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South Korean electronics conglomerate and the world's largest memory chipmaker, making semiconductors, Galaxy smartphones, TVs, and other consumer electronics.
Samsung wants Qualcomm to fix chip overheating by mid-October or may use Exynos in the Galaxy S27 Ultra, Seoul Economic Daily reported. Samsung's mobile processor spending hit 13.8272 trillion won last year, though the Ultra's share is not public.
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Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% on Thursday, enough to halt trading for 20 minutes, after US September CPI came in at 3.7%. The print landed on a chip sector already sliding, and the clearest sign of costlier financing sits in AI borrowers' bonds.
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Global smartphone shipments fell 22% year on year to 255.3 million units in the third quarter, the largest drop IDC has recorded for any quarter. IDC analysts say memory costs have risen about 350% since last year and the market has not reached bottom.
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Solidigm, SK hynix's U.S. unit, has applied for U.S. export licenses for its Dalian plant and ties a new U.S. NAND fab to approval, Reuters reported. The request tests how much leverage AI memory demand gives a supplier over limits on tools for Chinese plants.
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Bitcoin dipped below $80,000 and recovered to about $82,500 within hours, coindesk.com and Bitcoin News reported. The sources tie it more firmly to Fed rate-hike odds after hot CPI than to chip stocks, and the chip link rests on one session.
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KOSPI rose 2.05% to 5,668.05 on Friday, ending a seven-day losing streak. Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which fell 9.48% and 11.06% the session before, are still about 7% and 10% below their earlier closes.
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Kospi opened up 1.8% on Friday after a 7.57% plunge to 5,554.22 that Yonhap tied to AI-trade worries and US inflation. The chip names trailed the index while banks and defense led, so the early rebound does not show the AI worry has eased.
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Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly operating profit last week as Korea's market suffered repeated trading halts, a Korea Herald editorial says. It argues the boom has lifted growth forecasts but left little cover if AI spending slows.
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South Korea's Kospi fell to about 5,550 on Oct. 15 after US inflation came in hotter than expected. Euronews put the day's drop at 7.7%; Seoul Economic Daily counts a seventh straight loss and 55 trillion won of chipmaker buybacks now wound down.
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Gyeonggi Province apartment prices rose 0.26% in the week to October 12 against 0.16% in Seoul, the Korea Real Estate Board reported. Record trades in Gunpo and Byeongjeom suggest spillover from Samsung-area districts, but Bundang posted the biggest weekly gain.
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Counterpoint Research's tracker puts the 2026 rise on phones already on sale at 15% on average, as memory chip prices climbed fourfold since Q4 2025. Over 40% of models were repriced, an industry first by its account.
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TSMC's third-quarter net profit rose 68.7% to a record NT$763.1 billion, its sixth straight record. Its chief executive still said the company will be prudent in planning 2027, citing rising component prices.
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ASML said on Oct 14 that its 2027 and 2028 supply will not fully meet demand even after planned 30% capacity increases in both years. Some customers are also asking to order for 2029 and 2030, which ASML calls interest, and it gave no count or value.
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Elon Musk called memory pricing 'extortionate' and praised Micron, whose latest quarterly gross margin was 81%. Tom's Hardware reports market insiders and analysts expect shortages through at least 2028, and hardware budgets have to cover that horizon.
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Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lost 9.5%, 11% and 9.3% in Asia while the 30-year Treasury yield fell 9.1 basis points. The drop added only 2.6% to the present value of a 30-year dollar, so the cause looks like AI borrowing and late revenue, with inflation as an add-on.
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Seoul's Kospi closed down 7.57% after a circuit breaker, as chipmakers sold off on U.S. inflation data. BlackRock's Fink says halting data centers means recession. HSBC's Roberts says lenders want higher returns first.
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SK Hynix fell 26%, Samsung 22% and Micron about 11% in five days on CXMT and 2029 glut fears, CNBC reported. Counterpoint's 2028 forecast still leaves DRAM about 230% above its 2025 price.
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Seoul's Kospi fell 7.57% to 5,554.22 on Thursday, tripping a sidecar and a 20-minute circuit breaker as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix sank. The reports carry prices and flows but no valuations, and say nothing about whether chip shares were overpriced.
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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% in Q3, the lowest third-quarter level since 2012, Counterpoint Research's preliminary data show. Samsung's shipments slipped only 3% and Apple reached a record 22% share, so the loss concentrated in Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo.
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Korea's Kospi closed down 7.57% at 5,554.22 on October 15, tripping its circuit breaker, as SK Hynix lost 11.35% and Samsung Electronics 9.70%. Both fell harder than the index.
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