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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) for possible use at their Chinese factories, three people familiar with the matter said, as the South Korean firms hedge against the risk of tighter U.S. export controls. The memory chipmakers began ‌testing AMEC etching equipment about two years ago, when uncertainty was mounting over whether Washington would continue allowing them to import U.S. chipmaking tools into ‌China, two of the sources said.

Sandisk could work its way back to this number post-earnings.

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Anyone who bought a laptop or built a gaming PC this year already felt memory prices climb. DRAM and NAND flash have gotten steadily more expensive as AI data centers absorb nearly every chip factories can produce, according to a Bloomberg analysis. On August 3, SK hynix and Sandisk released the ...

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A crisis of confidence in the AI trade has dogged the index of late, putting it in bear market. Big swings, driven by SK Hynix and Samsung, which make chips crucial to the AI buildout and which together make up most of the Kospi, have become practically routine.

Netlist (OTCMKTS:NLST) reported second-quarter revenue of $109.8 million, up 163% from the second quarter of 2025, as demand for difficult-to-source DRAM products and the company’s memory product portfolio supported growth. Chief Executive Officer Chuck Hong said first-half revenue exceeded $200 mi

Memory-chip shipments led the overall export growth, as the country’s top chip makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix maintain an upbeat outlook for the rest of the year after posting record revenue and earnings for the June quarter. Imports expanded 26.5% to $68.56 billion in July, resulting in a trade surplus of $30.32 billion. In June, the country’s trade surplus was a revised $36.09 billion.

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SK Hynix shares leaped 30% on Friday, by far their biggest daily rise since the South Korean memory-chip manufacturer and AI darling went public in the 1990s. Not far behind was fellow chip producer Samsung Electronics, which rose 27%. News that hedge fund Situational Awareness has offloaded troubled AI-related investments to Citadel is contributing to Friday's blockbuster gains in tech stocks, hedge-fund managers said.

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The country’s regulators have imposed increasingly stringent restrictions on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.

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The South Korean tech giant's memory chip division hit all-time highs on AI server demand, while elevated component costs pushed its mobile unit into the red

Investors are weighing up a batch of Big Tech earnings reports, which could help power a market rebound.

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That would be slower than the 70.7% surge in June, which was the biggest jump since 1978, but still the second-strongest annual growth rate ‌in the current streak that started ⁠in June 2025. The export gains continue to be driven by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, as memory chip prices climb amid a ⁠global surge in AI investment, analysts said. In ​the first 20 days of July, exports rose ​52.3% from a year earlier, as ‌semiconductor shipments jumped 180.6%.

South Korean stocks enjoyed a much-needed rally Thursday after a two-day rout as chip giant Samsung reported an eye-watering profit surge thanks to AI-driven demand, though the rest of Asia was mixed and oil held steep gains on fresh Middle East worries. Optimism got a boost Thursday as Samsung posted a 1,813 percent jump in second-quarter operating profit, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips. 

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South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a day after crosstown rival SK Hynix also reported record earnings, as the world’s two largest memory chipmakers continue to ride the global artificial intelligence boom. Despite their soaring profits, the companies’ shares have fallen sharply this week in South Korea’s volatile stock market, where retail investors often drive sharp swings in share prices, as concerns grow over their plans to spend massively on increasing manufacturing capacity and the prospects of intensifying competition from China. Samsung’s second-quarter operating profit was a more than 19-fold increase from a year earlier, and nearly all of it came from its semiconductor business, which benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications.

If stock prices are your go-to economic barometer then you could be forgiven for ignoring the original “China Shock” a quarter-century ago. Manufacturing job losses in machinery, textiles, electronics and furniture slammed parts of the U.S. after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. There’s even a strong case that China’s industrial rise was a major tailwind for stocks overall.

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SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.

U.S. stocks finished mixed as a rout in chip stocks continued while falling oil prices boosted consumer stocks.

SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) - Asian markets fell on Tuesday led by chipmakers on unease about the massive funding demands of the AI boom, while a slide in oil prices did relatively little to lift

South Korea's top financial regulator said on Tuesday that authorities would ‌consider a cap on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded ‌funds (ETF) investments for retail investors if needed, local media reports ​said. Lee Eog-weon, chairman of the Financial Services Commission, told a meeting with local brokerages and asset managers in Seoul that the regulator would review and ‌prepare additional measures ⁠to curb the demand for the ETF products, such as putting a cap ⁠on total value of investments for each individual.