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South Korea’s world-beating stock rally came to a sudden halt as the benchmark tumbled on Friday, underscoring the vulnerability of a market dominated by a pair of chipmakers.

The South Korean equity benchmark slumped as global funds continued to reduce their positions in the world’s hottest stock market.

Intel, AMD and Micron surged double digits this week as investors bet on CPU makers and memory companies powering the next stage of AI

South Korean stocks are on the cusp of surpassing last year’s world-beating 76% gain, even though 2026 is less than five months old.

Samsung Electronics Co. has reached a $1 trillion market valuation after booming demand for chips used in artificial intelligence saw the world’s largest memory maker’s stock more than quadruple over the past year.

Micron has emerged as one of the most valuable U.S. tech companies thanks to insatiable demand for memory that's needed in AI chips.

The jump comes on reports that Apple is discussing using Intel chips for its U.S. devices and follows a historic 114% surge last month.