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• AI funding fears spark heavy selloff in Asian chip stocks

  On July 28, 2026, Reuters reported a sharp selloff in Asian markets led by chipmakers as investors grew nervous about the massive funding needs of the AI boom. South Korea’s KOSPI plunged more than 8 percent, triggering a circuit breaker, while Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell up to about 11 percent amid worries over Nvidia’s potential $250 billion OpenAI financing guarantee and rising Chinese competition.

  Source: MarketScreener Australia (Reuters wire)2026-07-28T02:27:00.000Z

• CXMT surges over 450 percent, becomes China’s top listed AI memory chipmaker

  On July 27, 2026 shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) soared more than 450 percent in their Shanghai STAR Market debut, briefly making the DRAM maker the most valuable company listed on mainland Chinese exchanges. The IPO raised at least 8.6 billion dollars and underscores how AI driven demand for memory chips is boosting China’s efforts to build a self sufficient semiconductor stack.

  Source: Euronews (AP)2026-07-27T11:30:00.000Z

• TMTPost Edge AI briefing tracks Anthropic chips and Google edge win

  China’s TMTPost published its July 27 Edge AI Daily briefing from Beijing at 08:13 local time, highlighting Anthropic’s reported talks with SK Hynix and Samsung about custom chips, an ESP32 edge demo running a 28.9 million parameter model using Google’s PLE technique, rapid growth of ChatGPT Work versus Codex, and Meta FAIR’s open UMA atomic model for AI‑driven materials discovery. ([tmtpost.com](https://www.tmtpost.com/8080059.html))

  Source: TMTPost2026-07-27T00:13:00.000Z

• Nvidia and SK Group unveil $500B AI factory and HBM pact

  On July 26, 2026, Chinese outlet IT之家 reported that South Korea’s SK Group and Nvidia have agreed a more than 500 billion dollar AI partnership, including a 2 gigawatt AI factory in Korea using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform. The first AI factory is slated to go online in 2027, alongside a long‑term HBM memory collaboration with SK hynix.

  Source: IT之家 (IT Home)2026-07-26T11:49:37.000Z

• SK hynix AI chip boom points to record 43.7B profit

  On July 26, 2026, Yonhap reported that SK hynix is forecast to post a record operating profit of 64.1 trillion won (about 43.7 billion dollars) in Q2 2026. Analysts attribute the surge to high bandwidth memory and SSD demand from global AI data centers and tech companies.

  Source: Yonhap News Agency2026-07-26T00:55:00.000Z

• Korea president Lee links AI era to 950B tech deals

  At 07:02 KST on July 26, 2026, Yonhap reported that President Lee Jae Myung told Korean expatriates in San Francisco that the AI era is a “truly new opportunity” for South Korea. He highlighted recently announced business agreements between Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Korean firms such as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which a presidential official valued at about 950 billion dollars.

  Source: Yonhap News Agency2026-07-25T22:02:00.000Z

• Samsung and SK sign $950B AI chip and data center deals

  On July 25, 2026, South Korea’s presidential Blue House detailed about $950 billion in AI chip and infrastructure cooperation over five years between Korean conglomerates and US tech firms. SK Group will pursue around $750 billion in advanced memory supply deals, while Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom worth up to $200 billion, alongside large AI data center and physical AI projects with Nvidia, Anthropic, NAVER, SK Telecom, Brookfield and Hyundai Motor Group.

  Source: Aju Press2026-07-25T06:20:00.000Z

• Anthropic and AI boom test global capitalism’s political limits

  On July 12, 2026, BusinessMirror ran a Bloomberg feature describing how massive AI investments—from Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing to SpaceX’s record-breaking listing and hyperscale data center build-outs—are colliding with growing public anxiety over jobs, costs, and inequality. The piece highlights warnings from Anthropic and other AI leaders that frontier systems may be advancing faster than societies can adapt.

  Source: BusinessMirror (Bloomberg syndicated)2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

• Synopsys drops fab control tools to double down on AI chip design software

  Reuters reports that Synopsys will end new development of its Equipment Engineering System and FDC fab control software and reassign staff toward higher-margin AI design offerings. The move affects customers including Samsung, SK Hynix, Kioxia and Qorvo, which are building or buying alternatives.

  Source: Reuters (via WTAQ)2026-07-07T05:18:00.000Z

• Samsung forecasts 1,800% profit surge on AI memory chip boom

  Samsung Electronics said on July 7 its second-quarter operating profit is set to jump about 1,810% year-on-year, driven by AI-related memory chip demand. The company estimates its Q2 profit at 89.4 trillion won (about $58.4 billion), which would be the largest quarterly operating profit in its history.

  Source: The Jakarta Post (via Reuters)2026-07-07T03:33:57.000Z