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Hundreds of Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) employees rallied in Taiwan on Thursday, threatening to strike after rejecting the company’s fiscal 2026 bonus offer, with workers reportedly saying the offer fell short of expectations. Workers Say the Offer Falls Short Last week, Micron offered total compensation equivalent to 35 to 68 months of pay for the year, with minimum cash compensation of NTD1.7 million ($53,485), but workers at a rally near the Taoyuan plant said it doesn’t reflect the co

Korea's newest chip ETF bets almost everything on two memory giants at the exact moment HBM pricing and AI capex commitments could swing either way, and the fund is young enough that most investors have no idea what they are actually buying.

Samsung rejected a massive electricity prepayment proposal as Korea confronts the power demands of expanding semiconductor production.

High-NA adoption strengthens the technology roadmap, but customers must justify a much larger equipment bill.

Nvidia, Intel, ASML, SK Hynix, and SoftBank were among the hardest-hit names as investors weighed the implications of a deliberate cap on AI progress

The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI spooked markets, while investors monitored rising oil prices and an upcoming Fed rate decision.

Cooperation is deepening across processors and enterprise AI, but no new commercial agreement has been announced.

The CEO of one of Apple’s biggest carrier partners did not mince words.

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - India's Serious Fraud Office has recommended Xiaomi be investigated for alleged irregularities in its business model and compliance with foreign

Semiconductor expansion is becoming an electricity-infrastructure problem that record chip profits cannot solve alone.

Mistral Lands Massive $3B Funding Round: Samsung and BlackRock Join AI Bet

China’s memory-chip ambitions are gaining momentum as CXMT expands in DRAM and YMTC prepares for IPO.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) remains in focus as its resilient U.S. smartphone position contrasts with growing pressure across the global handset market from rising memory costs. Apple shares edged lower in Monday premarket trading, slipping less than 0.5%. Nasdaq futures rose 0.02%, while S&P 500 futures fell 0.11%. Apple Holds US Smartphone Share Apple maintained its U.S. smartphone shipment share year over year in the second quarter of 2026, even as volumes eased following the iPhone 17e launch i

LiveOne (NASDAQ:LVO) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rob Ellin said the audio and entertainment platform recorded quarterly revenue of more than $19 million and EBITDA of more than $6 million, following what he described as a period of restructuring and cost reductions. Speaking during a compa

NVIDIA just disclosed a memory commitment that nearly tripled in a single quarter, yet the stocks of its named suppliers are falling hard on Thursday. One name in the group is bucking the selloff, and the reason points to a fault line running through the entire memory trade.

On August 13, 2026, CNBC reported that SK hynix Inc. (NASDAQ:SKHY) is spending $720 billion on what it calls the largest network of memory factories in the world. This buildout is so large that South Korea’s president is urging both SK Hynix and rival Samsung to add capacity even faster under a national plan to […]

Investors wanted aggressive buybacks and cancellations--not another enormous plan dominated by cash dividends.

Micron traded at $966.78 as selling hit memory stocks, pulling SK Hynix down roughly 3% ahead of Nvidia's earnings.

Investors had expected a larger buyback commitment, but Samsung's ownership structure complicated that path

Micron stock was slipping early Monday as another Chinese memory-chip market prepares for an initial public offering.

Samsung stock sank 8.7% after a record shareholder return plan disappointed investors, dragging the KOSPI index lower.

Oil prices fell on Monday as investors braced for details of a US plan to isolate the Iranian economy that President Donald Trump billed as the "most crushing" financial operation ever against Tehran.Vice President JD Vance admitted the plan was a "delicate dance" because Iran will "try to apply economic pressure to us".

South Korea plans to create a new fund to channel tax windfalls from the country's semiconductor boom into supporting ‌younger generations and invest in future growth industries such as artificial ‌intelligence, the budget ministry said on Friday. The proposed "Future Response Fund" would finance programmes aimed at helping ​young people find jobs, buy homes and start families, while also supporting investments in AI, regional development and talent development, according to a ministry press release. The fund would be financed mainly by tax revenue exceeding a benchmark based on the average ‌growth in domestic tax ⁠receipts over the past decade.

Samsung Electronics raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders, as surging AI demand fills key production lines and pushes customers toward alternatives to capacity-constrained Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM). Prices for U.S. and...

Stock markets rose on Wednesday and the dollar fell sharply after the US Treasury signalled action to push down government bond yields, easing fears that higher borrowing costs would weigh on economic growth worldwide.But the US Treasury surprised markets Wednesday by saying it would increase "by at least double" its sovereign bond buybacks to push down 30-year yields that have soared in recent days.

Micron Technology shares were failing to rebound early Wednesday after a sharp drop in the previous session. Micron shares were flat in premarket trading. In fact, the combined revenue of the top five publicly listed NAND flash-memory brands rose 77% in the second quarter from the previous quarter, to $68.87 billion, according to research firm Trendforce in data published Wednesday.

Kospi fell 6.45% Wednesday as chip stocks slid, triggering another Korea Exchange sell-side sidecar halt on the benchmark.

Shares slipped Wednesday in Asia after Wall Street pulled further from its all-time high as artificial-intelligence stocks resumed their decline. Samsung Electronics shed 6.9%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix tumbled 7.9%. Apart from renewed jitters over criticism that AI-related stocks have shot too high, rising oil prices also were clouding market sentiment.

South Korea led a selloff in Asian chip stocks early Wednesday, as rising bond yields exacerbated worry over the large sums of cash being shelled out by Big Tech.

Dunamu's operating profit fell 85% in Q2 as Upbit fee income halved, months after Korean giants paid $1.5 billion to buy in.