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South Korean manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and electronics, part of the Samsung group.
Posco Future M and L&F have signed about 8.9 trillion won of LFP cathode deals with Samsung SDI and SK On. China makes over 98% of LFP cathode. Of the deals, 8.7 trillion won start in 2027, and Korean costs are untested.
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LG Energy Solution expects third-quarter operating profit to rise 25.7% to 756 billion won, or 339.1 billion won without US tax credits. Analysts cited by Channel NewsAsia trace the beat to a one-off payment from an automaker that missed its purchase minimums, a sign of weak EV demand.
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South Korea's KOSDAQ closed at 919.92, its first finish above 900 since July, as seven back-end chip suppliers averaged 54.86% gains since Sept. 1. The gains price in more AI spending by the big chipmakers, so the index still depends on Samsung and SK hynix budgets while their shares lag.
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Posco Future M will supply Samsung SDI with 6 trillion won of LFP cathode from 2027 to 2032, in volumes more than double the 190,000 tons agreed in August. The contract gives the supplier six years of demand to build plants against, provided Samsung SDI's volumes are firm.
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Foreign investors sold a net 1.75 trillion won of Korean shares on Tuesday as the KOSPI fell 0.89% to 6,941.39. Chipmakers led a drop that left breadth near even, so global bond yields are steering the index until third-quarter earnings give investors company numbers to price.
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Five Samsung affiliates rejected Flashlight Capital Partners' 906.6 billion won bid for their S-1 shares, a price about 37% above market. Directors owe shareholders a duty under Korea's revised Commercial Act, so holding needs a better reason than doubt the deal would close.
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Six Samsung affiliates will put $1 billion into Helix, KKR's AI data center and power company. Four of the five business lines Samsung tied to the deal are data center construction, operations, cooling and backup power, so the stake is also a bid for Helix's orders.
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Samsung Group is committing $1 billion from six affiliates to Helix, the AI infrastructure firm led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky. Anyone who later contracts with Helix will deal with a builder whose owners also supply its power and technology.
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Six Samsung companies are committing $1 billion to Helix, lifting the KKR- and Nvidia-backed platform above $11 billion in secured capital. Helix plans to build generation, transmission and fiber alongside the data centers, though no project has yet been assigned any of the money.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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Jongro Academy counted a record 8,994 early applications to 13 corporate contract programs for the 2027 year, up 18.2 percent. The 297-to-1 ratio being quoted is three seats at Sogang University. Battery, down 36.2 percent, is one department.
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One developer's Graph RAG layer over a 50 million-row supply chain graph caps every retrieval at 50 nodes and three hops, and the ordering line in the Cypher decides which facts that cap throws away.
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The late-August order bans foreign bulk-power equipment on national security grounds and names battery storage specifically, which puts the cheap Chinese cells behind record US deployment inside a bill of materials that has to be signed before the Department of Energy explains the rules.
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Samsung SDS is claiming the scheduling layer of factory robotics and leaving the machines to ten partners, which is a defensible bet, though its price is unpublished and its first customers are affiliates that cannot say no.
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An investing knowledge graph scores mention pairs at 0.96 and 0.12 and calls everything below a high confidence mark a split, on the reasoning that a fabricated edge costs more than a missing one.
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The 49.99 percent purchase leaves Samsung SDI sole owner of an Indiana plant that will start on storage cells, with prismatic EV cells reduced to a co-development agreement.
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