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South Korea stocks crashed 18% in two days. Could it happen here?
A man walks past in front of an electronic screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (KOSPI) at the Korea Exchange in Seoul on March 3, 2026. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korean stocks quickly fell from grace following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. But Wall Street doesn’t see that […]
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Smartphone market poised for ‘sharpest decline on record’ in 2026
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – SEPTEMBER 19: Customers line up outside an Apple store ahead of the launch of the iPhone 17 series at Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) on September 19, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The iPhone 17 line represents the next generation of iPhones and accessories set to hit international markets. (Photo by Annice […]
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South Korea central bank holds rates, adopts dot-plot path signalling extended pause
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – 2025/05/07: General view of the headquarters of the Bank of Korea in central Seoul. The Bank of Korea (BOK) is the central bank of South Korea and the institution that issues the Korean won. It was founded on June 12, 1950 in Seoul. (Photo by Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) […]
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Samsung’s S26 gives an advance look at what the Google-powered Apple Siri could do
The Gemini AI assistant on a Samsung 26S Ultra smartphone during a product preview event in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, its latest flagship smartphone lineup that puts Alphabet‘s Gemini artificial intelligence front and center. […]
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Arm shares edge higher in premarket as Nvidia shakes up its AI bets
The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Hari Anggara | Nurphoto | Getty Images New York-listed shares of British semiconductor firm Arm ticked 1.4% higher in premarket trading on Wednesday, after documents […]
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Qualcomm stock sinks 10% as company issues dire warning on memory shortage
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon delivers a keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Qualcomm shares plunged 10% after the chipmaker issued disappointing guidance as skyrocketing demand for artificial intelligence data centers eats away at memory chip supply for consumer electronics. On an earnings call with analysts, Qualcomm CEO […]
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SK Hynix overtakes Samsung in annual profit for the first time as AI reshapes rivalry
The SK Hynix Inc. logo is displayed on a glass door at the company’s office in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. SK Hynix aims to select a U.S. site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter of next year. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty […]
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Samsung’s fourth-quarter profit triples, beating estimates as AI chip demand fuels memory shortage
Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Samsung Electronics reported an over threefold surge in fourth-quarter profits on Thursday, hitting a new record and beating analysts’ estimates, as a memory chip shortage and strong demand for artificial intelligence servers lifted earnings. Here are […]
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Morgan Stanley loves these stocks as the AI memory bottleneck bites
Tech companies have raced to build out compute capacity to fuel their AI ambitions but are now faced with a new bottleneck: memory capacity. The crunch comes as workloads shift from training models to using AI tools, and it’s driven in part by agentic AI, where a system can execute tasks independently. AI agents require […]
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SK Hynix to invest $13 billion in new plant amid memory chip shortage
A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea-based memory maker SK Hynix announced Tuesday it will invest 19 trillion Korean won ($12.9 billion) to build a new […]
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