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All three major memory chipmakers crossed $1 trillion in market cap within weeks as AI demand, sold-out HBM4 capacity, and a landmark UBS upgrade triggered a historic valuation surge.

Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and SK jointly invested in Config's $27M seed round to build neutral training-data infrastructure for robotic foundation models.

Nearly 45,000 Samsung workers plan an 18-day walkout from May 21 after talks collapsed over the 50% bonus cap and a 15% operating-profit share, putting HBM4 supply at risk.

CISA's April 24 KEV update flags four actively exploited vulnerabilities tied to ransomware against managed service providers and Mirai DDoS botnets, with a May 8 federal patching deadline.

Tesla's next-generation AI5 processor has completed tape-out, reaching the final design milestone before mass production, with volume deployment not expected until 2027.

The two companies held a formal kick-off event in Milpitas, California, advancing HBF as a new memory tier that promises 8-16x higher capacity than HBM at comparable cost, with first samples expected in the second half of 2026 and inference devices arriving in early 2027.

Samsung has begun a phased rollout of blood pressure monitoring to US Galaxy Watch owners, classifying the feature as a wellness tool under the FDA's updated General Wellness Policy rather than seeking medical device clearance.

Samsung has disclosed the first technical details of its Android XR-powered smart glasses, which will ship with a Qualcomm AR1 chipset and integrate Google's Gemini AI assistant. The device enters a market where Meta's Ray-Ban partnership holds an estimated 82 percent share.

Samsung Electronics is negotiating three-to-five-year memory supply agreements with Google and Microsoft that could include more than 10 billion dollars in prepayments, as hyperscalers move to secure chip capacity amid a structural AI-driven shortage.

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have all confirmed high-volume HBM4 production for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform at GTC 2026, with 12-layer stacks delivering 2.8 TB/s bandwidth and 16-layer samples already shipping to customers.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series at Unpacked 2026, with the Ultra debuting the mobile industry's first built-in Privacy Display and agentic AI features, as base prices rise $100 due to RAM shortages.

Samsung begins commercial HBM4 shipments with 3 TB/s bandwidth per stack, gaining a timing edge over SK Hynix as memory becomes the critical bottleneck in AI infrastructure.