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Alphabet's Google is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture part of its ‌next-generation chip, The Information reported on Thursday, citing ‌two people familiar with the matter. Google plans for Taiwan's TSMC to ​make the main part of the chip, codenamed 'Icefish,' while Samsung may produce a separate component that helps connect it to memory using its 2-nanometer production technology, the report ‌said. The chip industry has ⁠been grappling with a capacity crunch, as TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, works ⁠to keep up with surging demand and avoid becoming a bottleneck in the global supply chain amid the AI ​boom.

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The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) closed Friday at $599, capping a stretch in which SMH has returned roughly 146% over the past year and tacked on nearly 20% in May alone. SMH is up about 66% year to date, and the rally has been driven less by NVIDIA than most holders assume. Because the fund ... SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls

The stock market had a wild Tuesday, skidding but also coming off lows on AI fears and Trump's Iran threats. CPI inflation is on tap.

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A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Monday urged President Donald Trump's administration to tighten ‌rules on chip contract manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to ‌prevent them from making advanced AI chips for overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies. This comes after ​the Trump administration last week moved to halt a potential loophole that may have led companies to export advanced chips such as those made by Nvidia to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China. The Bureau of ⁠Industry and Security (BIS), the arm of the U.S. Commerce Department that oversees export control laws, has clarified that sales to Chinese company subsidiaries in third countries such ​as Malaysia ​require a license.

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By Gregor Stuart Hunter and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, June 8 (Reuters) - Sam Konrad's stocks are having a fantastic year, thanks to AI-fueled rallies in Taiwan and South Korea, but his fund is so top

Apple and Oracle will factor into the coming week, but stock market action is likely to ultimately hinge on the scheduled SpaceX IPO.

One of the most important chipmakers on the planet could be squeezing its customers right now, as the AI shortage gives it every excuse. But its CEO said he won’t. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSMC) Chief Executive Officer, C.C. Wei, used the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Hsinchu, ...

Investors are slamming the brakes on the AI rally, dragging down shares in Broadcom, AMD, and Nvidia.

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TSM stock rose on Thursday after the company's annual shareholders' meeting. At the meeting, Chief Executive C.C. Wei said the contract chipmaker, better known as TSMC, won't be able to fulfill demand over the next few years, even as more manufacturing capacity comes online, Bloomberg reported. "It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand," Wei said.

June 4 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures fell on Thursday, as Broadcom's revenue miss pressured chip stocks, while equity investors took a breather after a strong rally to record highs.

TSMC's CEO dismissed concerns that it’s at a disadvantage to rivals already adopting ultra-expensive equipment to make cutting-edge chips. C.C. Wei said today that the chip giant has bought high-end machines made exclusively by ASML, and that it's focused on figuring out how to run them more efficiently to lower costs.

Investors will monitor initial jobless claims and the Challenger job-cuts report before turning their attention to Friday's nonfarm payrolls release.

SK Hynix told investors this week it received "tremendously positive" feedback on its proposed U.S. listing as the chipmaker benefits from strong demand for advanced ‌memory semiconductors needed to run AI data centers, a source familiar with the matter said on ‌Thursday. SK Hynix told some investors this week that it had "tremendously positive" feedback ‌from stockholders to its U.S. listing ⁠plan given AI demand and the company's competitive position in the memory-chip market, the person said. The company, a major supplier to Nvidia, expects a U.S. listing to broaden ⁠its investor base, as some U.S.-based institutional investors invest in U.S.-listed stocks only due to internal mandates, the person said.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing isn’t falling behind in next-generation chipmaking, its CEO said.

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Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, said on ‌Thursday it is confident in its growth ‌over the next few years, driven by robust demand for ​computing power and advanced semiconductors, as it rides an AI boom. Chief Executive C.C. Wei, speaking at TSMC's annual shareholders' meeting in the northern Taiwanese city ‌of Hsinchu, added ⁠that its customers continue to express a positive outlook for the AI industry. Taiwan has taken centrestage this week as it hosts the annual Computex conference, where leaders of some of the world's most powerful tech ‌companies are gathering, with executives ​from the likes of Nvidia ​to Intel praising ​the island's central role in the ‌global supply chain.

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In 2019, while researching a book on the U.S.-China competition, I visited Huawei’s sprawling new R&D campus in Dongguan, a city about an hour’s drive from the company’s Shenzhen headquarters. A Huawei executive explained the design to me with a straight face: “We’re doing well in Europe.” In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.

The chairman of South Korea's SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip ‌unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity ‌over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference ​in Taipei, where executives from some of the world's top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. He added that he hopes his company can be a major high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supplier for Nvidia's Vera Rubin system.

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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that maintaining the ‌political status quo is the most responsible thing the island can do to secure global supply chains ‌as it hosts some of the world's leading technology leaders at an annual conference. Taiwan plays a pivotal role in the global artificial intelligence supply ​chain for companies including Nvidia and Apple, and its position is anchored by the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC. "As the world's need for AI grows, so too does its need for a Taiwan that is stable, trustworthy, and capable of shouldering responsibility," Lai said at the opening ceremony of Computex in Taipei, where leaders of some of the largest global technology companies ‌are gathering.

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