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The semiconductor sector faced a sharp downturn amid a major sell-off in South Korea, where the market dropped 9.9%, raising concerns about the current frenzy in chip stocks, especially memory-related... Read original →

The Seoul-driven selloff reveals a dangerous mismatch between AI capex euphoria and real demand absorption. Technically, the soaring costs of 3nm and EUV are cascading upstream to materials and downstream to packaging, while Micron’s AI supply deals can’t mask looming HBM oversupply. Tightening U.S.-led export controls on lithography gear will force foundries in Taiwan, China, South Korea, and mainland China to accelerate localization, lifting wafer costs by 5–8%. Strategically, NVIDIA may leverage this panic to lock in cheaper HBM and fortify its AI stack, while Intel and AMD delay leading-edge node investments in favor of cost-efficient chiplet designs. Over the next 12–24 months, expect brutal consolidation: second-tier memory makers exit first, equipment orders swing wildly, and only firms mastering CoWoS, silicon photonics, or compute-in-memory architectures will survive the downturn.