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Three months ago, some investors thought the company might be able to drive perhaps $10 billion in full-year revenue for its MI300 AI accelerator line, but management ended up giving a target of more than $3.5 billion. Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon wrote last week that "until recently," expectations seemed to be creeping back up near $6 billion, but now investors are worried about possible customer order pushouts.
MarketWatch
Unionized workers of Samsung Electronics have voted in favor of a strike after failing to reach a deal on wage hikes with management, according to industry sources. Wage negotiations between management and labor broke down in February after rounds of talks over this year's wage increase.
The Korea Times
Consumer prices in the US rose faster than expected last month, in a sign that the fight to slow inflation has stalled.
BBC News
The US has added four Chinese companies to an export blacklist for buying US-origin goods to support China's military modernization efforts, the Department of Commerce said in a statement published Thursday.
Bloomberg
Huawei Technologies and a secretive chipmaking partner in China have filed patents for a low-tech but potentially effective way to make advanced semiconductors, raising the prospect that China could improve chip production techniques despite US efforts to halt its progress.
Bloomberg
China has introduced guidelines to phase out US microprocessors from Intel and AMD from government personal computers and servers.
The Financial Times