Economics
Japan-Korea Spat Threatens to Upend Global Technology Chain
- Samsung and Hynix are the most affected by Japan-imposed curbs
- The dispute underscores again the global nature of tech supply
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Resurgent tensions between Japan and South Korea threaten to wallop chipmakers from Samsung Electronics Co. to SK Hynix Inc., upsetting a carefully choreographed global supply chain by smothering the production of memory chips and other components vital to widely used devices.