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Apple iPhone Duo smartphones at an Apple Store in New York on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 27, 2026
Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo draws early complaints of screen cracking
Some customers say the foldable display cracked after just hours or days of use.
A civil aircraft flies over a farm near an airport in Gwangju, South Korea, in September.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2026
South Korea’s $1 trillion chip bet to revive left-behind region risks Trump’s ire
Washington has bluntly said that it wants more of South Korea’s artificial intelligence expansion to happen in the United States.
The Samsung Electronics semiconductor manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2026
Samsung and TSMC fail to excite investors used to torrid AI growth
Reaction to a day of record-setting results was muted, weighed down by worries about the staying power of a boom propped up by rising debt levels.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses appear on screen, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2026
From smart glasses to AI pins, privacy fears challenge tech’s next big bet
The same features that make AI-powered wearables useful risk becoming the barrier to their adoption.
Samsung Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun (third from the left) and others at the opening ceremony for the company’s research center in Yokohama on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 9, 2026
Samsung celebrates full opening of Yokohama semiconductor hub
The South Korean chip giant aims to enhance cooperation with Japanese manufacturers and research institutes.
South Korea is pursuing a new wave of state-led industrial policy to compete at the technological frontier, but faces far greater uncertainty and constraints than during its earlier industrialization drives.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2026
South Korea bets on industrial policy again
South Korea is pursuing a new state-led industrial policy to compete on the tech frontier, but faces far greater uncertainty than during earlier industrialization drives.
Pedestrians walk past the SK Hynix headquarters in Icheon on July 29. SK Hynix has facilities in Dalian and Wuxi in China.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix test Chinese chip tools as hedge against U.S. risks
They are wary that future ?restrictions could extend beyond new equipment ?to the servicing, repair or replacement of Western tools already installed at their Chinese plants.
SK Hynix memory modules. For the full year, the company is projected to earn more in profits than it has made in the prior 27 years combined.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix answer AI doubters with big numbers and deals
Market participants want answers to a far bigger question than last quarter’s profitability: Is the pace of AI infrastructure spending sustainable?
Samsung reported preliminary operating income of 89.4 trillion South Korean won ($58 billion) in the three months through June, dwarfing its performance for all of 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 7, 2026
Samsung’s soaring profit fails to lift shares after AI rally
Samsung’s shares have underperformed rival those of SK Hynix, which is more focused on high-end memory geared for AI’s computation needs.
Choi Seung-ho, union leader at Samsung Electronics in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in June. Cho secured a staggering windfall for semiconductor workers who were promised bonuses of roughly $400,000 this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 6, 2026
Millennial Samsung union leader’s $26 billion bonus victory turns to bitterness
South Korea’s artificial intelligence gold rush has both emboldened a new generation of Korean tech workers and created new divisions among them.
Officials from tech companies and South Korea’s government after a public briefing on the development vision for advanced industry in Gwangju on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 1, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix’s mega South Korea chips gamble tests optimism of AI cycle
The tech giants won praise from President Lee Jae Myung after throwing their weight behind the government’s semiconductor push.
Jay Y. Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, speaks during a news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 29, 2026
South Korea taps Samsung and SK Hynix in $576 billion AI-chip drive
Flanked ?by the chiefs of the world’s two biggest memory chipmakers, Lee cast the initiative as a “great leap forward.”
An engineering graduate student demonstrates a part of the semiconductor manufacturing process at Korea University in Seoul on June 11.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2026
In South Korea, a job or partner at Samsung or SK Hynix is the new ‘A+’ catch
South Korean matchmaking firms say people working at the companies?are now being ranked alongside doctors, lawyers and those from other traditionally elite professions.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Jan. 5.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jun 9, 2026
South Korea hit the China reset button. Or did it?
Seoul seeks balance as it hedges against the rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
A robotic arm manipulates SK Hynix wafers at a summit in Seoul on Nov. 3. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae Won projected strong demand for artificial intelligence and downplayed concerns about a spending bubble.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2026
A trillion-dollar question for memory chipmakers
We are only in the second year of the AI boom, making it too early to know if it will outlast past cycles.
South Korea's labor minister said companies like Samsung that outperform profit targets should consider sharing excess gains with suppliers, subcontractors and their workers.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2026
South Korea minister calls on tech firms to share excess AI profits with suppliers and staff
The government, businesses and unions should discuss how to share “excess profits” and narrow the gap between conglomerates and smaller suppliers, Kim Young-hoon said.
Samsung Electronics workers chant slogans during a rally ahead of a planned strike outside the company's semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on April 23.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 5, 2026
Do 91AV原创 chip workers need a Samsung-style strike?
Even as Tokyo firms prepare to award customary summer bonuses, there will be nothing on the scale that South Korean companies are offering.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang leaves the SK Hynix booth during the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
Nvidia CEO mounts charm push in South Korea with TV talk show and baseball appearances
Jensen Huang is returning to South Korea with a charm offensive that reflects the country’s rising importance in AI chips, robotics and the next wave of physical AI.
Samsung Electronics is the world’s biggest supplier of the memory chips that go into everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to servers at artificial intelligence data centers.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2026
Samsung workers accept wage deal that averts chip plant strike
The agreement avoids what could have been a damaging strike for Samsung and the tech industry amid shortages in the memory chip sector.
Choi Seung-ho, head of the Samsung Electronics union, Yeo Myung-koo, head of the People Team under Samsung’s Device Solutions division and the company’s chief management negotiator, and Labor Minister Kim Young-hoon pose for photographs after reaching tentative pay deal in Suwon, South Korea, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 21, 2026
Samsung reaches 11th-hour deal with union to avoid strike
The truce averts what could have been a damaging strike for Samsung and the tech industry.

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