Commentary: Nvidia CEO visit spotlights Samsung in HBM supply race

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s multi-day trip to South Korea put the “triangle relationship” among Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Nvidia over high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in the spotlight, even as he toured AI factories and sealed partnerships in robotics and physical AI. The visit underscored how HBM has become a strategic supply asset for Nvidia’s expanding AI platform.

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Powerchip taps AI-driven chip boom with US$833 million overseas fundraising push

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC) has priced a cash capital increase tied to an overseas depositary receipt offering, a move that may matter to global investors tracking Asia’s semiconductor supply chain. The Taiwan-based company said the deal will fund equipment purchases and foreign-currency materials, while modestly diluting existing shareholders.

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Closed AI models face a capex reckoning as open-weight alternatives close gap, SuperAI speaker warns

The economics of closed artificial intelligence (AI) models may be fundamentally broken, and the centralized cloud infrastructure supporting them is the next target — that was the sharpest argument to emerge from the opening keynote of SuperAI Singapore 2026 on Wednesday, where entrepreneur and former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan laid out a case for why the software industry may have no choice but to decentralize.

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