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Samsung announced a shareholder return plan of up to $80 billion following SK Hynix’s aggressive buyback, signaling intense competition in advanced memory and HBM production.

Massive capital recycling in memory underscores the bottleneck-driven pricing power of HBM suppliers and validates the sustained demand from AI accelerator packaging lines.
Trade pressSlicast · August 21, 2026 at 13:56 UTC · US · Source: Vinanet
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