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Asian shares mostly rose in early Thursday trading, as global market optimism continued on prospects for AI stocks and the semiconductor sector. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up nearly 0.1% to 25,453.45, while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.4% to 3,961.82. Several AI stocks reported better growth for the spring than analysts expected, while a report showed inflation across the United States was slightly less bad last month.

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By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Asian shares took a breather on Thursday after an AI-driven surge the previous day, while oil prices traded in a tight range as markets assessed prospects

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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.

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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.

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U.S. stock futures rose, as markets stabilized after reacting sharply to the Fed’s rate meeting Wednesday.

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.

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SK hynix (NASDAQ:SKHY) shares jumped 6. 2% in pre-market trading to $164.

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Shares of the Chinese memory-chip company surged in their trading debut, buoying Beijing’s campaign to become a global force in semiconductors that power AI.

Shares of CXMT, China's largest memory chipmaker, soared Monday after they began trading in Shanghai in mainland China’s biggest initial public stock offering in recent years. CXMT's shares surged 472% and were trading up 462% by early afternoon. It has become the most valuable company listed on a mainland Chinese exchange, with a market capitalization of about 3.3 trillion yuan (more than $487 billion).

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South Korea’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter after robust first-quarter, but remained resilient as brisk chip exports offset weak private consumption and construction investment.

Exchange-traded funds have been a fixture of financial markets since the 1990s as a popular low-cost way for investors to buy baskets of stocks and trade them like shares on a brokerage account. Leveraged ETFs, which promise to multiply ‌the daily returns of their targets, have been around for two decades and are now exploding in popularity, particularly around the AI theme and ‌some of the companies at the forefront of hardware sales. Single-stock leveraged ETFs, which launched in the U.S. in 2022, are booming in Asia as a way to juice bets on South Korean chipmakers ​Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix and are driving so much money they are reshaping the market, lifting volatility and worrying regulators.

TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, is expected to ‌notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings on Thursday, with a ‌59% surge in net profit for April-June, driven by booming global demand for AI infrastructure. Analysts ​said demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. TSMC is ⁠expected to report net profit of T$632.6 billion ($19.65 billion) for the second quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate compiled from 18 analysts.

Chinese investors seeking shares in CXMT's $8.6 billion IPO are betting the Chinese chipmaker's valuation will soar as much as 10-fold after its Shanghai debut on the back of an AI-led upcycle and Beijing's ambition to be technologically self-sufficient. The share offering ‌by CXMT, or ChangXin Memory Technologies, will be Asia's biggest share sale so far this year. Wu Zhou, a fund manager at Shenzhen Deyuan Investment, said he will bid for new CXMT shares, betting that China's top memory chipmaker will ​one day take market share from global giants like South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday, tracking a rally on Wall Street following a report that showed U.S. inflation was not as bad last month as economists expected. Shares in computer chipmaker SK Hynix rose 9.4%, while those of Samsung Electronics surged 6.1%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 1.5% to 24,701.10, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.2% to 3,957.79 after the Chinese government reported the economy expanded at a 4.3% annualized pace in April-June, slowing sharply from 5% in the first quarter of the year.