Semiconductor stocks in Asia and Europe were on the rise after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. guided for robust sales growth this year on strong artificial-intelligence demand. Shares of the world's largest contract chip maker closed 3.

A meeting between the heads of SK Hynix's parent company and Nvidia on Wednesday indicated the two will forge closer ties in AI hardware. Chey Tae Won,

Chosun Biz and ICSmart report that Samsung Electronics plans to reduce NAND wafer production at its Xi'an factory in China by over 10%. Amid a global NAND oversupply,... The enterprise solid-state ...

SK Telecom signed a $200 million strategic investment agreement with Penguin Solutions in July of 2024, and shortly thereafter, together with SK hynix and Penguin Solutions, formed a task force to explore ways to leverage their complementary capabilities to enhance customer offerings.

Ju Seon Kim, President AI Infrastructure SK hynix; Young Sang Ryu, President and CEO SK Telecom; and Mark Adams, President and CEO Penguin Solutions join hands after the signing ceremony at CES to celebrate entering into a strategic collaboration agreement to pursue the development and delivery of comprehensive AI data center solutions.

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Chosun Biz and ICSmart report that Samsung Electronics plans to reduce NAND wafer production at its Xi'an factory in China by over 10%. Amid a global NAND oversupply, this decision likely aims to stabilize prices and reduce losses...

Investment plans for each company's fiscal 2024 compiled by Nikkei show an aggregate 2% decline year over year to $123.3 billion. That represents a drop of about $9.5 billion from their estimates as of May, which had called for a 6% year-on-year increase.

SK Telecom noted that the partnership aims to uncover new business opportunities in the Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern markets, including Japan.

The enterprise solid-state drive (eSSD) market is facing potential price declines, raising questions in South Korea about whether Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will revise their NAND flash production strategies to address the shift.

But the AI revolution has only just begun. Today’s most powerful AI models, often referred to as “frontier AI,” can handle and generate images, audio, video, and computer code, in addition to natural language.

Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 1.6% to 39,258.25 ... In South Korea, the Kospi jumped 1.8% to 2,485.31, driven by a 9% increase in computer chip maker SK Hynix Inc. and a 2.9% jump in shares in Samsung Electronics, the country's biggest company.