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SK Hynix said on Thursday it planned to invest 100 trillion won ($64.38 billion) to build ‌new NAND memory chip and packaging factories as part of a massive ‌investment programme aimed at addressing a shortage driven by the AI boom. The projects in the country's ​central city of Cheongju outlined on Thursday come under a $2.1 trillion plan unveiled by the chipmaker and its local rival Samsung Electronics on Monday that also included a new chip cluster in the southwest and existing projects. South Korea is hoping the investments will ‌double the country's memory chip ⁠production capacity within five years.

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Tesla, Caterpillar, Applied Materials and an ETF of chip stocks are in the idiosyncratic investor’s crosshairs.

SK Hynix builds the memory chips wired into Nvidia’s most advanced AI processors, supplying a component so scarce that customers now reserve production years in advance. This week the South Korean company asked U.S. regulators for permission to list its shares on the Nasdaq for the first time in ...

79% That’s how much South Korea’s exports jumped in June compared with a year prior, as the AI boom fueled demand for chips made by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. It was the fastest expansion since October 1978 and came as the Kospi finished the second quarter yesterday with a more than 50% gain despite volatility from the war.

Exports were powered by the unabated demand for advanced chips to fuel the global artificial-intelligence boom, resulting in their largest increase in nearly five decades.

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Artificial intelligence has created shortages across nearly every part of the semiconductor supply chain. GPUs have received most of the attention, but memory chips have quietly become just as critical. Every advanced AI accelerator depends on high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and manufacturers are struggling to keep pace. Even after investing billions of dollars to expand production, ... Micron Hit With Price-Fixing Lawsuit: Real Collusion or Simple Supply and Demand?

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are making one of the biggest bets yet on the artificial intelligence boom with investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but the planned capacity buildout is stoking fears of a painful reckoning if AI spending cools. The tech giants won praise - and a deep bow - from ‌President Lee Jae Myung after throwing their weight behind the government's semiconductor push, in an apparent departure from a previously restrained approach to capacity expansion shaped by decades of painful boom-and-bust cycles ‌in the memory industry. Under the plan, the government hopes South Korea can double its memory chip production capacity within five years.

By Hyunjoo Jin and Heekyong Yang SEOUL, June 30 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are making one of the biggest bets yet on the artificial intelligence boom with investments worth hundreds

Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, while the Japanese yen was trading near a 40-year low against the U.S. dollar. Shares in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan rebounded from earlier losses spurred by selling of technology companies due to concerns over the sustainability of the boom in artificial intelligence. Chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron jumped 3.3%.

Micron stock fell Monday on news of a federal civil antitrust lawsuit accusing it and two other memory-chip makers of price-fixing.

A US antitrust suit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of inflating DRAM prices days before their $650 billion AI push.

Seventeen plaintiffs allege the chipmakers coordinated a shift to HBM production to artificially restrict commodity DRAM supply and drive up prices

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SEOUL, June 29 (Reuters) - South Korea announced three "mega projects" on Monday covering semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centres, with Samsung Electronics, SK Group and government ministries

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~ $2 trillion That's how much South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, along with affiliate companies and the country's government, plan to spend on creating new semiconductor and AI industry hubs in the years to come.

The world’s two largest memory-chip makers said their existing investments wouldn’t be enough to meet demand, amid a worldwide shortage.

South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said Monday they will invest a combined 800 trillion won ($518 billion) in building a new computer chipmaking hub in the country’s southwest region, capitalizing on surging artificial intelligence -driven demand. President Lee Jae Myung joined the companies’ chairs Monday in announcing the plan, which dovetails with the government’s efforts to expand investment beyond the greater Seoul metropolitan area, the country’s economic center and heart of its semiconductor sector.

South Korea is launching a 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) plan in corporate investments to build out critical AI infrastructure and cement its global dominance in the semiconductor market. President Lee Jae Myung called the sweeping mega-project a "national survival strategy" for the AI era. Bloomberg's Avril Hong breaks down the press conference, where President Lee was joined by the CEOs of tech giants Samsung and SK Hynix to outline the multi-year roadmap.

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South Korea will invest nearly $1.2 trillion -- equivalent to more than two-thirds of its GDP -- in a new chip-building hub and AI data centres over several years, as it seeks to profit from soaring demand while developing previously neglected regions.The government also announced a separate investment of a quadrillion won (around $650 billion) in AI data centres over the next 10 years.

The rally driven by the global artificial-intelligence boom has exposed structural vulnerabilities in a stock market unaccustomed to wild swings.

Samsung Electronics and ‌SK Hynix ‌plan to each build ​two new massive chip fabrication sites in South Korea's southwest ‌region ⁠as part of a national project ⁠to build chip production "ecosystem" valued ​at 800 ​trillion ​won ($517.87 billion), ‌the government said on Monday. The plan was unveiled at the announcement of three ‌new "mega-projects" by ​the country ​and ​the global ‌chip giants to ​spur ​growth and dominate the AI sector. ($1 = ​1,544.8000 ‌won)

Asian markets were mixed on Monday as selling of artificial intelligence-related shares pulled benchmarks in Japan and South Korea lower, though gains for other stocks helped offset those losses. U.S. futures advanced and oil prices gained, though they remained close to the levels they were at before the Iran war began in late February. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated over the weekend as Iran launched fresh drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait in response to new U.S. airstrikes, adding to uncertainties clouding the global economic outlook.

South Korea rolled out sweeping chip and AI mega-projects on Monday, ‌as President Lee Jae Myung pledged to cement ‌overwhelming industry leadership with investments spanning hundreds of billions of dollars over ​several years. The announcement marks Lee's boldest push yet to align South Korea's AI and chip ambitions with his pledge to narrow regional disparities and revive economies beyond the Seoul metropolitan ‌area. Lee was joined by ⁠the leaders of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world's two largest memory chipmakers, for ⁠the televised announcement.

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, June 29 (Reuters) - South Korea is set to unveil three "mega-projects" to fuel its next growth phase, including a new semiconductor hub in the southwest that local media say could