A gauge of Asian shares snapped a two-day gain, with Korean chipmakers SK Hynix Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. weighing as the nation’s markets reopened after the Lunar New Year holidays.

A major appliance maker is considering moving some of its operations from a Mexico facility to the U.S. after President Donald Trump considers 25% duties on imports.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday launched its latest flagship smartphones — the Galaxy S25 series — touting a custom chip and boosted AI features. The S25 release comes after a year in which Samsung's smartphone shipments came under pressure from Chinese players and Apple.

SAMSUNG Electronics expects to enter the augmented reality (AR) glasses market in partnership with Alphabet’s Google, according to the company’s top mobile executive, jumping into a product category that is suddenly heating up.

Samsung is working on noninvasive blood sugar monitoring tech, which could be a game-changer. But it isn't ready for the Galaxy Watch yet.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled its newest Galaxy S25 smartphones, powered by Qualcomm's chips and Google's artificial-intelligence model, hoping its upgraded AI features can reinvigorate sales and fend off Apple and Chinese rivals.

While fourth-quarter revenue and operating profit fell quarter on quarter, annual revenue reached the second-highest on record, Samsung said.

Samsung Electronics said on Friday it expected limited first-quarter earnings growth due to weak memory chip business conditions, as it continues to work towards providing high-end chips to Nvidia. The South Korean firm is also grappling with weak smartphone sales and said it aimed to revive mobile margins to above 10% this quarter,

Advanced chips used for AI have been the bright spot in the weak memory chip market, but rival SK Hynix is Nvidia's main supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI graphics processing units (GPUs), whereas Samsung has struggled to meet Nvidia's requirements.

Samsung Electronics on Friday warned of sluggish sales of its artificial intelligence chips in the current quarter due to U.S. export restrictions to

Samsung, which started sales of 8-layer and 12-layer HBM3E products in the third quarter, said it planned to launch the improved HBM3E products in March

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