SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Monday, April 22, 2024. SK Hynix is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 25. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images SK Hynix shares surged more than 9% Thursday morning after the company said it has … Read more
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 2, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian chipmaking heavyweights extended Wall Street’s rally as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made bullish comments about the AI darling’s outlook. The founder of the artificial intelligence … Read more
This picture taken on May 1, 2024 shows professors and students looking at a Minimal Fab, a small-scale semiconductor factory that does not require a clean room, at Tokyo University in Tokyo. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images) Yuichi Yamazaki | Afp | Getty Images Japanese semiconductor equipment … Read more
Workers are processing chips at a workshop of an optoelectronic technology company in Huai’an, China, on May 11, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China is ramping up spending on chip manufacturing equipment, surpassing the combined expenditure of the U.S., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan in the first half of the year, according to … Read more
The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? … Read more
People walk past the logo of Samsung Electronics in Seoul on July 7, 2022. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd turned in its best April-June profit since 2018 on Thursday, underpinned by strong sales of memory chips to server customers even as demand from inflation-hit smartphone makers cools. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images … Read more
Shares of global semiconductor firms rallied on Wednesday as they were boosted by some positive earnings in the sector and a report of potentially less severe U.S. export restrictions on China. AMD was among the morning’s big winners with shares up more than 9% in U.S. premarket trading after the company reported a top and … Read more
Shares of ASML jumped as much as 10% on Wednesday after a Reuters report suggested that the company could be exempted from expanded export restrictions on chipmaking gear to China. Reuters reported on Thursday that the U.S. is considering expanding the so-called foreign direct product rule, but that allies that export key chipmaking equipment — … Read more
The moves from the U.S. came after Bloomberg on Wednesday reported that the Biden administration is thinking about clamping down on firms exporting their critical chipmaking equipment to China. Wong Yu Liang | Moment | Getty Images Chip stocks in Asia tumbled on Thursday following a tech selloff on Wall Street amid reports the U.S. … Read more
President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco in November. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML, Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter export restrictions from the U.S. … Read more
