News May 6, 2026 by Nick Farrell Samsung joins the trillion-dollar chip club Samsung Electronics has ridden the AI chip frenzy to a $1tn valuation, joining TSMC in east Asia’s rarefied club. The South Korean outfit’s shares surged as much as 12 per cent on Wednesday to a record high. …
… SoftBank-backed Arm has surged more than 160 per cent after deciding it fancies selling its own chips. …
… The bank’s report cited expert comments behind three main themes explaining the surge in CPU demand. …
… Anthropic’s valuation has jumped more than 15-fold in 15 months, after a March 2025 funding round valued it at about $60 billion. That surge has come from daft-looking revenue growth. …
… The chipmaker’s data centre segment sales surged 57 per cent year on year. …
… That was lucky, because it is now set to list this week at a $47 billion valuation that would have looked barking mad at the end of 2024. …