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SK Hynix gave investors a tale of two markets overnight. The South Korean chipmaker surged on its Nasdaq debut, only to see its Seoul-listed shares tumble more than ten percent in Monday's session. That kind of cross-listing arbitrage selloff is classic profit-taking, as domestic holders use the foreign premium to exit at elevated prices.
Staying in chips, Morgan Stanley is flagging what it calls chipflation, warning that surging memory prices are feeding inflation across the broader AI and technology supply chain. As hyperscalers pour capital into compute capacity, input costs are rising fast, and Morgan Stanley's analysts are pointing to select AI chip names as the cleaner way to play that pricing power rather than fight it.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is quietly reshaping its AI cost structure. The company is now routing a portion of its Copilot queries to its own in-house MAI models, reducing dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic. With shares trading off their two thousand twenty six lows, management is clearly focused on margin recovery, and owning the model layer is the most direct lever they have.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
