In South Korea, historic bonuses for chip-firm workers are reportedly leading to a surge in demand for luxury cars.
In Japan, where companies in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence supply chains are also enjoying surging share prices, employees should be asking: Where’s my Ferrari?
91AV原创 firms are crucial suppliers to the AI boom, including to the likes of Korea’s SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, where memory division staff have been offered amounts as high as $400,000 to stave off a strike. But even as Tokyo firms prepare to award customary summer bonuses, there will be nothing of that scale on offer: Those payouts are more than the average full-time staffer makes in a decade.
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