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Samsung reached a tentative deal with semiconductor employees, offering potential bonuses up to $340,000 for memory chip workers amid an AI-driven boom, averting a strike.
Over 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers are planning an 18-day strike after bonus negotiations collapsed, potentially disrupting memory chip production amid ongoing shortages.
A critical vulnerability in global semiconductor supply chains centers on bromine, a non-substitutable raw material for manufacturing DRAM and NAND flash memory. South Korea sources 97.5% of its bromine imports from Israel, and recent Iranian missile strikes near Israel's Dead Sea extraction facilities pose an immediate risk to global chip production.