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South Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% intraday and triggered a market-wide circuit breaker, with chip stocks becoming the center of the sell-off; the Nikkei 225 also dropped about 4% at one point. The direct catalyst was the report that "China has started producing domestically-made immersion DUV lithography equipment." The key issue is not whether Chinese equipment can immediately replace ASML, but that the market has begun to lower the premium on the existing technological barriers in the Asian chip supply chain. In the short term, watch whether Samsung, SK Hynix, ASML, and U.S. semiconductor equipment stocks can stabilize; in the medium term, the focus will be on verifying the yield, reliability, and delivery capability of domestic equipment. #CXMTDebutShockwave #AIEarningsWatch #CeasefireHitsCrude $BTC $ETH $AEON