On June 18, Entegris rose 6.53% in pre-market trading, trading at 166.33 USD/share, with turnover of approximately $898,000. The rally was driven by continued momentum from SK Hynix's aggressive capacity expansion plans and Goldman Sachs' bullish AI investment thesis.

On the news front, SK Hynix previously announced plans to triple wafer production capacity by 2034, with capacity expected to double within five years to meet surging AI-driven memory chip demand. Additionally, SK Group plans to collaborate with NVIDIA to build AI data centers in Japan between 2028 and 2029. Goldman Sachs research reinforced that the current AI investment cycle has not yet reached its peak, as exponential growth in token consumption continues to drive mandatory spending on data centers, AI chips, networking equipment, and power infrastructure.

As a critical supplier of semiconductor process materials, Entegris directly benefits from the surge in materials demand generated by large-scale downstream wafer fab expansions. Within the Semiconductor Equipment sector, Applied Materials rose 5.19%, Lam Research rose 5.56%, KLA-Tencor rose 5.4%, ASML rose 3.04%, and Teradyne rose 3.17%.

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