{"id":28858,"date":"2026-05-06T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:01:13","slug":"samsung-hits-1-trillion-valuation-as-ai-rally-lifts-shares-over-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28858\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung hits $1 trillion valuation as AI rally lifts shares over 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Close-up of logo for Samsung on research building in the Silicon Valley, Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018.<\/p>\n

Smith Collection\/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shares of Samsung Electronics surged more than 10% Wednesday, pushing the chip giant’s market capitalization past the $1 trillion mark as investors continued to pile into artificial intelligence-linked stocks.<\/p>\n

Samsung became the second Asian company to cross the $1 trillion mark, after TSMC. The company first crossed that $1 trillion market capitalization threshold on Feb. 26, according to FactSet data.<\/p>\n

The rally followed Samsung Electronics’ record first-quarter earnings<\/a> last week. Operating profit surged more than eightfold to 57.2 trillion won, while revenue climbed to a record 133.9 trillion Korean won<\/p>\n

Samsung’s first-quarter operating profit also topped its full-year 2025 profit of 43.6 trillion won.<\/p>\n

The rally also followed a Bloomberg report<\/a> that Apple has held exploratory talks with Samsung and Intel to produce chips for Apple devices in the U.S., potentially diversifying beyond longtime supplier TSMC.<\/p>\n

Shares of South Korean chip behemoth SK Hynix also jumped more than 9%, helping push the benchmark index Kospi more than 5% to top 7,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n

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