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SK Hynix delivered a quarter that turned heads across the semiconductor space, posting record revenue of one hundred four point six two trillion won, clearing Wall Street's estimates by a meaningful margin. Shares surged nearly eleven percent in Seoul and topped twelve percent on its U.S.-listed ADRs — a direct read-through to AI-driven memory demand that investors are treating as a sector signal, not just a company story.
Staying in the chip lane, Google's TPU business is quietly becoming a genuine competitive pressure point for Nvidia. A blockbuster deal placing Google's tensor processing units inside Oracle's infrastructure marks a meaningful expansion beyond Google's own walls. When a hyperscaler starts selling compute to other hyperscalers, the addressable market conversation changes entirely.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin attempted a technical recovery but ran straight into resistance at its fifty-day simple moving average and stalled there. With the FOMC decision and major tech earnings both on the immediate horizon, traders appear reluctant to push through that level without clearer macro visibility. The setup is watchful, not decisive.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
