TSMC is forecast to report a record NT$746.3 billion third-quarter profit on October 15, up about 65% on the year. Revenue is already out, so the margin outlook and any change to the capex budget are the new information.
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Samsung affiliates plan to spend nearly 8 trillion won of a combined 12.26 trillion won chip investment in Vietnam, on memory testing and chip substrates. The package's only Korean spending is 4.27 trillion won on high-end substrates in Sejong, so any extra room it makes for advanced memory at home has to come from testing work moving out.
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Micron plans about $25 billion of capital spending for the first half of its new fiscal year as its CEO says memory supply will tighten through 2028. Customers have signed supply contracts running to 2031, while the stock trades near seven times annualized guided earnings.
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Investors bid the last of China's four little dragons of AI chipmaking up 206 per cent on its Shanghai debut, chasing the nearly 60 per cent of the domestic AI accelerator market that foreign suppliers held in 2025.
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The $31 billion is contingent on Tokyo funding about a third of it, and the Kitakami fab that absorbs 36% of the package does not run until the fiscal year beginning April 2029, so the firm portion is smaller than the headline.
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Samsung has committed up to 110 trillion won to close one three-year return program. Consensus math has a single year of AI-chip cash flow funding 188 trillion, most of it still unallocated.
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- Adoption38
- Hype gap+34
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- Confidence37