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Samsung Electronics' shares surged on Thursday after it clinched an 11th-hour deal with its South Korean union to ‌avert a strike, although the terms which included bonuses of around $416,000 for some workers ‌gave rise to some concern. A planned 18-day strike by some 48,000 union members has now been suspended, while the agreement, which ​was mediated by the government, is put to a vote between May 22 and May 27. The deal sparked relief across South Korea.

Shares rallied Thursday across Asia, tracking gains on Wall Street after pressure from the bond market eased and oil prices fell back. The advance was also powered by a stronger-than-expected quarterly report from chipmaker Nvidia, whose profit rocketed more than 200% higher in the February-April quarter from a year earlier, while revenue jumped 85%. Nvidia has been one of the biggest beneficiaries from the boom in artificial intelligence, thanks to powerful demand for its high-end AI chips.

Samsung Electronics' shares rose as much as 6.5% in morning trade on ‌Thursday after the tech giant and its ‌South Korean union reached a tentative pay deal, potentially averting a ​strike that had threatened to hit the economy and undermine global chip supply chains. The union said the planned 18-day strike by nearly 48,000 members would be suspended ‌while the tentative 11th-hour ⁠deal is put to a vote between May 22 and 27. Ryu Young-ho, a senior analyst at NH Investment & Securities, said investors were relieved ​that uncertainty ​surrounding the prospect of ​a strike had eased.

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Investing.com -- Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) shares rose 5.75% Monday as labor unrest at Samsung Electronics and supply constraints drove optimism, with Deutsche Bank setting a $1,000 price target for the memory-chip maker, matching the Street high.

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Nintendo and Sony both flagged the impact from surging memory prices on their games businesses on Friday, as the artificial intelligence boom constrains chip supply and deepens disruptions across the tech sector. "Super Mario" maker Nintendo said that higher component costs, particularly memory, and the impact of tariffs is expected to add roughly 100 billion yen ($638 million) to costs in the current financial year. President Shuntaro Furukawa said the higher component costs, along with factors including exchange rates, were reflected in Nintendo's decision to hike prices of its Switch 2.

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Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) reported quarterly earnings and guidance that surpassed Wall Street expectations, while highlighting strong customer demand for its recently launched artificial intelligence-focused data center processor. Despite the upbeat results, U.

Oil prices fell and stocks rose on rising optimism about an end to Middle East hostilities. Iran and the U.S. are working with mediators on a one-page framework to restart negotiations aimed at ending the conflict and opening the Strait of Hormuz, with talks potentially beginning next week in Islamabad. Semiconductor stocks extended their rally.

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Oil prices fell and stocks rose on rising optimism about an end to Middle East hostilities. Iran and the U.S. are working with mediators on a one-page framework to restart negotiations aimed at ending the conflict and opening the Strait of Hormuz, with talks potentially beginning next week in Islamabad. Semiconductor stocks extended their rally.

Chipmakers are the most actively traded U.S. stocks ahead of the opening bell, setting the stage for another tech-led rally. In recent premarket action: Intel (INTC) is the most traded stock by volume, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and is up about 6%.

U. S. stock futures moved higher on Wednesday after President Donald Trump paused a military initiative aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and signalled progress toward a possible peace agreement with Iran.

Investing.com -- Advanced Micro Devices forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for its data center chips. Shares rose 17% in premarket trading on Wednesday.

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South Korea’s Kospi soared nearly 7% to a fresh record on Wednesday as Samsung Electronics' stock jumped nearly 13% in a rally driven by expectations of strong growth in artificial intelligence and hopes for progress in ending the U.S.-Iran war. Shares in SK Hynix, another major Korean computer chipmaker, shot up 10% early Wednesday. Both Samsung and SK Hynix are major manufacturers of the computer chips vital for AI applications.

South Korea's Kospi soars nearly 7% to fresh records as Samsung Electronics stock jumps nearly 13%.

The market capitalisation of Samsung Electronics' ‌common stock surpassed $1 trillion ‌on Wednesday, making it the second ​Asian company after TSMC to reach the milestone. Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, saw its ‌market value ⁠reach 1,500 trillion won ($1.03 trillion) in early trading ⁠in Seoul on Wednesday, tracking sharp gains of AI-related ​stocks in ​the U.S. ​overnight. Shares of the ‌South Korean chip giant were up 12% at 09:52 a.m.

South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index vaulted past 7,000 for the first time on Wednesday, as an AI-powered rally in semiconductor stocks drove Samsung Electronics past the $1 trillion market-cap barrier. The gains underscore how ‌global demand for artificial intelligence hardware has become the dominant force reshaping equity markets, turning South Korea's chip-heavy benchmark into one of the ‌world's best performing major markets. The KOSPI closed up 6.45% at 7,384.56, after briefly tripping a rare "sidecar" trading curb and rising as much as 7.06% to a record high of 7,426.60, as a ​blistering rally in U.S. chip stocks overnight drove the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 4.2%.

Shares of ‌SK Hynix extended ‌gains to 12% on ​Monday, driven by foreign buying, after big U.S. tech ‌firms ⁠last week reported robust earnings ⁠and reaffirmed their investment plans ​for artificial ​intelligence ​data centers. SK ‌Hynix outperformed bigger rival Samsung Electronics, which has been weighed down by ‌the risk ​of a ​potential ​strike by ‌unionised workers demanding ​a ​bigger share of the company's ​AI-driven ‌profits.

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South Korea’s exports surged again in April, driven by semiconductor shipments, signaling resilience in the trade-dependent economy despite geopolitical risks stemming from the Middle East conflict.