C. C. Wei, chief govt officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), left, and Jensen Huang, chief govt officer of Nvidia Corp., in the course of the TSMC sports activities day occasion in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025.
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Asian chip shares rallied in early buying and selling Thursday after American AI chip darling Nvidia posted sturdy third quarter earnings, in an indication that AI bubble considerations aren’t slowing down the AI trade.
South Korea’s SK Hynix popped round 4%. The reminiscence chip maker is Nvidia’s high provider of high-bandwidth reminiscence utilized in AI purposes.
Samsung Electronics, which additionally provides Nvidia with reminiscence, was up practically 4%. The corporate has been working to catch as much as SK Hynix in high-bandwidth reminiscence to land extra contracts with Nvidia.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, which produces most of Nvidia’s chip designs, rose 4% in Taipei. Hon Hai Precision Trade — also called Foxconn, and producer of server racks designed for AI workloads — climbed 3.28%.
The Asian chip giants’ rally comes after Nvidia’s earnings topped Wall Road expectations on Wednesday, with the corporate offering a stronger-than-expected gross sales steering for the fourth quarter.
Nvidia’s gross sales and outlook are intently watched by the expertise trade as an indication of the well being of the AI growth, and its earnings come towards the backdrop of latest market fears relating to an AI bubble.
Nonetheless, the corporate’s sturdy outcomes and forecasts ought to ease instant AI bubble considerations, Rolf Bulk, fairness analysis analyst at New Road Analysis, informed CNBC.
“Demand is diversified, with AI-native corporations deploying agentic AI options, and enterprises more and more integrating AI throughout their current services and products,” Bulk stated.
“We anticipate Nvidia’s outcomes to drive increased earnings estimates throughout the sector, together with for its main GPU provider TSMC, reminiscence distributors SK Hynix and Samsung, and the broader Asian subcomponent and meeting worth chain,” he added.
In Tokyo, Renesas Electronics, a key Nvidia provider, added about 4%. Tokyo Electron, which gives important chipmaking tools to foundries that manufacture Nvidia’s chips, gained 5.87%. One other Japanese chip tools maker, Lasertec, was up about 6%.
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank skyrocketed practically 7%, although the agency just lately offloaded its shares of Nvidia. Softbank owns the vast majority of British semiconductor firm Arm, which provides Nvidia with chip structure and designs.
SoftBank can also be concerned in numerous AI ventures that use Nvidia’s expertise, together with the $500 billion Stargate undertaking for information facilities within the U.S.
“There’s been a whole lot of speak about an AI bubble,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang informed traders on an earnings name. “From our vantage level, we see one thing very totally different.”
