On June 11, Entegris rose 5.09% in regular trading, trading at $133.95/share, with trading value of $51.18 million. The stock was lifted by news of a major downstream expansion announcement that drove broad-based gains across the semiconductor equipment sector.
On the news front, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won announced that SK Hynix plans to triple its wafer production capacity by 2034 and expects to double capacity 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. Large-scale wafer fab expansions directly increase demand for semiconductor process materials and equipment, significantly benefiting Entegris as a key supplier of advanced process chemicals and contamination control solutions.
Within the Semiconductor Equipment sector, stocks broadly rallied. Among individual names, KLA-Tencor rose 8.1%, Lam Research rose 7.05%, Applied Materials rose 6.53%, Teradyne rose 5.45%, and ASML rose 4.0%.
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