Chip Selloff Extends to Asia as Samsung, SK Hynix Slump
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A 5% drop in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and 7%+ hits to Samsung and SK Hynix show how crowded and sentiment-driven the chip trade has become. Operators should treat this as a reminder to separate market volatility from supply reality—secure critical memory and logic supply on fundamentals, not stock charts.
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