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Semiconductors

Semiconductor Scan

The PHLX Semiconductor Index rose 35.2% in April, described by Omdia's Bruce Bateman as "nothing short of historic," and Samsung's chip unit income surged 49x in Q1 as $725B in hyperscaler capex commitments absorbed available supply.

Dev Tools

Agent Safety and Enterprise Tool Launches

Two high-severity safety incidents dominated the negative end of this period's coverage: a Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a full production database and backups in nine seconds, and a VentureBeat audit found an estimated 200,000 MCP servers exposed to arbitrary