in South Korea - a country known for militant wage-bargaining. Unionised Samsung workers voted in favour of the government-mediated pact on Wednesday, marking the first big win for a Samsung union. ‌More significantly, it is only the second time that a major South Korean company has agreed in writing to reward workers with a fixed percentage of operating profit.

SK Hynix has become one of the world’s most valuable chip makers, joining an elite group of companies including Nvidia and TSMC.

SK Hynix topped $1 trillion in market value for the first time on Wednesday, joining its memory chip rivals Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology in reaching the milestone on an AI-driven rally. Shares of SK Hynix closed ‌the session up 9.3%, after rising as much as 14.9% during the session to take the South Korean chipmaker's market value to a record ‌1,680 trillion won ($1.12 trillion) and propel the country's benchmark KOSPI index to a record high. Domestic rival Samsung surpassed $1 trillion in market value for the first time on May 6, while U.S.-listed Micron did ​so on Tuesday.

Micron Technology topped $1 trillion in market value for the first time on Tuesday, crowning a dizzying rally that has cemented the largest U.S. memory chipmaker ‌as one of the standout winners of the AI boom. Micron's shares were last up 18% ‌at $886.6 - a record high - with Tuesday's boost coming after brokerage UBS increased its price target on the stock to $1,625 from $535, ​which is the highest among the 46 brokerages covering the company, according to LSEG data. The milestone, which underscores memory chips' central role in AI infrastructure, also reflects a broader shift in the AI trade as investors seek out companies that can benefit from Big Tech's massive spending plans after initially crowding into makers ‌of graphics processors.

A Samsung Electronics union representing the conglomerate's consumer electronics workers said on Tuesday it has asked a South Korean court to block a vote on ‌a pay deal that primarily benefits their colleagues in the company's chip divisions. The government-mediated agreement reached last ‌week, which averted an 18-day strike by 48,000 workers, provides huge bonuses for workers in Samsung's memory chip division, which has seen profits soar amid the ​AI boom. Voting by unionised workers began on Friday and is due to conclude on Wednesday morning.

By Heekyong Yang and Heejin Kim SEOUL, May 26 (Reuters) - A Samsung Electronics union representing the conglomerate's consumer electronics workers said on Tuesday it has asked a South Korean court to