Samsung Earnings Send Chip Stocks Tumbling as Kospi Triggers Circuit Breaker | The Pulse 7/7/2026
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Samsung’s earnings shock and a circuit breaker on the Kospi show how concentrated AI and memory bets have made chip cycles systemically important again. Operators relying on GPU and memory-heavy roadmaps should be modeling not just price swings, but the risk of sudden funding or supply pullbacks if sentiment turns.
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