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ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking on a broader agreement to meet surging demand for more powerful artificial intelligence technology.
Samsung Electronics Co.’s anticipated equity buyback is raising investor expectations that the Korean giant will buy up non‑voting preferred shares, narrowing a steep discount and setting an example for others.
Tech stocks surge in Asia as investors bet that the AI boom will carry on driving up chip and memory demand.
Asian shares were trading mixed on Monday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul leading gains thanks to buying of computer chipmakers' stocks. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.7% to 66,104.93, while South Korea’s Kospi jumped 3.3% to 6,907.53. Shares in Samsung Electronics jumped 4.5% and memory chipmaker SK Hynix surged 6.2%.
A macro shock overwhelmed record chip earnings, showing how quickly inflation and rate fears can overpower semiconductor momentum.
The Chinese chipmaker posted net profit of 77.6 billion yuan in its first earnings report since going public in July
HANOI, August 28 (Reuters) - Vietnamese leaders have urged U.S. chip designer Qualcomm and South Korea's Samsung Electronics to expand their investment in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and
An activist investor has offered a 45% premium for Samsung affiliates’ stakes in S-1 Corp., setting up an early test of how board directors handle their expanded fiduciary duties under South Korea’s revised corporate law.
U.S. futures edged higher after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would at least double the size of planned purchases of longer-term government debt. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.3% to 66,178.26, reversing declines earlier in the week. Japan reported it logged a trade deficit for a third straight month in July, as both imports and exports hit record highs.
SK Hynix said on Wednesday it would buy back and cancel 40 trillion won ($28.61 billion) worth of treasury shares and allocate more than 50% of free cash flow generated between 2025 and 2027 to boost shareholder returns. The move comes amid growing pressure from investors for SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics to return a bigger share of excess cash through dividends or share buybacks, after the chipmakers offered scant detail on capital returns despite reporting record profits fuelled by booming demand for AI memory chips. Those calls have intensified as SK Hynix and Samsung shares retreated after hitting record highs in June amid concerns about the durability of AI spending, though their stock prices remain far higher than earlier this year.
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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.
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.
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Lam Research forecast quarterly revenue and earnings substantially above expectations as AI investment increased chip-equipment demand.
Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) may have discovered a huge new growth market for its priciest smartphones, and it's not just in the biggest cities of India. The company said its Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Flip8 received more than 271,000 pre-orders in India within 72 hours of ...
Samsung Electronics Co.'s semiconductor arm reported a more than 250-fold jump in profit, with an operating income of 89.2 trillion won in the June quarter. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports on the latest data.
Samsung Electronics’ net profit surged 14-fold in the second quarter, as a stellar performance by its core semiconductor division, helped the technology titan extend its streak of record earnings.
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Samsung Electronics said on Thursday its operating profit jumped 19-fold to a record in the second quarter, as solid demand for AI chips offset weaker earnings at its mobile business. "In H2 2026, the Memory Business expects robust demand centered on servers stemming from continued AI infrastructure capex and broader adoption of agentic AI," Samsung said in a statement. The world's top memory chipmaker reported operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($61.98 billion) for the April-to-June period, in line with its estimate of 89.4 trillion won and up from 4.68 trillion won a year earlier.
SK hynix (NASDAQ:SKHY) shares jumped 6. 2% in pre-market trading to $164.
Sometimes three’s a crowd. But when it comes to the memory boom there’s room, and plenty of demand, for more chip makers.