Asian-Pacific semiconductor stocks suffered a collective plunge: Samsung Electronics fell over 6%, and SK Hynix dropped nearly 10%.

According to MSX.COM data, most major Asia-Pacific stock indices fell today. A-shares and Hong Kong stocks fluctuated throughout the day, with the Nikkei 225 index falling nearly 900 points and the South Korean KOSPI index falling over 5.5%. Specifically, by the close, the ChiNext index fell over 3%, the STAR Market Composite Index and the Shenzhen Component Index fell over 2%, and the Shanghai Composite Index fell approximately 0.7%. The combined turnover of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges reached 3.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 311.5 billion yuan compared to the previous trading day. Over 3,200 stocks rose across the market. The robotics concept stocks bucked the trend, with Zhongda Lide hitting its daily limit twice in four days, and Green Harmonic, Kelier, and Guangyang shares also hitting their daily limit. Semiconductor industry chain sectors such as memory chips and CPO saw the largest declines, with Weiteou falling nearly 13%, Baiwei Storage and Jiangbolong falling over 8%, and the trillion-yuan giant Zhongji Xuchuang falling nearly 8%. In Hong Kong, semiconductor stocks collectively plummeted, causing the Hang Seng Index to fall by as much as 2% in the afternoon. As of press time, UBO Holdings fell nearly 15%, Montage Technology and GigaDevice fell over 9%, Hua Hong Semiconductor fell over 7%, and SMIC fell over 6%. The AI application sector continued its decline, with MINIMAX-W falling over 15%, Xunze falling over 10%, and Zhipu falling over 9%. In the Japanese and South Korean stock markets, semiconductor stocks generally fell, with SK Hynix falling nearly 10%, Samsung Electronics and Tokyo Electron falling over 6%, and Advantest falling nearly 5%.