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Samsung Electronics expects its shareholder returns for this year could reach up to 110 trillion won ($79.54 ‌billion), including 30 trillion won in cash dividends in the third quarter, it said ‌on Friday. The 110 trillion won would be over five times the size of the previous high in shareholder returns of ​20.3 trillion won in 2020. Like rival SK Hynix, Samsung has come under pressure from shareholders to return some of the gains from their record-breaking profits as the AI boom drives demand for chips.

Samsung Electronics plans to hold a board meeting on Friday ‌afternoon to discuss a new shareholder return ‌package, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, ​after media reports said the plan could be worth more than $70 billion. A Samsung Electronics spokesperson declined ⁠to comment. Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker and rival SK Hynix, have been under growing investor pressure to return more of their AI-driven cash gains to shareholders through ‌dividends and buybacks after their ​record-high profits failed to ​ease investor jitters ​about AI spending.

Micron Technology said on Thursday it plans to spend $10 billion on its newly ‌established research lab at Boise, Idaho, over the ‌next decade to advance memory technologies, develop compute systems and support future ​chip manufacturing. Large memory chipmakers such as Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have been benefiting from a surge in demand from the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. • The latest investment builds on the more than $250 billion that Micron had separately committed to ​manufacturing and ​R&D across the United States.

The FTSE 100 is tipped to nudge higher at Thursday's open, with spread betters pencilling in a gain of around 9 points. The mood music comes courtesy of an overnight rally across Asia. Markets there took heart after the US Treasury said it would "at least double" its issuance of long-term...

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are preparing record shareholder returns after investors sent their stocks tumbling over concerns around the sustainability of AI hardware spending.

Samsung Electronics is set to announce a new shareholder ‌return policy later this month worth ‌more than 100 trillion won ($71.75 billion), media reported ​on Thursday, as the company plans to share record profits with shareholders amid an AI-driven chip supercycle. The South Korean memory-chip maker ‌will hold a ⁠board meeting at the end of August to approve a shareholder ⁠return plan that includes a special dividend, MoneyToday reported, citing unidentified people in the ​industry. Samsung will ​spend 50% of ​its free cash ‌flow on the new programme, the report said.

SK Hynix Inc. may follow up its new mega stock buyback with additional shareholder returns woth at least $130 billion through next year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

SK Hynix Inc. may follow up its new mega stock buyback with additional shareholder returns woth at least $130 billion through next year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

U.S. stock futures are muted with investors focused on retailer earnings and minutes from the Fed’s July meeting.

Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced contract chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders, two people familiar with the matter said, as demand for AI chips tightens capacity in a business long dominated by TSMC. Demand from Chinese ‌customers has been particularly strong, but Samsung has been unable to meet all orders because it must serve U.S. customers and reserve part ‌of its capacity to support its own chip production, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are discussing sensitive commercial matters. Chinese customers are among those accepting the ​steepest price increase, one of the sources said, underscoring how U.S. curbs on exports of advanced chipmaking equipment to China have increased local firms' reliance on overseas foundries.

Xiaomi Corp. posted its third consecutive profit decline, underscoring the heavy toll a persistent global memory shortage has taken on one of the world’s top smartphone makers.

President Donald Trump is pressuring longtime American ally South Korea over trade and security by, once again, making public overtures to Kim Jong Un.

CXMT Corp.’s ascent to the pinnacle of Chinese markets heralds a potentially consequential shift away from private-sector giants toward a new generation of hardware companies more closely aligned with Beijing’s strategic ambitions.

The foldable smartphone used to resemble an expensive technical experiment. Now they’re starting to appear more like something Apple can sell. That change is significant since Apple (AAPL) has spent years ignoring a category that competitors, including Samsung, Google, Motorola, Huawei, and others, ...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up +0.02%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.08%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.15%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.01%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26...

Applied Materials just posted record revenue and its fifth straight earnings beat, yet the stock fell anyway. Three metrics from the next few quarters will separate a temporary pullback from something more telling about the AI capex cycle.

Ahead of the open London's blue chips are tipped to open around 27 points higher on Friday, riding a wave of overnight optimism. The tone was set on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 closed at a record and the Nasdaq hit a two-month high. The trigger was July's producer price index, a...

U.S. stock futures ticked higher as traders adjust to predictions that the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates imminently.

Well, that was fast. South Korea's Kospi index entered a bull market again today, defined as a 20% rise from a recent low. Since the index's recent bottom on July 30, it's up nearly 22%, including today's 3.

A jump in South Korean stocks drove emerging-market equities higher on Thursday as the revival in the global AI trade pushed Seoul’s Kospi index into a technical bull market.

South Korean retail investors must now complete a week-long course before they can start trading in single-stock funds, as regulators tighten...

Asian shares mostly rose in early Thursday trading, as global market optimism continued on prospects for AI stocks and the semiconductor sector. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up nearly 0.1% to 25,453.45, while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.4% to 3,961.82. Several AI stocks reported better growth for the spring than analysts expected, while a report showed inflation across the United States was slightly less bad last month.

Google debuted its Pixel 11 line of smartphones on Wednesday.

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Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices advanced as doubts persisted over when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again. Samsung Electronics gained 7.7% and memory chipmaker SK Hynix was up 7.1%. The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, was up 0.9% at $89.67 early Wednesday.

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