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Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-06-26
Samsung Group is expected to unveil a $646 billion 10-year spending plan on June 29 allocating $195 billion to semiconductor fabs and $226 billion to AI data centers, while SK Hynix simultaneously raises $29.4 billion via a Nasdaq ADR listing to fund chip factory expansion.
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Topics: semiconductor-industryai-infrastructurecorporate-investmentmemory-chipssouth-korea-tech
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- Samsung Group plans to announce a $646 billion 10-year investment plan, roughly equal to one-third of South Korea's entire annual GDP.
- Approximately $195 billion of Samsung's plan targets new semiconductor manufacturing plants and $226 billion targets AI data center facilities.
- SK Hynix is raising up to $29.4 billion via a Nasdaq ADR listing, one of the largest share sales in global history, with all proceeds directed to new chip factories and equipment.
- SK Hynix shares have quadrupled in 2026 and the company is valued at roughly $1.2 trillion.
- These two concurrent announcements signal that the AI infrastructure buildout is accelerating, not decelerating, with downstream benefits flowing to ASML, Lam Research, Applied Materials, KLA, Nvidia, and AI server assemblers.
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To put that number in perspective, it is roughly equal to one third of South Korea's entire annual GDP, committed by a single company.
These two announcements together signal something important that the AI infrastructure buildout is not slowing down.
ASML (ASML) is the single most critical equipment supplier, its extreme ultraviolet scanners are the only machines that can manufacture the most advanced chips and SK Hynix explicitly earmarked ADR proceeds for new ASML equipment orders.