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South Korean electronics conglomerate and the world's largest memory chipmaker, making semiconductors, Galaxy smartphones, TVs, and other consumer electronics.
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SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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SK hynix accounted for 12 trillion won of the 20.3 trillion won that foreign investors sold net on the KOSPI between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2. With Samsung Electronics included, two memory makers carried about 85% of it, leaving little foreign selling for the rest of the market.
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Korea Land & Housing chief Lee Sung-hoon wants the 600 million won mortgage cap on greater Seoul homes up to 1.5 billion won lowered. His plan uses credit to hold prices until new supply arrives, and buyers in their 30s, the heaviest borrowers, would put up more of their own cash.
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Tenminds will launch its SmartThings-certified AI Sleepbot pillow in Korea, where sleep trackers are forecast to be a $1.52 billion market by 2030. New Coway and Ceragem products stay inside the bed. For now the link to the smart home rests on a single pillow.
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Gwangmyeong apartment prices rose 15.53% this year through Sept. 28, ahead of chip-money Yeongtong's 14.68%, after gaining just 0.36% a year earlier. That swing is a supply rebound, and a lead this narrow does not show it beating chip money across Gyeonggi.
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Korea's 10 most-bought ETFs took in 5.35 trillion won over a month and averaged 0.83%, while KOSDAQ supplier funds led the return table at 26% to 32%. Earnings season will test whether 2.17 trillion won parked in two cash funds follows them.
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Samsung Electronics restated its 360 trillion won Yongin chip-cluster plan to residents and pledged to reuse 450,000 tons of treated wastewater a day. The total is unchanged, so suppliers have the first fab's schedule to plan around.
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TSMC is weighing a Texas campus of up to six $20 billion fabs that reportedly hinges on a 35% CHIPS Act tax credit expiring at the end of 2026. At $7 billion a fab, the credit lets Congress set about a third of the price before TSMC's board has voted.
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Four of five Korean 'patriotic' funds reviewed by Seoul Economic Daily returned 105% to 147% over the past year. Returns that close across governance, chip-growth and industrial-policy mandates point to a lift across the whole market more than to any one strategy.
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DDR4 contract prices rose 4% in September to a record $26 after a 14% gain in July, while MLC NAND rose 0.44%. Analysts tie Micron's shrinking earnings beats to multi-year supply deals, so the peak may show up in results before it shows up in contract prices.
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Samsung added $100 to most Galaxy S26 phones and $200 to the 1TB Ultra in the US, the second rise this year for the base S26 and S26 Plus. For teams planning 2027 phone refreshes, the storage tier on each order now moves the price more than it did in the spring.
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Micron's latest guidance says memory and storage supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. Teams buying hardware for those years should plan without relief, since the company says it cannot see when supply and demand will balance again.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Six Samsung affiliates will put $1 billion into Helix, KKR's AI data center and power company. Four of the five business lines Samsung tied to the deal are data center construction, operations, cooling and backup power, so the stake is also a bid for Helix's orders.
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Samsung Group is committing $1 billion from six affiliates to Helix, the AI infrastructure firm led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky. Anyone who later contracts with Helix will deal with a builder whose owners also supply its power and technology.
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Samsung Electronics has finished buying back 53.8 million of its own shares, 100.96% of the plan it began in August. Its stock now goes into next week's preliminary third-quarter results with no company purchases in the market.
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Samsung is now the only company making a proper Android rival to the iPad Pro, Engadget says, with the $1,399.99 Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra. For teams standardising tablets, that leaves one supplier at the top end and a per-seat cost well above the sticker once a keyboard goes on.
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Samsung priced the Galaxy Tab S12 at $1,399 for the Ultra and $1,200 for the Plus, each $100 above the earlier model Bloomberg compared it with. With the line now starting at $1,200, what happens to the older 11-inch S11 decides how far upmarket Samsung has moved.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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