Global Insights - Intel reported revenue of $13.7 billion, a 3% year-over-year increase, exceeding Wall Street's expectation of $13.1 billion. The company anticipates fourth-quarter revenue between $12.8 billion and $13.8 billion, aligning with market expectations, driven by significant investments from the Trump administration, Nvidia, and SoftBank of Japan [4]. - Anthropic has secured a major AI chip deal with Google Cloud, gaining access to 1 million Google Cloud chips for training and running its AI models. Google has invested over $3 billion in Anthropic, which will utilize custom chips (TPUs) to provide over 1 GW of AI computing power next year. Amazon is also a key cloud service provider and investor, having invested $8 billion and is building a 2.2 GW data center cluster in Indiana to support AI model training [4]. - Morgan Stanley has raised earnings forecasts for SK Hynix and Samsung for 2025-2027, citing expectations of a significant increase in commodity memory prices (including DRAM and HBM). Target prices were adjusted: SK Hynix from 480,000 KRW to 570,000 KRW, and Samsung common stock from 111,000 KRW to 120,000 KRW [7]. China Insights - Goldman Sachs reported that China has begun mass production of HBM2, while South Korea is advancing HBM3E/HBM4, indicating a potential widening gap in technology [8]. - Goldman Sachs maintained a "Buy" rating for Ruijie Networks, lowering the 12-month target price from 134 CNY to 129 CNY. The company is expected to generate 4 billion CNY in revenue in Q3 2025, a 21% year-over-year increase, despite a seasonal decline. The gross margin of 35.6% exceeded expectations, driven by an optimized product mix in SMB switches [10]. - Goldman Sachs' macroeconomic research report highlights three key themes: potential AI bubble concerns, re-emerging credit worries, and ongoing US-China tensions [12].