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South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said Monday they will invest a combined 800 trillion won ($518 billion) in building a new computer chipmaking hub in the country’s southwest region, capitalizing on surging artificial intelligence -driven demand. President Lee Jae Myung joined the companies’ chairs Monday in announcing the plan, which dovetails with the government’s efforts to expand investment beyond the greater Seoul metropolitan area, the country’s economic center and heart of its semiconductor sector.

The rally driven by the global artificial-intelligence boom has exposed structural vulnerabilities in a stock market unaccustomed to wild swings.

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Micron Technology stock surged ahead of the open Thursday after the memory chip maker reported strong third-quarter earnings. Micron reported adjusted earnings per share of $25.11. Micron’s closely watched adjusted gross margin was 85%, again beating Wall Street’s consensus.

South Korean semiconductor shares rallied on Thursday after U.S. memory chipmaker Micron ‌Technology's quarterly results and forecast beat expectations, boosting optimism ‌over sustained demand for AI-related chips. Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics rose ​as much as 11.6% and 6.2%, respectively, in early trade, tracking a rally in U.S. chip stocks after Micron's earnings and outlook reinforced confidence in the memory sector. The rally also followed SK ‌Hynix's announcement on Wednesday ⁠of plans to raise up to 45.45 trillion won ($29.52 billion) through a secondary listing on Nasdaq, ⁠as it seeks to capitalise on strong investor appetite for AI stocks.

Micron Technology forecast quarterly revenue above Wall Street ‌estimates on Wednesday, signaling that ‌insatiable demand for AI-related infrastructure will continue ​to drive strong demand for its memory chips. Shares of the company rose around 4% in extended trading. The ‌company expects ⁠fourth-quarter revenue of $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, compared with ⁠analysts' average estimate of $43.58 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

Qualcomm is expected to use its investor day on Wednesday to lay out a push beyond its core smartphone business into ‌the fast-growing, but highly competitive, market for AI data center chips. Analysts ‌expect the San Diego-based company to name new customers for its AI chips as it tries to ​gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The shift reflects mounting pressure in the smartphone market, where Qualcomm is one of the world’s largest chip suppliers to Android device makers.

Micron’s fourth-quarter outlook will be closely watched. The red-hot memory stock needs a big number.

Samsung Electronics plans a share buyback programme worth 90 ‌trillion won ($58.61 billion) after agreeing to ‌give a bonus in stock to employees following ​recent wage talks, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday. The memory-chip maker will soon announce details on the plan, Yonhap ‌said, citing unidentified ⁠industry sources. Management and union last month reached a pay deal ⁠under which Samsung is expected to set aside about 10.5% of its operating profit ​for special ​bonuses for ​the chip division in ‌the form of stocks, sparking concerns over inequality at the company.

The chip maker can get its mojo back, but it must overcome technical challenges that have dogged it in the past.

Memory-chip maker SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to become South Korea’s most valuable company amid the AI-driven chip boom.

SK Hynix shares rose 5.6% in Seoul trading on Monday, pushing its market capitalization to $1.35 trillion.

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Marvell shares jumped 9% in premarket on news of plans to include the chipmaker in the S&P 500 index.

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<body><p>STORY: Asian stocks plunged on Monday morning as investors hit the brakes on the red-hot AI rally.</p><p>South Korea’s tech-heavy KOSPI index took the heaviest beating.</p><p>It was down around 6% by late-morning after volatile trade had earlier triggered a 20-minute halt.</p><p>Chip giant Samsung matched the overall decline.&nbsp;</p><p>Meanwhile, Japan’s Nikkei index was down around 4% by the same time.</p><p>That follows a similar drop for the Nasdaq on Wall Street at the end of last week.</p><p>One analyst told Reuters that doubts have crept in over tech earnings, partly following weaker-than-expected numbers from US chipmaker Broadcom.</p><p>Last week’s hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs data have also all but wiped out hopes for further rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this year.</p><p>Then there’s Iran.</p><p>Tensions in the Middle East have flared again, following Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel.</p><p>International benchmark Brent Crude was up around 3% on Monday morning, once again heading towards the $100 per barrel mark.</p><p>That’s despite weekend action by the OPEC+ oil exporters’ group&nbsp;to reassure markets with a further boost to output.</p><p>Later this week, all eyes turn to the potentially record breaking SpaceX share listing.</p><p>Elon Musk’s rocket firm is set to start trading on Friday, and is expected to debut with a valuation of around $1.75 trillion.</p><p>With so much money going to that, and more possible mega-listings such as OpenAI, some brokers have expressed concern about the impact on other assets.&nbsp;</p></body>

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SK Hynix told investors this week it received "tremendously positive" feedback on its proposed U.S. listing as the chipmaker benefits from strong demand for advanced ‌memory semiconductors needed to run AI data centers, a source familiar with the matter said on ‌Thursday. SK Hynix told some investors this week that it had "tremendously positive" feedback ‌from stockholders to its U.S. listing ⁠plan given AI demand and the company's competitive position in the memory-chip market, the person said. The company, a major supplier to Nvidia, expects a U.S. listing to broaden ⁠its investor base, as some U.S.-based institutional investors invest in U.S.-listed stocks only due to internal mandates, the person said.

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