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- AI spending doubts persist as Samsung profit jumps, TSMC sales surge
Bloomberg reports that Samsung's quarterly profit jumped and TSMC's sales surged, yet investors remain worried about the staying power of the AI investment boom. Separately, the Trump administration suspended an immigration program for several tech firms, including Microsoft, alleging widespread abuse of the worker visa system. The report also noted NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 returned to Earth after 237 days in space.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 7 - Musk's Terafab fab plan and Microsoft's local-AI push redraw compute cost lines
Musk has confirmed Tesla and SpaceX will build and operate the Terafab chip manufacturing facility; a SpaceX filing with the US SEC describes a project combining logic chip, memory manufacturing and advanced packaging with a long-term goal of producing hardware equivalent to 1 terawatt of computing power per year, with TSMC potentially renting part of the space and Intel confirming continued involvement though investment and construction details remain undecided. Separately, Microsoft and NVIDIA launched the RTX Spark–equipped Surface Laptop Ultra and detailed Windows hybrid intelligence, which runs some large models and agent tasks locally: its local MAI Code 1.1 Flash has 137B total parameters with roughly 6.8B activated per token in an MoE design, quantized weights of about 53GB, a vendor-reported 75.5GB peak memory at 256K context, and 70.8% on SWE-bench Verified (quantized) versus 72.6% (high precision). The piece argues compute competition is shifting from sheer scale to redrawing the cost boundary for a unit of useful AI capability.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 12 - TSMC September revenue reaches NT$511.86B as AI chip demand surges
CNBC reports TSMC's September net revenue came in at NT$511.86 billion, saying sales surged year over year. The outlet attributes the gain to continued AI-driven chip demand.
CNBC Technology · 🔥 5 - TSMC quarterly revenue jumps 51% as AI demand holds up
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 51% rise in quarterly revenue, according to Bloomberg. The report frames the increase as a positive signal for investors gauging whether the global AI infrastructure buildout is sustainable. No absolute revenue figure or specific fiscal quarter was given in the source text.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 5 - Chip selloff deepens as funds rotate from AI-server names to CPO, ABF and MLCC
Taiwan's benchmark index closed up 0.22% at 49,822.55 on Oct 7, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 1.15% to 13,066.15 and TSMC's ADR slipped 0.72% as the US 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.28%, near a 24-year high; Taiwan futures dropped below the 50,000 mark in overnight trading. The three main institutional investor groups sold a combined NT$24.16bn, concentrated in AI-server, ASIC IP and semiconductor test-interface names, with money rotating into co-packaged optics (CPO), ABF substrates and high-end CCL, MLCC passive components, and petrochemicals. The report says AI servers use 3–5x more MLCCs than conventional servers and that the ABF substrate shortfall runs through 2027.
科技新报 · 🔥 5 - Citi lifts TSMC target price to NT$4,000 on AI chip demand
TechNews cites a new Citigroup Global Securities research report that flags strong advanced-node and AI chip demand and expects TSMC's earnings momentum to stay robust, raising the target price to NT$4,000. The report's previous target and valuation assumptions were not detailed in the summary.
科技新报 · 🔥 5 - Samsung Q3 operating profit tops 100 trillion won for first time on AI memory demand
Samsung Electronics said its preliminary third-quarter operating profit is expected to reach 107.4 trillion won (about $80bn), roughly a nine-fold rise from 12.17 trillion won a year earlier and its first quarter above the 100 trillion won mark, extending a record streak to four quarters. The company attributed the surge to memory demand from AI data centres and forecast revenue of 195 trillion won, with full results due on 29 October. Even so, Samsung's shares slipped on the day and are down more than 25% from a June peak, as investors question how long the AI spending and memory price cycle can last.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 35 - AMD Plans Major 2027 Chip-Supply Increase to Meet AI Demand
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company plans to substantially increase chip supply in 2027 as AI demand grows. The effort is focused on expanding CPU and GPU production for AI and data-center needs, while AMD is also working with memory suppliers to secure capacity.
TechRadar · 🔥 3 - Musk denies TSMC will build or run Terafab, says Tesla and SpaceX will own it
Responding on X to a post saying Terafab would most likely be owned and operated by TSMC, Musk wrote on October 7: "No, we will build and run the fab. Let there be ZERO doubt about that." He added that TSMC might sublease part of the Terafab site "if they want, but nothing more than that." Terafab is the giant AI chip manufacturing complex Tesla and SpaceX plan to build in Texas, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the same day that Intel remains part of the project.
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