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Asian shares mostly rose in early Thursday trading, as global market optimism continued on prospects for AI stocks and the semiconductor sector. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up nearly 0.1% to 25,453.45, while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.4% to 3,961.82. Several AI stocks reported better growth for the spring than analysts expected, while a report showed inflation across the United States was slightly less bad last month.

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Seoul is adding financing and infrastructure support to a semiconductor expansion anchored by Samsung and SK Hynix.

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Citi believes the recent sell-off in memory chip stocks presents a buying opportunity, arguing that the artificial intelligence-driven memory cycle is still in its early phases and could ultimately exceed the industry’s previous boom between 2001 and 2007. The bank says the current environment shares many similarities with the long NAND expansion seen during the early 2000s, when products such as MP3 players and digital cameras transformed demand and flash memory steadily replaced older storage

Record AI-related earnings have intensified pressure for Samsung to convert its expanding cash resources into larger shareholder distributions.

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Investing.com -- The current AI-driven memory upcycle remains in its early stages, Citi strategists say, arguing it could ultimately outperform the industry’s last major upcycle between 2001 and 2007.

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Asian shares took a breather on Thursday after an AI-driven surge the previous day, while oil prices traded in a tight range as markets assessed prospects

Micron gained ground on SK Hynix as AI-driven memory demand supported a fivefold increase in DRAM revenue.

Despite issues with the Yen Intervention, Nikkei 225 climbs 3% as chip stocks jump and Bessent Iran remarks lift Hormuz deal hopes.

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Goldman Sachs just named a specific Kospi target that would make South Korean equities among the biggest winning trades of the decade, but it hinges on two chip giants delivering something the market has never quite seen before.

The South Korean company is the “memory leader for the AI era,” William Blair analyst Sebastien Naji says.

South Korean retail shareholder platform ACT said on Tuesday it had launched a campaign to call an extraordinary ‌shareholders' meeting at Samsung Electronics, urging the chipmaker to buy back about $32 ‌billion worth of shares and set limits on performance bonuses. ACT said it would begin collecting electronic ​signatures from shareholders at 5 p.m. local time and seek support from the National Pension Service and domestic and overseas asset managers to meet the 3% ownership threshold required to call the meeting. The move comes after Samsung shares lost over ‌one third of their value ⁠since hitting record-highs in June, despite the artificial intelligence boom.

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Investing.com -- South Korean exports grew faster than expected in July, supported by strong global demand for semiconductors and computers used in artificial intelligence infrastructure, preliminary trade data showed on Saturday.

Samsung and SK Hynix produced their largest recorded gains as investors returned to Korean semiconductor stocks after a severe July selloff.

American and South Korean semiconductor and storage companies recovered a bit from an earlier selloff after fresh positive signs from Big Tech earnings.

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SK Hynix surged on Friday alongside other South Korean shares as traders flooded back into artificial-intelligence stocks. SK Hynix rose 30% to 1.718 million won ($1,197) in local trading in South Korea. The KOSPI has been the world’s hottest stock market so far this year—logging a 57% gain through Friday’s close—but it has been an uncomfortable ride at times.

Shares of semiconductor companies are on the rise as investors return to stocks exposed to artificial intelligence after a few turbulent weeks. In Asia, shares of South Korean memory-chip maker SK Hynix closed nearly 30% higher, while Samsung Electronics gained 27%.

The gains in U.S. chip stocks on Thursday and Friday mark a dramatic reversal of the selloff this month.

Samsung Electronics (KRX:005930, LSE:BC94) and SK Hynix surged by almost 30% on Friday as strong results from Amazon and Microsoft were the catalyst for investors to rush back into semiconductor shares. Samsung jumped 28% to ₩265,000, while memory-chip rival SK Hynix climbed 30% to ₩1.7...

South Korean stocks soared a record 17 percent Friday as global tech firms performed a blistering recovery from an extended sell-off, with beaten-down chip giant SK hynix rocketing more than a quarter as the AI boom roared back.Seoul's Kospi had been at the forefront of the sell-off after hitting a record high a month ago, with chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung the poster children of the rout, losing around half their value in the panic.

South Korea’s Kospi index jumped more than 16% on Friday, tracking gains on Wall Street as artificial intelligence-related stocks bounced back after losses earlier this week. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices rose. In early Asian trading, the Kospi surged at the open and ratcheted up, trading 16.5% higher at 6,515.40.