Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Salesforce, Inc.

Samsung shares reached an all-time high amid growing investor optimism about the semiconductor industry. Salesforce quotes rose after the publication of ambitious revenue targets of over $60 billion by 2030 and the announcement of new AI products. On these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of October 16.

Main by morning: Samsung breaks record, Trump softens geopolitics

SK hynix Inc.

The company reported its highest quarterly profit in more than three years

'No one expected these profits'. How the AI boom drove Samsung's stock to a record high

LG Corp.

Silver broke through an all-time high of $53 an ounce amid liquidity shortages in London and investors fleeing to safe-haven assets. Samsung posted its biggest profit in three years thanks to hype around AI chips. LG Electronics India shares jumped 50% on the first day of trading after a record offering. These and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of October 14.

Highlights for the morning: silver on the cusp, Samsung's record profits and LG's debut in India 

The papers of South Korean SK Hynix and Samsung - two of the largest memory chip manufacturers - set new records at the first trading in South Korea after a week of holidays. Recent large deals in the field of artificial intelligence contributed to the jump in quotations.

Shares of Samsung and Hynix soared to a record after a trading halt. What's the reason?

NVIDIA Corporation

Samsung shares hit an all-time high amid hype around artificial intelligence. SoftBank is increasing multi-billion dollar investments in OpenAI and robotics. China is tightening control over semiconductor imports and restricting purchases of Nvidia products. These and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of October 10.

Main by morning: Samsung on the cusp, China tightens chip controls, SoftBank buys up AI

OpenAI promises to supply two South Korean companies with demand for memory chips at twice the current global capacity 

Samsung shares hit 4-year high, SK Hynix hits record after OpenAI deal

Fermi Inc.

Elon Musk became the first whose fortune reached $500 billion. At the same time, his company SpaceX lost to OpenAI, which received a valuation of a similar amount - $500 billion - after the secondary sale of employee shares for $6.6 billion. Now the ChatGPT developer is the most expensive private company in the world. Thanks to the partnership with OpenAI, the quotes of South Korean Samsung and SK Hynix jumped up. These and other topics are in our review of the key events for the morning of October 2.

Top story for the morning: Musk's fortune hits $500 billion, OpenAI beats SpaceX in valuation

ASM International NV

Intel Corporation

The company's shares were down 6.4 percent at one point, the biggest intraday decline since July

ASM lowered its sales forecast. Why do analysts expect the stock to rise?

LG Electronics Inc.

Among the leaders in the global AI race, the United States and China are most often named. American language models - ChatGPT, Grok, Claude - are recognized as the best (according to <a href="https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/capabilities/latest/">Stanford</a>, for example, and <a href="https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard">LMArena</a>), the key AI chip supplier, Nvidia, also comes from the United States. The most famous projects from China are DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen model; in France, Mistral; in the Middle East, government investments have allowed the launch of their own models - <a href="https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2ednrsm6eglrmfzs429ds/long-reads/article-inside-falcon-the-uaes-open-source-model-challenging-ai-giants?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Falcon LLM</a> in the UAE and <a href="https://www.g42.ai/resources/news/meet-jais-worlds-most-advanced-arabic-llm-open-sourced-g42s-inception?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Jais</a> in Saudi Arabia.

South Korea is staging its own AI revolution: which companies are on board

KLA Corporation

Applied Materials, Inc.

Lam Research Corporation

The ban would limit Samsung and SK Hynix's ability to manufacture chips in China and jeopardize Beijing's access to a range of technologies

The US has banned shipments of chipmaker equipment to China. Who will lose from this?

Micron Technology, Inc.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

The U.S. Commerce Department is pushing the idea of giving government subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for their stock, and Trump likes the idea, sources tell Reuters

Trump follows Intel stock by targeting stakes in Micron, TSMC and Samsung - Reuters

Tesla, Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

It is unwise for a company to spend resources on two different AI chips at the same time, its CEO Ilon Musk has said